54. #lust#, hearing; ‘auditus’ M: OE. #hlyst#. C has luft, and F accordingly ‘Mes la senestre enqore al mal est touȝ iours ou{er}te.’ T has luf and P loue. In 53 B #ea# may be miswritten for aa, ever. 55. After #muð#, CNV add mis. 56. #lastunge#: so CN; ‘ampliori det{ra}ctac{i}one,’ M; leasinge T; sustenynge V, due to confusion with lasten, endure: ‘par plus entocch{er},’ F. 58. #eateliche#: atterluche T; no _adj._ in P. #ageasten#: glopnen T; rapelich glutten P, the former word due to reading #ȝet# as ȝer. There is an OWScand. glúpna, to be surprised, but Björkman (241) thinks a Scand. origin of the English word doubtful. Comp. the modern dialectic gloppen in the North and North Midland; glottened, startled, is also recorded for Shropshire. 59. #niuelin#: niuelen CNT; nyuelen V; P omits: probably means to snuffle: M has ‘geme{n}t’; F, no equivalent: is possibly a form of snivel, and is recorded in EDD. for Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, to turn up the nose in disdain. #makien sur semblant#, wear a rueful countenance: comp. 117/19; ‘ȝif þu makest ei sembla{u}nt,’ AR 90/18: loþly semblaunt P; ‘frunt vn egre semblant,’ F. 61. #hond#: ha{m} T. 62. #makien grim chere#: comp. ‘niuelen ⁊ makien sure ⁊ grimme chere,’ AR 240/4; ‘makeð hire ueire cheres,’ id. 218/11. M has ‘q{u}i{a} p{rius} discu{n}t officiu{m} suu{m} · ut facia[n]t horribilem’ [uultum]. 63. #skirmeð#: Master Walter Leskirmissour, who performed before Edward the First at Whitsuntide 1306, was, no doubt, an artist of this sort. A picture of one who is keeping three knives and three balls going in the air may be seen reproduced in Strutt, Horda Angelcynnan, i. plate 19. #⁊#: BC omit. 64. #warpere#: so C; worpere N; cast{er}e T. M has ‘Iracu{n}dus coram diabolo pu{n}g{na}t ut pugil · cu{m} cultellus est p{ro}tector cultelloru{m}’; his original had probably cultellis, and projector; possibly protector represents a mistake, warde, or wardere. 65. #eiðer beoð#: eiðer baðe ha beoð C, with same meaning. 66. #he . . . him . . . he#: ho . . . hire . . . ho T, and so hire for him in the next three lines. #warpeð#: so C; warpes T; worpeð N. #from#: frommard N; see 77/63 note. #skirmeð#, directs, aims: ‘i{m}pu{n}g{na}t,’ M. P has kerueþ. 67. #eawles#, hooks; comp. 120/126: used of the torturer’s hook, SK 2178; SM 6/28; the ‘īsen hoc’ of BH 43/25. In Ælf. Gloss. 316/6 #āwul# glosses L. fascinula (= fuscinula), the Vulgate word at 1 Sam. ii. 14, which is a diminutive of fuscina, ‘quoddam instrumentum ferreum . . . quo vtuntur . . . piscatores ad pisces capiendos, coci ad carnes extrahendas de caldario,’ Catholicon. F has ‘crochouns’; M ‘cum creag{ri}s’: creagra (= κρεάγρα), fleshhook, occurs in the Vulgate at 2 Paralip. iv. 11, 16. Similarly, ‘And when þai hadde on hym ylayd | Her scharpe hokes al þo | It was in a sori playd | Ytoiled boþe to ⁊ fro,’ Desputisoun, ed. Linow, 56/477.