12. For #slaw ȝemeles# C has slauðe scheomelese. #teoheði mis#: Contrast ‘rihtliche teðien,’ OEH ii. 215/32; ‘giuen rihte tiðinge,’ id. 129/32; ‘theoþe ryht vnder his honde,’ OEM 77/149. teouðen C; tiheðe T; Mis iteoðeged N, the being mistithed; a remarkable use of the participle; ‘male decimare,’ M; ‘mes doner,’ F, a vague expression, which looks like a translator’s failure. How S. Gilbert once dealt with a ‘mistither’ may be read in his life, printed in Dugdale, vi., pt. ii., p. *vii. #mis# is aphetic for amiss, wrongly; comp. 56/48. 13. #edhalden#: edhalde C; OE. #oþhealden#, withhold; so at 64/73: comp. ‘Lante ⁊ thyng me was taght | I held ouer-lang as i noght aght,’ CM 28398. #oðer--mis fearen#, or treat badly, is peculiar to A. 14. #ȝisceunge#: ‘Þe Vox of ȝiscunge haueð þeos hweolpes: Tricherie ⁊ Gile, Þeofðe, Reflac,’ AR 202/18. #⁊ anes cunnes# is peculiar to A. 15. #strong reaflac#: ‘rapina,’ M. #hwa--mei#, if one is able to pay it: peculiar to A. #þe--ȝisceunge#: ‘species cupiditatis,’ M; ‘qi est desouȝ couoitise,’ F. 16. It is sinful ‘biseon ȝemeleasliche eni þing þe me mide uareð, oðer ouhte to ȝemen,’ AR 344/6. 17. #þen--hit#, than the owner of it thinks right: M has here p{ri}us for peius. #ȝemeles of slawðe#, negligence, a subdivision of Sloth. The author has already classified under Gemeleaschipe, ‘miswiten ei þing þet heo haueð to witene,’ AR 202/14. C reads scheomeles of slauðe. 18. #alswa is dusi#: alswa · idusi C: apparently OE. #gedysig#. #longe--unbischpet#: ‘diu e{ss}e s{i}n{e} confirmac{i}one,’ M. 19. #falsliche#, insincerely. #abiden#, put it off: N connects it with what follows by reading uorte for ne. 21. #moder#: so he writes of the ‘seoue moder sunnen,’ AR 216/21. 23. #istreonede#, _pp._ as noun: ꝥ te istreonede T; ꝥ þe streonede C. #strong monslaht#: ‘fort homicide,’ F; ‘homicidiu{m},’ M. 24. #galnesse#: comp. ‘þe Scorpiun of Lecherie[;] þet is, of golnesse,’ AR 204/15. #awakenet#, originated; comp. 64/61, 66/91, 143/70; AR 44/9, 220/9; HM 27/8, 31/5; ‘woden . . . whence first awoke the West-Saxon bloud royall,’ L’isle, Divers Ancient Monuments, sig. f 3 v. #of galnesse awakenet# are not represented in M, though necessary to the argument. 25. #nomeliche#, particular, proper; exceptionally an _adj._ here; in l. 27, as usually, an _adv._ corresponding to OE. #namcūþlīce#; comp. ‘ne ne muhte, ase ich wene, mide none muðe nomeliche nemen ham,’ AR 226/6. ‘touȝ peccheȝ seueralment par lour p{ro}pre nouns[;] ne porreit nul hom contier,’ F. 26. #beoð bilokene#: ‘includu{n}tur,’ M: comp. ‘Auh ine þeo þet beoð her etforen iseid alle þeo oðre beoð bilokene,’ AR 226/7. ilokene CT.