306. #emcristen#: euen cristen J; nexte M; see 26/265. After #eal#, se has probably dropped out: alse E; as J; swo D; al suo M. 307. Every thing we hear in the services of the Church: comp. ‘Al þet me ret and singeð . . . in halie chirche,’ OEH i. 125/27; ‘al þet holi chirche redeð ant singeð,’ AR 268/9; OEM 91/43. #bifore godes borde#, at the altar. 308. #hanget ⁊ bihalt bi#, derive their authority from and depend on. S. Matt. xxii. 40. 311. #earueðhealde#, difficult to keep; see 12/3. J rewrites, Ah soþ ich hit eu segge · ofte we agulteþ alle. 312. #strang#: see 21/94. #lange#: veste D. #liht#, easy: comp. 72/178; ‘All þiss to shæwenn niss nohht lihht | Shorrtliȝ wiþþ fæwe wordess,’ Orm 99/13032, 3: so lihtliche, 50/343, readily. 314. #unne#: lete J; leue M. #bote#: see 80/58 note. 315. #wele#: ayhte J. 316. #eal#: mest leggeþ vre swynk J; leggeð almest D; muchel M. Comp. 32/57. 318. #of#: for oft: ofte J D M; E omits. #bicherd#, misled. #bi kehte#, ensnared, deceived. But J reads for the latter, vuele by þouhte, saddened by remembrance of our sins: comp. ‘þe man kið him seluen mildhertnesse þe biðencheð on his sinnen,’ OEH ii. 189/5. 319. #erminges#, miserable mortals: mostly an adj. in ME. as at 76/22, 31. Morris suggested erninges, gains. 320. #en#: of E J. #her ⁊#: oþer E J D M. 321-3. Comp. 40/197, 8. 324. #of þere#, of that: J has þer of. 325. #ofte# &c.: see 32/47. 327. #lange#: comp. 42/210; 168/342. 328. J substitutes ⁊ after gode wel wurche · þenne ne þuruue noht kare, and be vigorous in pursuit of good: comp. 30/21, 32/61. 330. Unless we are on our guard, this world will make us drunk: the meaning of #fordrenche# is fixed by drinche l. 331. adrenche D M, drown. With #wurðe . . . iwer#, comp. 9/122; with #us#, 13/34. 331. #scenche#, draught; OE. #scencan#, to pour out; comp. KH 369 note. #deofles#: M reads, of one duole scenche, of a stupefying draught. 332. A man must know how to protect himself well, if it (i.e. the drink) is not to trip him up. See B-T. _s.v._ #screncan#. J is defective here; D omits ll. 331, 2. 333. #Mid#: Vor D. For #almihtin#, 337 T, see 79/17. 334. #ꝥ#: þe J; see 13/28. #he#: he ne E; heo . . . ne J; hi ne D. 335. #werie . . . wið#: see 48/299. 336. #bi ȝiten#: in e only; ȝiuen alle mancunne E; and similarly in the other MSS. The text may mean, acquired for mankind. 337. #bene#, pleasant, agreeable: ‘spatiosa via . . . quae ducit ad perditionem,’ S. Matt. vii. 13. J reads grene, rejecting, as often, the unusual word: comp. ‘the broad way and the green’ of Milton’s sonnet. 338. #niȝeðe del#, nine-tenths, the great majority: niȝende del D.