112. #crisme cloð#: in the service books ‘chrismalis pannus, vestis’: ‘crismale seu vestis candida que super caput baptizati imponitur significat secundum rabanum interioris et exterioris hominis castitatem et innocentiam,’ Durandus vi. The chrism cloth was put on with the words, ‘Accipe vestem candidam, sanctam et immaculatam,’ after the sign of the cross had been made with chrism on the head of the person baptized. 115. #for þat#, by reason of which, through which. 116. #iuele# is predicative dative, equivalent to the usual construction with to, as in l. 125. It is OE.; comp. ‘heora nan him ne mehte bion nane gode,’ Orosius 282/18. 118. #embe#: usually þe . . . embe, about which. 120. #he#: for the personal pronoun used instead of a repeated relative, comp. ‘hem,’ 87/156; ‘He ðurh hwam kinges rixit, ⁊ alle mihtes . . . of him cumeð, he lai bewunden on fiteres,’ VV 49/27. #bet ⁊ milce bit#, amends and prays for mercy; comp. 36/126, 44/238. Read seiende. 121. #Miserere# &c.: Ecclus. xxx. 24. 123. #likeð . . . selðe#, is pleased at the prosperity of all of them. 126. #soule#, #lichame#, datives; comp. ‘himseluen to hele,’ 85/107; 176/24 note. 129. #Amice# &c.: S. Matt. xxii. 12. 132. ‘Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus: exultemus et laetemur in ea,’ Ps. cxvii. 24. 135. #oðerluker#, in quite another fashion: a comparative adverb: see 125/270. 140. #for þi . . . for ꝥ þe#, for this reason . . . because. 142. #þer togenes#, for its coming, to meet it, as in ‘biþ hit eft him togeanes gehealden on þæm heofonlican goldhorde,’ BH 53/13. Comp. ‘þer to,’ 85/91, and for a similar pregnant use of ‘efterward,’ 77/63; ‘hamward,’ 91/93. 143. Holthausen in ES xv. 307 emends this sentence by omitting ⁊ before bringe and before þus and changing bringe, leue into bringeð, leueð. It might be better to omit þe and retain ⁊ before bringeð, with leued and omission of ⁊ before þus. 145. #Accipite# &c.: from the Missal, with substitution of commedite (S. Matt. xxvi. 26) for manducate (1 Cor. xi. 24), as in all the English service books. After #novi#, add ‘et aeterni testamenti, misterium fidei.’ 148. #to lesende#: see 81/85 note. 149. #Caro# &c.: S. John vi. 56: the quotation in l. 151 is from verse 54 of the same. 152. Morris says #muge# = muge ge: probably the latter word has dropped out. 154. #ouelete#, oblation, the thing offered, here the wafer to be consecrated. OE. #oflǣte#, #oflēte# from L. oblata.