[356]. fondeð &c., each one, owing to those two messages which they have heard, and (owing to) that which the four sisters have taught in addition, ever strives, in discharge of his office, to keep his watch and to guard faithfully against the entrance of each vice.
[357]. þurh: R has the contraction þ with oblique stroke through the lower part of the staff here and at 128/371, not ꝥ. ꝥ fowr: to fowr R.
[358]. for, against, with ‘witene’ and ‘warden.’ warde &c.: comp. 118/50.
[359]. ant—treowliche: T omits.
[360]. ofte &c.: see 32/47.
[361]. þe islep: ꝥ iþe slep of ȝemles T. For ȝemeles comp. 54/10, 17. hire: his T. ‘Sic debet quisque torporem suum excutere,’ V 209 d.
[362]. efter þeos: after þe tidings of þe T. biseon to, gaze up to: comp. 124/249: with on, 120/122. Here V ends.
[364]. T reads his hinen. efter, in accordance with that which: after þat his wil T.
[365]. ꝥ is: þe wise T. tuhten ⁊ teachen: comp. 47/272: in Specimens connected with ‘wule,’ ‘as Wit . . . will discipline and instruct’; by Morris made to depend on ‘husebonde,’ both wrongly. They depend on ah, l. 360, which governs the whole series of infinitives ‘te þenchen,’ ‘awecchen,’ ‘biseon,’ ‘To habben,’ ‘leaden,’ ‘tuhten ⁊ teachen,’ ‘witen,’ l. 368: one ought to train and teach (himself and his servants, l. 363) that Wit should always go before.
[366]. teache: T has the correct reading, drahe. dihteð ⁊ demeð, arranges and decrees to be done. The combination is uncommon, but comp. ‘al ich wule dihten | þe domen of mi kinedom,’ SK 1460 (MS. Titus); ‘he dihte feole domes,’ L 7221.