[92] I have supplied these four words from conjecture. They are not in the original nor in Singer's reprint.
[93] The double negative is very common in old English books.
[94] Orig. reads wold.
[95] Essence?
[96] Fetched.
[97] Orig. reads whych perchyd, which the context will scarcely allow.
[98] Unlawful.
[99] The words in italics are supplied by me from conjecture. They are not in orig. or in Singer's reprint; but it is evident what the context requires.
[100] Covetousness. Orig. reads covetous.
[101] Whitford, in his Werke for Householders, 1533, says:—"yet must you have a lesson to teche your folkes to beware of the vii pryncipall synnes, whiche ben communely called the seven dedely synnes, but in dede they doue call them wronge: for they be not alway dedely synnes. Therfore they sholde be called capytall or pryncipall synnes, and not dedely synnes. These ben theyr names by ordere after our dyvysion: Pryde, Envy, Wrath, Covetyse, Glotony, Slouth, and Lechery."