143. #brede#, roast meat; OE. #brǣde#: comp. ‘he nom his aȝe þeh | . . . þer of he makede brede. | he bredde heo an hiȝinge,’ L 30581, 3, 4. 144. All too dear he buyeth it, who giveth his neck for it. 145. ‘Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat,’ S. Jerome, Epist. 158, 2. 146 is intelligible if of pine is understood after #cnauð#. E has þe naht not · hu hi scullen ilesten; similarly e. 147. #stunde#: hwile E. 148. #Et lete#: see 34/74 note. J reads ⁊ lete for crist beo wif. 149, 150 are wanting in e M. For #oðerluker#, see 125/270. 151. #wawe . . . wene#: the combination is formal: comp. 142/77: but E has wa . . . pine, e, wa . . . wawe; D, wo . . . wope; J, Eure he wolde in bonen beon · ⁊ in godnesse wunye | Wiþ þat he myhte helle fur · euer fleon ⁊ schonye, and similarly M. 152. #Wið ꝥ þe#, provided that, if only; wid þan þe E, wið þan ðe e M, = #wīþ þǣm þe#; Wiþ þat J; wið þet D. T J D M add he, unnecessarily, as it is in the principal clause. 153. J reads, ⁊ lete sker al þes worldes weole, where ‘sker’, utterly, is OWScand. skǽrr, clean. 154. L appears to mean, Because to attain to that great bliss is joy of a certainty. But #cume# in T E e, come in D are subjunctives dependent on for, in order that he may come, the subject not being expressed because of _him_ in the principal clause; see 6/18: #for . . . cumen# in L could have the same meaning, comp. ‘for lesen’ 40/180, 182, but a subject is needed for #is#. #For# with the subjunctive is not common, but see NED. iv. 412, col. 3; in this use it descends from #for þǣm þæt#. J has Wiþ þat he myhte to heouene cumen. In Te #þis# = þe is; D has þet is, E þat is heuenriche. For #mid iwisse#, see 32/40. 155. #ꝥ . . . of#: see 1/3. 157. #eþe#: so E e D; J M omit; sore T is isolated, but J reads ⁊ sore vs of-drede. 158. #he#: in L only: the others agree with T: #al# is in L T only. 159, 160. #þer men#, wherein men. #stelen . . . helen# change places in T M only. #wruȝen . . . ⁊ helen#: the combination is formal; comp. ‘ase þe uikelares wreoð ⁊ helieð,’ AR 88/18; a reminiscence of ‘quoadusque veniat Dominus, qui et illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum et manifestabit consilia cordium’, 1 Cor. iv. 5. 162. #riche#: so J only; heiȝe E; heȝe e D M. 164 T. #to þe#: a mistake which has probably arisen out of an original þo: efning is constructed with wið. 163-166. Not in J. After scal E has þei, e þeh, D þeð, T þeih, nevertheless. 164. #ofþincþ#: see 30/10 note. The subject of #bet# is he, as implied by him preceding. 165. #scameþ . . . gromeð#: comp. ‘Teonen þolien ⁊ gromen ⁊ schomen umbe stunde,’ HM 7/8, and for the corresponding nouns in the next line, ‘Þu vs hauest iwroht þes schome. | And alle þene eche grome,’ OEM 83/334, 5; ‘Me to sorge, scaðe and same,’ GE 302; OEH ii. 173/13, 14, 23. 166. #þo þre#: so D þoðre, but þe oþre E e M. #oft#: e D M agree with T; but E has, þat sculle beon forlorene.