10. #þe#: so T e, but þat EJM; þet D. OE. #ofþyncan# is impersonal, it takes dative of the person and genitive or, rarely, nominative of the cause; ‘him ðæs slæpes ofþuhte,’ Ælf., Hom. Cath. i. 86/19 is normal. The indeclinable relative þe here and in similar places, as ‘Ne do þu non oðer man þing þe þe wolde ofþunche gief me hit dude þe,’ OEH ii. 179/20, may be doing duty for the genitive (see 46/292 note). But in ME. generally hit is expressed as subject, 52/370, or the cause is nominative, 38/164, 42/203 (notwithstanding the verb in the singular), 145/104, or the subject is actually personal, 46/271; ‘his freonden hit ofþuhten,’ L 197. Þat in the other texts is nominative. 11. Comp. ‘Or me semblet puillent co ke ieo mult amai | Quant del plait me souent enz en mun queor mes mai,’ Guischart 1205, 6. #Mest#: Best J. The scribe should have put the stop after er. 12. Comp. ‘Mult est fous ke fait trop de sa volontez,’ Archiv lxiii. 84/301. After this line J interpolates, Mon let þi fol lust ouer-go · and eft hit þe likeþ; see 29/45. 13. #þe# is possibly miswriting of þen. M has also þe selþe, but e T D þo; E þer; J eny selhþe. The meanings given in the dictionaries for iselþe, luck, good fortune, happiness, do not give a good sense here; if it could mean experience, the sentiment would be like ‘si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.’ Morris in OEH i. 160/13 translates discretion. 14. #elde# &c.: comp. 20/72; 40/197; 48/323. 15. #wiste#: awuste E; á wyste e; iwiste TD; er þan ich hit wiste JM. 16. #smike#: smeke E; smeche e D; smoke J; smiche M. 17. #al to þriste#, all too bold, ready; comp. 157/127. 18. #stondeð#: B-T quotes under #standan# (of direction) ‘Swa micel ege stod deoflum fram eow,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. i. 64/25, with meaning, came over; similar is ‘Norð-Denum stod atelic egesa,’ Beowulf, 783. In ME. stonden has developed the meaning, exists (comp. Fr. être < stare). For the construction comp. ‘non eige ne stand of louerde,’ OEH ii. 39/20, 139/28; ‘of iwel and dead hem stondeð greim,’ GE 392: #men# here is dative like #hom#. Variations are, ‘þer hem stod eie[;] þer hem ne sholde,’ OEH ii. 73/30; ‘him ne stod æie to naþing,’ L 11694; ‘alle heom stod him æie to,’ id. 27100; ‘wið dead him stood hinke and age,’ GE 432; 62/37; ‘uor elles vuele us stode,’ AR 312/9. For #do#, subjunctive after þanne with comparative, comp. 31/28; ‘he brycð swiðor on ðone suðdæl þonne he do on þone norðdæl; ⁊ sio hæte hæfð genumen þæs suðdæles mare þonne se cyle þæs norðdæles hæbbe,’ Orosius 24/26. 19. See 32/35. #hwile þe#: comp. 32/33, 55: elsewhere L has the more usual hwile ꝥ (always unmetrically), or hwile. 20. #ȝe#: hy E e; hi DM: but J has, Hwenne alle men repen schule · þat heo ear seowe. For #ꝥ# E has þer þe; e, þer; M, her þat. 21. #to gode#, for good; comp. 32/61. #he# (muȝe): hi D; ȝe E e M; ye J: similarly in the case of the following he. 22. #lipnie#, depend on, trust to: hopie E e; leue D; truste M.