[129]. so &c., so that whatever happens may ever be the best for me: comp. ‘And he þat haueþ þis rym iwryten . beo hwat he beo | God in þisse lyue . hyne lete wel iþeo,’ OEM 57/697.
[132]. to bote ȝeruh, ready to make amends: comp. ‘sunbote,’ 80/58; ‘deadbote,’ 119/75.
[134]. biseon to me: see 124/249.
[136]. swinc . . . sor: comp. 40/194.
[140]. spert: comp. 89/44.
[141]. to drawe: tear in pieces, destroy: comp. ‘ichot þe cherl is def, þe del hym to drawe,’ Böddeker, AE. Dicht. 177/34. Morris explains ‘entice me (to sin),’ referring to the glossary to Hampole, Prick of Conscience, where the word so explained is ‘drawe.’
[142]. wule: supply, to-drawen me.
[144]. Nor that any man that honoureth thee should have gladness: he resumes no mon ꝥ þe wurðeð; comp. 77/39, 138/12: similar are, ‘Þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope,’ AR 66/17: ‘ꝥ þe muð ne mei uor scheome þe liht eie spekeð hit,’ id. 60/6.
[147]. wite &c.: see 118/50.
[148]. dweolðe: see 134/93.