27. #understonden him#, perceive; see 13/34 note and comp. ‘þenne aȝe we to understonden us | from alle uuele he scal blecen us,’ OEH i. 57/63, 64; ‘Peter · anon þer after · hyne vnderstod · | Hwat his louerd hedde iseyd,’ OEM 45/297, 8. #of#: the genitive of the thing perceived is found in OE., ‘ðe hiora ðeninga cuðen understondan,’ Cura Past. 3/4. 28. #imeane#, ‘general heads,’ Morton, evidently taking it for the _adj._ used as a noun: it seems better to regard it as the _adv._ generaliter, referring each species of sin to its genus. T omits; B alters by inserting þat, which I indicate. ‘Nec est a{liqui}s ut puto qui [non] possit intellig{er}e suu{m} p{ec}c{a}t{u}m sub aliquo p{re}d{i}c{t}or{um} contineri,’ M. 29. #anlich#: comp. ‘he (S. John Baptist) . . . wende into onliche stude iðe wildernesse,’ AR 160/7. #þe--for donne#: nothing corresponding in M. #for fearinde#: forð farinde CT; uorðfarinde N; ‘passanȝ,’ F. 31. #hehe . . . iheortet#: comp. ‘ase of prude[;] of great heorte[;] oðer of heih heorte,’ AR 342/24. #hehe#, adverb; LWS. #hēage#, comp. 68/142. #ouerhohe#: ouerhoȝe C; ou{er} hehe T; ouer heie N. Apparently they all mean, too loftily; the forms with _o_ may be due to the influence of ouerhowien (comp. 28/323): ouerhowe, contempt, occurs as a noun, ‘ouerhowe of eorðliche þinges,’ AR 276/3, HM 43/4 (comp. OE. #oferhoga#, a contemner): for hehe in B is corrupt. M has ‘elatos corde.’ 32. #iþonket#: iþonked C; iðoncked N, is explained as a new formation from iþanc, OE. #geþanc#, thought, thus meaning thoughted, but the versions connected it with þankien, OE. #þancian#, ‘Serpens uenenosus inuidos ⁊ ingratos,’ M; ‘La venimouse serpente lenuious ⁊ ceauȝ qe sunt de male voluntee vers lour bienfetours,’ F. T has ‘þe ondfule ⁊ te luðere iþohtet: ꝥ beo{n} malicius ⁊ luðere aȝain oðere’; luþere J·hertet V. The unicorn stands for Pride, not Anger, in the patristic literature; comp. Cohn, Zur literarischen Geschichte des Einhorns, ii. 8. 33. #o rawe#, in their order, in succession. #to--isleine#: ‘Int{er}fecti quo ad d{eu}m,’ M; ‘q{a}nt a dieu[;] il sunt tueȝ,’ F. Comp. ‘mest al þe world, þet is gostliche isleien mid deadliche sunnen,’ AR 156/9. 34. #hond#, control: the MSS., except V which has warde, agree with B: ‘in eius excercitu,’ M; ‘de sa meignee,’ F. #of#: comp. 56/48; a locative use = in. 35. #falleð#, is proper to, is in accordance with his nature; comp. 54/6: ‘quilib{et} de officio ad se p{er}tinente,’ M, ‘qe a lui apent,’ F. 36. #draheð wind#: the germ of this comparison is possibly, ‘Qui inflantur superbia, vento pascuntur,’ Isidore vi. 241/4. Comp. also, ‘Dominus cuidam heremite ostendit in spiritu tres homines quorum unus in monte excelso trahebat ventum ore aperto . . . Hii sunt vani et superbi homines qui vane glorie ventum attrahunt et multa opera faciunt ut ab hominibus laudentur,’ Jacques de Vitry, ed. Crane, 68/2.