89. #hwitel#: whittel P; OE. #hwītel# is usually a mantle, cloak; the sense here accords better with Icel. hvítill; it means a blanket spread over the bed straw to lie on. So the poor man in Piers Plowman has a too short ‘substratum,’ ‘when he streyneþ hym to strecche · þe straw is hus whitel,’ C 284/76; Walter of Henley quotes as an English proverb, ‘wo þat strechet forþerre þan his wytel wyle reche, in þe straue his fet he mot streche,’ Husbandry 4/6. ‘de v{er}mib{us} erit tam coop{er}toriu{m} q{ua}m substratoriu{m},’ M; ‘son cou{er}tour ⁊ sa coilte,’ F; coilte meaning mattress. The reading of N, his kurtel ⁊ his kuuertur, spoils the meaning. 90. #Subter# &c.: Isa. xiv. 11; the Vulgate has erunt vermes. 92. For #manciple# M has mancipium, which may = manceps, purveyor. #ah#: Uor N: TP omit. 94. #neppes#, drinking cups, but Morton translates ‘table cloth.’ nepp C; neppe N; nappes TP; cuppe V; ‘ciphis,’ M; ‘hanaps,’ F. #crohhe#: so T; crochȝe C; OE. #crōh#: crocke NPV; OE. #crocca#: ‘urceolo,’ M; ‘poot,’ F. 95. #bismuddet#: so BT, a form found here only; comp. ‘smod,’ stain, E. E. Allit. Poems, 59/711: bismotted V, from be + smot; both words mean besmutted, smudged. C has bismuðeled, which, with ð for d, appears to be a derivative of *besmud. bismitted N; OE. #smittian#, to stain; discoloured. bismoked P, grimed with smoke, is a substitution for a less familiar word. #bismulret#: bismurlet T; bismorlet V point to a *#smyrlian# from #smyrels#, ointment: bismeored C; bismeoruwed N; bismured B; bismered P, besmeared, are variant spellings of the same word; OE. #besmierwan#. ‘perfusus et fedatus,’ M, a colourless expression beside the vigorous English; ‘esmite ⁊ enbroe,’ F. #scale#: OWScand. skál, bowl (Björkman, 92, 93): schale CP; scoale N; skale T; bolle V. 96. #mis wordes#, words mispronounced; comp. 62/43 note for another meaning: ‘iargoune paroles corrumpneme{n}t,’ F. P omits all from Meaðeleð to fallen. #haueð imunt#, has an inclination; OE. #gemyntan#, intend, purpose: the use here is peculiar: þat is in poynt to fallen V; ‘en pensee de cheir,’ F. 98. ‘Ecce servi mei’ &c., Isa. lxv. 13. 99. #hungrin#: impersonal; comp. 188/390. 100. #feorle#: apparently for feorli = OE. #fǣrlic#, sudden; used in ME. for wonder: it may have been suggested by vos confundemini in the next verse: comp. ‘Tamquam prodigium factus sum multis,’ Ps. lxx. 7. But all the MSS. are with B, and F has ‘vous serieȝ la pouture del enemy.’ #Quantum# &c.: Apocal. xviii. 7. The following #Contra# &c. is adapted from ‘in poculo, quo miscuit, miscete illi duplum.’ M has the Latin of the text. CN read luctum ⁊ tormentum.