45. #mete#: so T, but meðe R: comp. 122/174. #uueles#: so T, faults of excess and defect, extremes: ‘muchel ⁊ lutel,’ 122/169. R has þing{e}, which perhaps points to an original uuele þinge. #for ꝥ--halden#, lit., for that is in every place (i.e. under all circumstances) virtue and disciplined conduct in the observance; which is practically, for the observance of that moderation is under all circumstances virtuous conduct. So ‘ꝥ ich demi riht ⁊ wisdom to donne,’ 122/185, the doing of that I judge to be proper and wise. This use of the gerundial infinitive is frequent in AR, comp. ‘ne beo þu nout Gius fere ne Gius make uorte birlen him so,’ 114/15, by pouring him out such a drink. With #halden# comp. ‘Al so me tempreð an baþ . . . also deð ðis haliȝe mihte alle ðes mannes ðeawes ðe hes luuiȝeð ⁊ healden cann,’ VV 107/18. 46. #ꝥ nan# &c., that none of them in any case should, in opposition to her, with excess overstep moderation: #wid vnmeoð# is duplicated in #ouer mete#. 48: ‘Iustitia sedeat in medio, ut sua cuique tribuat,’ V 208 _b_. 49. #efter his rihte#, according to his deserts. 50. #his#: RT have correctly þis, and after #is#, his. Comp. the corresponding passage 127/356-8, where #efter ꝥ he is# is varied by ‘efter ꝥ him limpeð to,’ and #nimed . . . his warde to witene# by ‘fondeð . . . his warde te witene.’ This household, each in his own department, undertakes the care of his charge. R omits to witene. With #warde . . . witene# comp. 74/231; ‘þet he wite ⁊ wardie ou,’ AR 174/24: similar combinations are ‘werieð ⁊ witeð,’ 121/143, 122/192; ‘wite ⁊ werien,’ 123/203, 136/147, 149/169; ‘wardi ⁊ werie,’ 121/141. 52. #of þe oþre#, of the other servants. #wit# is contracted 3 _sing. pr._ for witeþ, takes care; T has the equivalent in his dialect, wites: comp. ‘swuchne wardein, þet wit ⁊ wereð us euer wið þe unseiene gostes,’ AR 312/8. R reads ant euchan al swa as of þe oðere wið ꝥ wit onont him . ne schal &c.; wið ꝥ wit is an evident mistake for wit ꝥ. #onont him#, so far as he is concerned: see NED under _Anent_; the final _t_ is possibly due to Scandinavian influence (Björkman, 20), and the second _o_ to the analogy of such pairs as hwenne, hwonne, þenne, þonne. Comp. 70/161 note. 53: ‘His ita dispositis, introducere debet prudentia aliquos nuntios, qui aliqua narrent, quae ad exercitationem valeant,’ V 208 _b_. 54. #fortruste him# appears to mean, be over confident, the prefix implying excess: the word occurs here only. 55. #in#, adverb. #of feorren#: see 118/40 note. 58. #elheowet#, of strange colour: apparently here only. T has blac ille heowet, which looks like a popular derivation of an uncommon word. 59. #þuncheð ꝥ stont#: see 7/52 note. #biuoren#, as a preliminary, as the first thing to be said: comp. ‘vore,’ 118/42. RT have biuoren ham, which is rather pointless.