73. #Wite ðu to soðe#, know thou for a truth; a favourite expression of the writer, but with te, not to, as at VV 41/32, 55/23, 59/11, 69/28, ‘wite ðu te fulle soðe,’ 65/22: comp. the variants at 70/158, 76/7, 142/73, 143/75, 91, and, ‘wite ȝe hit to wisse,’ SJ 27/16. #ðe . . . spekeð#: comp. 81/77. 74. #inede#, needy persons: comp. the ME. verbs ineden, neden; OE. #genīedan#. 75. #Fuerunt# &c.: Ps. xli. 4. 77. #Of--teares#, of tears of another kind; so 91/101. 78. #Lacrimis# &c.: Ps. vi. 7. 79. Comp. ‘Sit animae beatae culcitra conscientiae suae puritas: sit cervical aut capitale tranquillitas: coopertorium securitas: et in hoc strato delectabiliter dormiat et feliciter requiescat,’ Hugh of St. Victor, iii. 236. 82. #þar of ðe#, whereof, of what: comp. ‘Ðar is ðin herte ðarof ðe ðu mæst þenkst,’ VV 69/26. 85. #Dispone# &c.: Isa. xxxviii. 1. Omit ⁊ before #tu#. 86. #cwide#, legacy. 88. #lað#: comp. 189/412: #richeise# is accusative. 89. #dede þat betste#, took the best course. 90. #for--idon#, exerted myself cheerfully for love of thee. 91. #god inȝied#: referring to Hezekiah’s words, ‘Memento quaeso quomodo ambulaverim coram te in veritate et in corde perfecto.’ 93. #hamward#, on his way home; ‘antequam egrederetur Isaias mediam partem atrii, factus est sermo Domini ad eum, dicens: Revertere,’ 4 Kings xx. 4. Comp. ‘þa ða he hamwerd wæs,’ Ælf. Lives, i. 318/181, ii. 150/110; ‘eoten wæs ut-weard,’ Beowulf, 761; ‘þiderward,’ 83/18; ‘þa wes it cud ouer al þe burh þet þe helind wes þiderward,’ OEH i. 3/15; ‘is towerd on worulde,’ Ælf. Lives, ii. 170/28. These expressions are elliptical; farende or the like is to be understood. 94. #Vidi# &c.: Isa. xxxviii. 5. #lacrimam tuam#: so Codex Amiatinus. The Vulgate has ‘lacrymas tuas’. 97. #muȝe forðdraȝen#, art able to produce from thy store; L. depromere. 99. #forð mid#: see 1/19. #Ciba# &c.: Ps. lxxix. 6 (adapted). 104. #alswa alswa . . . alswa#, even as . . . even so. 107. #sckelewisnesse#, skillwiseness, discretion: OWScand. skilvíss. 108. #beheue#: comp. 74/225, 127/346: a favourite word of this writer, see VV 99/25, 107/28, 109/8: comp. ‘Geþyld is micel mægen · and mannum nyd-behefe,’ Ælf. Lives, ii. 166/142; ‘hemseluen to unbihefe,’ OEH ii. 121/24. 109. #moder#: ‘Haec dico ut discretionem, quae omnium virtutum et mater et nutrix est, detegam,’ Ælredi Regula; ‘imetnesse is alre mihta moder,’ OEH i. 101/24; ‘Witerlice meteȝung is alræ mæȝene moder,’ Twelfth Cent. Hom. 90/29. 110. #rixin# is a mistake due to the preceding rixið: the text, as it stands, must mean, who wills to rule and follow her. hlesten is the word associated with folȝin in VV, comp. ‘for ðan ðe hie nolden godes lare hlesten ne folȝin,’ 61/16, ‘Hlest ⁊ folȝih se ðe wile,’ 77/9. 111. #vitas patrum#: see pp. 551, 2, ed. Roswey, Antwerp, 1628. #sume sal#, at a time when a number of the hermits of the Thebaid came to visit S. Antony, ‘perfectionis inquisitione et collationis gratia.’