[22]. Add full stop after briddes.
[23]. ȝung of ȝeres: comp. 139/23; ‘ȝung of ȝeres ase he was,’ AR 158/17; ‘ȝunglich of ȝeres,’ SK 545. twa wone of twenti: ‘duo de viginti’: see 52/368 and comp. ‘Abraham on wane of an hundred told,’ GE 1028. feier ⁊ freolich: comp. 123/209, 138/22. o wlite &c.: comp. ‘schan al of wlite ant of wastum,’ SM 2/34: similarly, ‘O schene nebschaft | ⁊ schape se swiðe semlich,’ SK 1446.
[24]. steðeluest goes closely with ‘of treowe bileaue’; not ‘steadfast within, of true faith,’ Morton: comp. ‘stalewarde ⁊ kene ine treowe bileaue,’ AR 272/6. OE. staþol-fæst usually takes on, like ‘a þanke unstedefeste,’ 44/241. ‘speciosa valde, sed quod pluris est religiosa fide.’
[25]. icuret clergesse, a choice female scholar: comp. ‘Sum is clergesse, ⁊ sum nis nout,’ AR 6/12.
[26]. of, from: comp. ‘Þah ich beo in alle | of se earliche ilearet,’ SK 858.
[27]. wisliche: see 18/16.
[28]. herd: OE. heord, flock: not ‘custodia,’ Einenkel, which is OE. heorde. It does not fit the context, and eard B points to an original erde, dwelling-place, ancestral home. Morton took herd to mean hearth, hall. com of &c.: com hire of burde B, com hire of burðe T, came to her by birth: Victor quotes ‘⁊ tat com þe of burðe,’ OEH i. 273/27.
[30]. telleð wel to: see 124/264.
[32]. kepte . . . of: like ‘let of,’ 44/260; ‘tellen of,’ 164/256; ‘Hold it of wel litel pris,’ Floriz, 350: ‘nichil cum mundo habere commune decreverat.’
[34]. in, upon.