63. #weien#: comp. ‘Dunc serrat a chascon tuz ses biens demustrez | Sulum nostre labur dunc serrum mesurez | E les biens e les mals tuz nus serrunt pesez,’ Guischart 442-4. 64. #swinkes lan#: comp. ‘⁊ ta shall ure Laferrd Crist | Att ure lifess ende | Uss ȝifenn ure swinnkess læn | Wiþþ enngless eche blisse,’ Orm 111/3256-9; ‘lure ow is to leosen | ower swinkes lan,’ SK 804; ‘La receura chacon luer de sun labor,’ Guischart 311. #lan#: lyen E; lien e M; lean JTD: see 27/289. 66. #þe (mare)#: þe þe E e M; se ꝥ D. J rewrites, þe riche and þe poure boþe · ah nouht alle ilyche. #muȝen#: mai E; mei e; the others omit as T. 67. #Al se#, just the same: e Eal se, omitting the nominative, like L, but He alse E; þe poure J; Al suo on D; Ase wel þon M. #alse oðer#: se þe oþer E e; alse þe oþer M; swo oþer D; þe riche J. 68. #cheþ#: ware e J D T M; ȝare E, a case of letter substitution. 69. #mid--þonke#: equivalent to ‘of gode wille,’ l. 73: see 10/167 note. 70. #se þe þe#: se þe E e; swo se D; so he M; J omits 69, 70. #manke#: the mancus was ‘not current coin but merely money of account,’ Grueber, Handbook of Coins, introd. p. ix: ‘fif penegas gemacjað ǽnne scylling and þrittig penega ǽnne mancus,’ Ælf. Gram. ed. Zupitza 296/15, 16. The word was in OE. #mancus#, _g._ -es. _m._ its _pl. n._ #mancussas#, _pl. g._ #mancussa#; _s._ mancs, #pl.# mancsas also occur (ES xxxix. 349). The Latin forms were mancusa, mancus, manca, from the last of which may have been derived an OE. *#manc# with _pl. a._ *#mancas# = mancys, Kemble, Codex Dipl. ii. 380, and _pl. g._ *#manca#, the original of manke here. e reads marke. #golde# may mean, in gold; OE. #on golde#, but more probably it is a mistake for goldes as in the other MSS. For #fele# with genitive see 132/9 note. 71. #kon mare þonc#, acknowledges, feels more thankful; like Fr. savoir gré. #þen þe#, to him who: ðan þe E e D; ye þat J; him þat M. 73, 74 T: see 203, 204 T. 74. #ec lete# appears to be a mistake for eðlete, of small account as in the other MSS.; ȝeþlete M: comp. Et lete 38/148, 153. #of þan#, of whom, of him whose; ðenne E e; þer J; þanne D; of him þat M. J rewrites ⁊ lutel he let on muchel wowe · þer þe heorte is ille; wherein ‘wowe’ is explained by Kock (Anglia xxv. 318) as = vowe, votive offering. 76. #houen fur#, probably daylight; possibly lightning or the stars: heuene · ⁊ fur J; dai ⁊ fur E; dei ⁊ fur e; ⁊ alle sterren D; sterre ⁊ fur M. #þestre#: see 123/230. T omits this line and substitutes a new line at 80, not in the other MSS. 79. #þenkeð . . . doþ#: doþ . . . queþeþ M. 80. #swich se#, such as: swilc se E e; comp. ‘þa com þær heofonlic leoht . . . swilc swa hi ær ne gesawon,’ Ælf. Lives, ii. 184/262; 76/29. #swilch# in T, with which the other MSS. agree, = such as; comp. 36/120; ‘Ðonne ic wæs mid Iudeum ic wæs suelc hie,’ Cura Past. 101/5. The fuller expression is seen in, ‘we ne magon . . . nan þing geseon swylc swilc hyt is,’ Blooms, ES xviii. 354/26.