212. #bi þan ilke iwichte#, by the same measure, i.e. as great as his might; comp. 53/384: ah al by one wyhte J; nis him no þing litlinde, | ac bi emliche wihte D (litlinde, decreasing, see 126/327; emliche, equal). In T 216 mihte is a mistake for milce. 213. ‘Nuls ne pot tant pecher com deus pot parduner,’ Guischart 948. 214. #hit bigunne#, made a beginning, took the first step, i.e. repentance, #hit# being indefinite; comp. ‘Li sires est tut prest certes de nus aider | Se il en fust alkun kil uosist comencer,’ Guischart 703, 4. Less probable is, began to show mercy, Einenkel, Anglia iv., Anz. 92. Morris takes #bigunne# as subjunctive of bigan, to seek for. E reads, it bidde gunne. 218. #wallinde#: the other MSS. add pich, and have bed instead of bað: see 44/245, 120/104. 219. Comp. ‘Ke plus fait sun servise, plus fait ke maleurous,’ Archiv lxiii. 81/171; ‘Ki plus fait sun plaisir a celui fait il pis,’ Guischart 59; ‘Ki kunques mielz le sert cil ad peines plus granz,’ id. 102; ‘Hec est natura Diaboli, qui semper malefacit amicis suis et non aliis; pessime remunerat illos qui ei seruiunt,’ Eudes de Cheriton 232/7. #fulle#, utter, deadly: comp. ‘þat is my fulle i-vo,’ OEM 42/174; ‘nawt ane to hare freond, ah to hare fulle fon,’ HM 31/3; 24/202. For #frond#, E e M have wines; D wine. J omits ll. 219-22. #Wurst# is adverbial. 220. #wih#: wihd E; wið e D; fram M. 221. #hi# = ih, I. 222. #þer--feche#, might there procure for myself: but E e D M have for þer me, þerinne, þarinne, and D wende for mahte. 223. #ꝥ his# is a misreading of an original þeh ic, and #on# is for ou. #wise men#: comp. ‘De ceo ke io dirrai asez en ai garanz | Les mielz de seinte glise e tuz les plus uaillanz,’ Guischart 9, 10. 224. #aboken#: comp. ‘Hit is write in þe bok · þer me hit may rede,’ OEM 41/131. 226. #unfrome#, detriment: unfreme e; unureme M; hearme E; harme J; unwines D. 227. #edi men ⁊ arme#: comp. ‘Arme ⁊ edie ledin,’ Prov. of Alfred, ed. Skeat 7/39; ‘ne ermne ne eadine,’ OEH i. 115/19. For arme M reads strangely areȝe. ‘Entendez ca uers mei les petiz e les granz,’ Guischart 1. 229. #twa uuele#: uuele twa e, and similarly the other MSS. #iferen# in T is certainly the noun, companions, so iueren D and probably #iuere# in L: in the others #ifere#, in company. 230. #maket niþinges#, made worthless men, a reading due to the misunderstanding of the compound, as in T and the other MSS., stingy in giving away food: comp. ‘mete custi,’ L 19266. M has, þat were niþinges here.