where the first line is actually that found in R: the division of mon-nes would readily give rise to the corruptions of all three MSS. In the Ayenbite of Inwyt the Latin is translated, ‘Hous . is inwyt|in huychen þe uader of house woneþ . þe hord of uirtues gadereþ,’ 263/24. For #inwit# comp. ‘wiðinnen us suluen, ure owune conscience, þet is, ure inwit,’ AR 306/1, 206/5. When the writer afterwards speaks of the house of the body, 127/369, he is using a familiar expression, for which there is nothing corresponding in the Latin original. #wit# is Reason = animus rationalis: the contest between it and Will is also in HM 15/23-36; the embodiment of the latter as the ‘fulitohe wif’ is due to our writer. 10. #ꝥ--hire#, whose guidance if the household (hus = familia) follow: see 46/292 note. #diht# &c.: see 66/120 note. 11. #chasti#, discipline, restrain: comp. ‘Hwil þi wit atstond ⁊ chaisteð þi wil . . . ne harmeð hit te nawiht,’ HM 15/26. 13. #hit#: see 1/10: ha RT. 16. #wittes#, senses: comp. ‘hire fif wittes . sihðe ⁊ heringe . smecchunge ⁊ smeallunge ⁊ euch limes felunge,’ HM 13/25; AR 48/8, 116/25. 17. #hwer--ȝemeles#: ‘Nam si vel parum a sua sollicitudine torpuerit,’ V 207 _e_. 18. #feareð untoheliche#, behaves in unruly fashion. #gulteð ilome#: see 34/91. 19. #ifol semblant#, in foolish demeanour: comp. ‘ȝif þu makest ei semblaunt oðer eni luue lates touward unðeauwes,’ AR 90/17. #Inwið# &c.: following on the division made in ll. 14, 15, we might have expected here something like, Þeo wið innen beoð þohtes. 20. #in#, busied about, intent on such a great variety of purposes to please Will. For #in#, of aim, object, comp. ‘He only, in a general honest thought | And common good to all, made one of them,’ Shakspere, Julius Caesar, v. v. 71. It might also be regarded as, in the shape of. 21. #hit# might be impersonal, that things shall go on to her liking, but comp. l. 10. 22. #iþþlen# can hardly be a mistake for ifelen (Specimens): it is possibly for iðolien. R has felen, T fele. #nurhð#, noise: comp. 129/47 note: ‘His laðliche nurð ⁊ his untohe bere makeð þe to agrisen,’ HM 31/22; ‘nurð ne kimeð in heorte bute of sum þing ꝥ me haueð oðer isehen oðer iherd,’ AR Corpus MS. where MS. Nero, ed. Morton, 92/3, has ‘noise’; ‘leaueð ower nurð . ant oþer ladliche bere,’ SM 21/20. The word is not found outside this group. T has murð, as at 118/22, but R with ‘murhðe’ there has correctly nurð here. 23. #a þet#: see 72/179 note. #hit#: RT have correctly wit. #eie . . . luue#: comp. 72/200. With #tuhte#, discipline, comp. ‘tuhten ne chasten þi meiden uor hire gult,’ AR 268/21. 24. #for#, because of the untrustworthiness of: analogous to 104/175. #for hwen ꝥ#, if on occasion, when: see 72/192 and comp. ‘for hwen þat he cheas hire,’ HM 15/11. Its use appears to be restricted to this group. slepe . oðer ohwider fare R; slepes oðer owhwider fares T.