31. #ilespiles felles#, hedgehogs’ skins: OE. #igil#, #īl#, hedgehog + #pīl#, prickle; the compound is used in ME. for the animal. Comp. ‘⁊ alle [sunnen] weren prikiende so piles on ile | He biþ þicke mid piles,’ Worc. Frag. F 21, 2. In #irspiles# N 30 _r_ is probably due to OF. heriçun: F has ‘peel diricon.’ 31 N. #ileðered# in this MS. only: it must mean, furnished with leather thongs: F has ‘[pl]umbee.’ 32. #holin#: OE. #holegn#, #holen#, holly. 33. #binetli#, whip with nettles: NED. quotes from Cotgrave, ‘_enortier_, to benettle.’ 34. #biuoren#, in front of the body. #ne na keoruunge#, practise no cutting or mutilation. #ed eanes#, at any one time. F ‘a nule foiȝ.’ 35. #luðere#, severe, lit. wicked. #disceplines#: ‘smerte smiten of smale longe ȝerden,’ OEH ii. 207/6. Comp. ‘Disciplina pacis nostre super eum, seið Isaye, þus ure beatunge ueol upon him,’ AR 366/14, 346/24. 36. #cundeliche#: for sicknesses which come in the natural course they must not put faith in or try remedies which are unnatural, such as the nostrums of the herb-woman: see 54/6 note. The writer in another place, 368, says that recluses are apt to be far too much concerned about bodily health. 37. #leste# &c., lest worse befall you: see 30/18. #leste# descends from #þȳ lǣs þe#; this is an early instance of its use. 38. #meoke#, soft, supple; comp. 64/66: the only instances in English of the use of this word in the material sense of OWScand. mjúkr as in Icel. mjúk-hendr, soft-handed. ‘In yeme utamini sotularib{us} grossis ⁊ callidis,’ L. 39. #Hosen wiðute vampez#, stockings without feet; the ‘chausses’ were usually footed. ‘En chauces sanȝ auant pieȝ gise qi voudra,’ F; ‘In caligis sine pedalib{us} dormiet{is},’ L. #vampez#, _pl._ of vampe or vampey, are properly the front part of a boot, the ‘uppers’ (avant pied), here they mean the whole covering of the foot. In Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey (ed. Singer 335), Wolsey is represented as saying, ‘we do intend . . . to go afoot . . . in the vamps of our hosen,’ i.e. in our stocking feet. The second #and# in 35 N is superfluous. 40. #Ischeoed--bedde#: another prohibition of undue austerities. The passage is not in any other of the English MSS., nor in F, but L has ‘calciatis nu{m}qu{am} n{e}c nisi in lecto.’ 41. #Sum--wereð#, it may be that some woman wears &c. For #inohreaðe# see 56/43; F has ‘parauenture’ here as there. #brech#, drawers; OE. #brēc#, _pl._ of #brōc#, answering to femoralia of the monastic Rules. #here#, haircloth; OE. #hǣre#.