[174]Horstman reads: "wete he wele."
[175]This passage is defective in Pepwell.
[176]MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, has: "purges."
[177]Pepwell has: "in feeling of the sound."
[178]MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, reads: "toune" (i.e. tone).
[179]Illumined.
[180]Cools down grows cold. Also construed with "from." Cf. Richard Rolle Psalter (ed. H. R. Bramley, p. 156): "He gars sa many kele fra godis luf."
[181]A mere abstract thought of God.
[182]Construe: "But if he hold this feeling and this mind (that is only his own working by custom) to be a special visitation."
[183]Surer, safer.