15. 'From the time when you were removed from every peril'. The child died before she was two years old (l. 123). 22. 'I am but dust, and rough in manners.' The MS. has _marereȝ mysse_, which has been rendered 'botcher's waste'; but the poet is contrasting his own ill-mannered speech with the Pearl's courtesy. 23. 'But the mercy of Christ and of Mary and of John'. The genitive inflexion is confined to the noun immediately preceding _mersy_, while the two following nouns, which are logically genitives with exactly the same construction as _Crystes_, remain uninflected. For analogies see note to II 518. 36. _and_: MS. _in_. The sign for _and_ is easily mistaken for _ī_ = _in_. Cp. note to XVII 42. 48. _Þat_, 'who'. 65. _þat... of_, 'from whom'; the later relative form _of quom_ occurs at l. 93. 70. _Fenyx of Arraby_: the symbol of peerless perfection. Cp. Chaucer, _Death of Blanche the Duchess_, ll. 980-3 _Trewly she was to myn ye The soleyn Fenix of Arabye, For ther lyveth never but oon, Ne swich as she ne knew I noon._ 71. 'which was faultless in form'; _fleȝe_ 'flew' is used with weakened sense because a bird is normally thought of as on the wing. 74. _folde vp hyr face_, '<with> her face upturned'; _folde_ is pp. 91-2. 'And each would wish that the crowns of the others were five times as precious, if it were possible to better them.' 97. _Poule_: the common OFr. and ME. form, as at VIII _a_ 25, 270, XI _b_ 80. But the rime with _naule_ 'nail' (ON. _nagl_) points to the form _Paule_ for the original. The reference is to 1 Corinthians vi. 15 and xii. 12 ff. 100. _hys body_, 'its body', 'the body'. _tyste_: for _tyȝte_ 'tight', like l. 102 _myste_ for _myȝte_ 'might'. The rimes with _Kryst_, _gryste_, _lyste_ show that _st_ and _ȝt_ were very similar in pronunciation. See Appendix § 6 (end). 106. 'Because you wear a ring on arm or finger.' 109-11. 'I <well> believe that there is great courtesy and charity among you.' The construction of the next line (which conveys an apology, cp. l. 62) is not clear owing to the following gap in the MS.; nor is it easy to guess the missing rime word, as _emong_ can rime with OE. _-ung-_ (e.g. with _ȝonge_, ll. 114, 175), or with OE. _-ang-_; see the note to XVII 400. 116. _stronge_ may be adj. 'violent' with _worlde_, but is more likely adv. 'severely'. 124-5. Note the cumulation of negatives. _cowþeȝ_ has a double construction: 'You never knew how to please God nor pray to Him, nor <did you know even> the Paternoster and Creed.' The Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed were prescribed by the Church as the elements of faith to be taught first to a child. 137. Matthew xx. 1-16. 139. 'He represented it very aptly in a parable.' 141. _My regne... on hyȝt_, 'My kingdom on high'.