125 ff. postulate a preceding _et introibit rex glorię_, which the writer has not been able to work into the frame of his verse. 128. _a kyng of vertues clere_ = _dominus virtutum_, rendered 'Lord of Hosts' in Psalm xxiv. 10. 154-6. _ware_: _ferre_: the rime indicates some corruption. _ware_ probably stands for _werre_ 'worse'. The Towneley MS. has _or it be war_. 162. John xi. 165. John xiii. 27. 171 ff. 'And know he won away Lazarus, who was given to us to take charge of, do you think that you can hinder him from showing the powers that he has purposed (to show)?' But it is doubtful whether _what_ is a true relative. Rather 'from showing his powers—those he has purposed (to show)'. 188. _I prophicied_: MS. _of prophicie_ breaks the rime scheme. 190. Psalm cvii. 16 'For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.' 205 ff. The rimes _saide_: _braide_: _ferde_: _grathed_ are bad. For the last two read _flaide_ = 'terrified', and _graid_, a shortened form of _graithed_. 208. _and we wer moo_, 'if we were more', 'even if there were more of us'. 220. _as my prisoune_ might be taken closely with _here_: 'in this place as my prison'. The Towneley MS. has _in_ for _as_. Better would be _prisoune<s>_ 'prisoners'. 240. _wolle_: read _wille_ for the rime. 241. _God<ys> sonne_: MS. _God sonne_ might be defended as parallel to the instances in the note to XVII 88. 256. Apparently, 'you argue his men in the mire', i.e. if Jesus is God's Son, the souls should remain in hell because God put them there. But the text may be corrupt. 267 ff. Cp. Ezekiel xxxi. 16, &c. 281 ff. _Salamon saide_: Proverbs ii. 18-19 taken with vii. 27 and ix. 18. It was hotly disputed in the Middle Ages whether Solomon himself was still in hell. Dante, _Paradiso_, x. 110, informs a world eager for tidings that he is in Paradise: but Langland declares _Ich leyue he be in helle_ (C-text, iv. 330); and, more sweepingly, coupling him with Aristotle: _Al holy chirche holden hem in helle_ (A-text, xi. 263). 285-8. Perhaps a gloss on Job xxxvi. 18 'Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.' 301. _menys_, the reading of the Towneley MS. is better than _mouys_, which appears to be a copyist's error due to the similarity of _n_ and _u_, _e_ and _o_, in the handwriting of the time. 308. Judas hanged himself, according to Matthew xxvii. 3-5; Acts i. 18 gives a different account of his end. _Archedefell_: Ahithophel who hanged himself (2 Samuel xvii. 23) after the failure of his plot against David. 309. _Datan and Abiron_: see Numbers xvi. 313-16. 'And all who do not care to learn my law (which I have left in the land newly, and which is to make known my Coming), and to go to my Sacrament, and those who will not believe in my Death and my Resurrection read in order—they are not true.'