78. The amice, L. amictus, is the oblong piece of linen which envelops the neck of a vested priest. For a good illustration see Bock, Gesch. der liturg. Gewänder des Mittelalters, ii. Tafel ii. To its upper edge is sewn an apparel which forms a collar to it. The parures, apparels, are pieces of richly embroidered cloth sewn on the amice and on the alb, two at the lower hem before and behind, two on the cuffs, and sometimes two on breast and back. See Shaw’s Dresses, i. plates 14, 16; Rock, Church of our Fathers, i. 424-66. The Gilbertines were allowed to use silk for these embroideries. 80. #mustreisun#, ostentation, boasting: OF. mo(n)straison, L. monstrationem: NED. records a later monstrison and monstration. 81. For #gode werkes# spoilt by publishing them, see the characteristic passage in AR 146-52. #Criblin#: the exact meaning of this word, hitherto unrecorded, is hard to determine. Its connexion with F. cribler, LL. criblare (in Mulomedicina Chironis, ivth cent.), L. cribrum can hardly be doubted; it must mean some kind of open work; either embroidery on a net foundation, ‘filatorium,’ or drawn-thread work, or, what seems most probable, ‘tambour,’ wherein the strips of linen stretched in a ring frame, with the pattern pierced by a bodkin and the edges of the holes thus made framed in needlework, would above all things suggest a sieve. Such work might be used for ornamenting altar cloths, or pyx cloths, or even albs (see Bock, ii. 35). It was elaborate work, such as recluses ought not to undertake. 82. #Taueles#, linen cloths which are spread on the mensa of the altar, the ‘tres tobaleae mundae’ of the Roman rite. LL. toualia, Eng. towel. #riueð#, stitches, sews together; OWScand. rifa, to tack, sew loosely together: in Scottish dialects, riv. 83. #measse kemese#, albs: OE. #cemes#, LL. camisia. #nomeliche oueregede#, especially such as are foolishly elaborate: #oueregede# is found here only; egede is a characteristic word of the group, AR 282/13; HM 39/2; SM 11/9. 84. #Helpeð# &c.: comp. ‘Quod ut fiat, videat inclusa, ut si fieri potest, de labore manuum suarum vivat, hoc enim perfectum est,’ Ailred, 641 d. A general injunction, not applicable to the sisters, for whom ample provision had been made, AR 192/16. 85. #se forð se#, as far as: comp. ‘so uorð so,’ 65/67; ‘se uorð ase,’ 75/187; ‘ase forð as,’ 72/201; ‘so uorð ase,’ AR 268/10, 382/11. 86. The reference is probably to ‘ne quemquam otiosum possit diabolus invenire, ne variis desideriis pateat cordis aditus, altera sororum libros scribat . . . suat altera cucullas sororum,’ Opera v. 442. 87. #lihtliche#, without good reason. #allunges#, altogether, wholly: the genitive form is less common than the dative, 70/154, which represents OE. #eallunga#. #of sumþing . . . idel#, without something to do: comp. 58/73. #anan rihtes#, immediately, straight away. 89. #for nawt#, to no purpose.