Crist, that al kan wisse and rede,

Þat euere woneth in ani þede.

[3] MS. “Rirth wise.”

[4] Supplied from conjecture. Cf. v. 653, 787. A few more instances will be found where a similar liberty has been taken, for the purpose of completing the sense.

[5] MS. athayse.

[*] For the MS. reading here Mr Garnett proposed to read othere, which is clearly right.

[†] For his soule (as in the MS.) we should probably read of his soule.

[‡] For wo diden (as in the MS.) we should read wo so dide.

[6] MS. Ke.

[7] MS. Ke waste.