339. #wei grene#: the path to heaven is compared to what is still in some parts called a ‘green road’ or a ‘green way,’ ‘a road over turf between hedges,’ EDD., the ‘unmetalled road’ of the Ordnance maps, because, unlike the highway, it is used by few. J has, þene wey so schene, and in the next line, and þat is wel eþ-sene; M, ⁊ þat is þe worlde on-sene. The last half of T 344 appears to be corrupt. 341. #us lað#: comp. ‘lað þah him were,’ L 244; 145/106. 342. #eal#, wholly; but M al hare wil. 343. #mid--hulde#, along the lower (downward) slope: nuðer E; niðer helde D M. J omits ll. 343-4. #mid#, in the same direction as, like the modern ‘with the stream.’ 344. #godliese#: gutlease D: the earliest quotation for godless, impious, in NED. is under 1528; words before that time are ranged under goodless, comfortless, worthless. But Mätzner puts examples from SK and HM under the former. Are the cheerless wood and the bare field Virgilian? Aeneas passes by the ‘descensus Averni’ ‘per tacitum nemus’ to the ‘lugentes campi’. #bare#: brode D. 345. #hese#: hes E; heste J M; hesne D. #ðer#: þat J, cognate _acc._; comp. ‘I am a man farand þe way,’ CM 3295. 346. #ꝥ beoð ða#: see 1/10. #sculdeð . . . wið#: see 48/299: silten D (for silden, shielded); schedeþ wel J, possibly, separate themselves completely, but scheden requires from, 159/153, and in the presence of wið the reading may be regarded as a mistake for schildeþ. 347. #ȝeanes#: to ȝeanes E; ayeyn J; aȝenes M; D omits ll. 347, 8. Not, ‘along the cliffs,’ but, breasting the steep slope, up the high hill; comp. Milton’s ‘labour up the hill with heavenly truth.’ 348. J reads, þeos leteþ awei al heore wil; comp. 157/133. #fulle#, perform; OE. #fyllan#: M has felle. 352. #ne ðincð# &c.: comp. 12/11 (piece v). J substitutes, Wel edy wurþ þilke mon · þat þer byþ vnderuonge. 353. þe lest haueþ murehþe J; Se ꝥ lest haueð blisce D. 354. #for ðas#, for the bliss of this world. 355. #uuel#: pyne J; hunger M. 358. In accordance with their deeds here, in proportion to the severity of their effort. 359. #este#: comp. 17/159. 360. Comp. ‘giueð hem to medes eche lif · ⁊ blisse · ⁊ heuene mid him seluen,’ OEH ii. 67/25; 74/233.