192. #ꝥ#, because. #uuele#: harde J D M, meaning hardship; comp. ON. 459, 527. #habbeð . . . on honde#, have to do with, have to suffer: similar expressions are ‘sorhen heom com on honde,’ L 30428; ‘for al hit trukeð us an hond[;] ꝥ we to temden,’ id. 16799; ‘and eoden him luðere an hond,’ id. 31265: ‘him for ðissere worulde wel on hand eode,’ Ælf. Lives i. 488/13. For the matter, comp. 183/241, 193/551-2. 193. #honde#: comp. 56/50: ande e. 194. #sake#: in L only. It means here, guilt, as in ‘Þa lakess mihhtenn clennsenn hemm | Off sakess ⁊ off senness,’ Orm 36/1126, 7. Other similar combinations are ‘sorge, scaðe and same,’ GE 302; ‘sorge and sare,’ Ælf. Lives i. 266/90; ‘swinc and sorwe and deades strif,’ GE 268. With T comp. 42/204, 136/136; ‘on sorhge leofodon and on geswincum,’ Ælf. de Vet. Test. 3/10; ‘labor et dolor,’ Psalm lxxxix. 10. For #a watere#, &c., see 34/82; on se ⁊ on londe D. 195, 196. Comp. ‘Adam le (i.e. nostre pais) nus tolit e sa fole moiller | E nus ki deaus uenimes lauum conpare chier | En grant cheitiuison mult nus pot en nuier,’ Guischart 695-7. #forme#: formes E e; uormes D. 197. Comp. 48/323; ‘þurst and hunger · chele and hete · þis beoð stronge pyne,’ OEM 37/9; ‘muchel hunger ⁊ hæte[;] at æuer ælche monnes ȝete,’ L 20441, 2. #helde ⁊ unhelðe#: comp. 20/72, 30/14, 48/323, 52/373. But, eche ⁊ al unelþe E; eche · ⁊ eal un helðe e; ache and vnhelþe J; ecðe (= eche) ⁊ al unhelðe D; eche ⁊ unhelþe M, show the original reading: OE. #ece, æce#, ache. 198. #uniselðe#: comp. 52/374; 26/256 note. J has vnyselyhþe. 199. #unsele#: vnhele J; vnvele D. 200. #a hele#: on hele E e D; myd blysse and myd wele J. 203, 204 T are copied by mistake from ll. 73, 74. As in both cases the lines are at the top of a folio, it may be inferred that the scribe of T was copying a MS. exactly page by page, and that l. 202 completed a gathering in his original with an added catchword Litel; that he, after beginning f 5^a with the catchword, laid aside his work, and on resuming it began at the wrong place. On discovering his mistake he started afresh. 201. #lutel--mon#: so T J D, it seems a small matter to many a man; but E e omit hit, read iþenchð, iðencð, and hu for ac, many a man little thinks how great, &c. 202. #hwam#: hwan e; whan M; whon J = #for hwǣm#, #for hwon#, why; vor hwy D = #for hwȳ#; E has for þan. #hore# must mean Adam and Eve; M reads adammes: but e reads þe, D þo, yet they begin the next line with Heore e, Here D, and J with heore in this line has Vre sunne and vre sor · vs may sore of þunche. 203. #ofþinche#: see 30/10. 204. #sorȝe#: see 40/194. 206. #eðe#: sore E J M. 208. #an helle pine# &c.: e M go with L; E with T; in pyne ⁊ on vnwunne J. 209. #ledden#: the other MSS. have the present tense. #mid unriht#: comp. ‘Ne wurþ þer vnryht ne wrong,’ OEM 143/85. 210. #buten--do#, unless God’s mercy intervene. #longe#: comp. 48/327, 169/342.