64. Let the knight see that it thrive, i.e. be well kept. 65-71. Comp. ‘Disce puer, dum tempus habes, euo puerili, | Ne te nil didicisse fleas etate senili,’ Flor. Gott. 98: ‘Qui vacat in iuventute turbatur in senectute,’ Wipo 63; Cato 231/12; ‘He ꝥ in ȝouþe no vertu vsiþ, | In Age Alle honure hym refusiþ,’ ES xli. 262/27. See Kneuer, p. 19. 69. #lorþeu#: see 1/19. 72. #elde . . . vnhelþe#: for this combination, see 40/197, where _unhelðe_ rhymes with _uniselðe_. 75. #wroþe#, _pl. adj._ agreeing with #wene#, to which latter #heo# and #hi#, variant forms of the _pl. n._, refer. When age and ill-health come, then the expectations of the improvident man are in experience found to be utterly perverse: not only are they cheated, but they actually vanish, i.e., he is left without hope at all. There is a play on wene and wenliche, l. 68. 78. Comp. ‘Melior est sapientia, quam secularis potentia | Plus unicus sensus quam multiplex census,’ Wipo 7. 82. #furþer#. T has wrþere, more worthy, which is, no doubt, original, as it alliterates with _weole_. noht wurþ, RJ. 83. #of frumþe#, from the beginning, betimes: comp. 65/59; ‘þah þu liuedest of adames fru{m}ðe,’ OEH i. 33/31. RJ reads of fremðe, but T fremede, and Skeat adding [of] translates, out of a stranger. But the point is not the making friends early or out of strangers, but the having wisdom along with your gold. Stanza xiii. is a weak echo of vii. and l. 144 is the key to l. 83. Read _hine to freme_ for _him of frumþe_, with the meaning, Unless he make Wisdom his friend to his profit. See 15/110; 176/24 note. 87-92. Comp. ‘ȝif þou be visite[d] w{ith} pou{er}te, | take it not to hevyle, | for he ꝥ sende þe Adu{er}site, | may t{ur}ne þe Aȝen to wele,’ ES xli. 261/5: Li Proverbe au Vilain, no. 133. 87. #howyen#, be anxious, distressed: comp. ‘Ne beo ge na hogiende ymb þa morgenlican neode,’ S. Matt. vi. 34. 89. #welde#: comp. 4/41. 90. Comp. ‘After vuele cumeð god[;] wel is him þe hit habbe mot,’ L 3608. A transposition here restores the alliteration in two verses. 92. Comp. 195/634, where the verb is omitted after wel, as is usual in such expressions; ‘Wel him ðe is clene iþrowen,’ VV 95/30; ‘Ah wel hire ꝥ luueð godd,’ HM 27/35. For #þat#=for whom, see 46/292 note, and for #ischapen#, destined, comp. ‘after ðan ðe hem iscapen is,’ VV 105/4: hit is, of course, good after evil, weal after woe. 94. Comp. ‘Whoso roweth aȝein the flod, | Off sorwe he shal drinke; | Also hit fareth bi the unsele, | A man shal have litel hele | Ther agein to swinke,’ Pol. Songs, 254/20; ‘werig sceal se wiþ winde roweþ,’ Exeter Book, 345/12. For #strong#, difficult, tough, comp. 48/312, 76/18, 200/111; ‘hu strong hit is to arisen of vuel wune,’ AR 326/28: ‘þes ilke Mon is strong to sermonen’ (difficult to preach to, a tough subject), OEH i. 81/14. 98. #mon# is a suspended _nom._, the construction being changed at l. 105: analogous to 19/48.