102. #idelnesse holde#, enjoy leisure. T has hednesse, OE. #ēadnes#, happiness, comfort. ‘Honestior est qui senectutem ad otium rettulit, quam quem in otio invenit,’ Monita 22/75. 106. #wel bitowe#, well employed, profitably experienced. Comp. ‘alle þe ȝeres weren wel bi-toȝe,’ L 19902; VV 13/2; ON 702; ‘uuele bitohe,’ 74/225. 108. See 26/244 note, and for the form of the expression, comp. ‘Ah her, þu wenest ȝet | ꝥ tu wenen ne þerf,’ SK 1153. 110. #lyues#: read lyf is . . . luued: ‘Qui enim vult vitam diligere,’ &c. 1 S. Peter iii. 10. 111. #lyf his owe#: the order is strange, and #owe# is pointless, quite different from 22/128, 23/149, 27/277, where there is a contrast with one’s possessions, &c. Possibly the original had _lifes leowe_, life’s warmth, shelter, OE. #hlēow#: comp. ‘herd leouwe,’ AR 368/12, poor housing. The word was uncommon and likely to puzzle the copyist. 112. #wrt#: Comp. ‘Herba nec antidotum poterit depellere loetum; | Quod te liberet a fato, non nascitur horto,’ Fecunda Ratis 132/725. Skeat quotes as a proverb, ‘Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?’ It is from the Regimen Sanit. Salern. l. 177, and the next line is, ‘Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis.’ #a wude#: comp. 181/181. 113. #þas feye furþ#, the life of the doomed man. 118. #doweþes louerd#: prob. the original had duȝeðe, _pl. gen._: ‘duguða dryhten,’ Christ, 781 = Dominus exercituum, Dominus virtutum. T has domis louird. 122. Skeat explains the MS. reading, givest away and controllest; an unnatural order: Borgström takes yefst = yhefst < OE. #gehæbban#, ‘If thou hast and possessest.’ Morris’s conjecture, _yetst_, may mean, gettest, gainest. The passage is corrupt: T has ‘ȝif þu hauest welþe awold iwis ȝerlde:’ #in þis world# is mere padding arising from #vpen eorþe#: the original may have been, Gif þu havest a wold | seoluer and gold: comp. 22/133, 4; ‘Whil ȝe habbeþ wyt at wolde,’ Hendyng 299; 52/387 note. 125. #ildre istreon#: comp. ‘þæt he of his yldrena gestreone hine sylfne fercian mote,’ Ælf. Lives i. 524/597, 528/669; ‘þæ castles aðele weore[;] of his eoldrene istreon,’ L 18608. 126. #lone#: Skeat quotes ‘divitiæ . . . donum Dei,’ Eccles. v. 18. 127. #þar of#, from them: comp. 22/117: the expression is unusual. 128. ‘Homo vitæ commodatus, non donatus est,’ Syri Sent. 220. 129. #vouh#, for veoh: OE. #feoh#. Comp. 3/13: ‘ffrendles ys þe dede,’ Hendyng 288. 130. #Mayþenes# for maþmes: see 102/134. #leten . . . byhinde#: Skeat explains as, forget us; but 4/14 suggests a more pointed meaning. 131. Comp. ‘Cum fueris felix, quae sunt adversa caveto,’ Cato 218/18; ‘Tranquillis rebus semper diversa timeto,’ id. 232/26. The first four lines are imitated in, ‘The ferthe seide, that he is wod | That dwelleth to muchel in the flod, | For gold or for auhte; | For gold or silver, or any wele, | Hunger or thurst, hete or chele, | Al shal gon to nohte,’ Pol. Songs 256/1, where the writer has evidently misunderstood l. 132.