1. #Seuorde#: siforde T; Sifforde W, RJ, which is identified by Spelman 126 with ‘Shifford, six miles west from Oxford.’ That it is ‘remote from the use of the southern dialect’ does not prevent it from being the place where Alfred discoursed. But Seaford, a seaport in Sussex, is more likely to have been associated in the popular mind and tradition with Alfred. 2. #Biscopes#, &c.: comp. ‘Forð iwenden eorles[;] forð iwenden beornes. | forð iwenden biscopes[;] & þa boc-ilæred m{en}[;] forð iwenden þæines[;] forð iwe{n}den sweines | . . . at þan hustinge,’ L 14620. With #bokilered# comp. 19/39, 4/20 note. 3. #egleche#, valiant: OE. #aglǣca#, a fierce warrior. egloche S. 4. #Alurich#: An Ælfric thesaurarius witnesses a charter of King Alfred, A.D. 892, Birch, Cart. Saxon. ii. 209. 5. #of . . . wis#: comp. 212/533. 6. #hurde#: comp. ‘Swa se æþela lareow sægde, þæt se cyning & se biscop sceoldan beón Cristenra folca hyrdas,’ BH 45/24; ‘folces hyrde,’ Beowulf 610. 7. #Englene durlyng#: so, ‘com Alfred þe king[;] Englelondes deorli{n}g,’ L 6316: he has also ‘Bruttene, Orka[n]es, Denemarkes, Irisce mo{n}nen, utlaȝen deorling.’ See KH 488 note. 9. #bigon#: gon T, gan W,S: set to work to teach. 13. #and# may be redundant, as often in Layamon, as ‘Ic wlle mine riche to-don[;] & alle{n} minen dohtren,’ 2945 but #Alured#, though it is in all the copies, may be an error for Ælder: comp. ‘& þu seolf læuerd king[;] leoden þu ært ælder,’ L 16835, 17252, in the latter place, leader. T,W,S read a. 16. #wis . . . war#: comp. 129/27, 156/148, 186/324, 190/456; ‘þe wes þe wiseste[;] þe wes þe warreste,’ L 2107; ‘wisliche þauh ⁊ warliche,’ AR 138/7. 21. #wisliche#, wise, advisable: OE. #wīslīc#: Layamon has ‘to iwisliche{n} þinge,’ 21052. T has, of wi[s]liche þinges. 28. #lykyen#, please: in this sense it governs a dative, which may be understood out of hine. But Mätzner translates, like. 29. #one#, alone: comp. 19/41, 22/118, 60/2. 30. #glednesse#: after the manner of l. 29, we expect gleawnesse, but comp. ‘Of alkin gladnes es þar gleu,’ CM 23359. T has ⁊ he is gleu | ouer alle glade þinhes: S omits. Line 31 is probably a gloss upon l. 30. 34. #riche#, powerful: comp. 6/30, 133/33; ‘hit ne gerist nanum ricum cynincge,’ Ælf. Lives i. 382/260. 35, 6. that there shall not be wanting anything he desires to him who is purposed to honour Him here in this world. For the construction of #wone#, see 52/368: for the double negative comp. ‘for he ne mihte beon wurðe[;] na þing of his wille,’ L 18704: in the MS. _wc_ the scribe mistook þ for w. T has apparently þo, not wo: Skeat reads [hwo]: that relative is not found in J.