26. #let ham iwurðen#, lets them have their own way, abandons them to their own devices. Comp. ‘ure Louerd let us one iwurðen oðer hwules ⁊ wiðdraweð his grace,’ AR 230/27, 288/23; ‘Heo let heom alle i-wurþe . þat beoþ so swyþe stronge,’ OEM 89/32; SK 791. 28. #forte breoke . . . abuten#: see 74/229 note. #efter#: see 7/53. #ꝥ# is _acc._ after bohte, with lette it means, for which: comp. 44/252, 263. With #lette# &c. comp. 144/84. 29. #moni þeof#: ‘Fur autem non unus est sed multiplex, quia singulis virtutibus singula vitia insidiantur,’ V 208 _a_. 30. #gasttes#: comp. 15/79; ‘ȝewerged gastes . ⁊ unþeawes . ⁊ unwraste lahtres,’ OEH i. 243/7. 31. #castel#: so T, but R has chatel, property, possession. All the MSS. have ‘castel’ at 123/203. 32. #hire#, the corresponding vice. OE. #þēaw#, #un-þēaw# are masculine. 33. #heaued#: ‘Principalis tamen fur diabolus intelligitur. Contra quem et eius satellites pater idem (si tamen non negligens fuerit) domum suam forti custodia muniens, prudentiam in primo aditu constituat,’ V 208 _a_. #meistreð#, acts as leader to. 34. #keis# is evidently translation of satellites, guards. ‘Item satelles dicitur quia adheret alteri ad eius custodiam,’ Catholicon. But W explains it of those who hold the keys of office. 35. #froure#: so T, comfort, support; comp. 18/19. But fowre R is better. 36. #heaued þeawes#, cardinal virtues. V mentions only three of these here, but Temperantia (= Meað) afterwards takes part in the dialogue. #Warschipe# is Prudentia: #gastelich strengðe# is a translation of the Spiritus Fortitudinis of the very ancient Confirmation Prayer; VV has more literally ‘gost of strengþe,’ 83/22: V has Fortitudo only. 38. #cunestable#, chief officer: an early instance of the word in English. 39. #durewart#: comp. ‘Þe ȝeteward . þet is wittes skile,’ AR 270/26: in VV she is ȝeapnesse, ‘on of ðe holie mihtes ðe wel cunne ⁊ wel muȝe ðo gaten ⁊ ðo duren wel bilokin of ðis holi temple,’ 99/22. #þe#: so R, but ꝥ T: relative with subjunctive of purpose, like the Latin, ‘quae discernat quid sit admittendum, quid vitandum, quid excludendum.’ 40. #of feor#, from a distance; explained in NED under _afar_, as an analytical form = OE. #feorran#, _adv._, from far. The latter is sometimes treated in ME. as a noun and combined with prepositions of, on, from: comp. 118/55, 198/31: oferrum in Minot vii. 70 is on + _dat. s. neut._ of #feorr#, _adj._ 42. #warschipes#: for the construction, see 10/167. R has warschipe, showing confusion of gender. The subject of #warni# is warschipe contained in the preceding genitive; see 6/18. #fore#, _adv._, previously, comp. 121/140; ‘Ah wel ich warni þe uore,’ SJ 47/15. 44. #ꝥ . . . speken#: see 81/77.