189. Omit #scholde#, a mere repetition from the preceding line. Comp. ‘gyf þonne þissa þreora þinga ænig hwylcne man lette, þæt hine to ðam fæstene ne ónhágje,’ Wulfstan 285/3 (quoted in B.-T.). #forþ#, openly, freely: comp. ‘ðane sei ðu forð mid seinte Petre: Tu es Christus,’ VV 25/31. #baleusyþes#, cast up to you your misfortunes: comp. 2/27. But one expects, after l. 185, something like, will reveal all your secrets. 190. #woþ#: T has wod and wordwod may mean word-mad; in that case the second half of the line is little more than repetition. But T has often _d_ for _þ_, and so his reading may be the same in effect as that of J, which does not put _þ_ for _d_. Now in Layamon the younger MS. writes woþ for _wouh_, _woh_ in the elder, 3327, 4333, where the sense requires the latter, and _word woh_, perverse of speech, would fit well here. 191. #wel wolde#, though she desired it ever so much, she cannot control it at all. 194. #ouerprute#, excessive pride: the noun apparently only here; the adj. ouerprut is commoner. In T, orgul prude. Comp. ‘Bruttes hafden muchel mode[;] & vnimete prute,’ L 19408. 196. After #þat#, _heo_ has dropped out. 198. That vice she would readily give up, if she were often in a sweat exhausted with toil. Comp. ‘moni swinc moni swæt[;] . . þolede ich on folde,’ L 2281, 7; ‘he swonc i þon fehte[;] þat al he lauede asweote,’ id. 7488. 202. Read, þat beon uulle treowe: lit. though it is ill to bend what are full-grown trees, i.e. though full-grown trees are hard to bend. It is not necessary to alter #beo#, but #n# of #nule# probably belongs to it; it is subjunctive in an object clause expressing a class of things. For #uulle# comp. 42/219; ‘min fulla freond,’ Thorpe, Diplom. 525/8; ‘heo beoð ure fulle feond,’ L 963; ‘Ech god giue ⁊ fule giue cumeð of heuene dunward,’ OEH ii. 105/17; ‘fulliche cristene mon,’ OEH i. 73/5. ‘Dum curuare potes, vel curuam tendere virgam, | Fac sit ut ad libitum plantula ducta tuum: | Cum vetus in magnum fuerit solidata vigorem | Non leviter flectes imperiale caput,’ Alanus 435. It is difficult to alter a grown-up. 203. #after#, following the example of: comp. ‘Prendere maternam bene discit cattula predam,’ Prov. Heinrici 169; ‘Muricipis proles cito discit prendere mures,’ id. 109: said of innate tendencies. The hindrances to the training of the young wife are that she is already grown up and has an inherited disposition. 204. #þe mon þat . . . he#: see 19/49. Comp. ‘Femina quem superat, nunquam uiuit sine pena; | Libertate caret, turpi constrictus habena,’ Flor. Gott. 724. 205. #ihurd#, listened to, or perhaps, spoken of, as having any independence in what he says. Had the writer in mind, ‘labia nostra a nobis sunt, quis noster Dominus est?’ Ps. xi. 5.