120. #more mete#, the ‘fulle mete’ of 16/127; ‘none,’ 12/12; ‘vii sandon,’ 13/29. 121. #witetlice# of the MS. may represent OE. #witodlīce#, assuredly. 122. #uuantruce#, failure; as being compounded of #wan#, wanting, and the noun of #trucian#, to fail, it should mean absence of failure. #hað#: for omission of nom. see 6/18. 123. For the pain of dying as penance, comp. ‘Quidam autem electi in fine suo purgantur a levibus quibusdam peccatis,’ Isidore vi. 361; ‘Nullus tui Ordinis peribit, si Ordinem amaverit; aut in morte purgabitur, aut in brevi post mortem,’ Arnulf of Boheries in S. Bern. Opera, ii. 802. 124. #eðelice lette#, easy hindrance, i.e. slight delay. #merchestowe#: Morris suggests ‘merthestowe, a place of mirth,’ or alternatively translates the MS. reading, place marked out, place of separation. The word is not found elsewhere; it is probably a special coinage for the intermediate state, the place of the soul waiting for the body, the place of the ‘morȝemete,’ the limited joy of which the soul is capable in its severed state (‘requies ei, sed in anima sola, interim datur,’ Anselm, in Eadmer, 161 col. 2 B); the banquet of perfect felicity, ‘se fulle mete,’ follows when soul and body meet again at the resurrection, 17/157 (‘in anima simul & corpore laetabuntur,’ Ans.). Comp. #March#, ‘myddys be-twyn ij cu{n}treys,’ Prompt. Parv. ed. Mayhew, 282. 128. #belimpð hit#: a superfluous nominative, as if, what is it that happens? 129. #letes# in Specimens is resolved into lete + his, the latter being _gen._ of hit, governed by fandie, and so like ‘ȝif we his abiriȝdon,’ OEH i. 223/22. But support is lacking for enclitic es = his: it seems better to take letes as lete + es, _pl. acc._, them, or even as _s. a. f._ used incorrectly as _neuter_. 131. #anu# is taken by Morris as for anu{m}, but neither his ‘at once,’ Specimens, nor ‘only,’ OEH, is satisfactory. Probably the original had anūge (= #ānunge#) gerǣde, entirely, quite ready, very keen. 132. #hade#, a past among the presents, is probably a mistake for habe _subj. pres._ of indefinite comparison, Howsoever many vices he has on him, just so many fiends he there encounters: fele has dropped out after swa 133. 135. In Specimens [habbeþ] is inserted after _hi_, with the translation, ‘and they shall have for their reward the home that long shall last.’ The text given means, they shall be thrust from his sight and into their reward which must last long for them. For #hin# = in, comp. 13/23, and for #abroden into#, 13/27. But the original may have had, ⁊ higien him to hire lēan þe lange sceal gelǣstan. 136. #a þa mucele deie#: comp. ‘on þam miclan dæge,’ Christ 1049, and often; ‘in iudicium magni diei,’ S. Jude, 6. See Deering, W., The Anglo-Saxon Poets on the Judgment Day, 8.