79. #Þe--esken#: the readings are, Þe giscere is his eskebach fareð abuten esken C; Þe ȝisc{er}e is his askebaðe · fares abute{n} askes T; Þe ȝiscare is þes feondes askebaðie ⁊ lið eu{er} iþen asken · ⁊ fareð abuten asken N; Þe couetous mon · is þe fendes askebaþi · ffareþ abouten asken V; Þe coueitouse man haþ swich a bay þ{a}t he liþ eu{er}e in þe askes ⁊ askes al aboute{n} hym P. askebaðe is a Scandinavian word, meaning one who bathes or sits in ashes, similar are Danish askefis, blower in ashes, askepot, wallower in ashes (Björkman, 135, 6), and the English dialectal ashypet. #feareð abuten esken#, is busy with ashes: the usual _prep._ is with; comp. 5/6. The form of the expression agrees with 56/36, 58/92, and contrasts with the vague ‘Cupidi est officiu{m} cineres co{n}gregare · cumulare ⁊ cumulos multiplicare’ M: F has ‘Li couoitous en son despit enfant qest touȝ iours entour la ceindre ⁊ ententiuement sentremette damonceiller la ceindre ensemble a g{ra}nȝ ⁊ plusours monceals,’ where despit is probably a mistake for esp{er}it and qest for gist; the passage looks like a translation of an original wrongly read as, þe ȝiscere in his estre babe lið euer abuten asken. 80. #ruken#, heaps: probably a Scandinavian word (Björkman, 252): used in this sense still in North and North-Midland dialects. 81. #peaðereð#, pokes, stirs up: paðereð CN; puðeres T; poþereþ P; Piþeriþ V. A word of obscure origin: potter, pother, of same meaning, represent it in modern Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialects: ‘palpat ⁊ planat,’ M; ‘Trestourne la cendre de fusiaus,’ F. #augrim#: ‘algorismi,’ M; arithmetic. 82. #canges#, fool’s: for the word, which is characteristic of the AR, SK, HM group, see Björkman, 290, note 4. T substitutes askebaðes. P reads conions; F has ‘cangon.’ 84. After #wis mon# T adds ⁊ wummo{n}, and for #eorðlich# T has worldlich. 85. #ahte# appears to have been repeated by mistake from the foregoing. #ablendeð#, probably from ‘Quid aliud detrahentes faciunt, nisi in pulverem sufflant, atque in oculos suos terram excitant,’ S. Gregorii Opera, ii. 193. 86. #bolheð#, inflates: boleȝeð C; boluweð N; bolhes T; bolneþ P; bloweþ V. M strangely, ‘excecant (i.e. cineres) insufflantem ⁊ inflant’: F ‘Cest qi se enfle par eus en orgoil de queor.’ 87. #mare--neodeð# belongs to #ethalt#: T has mare þen hire nedes. 88. #wurðen him#, become for him; ‘vertet{ur},’ M. T has hire, and similarly twice in the next line. #tadden#: frouden P; see 46/273. #ba#: boðe N; Baðe T.