129, 130 T. These lines, not in L, were added on the margin of e and then partially erased. They are not, in my opinion, original. J has, Bilef sunne hwil þu myht · and do bi godes lore. | And do to gode hwat þu myht · if þu wilt habben ore. #nah#: for naht; Sin leaves you and not you it, when you cannot commit it any longer. #him# shows confusion of genders, #synn# is _fem._ For him þan þu, e has hi þanne þus, E hire þanne þus (= þu es). With the sentiment comp. ‘Nulla igitur laus est non facere quod facere non possis,’ Lactantius 579; ‘Si enim tunc vis poenitentiam agere, quando peccare non potes; peccata te dimiserunt, non tu illa,’ Alcuin ii. 135; ‘Or l’estuet laissier, | ne puet mais pechier, | n’at mais a durer,’ Reimpredigt 36/71 (l’ = son pechié). 130 T. #abit#, puts off, delays. 129, 130. Comp. ‘Ceo dit escriture: | Tant cum li huem dure | en sa poesté, | se dunc se repent: | a deu veirement | s’est ja acordé,’ Reimpredigt, 38/73. The reference is possibly to Isa. lv. 7. #ꝥ#: E e agree with T; For we hit ileueþ wel J; Swa ileuen we hit muȝen D. 132. #þer#: probably a miswriting of er, previously, hitherto: her T; hier D, in this world. #haueð to#: scal E; sceal e. 134. #Ne--bet#, ought I not rather to pray? In 136 T, #bie ich# means, may I be. For #alesed . . . of bende#, see 52/394. D reads, ne recche ic bote bi ic alesd; and M similarly. 135. #scaweð#, shows, is pointless: with T the other MSS. have icnaweð e; iknoweþ J D; knoweþ M; but icwoweð E, an error of anticipation. 137-140. Comp. generally, ‘El mund n’ad nul home, tant eit de leaute, | S’il aveit par mort le siecle trespasse, | E en enfern un oret este | E sentu la puur e veu le oscurte, | S’il reveneit en vie e en prosperite, | Ke james feit mal, tant serreit effree,’ Archiv lxiii. 81/152-7. In 138 T #hit# is a scribe’s mistake for hete. 137. #twa bare tide#, merely two hours; comp. 221/227. After 138, J has Swiþe grimlych stench þer is · ⁊ wurþ wyþ vten ende | ⁊ hwo þe enes cumeþ þer · vt may he neuer þenne wende, which are not in any other MS., followed by two lines corresponding to 42/221-2, which fit in better here. 139. #þa hit#: þit E T = þe hit; ꝥ e; ꝥ hit D; heo hit J; & wite hit M. The allusion is to such legends as those of Owain and Tundale. For #mid iwissen#, see 32/40. 140. #wa wurð#: so T M; but, uuel is E e; þer wurh D; þer þurh J. #for#, in exchange for. 141. #In# is a scribe’s mistake for Ent: wa wurð, or in E e uuel is, must be supplied from the preceding line. The second #þe# is a superfluous repetition of the last word on the preceding recto. J avoiding #for# reads ⁊ for þe blysse þat ende haueþ[;] endeles is þe pyne. 142. #water drunch#, water-drink; comp. ‘Alls iff þu drunnke waterr-drinnch,’ Orm ii. 149/14482. The other MSS. avoid the compound; water to drinke E; weter í drunke e; wateres drung J; betere were drinke wori weter D; wateres drinch M. #atter#: comp. ‘God for ure secnesse dronc attri drunch o rode,’ AR 364/17.