90. #iȝemen#: OE. #gegīeman# occurs only in the sense of treating as a patient, amending: ȝeme T means, take heed to, give attention, the variant in N, #ihwulen#, have leisure: comp. ‘hwon so ȝe euer muwen ihwulen,’ AR 44/5. Apparently it occurs nowhere else. 91. ‘In desideriis est omnis otiosus,’ comp. Prov. xxi. 26. For #awakeneð# see 54/24. ‘Ecce haec fuit iniquitas Sodomae, sororis tuae, superbia, saturitas panis et abundantia, et otium ipsius,’ Ezech. xvi. 49. 94. #rust#: ‘otium enim et desidia quasi quaedam rubigo sapientiae est,’ S. Jerome, ii. 773. 95, 96. From Ailred; ‘sunt quaedam inclusae, quae in docendis puellis occupantur, et cellam suam vertunt in scholam,’ 641 f. #forwurðe#, degenerate into; a meaning apparently found only in AR; its ordinary sense is, to perish, 54/23. Comp. ‘Þeo þet schulden one lecnen hore soule mid heorte bireousunge . . . uorwurðeð fisiciens ⁊ licomes leche,’ AR 368/28; ‘bicumeð (forwurðeð T) meister, þe schulde beon ancre,’ 64/24. 96. #ꝥ--of#, concerning whom it would be danger; comp. 1/3. For #of#, meaning ground, cause, comp. ‘strengðe of,’ 66/116; ‘gostlich fondunge þat is more dred of,’ AR 194/23: for #pliht#, risk, ‘Nu ne sceole ȝe halden eower child to plihte to longe hæþene,’ Twelfth Cent. Hom. 6/7: #dute# 79 N has the same meaning. 97. #bimong#: a form characteristic of AR and the allied writings. 99. See 64/68 note. In the next line #writen# probably means compose or copy books; comp. ‘Nulla etiam de nostris praesumat libros aliquos, vel orationes, vel meditationes scribere vel scribi facere sine assensu prioris omnium,’ Gilbertine Rule, p. *lxxxiii. 100. Their hair is to be cropped, #idoddet#, or shaven four times a year, or if any one prefers it, trimmed, #ieueset#, but in that case, the hair must be washed and combed more often, C 85; not more than seven times in the year according to the Gilbertine Rule. 102. #beo bi#, as at 62/45. 103. #as ofte#: four times a year, as in the Gilbertine Rule, p. *lvi. #þe#, who, equivalent to whoso; if any one can dispense with bloodletting; #þer buten#, without it: see NED. _s.v._ Here § 16. 105. #þe þreo dahes#, a recognized period of indulgence; ‘Minutis tribus diebus pitantia mane vinum autem bis datur . . . a laboribus vacant, ad lectos redeunt, a post prandium usque ad vesperas colloquium de bonis faciunt,’ Guigonis Consuetudines, Migne, P. L. cliii. 737. 106. #schurteð#, amuse: a rare word supposed to be cognate with Germ. scherzen. ‘Mes dalieȝ de paroles od voȝ meschines ⁊ od honestes countes solaceȝ vous ensemble,’ F. 107. #beoð#: the subject ȝe is understood from the preceding ow. 109. They were too severe in their austerities, AR 378/21, 228/18. 110. For #monluker# see 125/270 note. 115. #ꝥ--riwle# depends on #nan#. This passage corresponds to 65/57-61.