159. #swych mon þat#, &c., such a man as wishes you very well, said ironically: þat is not conjunction, but relative pronoun, and the construction is parallel to, ‘talem igitur te esse oportet qui primum te ab impiorum civium . . . societate seiungas,’ Cic. Fam. x. 6. 3; just as #so . . . þat#, 24/184, 5 is matched by, ‘Quis est tam lynceus qui in tantis tenebris nihil offendat?’ id. ix. 2; and similarly ‘nec tamen ego sum ille ferreus, qui fratris maerore non movear,’ Cic. Cat. iv. 3. Where the expression is generic, the dependent verb should be subjunctive, as is the case with _segge_, and probably here the original had _monne--onne_. Comp. ‘ic bidde . . . swælc monn seðe to minum ærfe foe,’ Thorpe, Diplom. 471/16; ‘Nes þo non so hardy · þat on me leyde honde,’ OEM 43/209; ‘þat na man ne wurðe swa wod[;] ne witte bi-dæled, | þat in his hirede breke grið,’ L 10282; ‘þat na mon on worlde[;] swa wod no iwurðe, | no swa ær witte gume[;] þat his grið bræke,’ id. 22069, 787. With #on# comp. ‘ne beo he no swa luðer mon[;] þat his freond him wel ne on,’ L 22963: Skeat’s insertion of _hit_ spoils the meaning. #Swyhc mon# = such a one: _swillc an_ appears for the first time in Orm 11595. 166. #bywite#: þenkeþ T. 169. Comp. ‘Uxorem fuge ne ducas sub nomine dotis,’ Cato 228/12: ‘Monimon for londe wyueþ to shonde,’ Hendyng 280; Kneuer, 57. 170. #custe#, qualities, virtuous or otherwise. 171. #vuele iauhteþ#, estimates falsely, makes a bad bargain. 172. #of fayre#, not, out of what is fair, but, in choosing a fair wife: of = in the form of, in the person of. For #frakele#, comp. ‘he bið wið-uten feire ⁊ frakel wið-innen,’ OEH i. 25/27. ‘Munditiam seruat sinceram rara uenustas,’ Fec. Ratis 114/581. 175. #So#: Holthausen, Archiv lxxxviii. 370, suggests wo, which gives a common phrase, ‘Wo is hym alyue,’ OEM 183/221; ‘wa is me on liue,’ L 3422. 177. #vppen eorþe#, a favourite tag: see 28/315; KH 247 O. 179-82. These lines are repeated with small variation in Hendyng, 133-7, but the ‘wyf’ is ‘ȝonge’; Kneuer, 53. Zupitza, Anglia, iii. 370, quotes an inscription in Low German from a room in the Lübeck Rathskeller, which is identical with the English proverb, and Holthausen, Archiv, lxxxviii. 371, contributes two more versions in the same dialect. 184. #so wod . . . þat . . . segge#, so mad as to say: see 23/159; and comp. ‘Ne wurðe nan cniht swa wod[;] ne kempe swa wilde,’ L 8593, ‘& þa drihliche gumen[;] weoren win drunken,’ id. 8125. 185. #wille#, all that is in thy mind: comp. 27/305, 23/166. 186. #þu#: T has hue, and Skeat alters here to _heo_, but the text may very well mean, if you ever found yourself. Perhaps the original had: For if þu hi myd worde · iwreþþed heuede | And heo iseye þe · bi vore þine ivo alle. Comp. ‘confundet te in conspectu inimicorum,’ Ecclus. xxv. 35. 188. #lete#, omit, refrain from: form and meaning from OE. #lǣtan#, but with construction, _þat-_ clause with subj., of OE. #lettan#.