265. Comp. ‘behoueð ðe ðat ðu bie well warr ꝥ tu luuiȝe ðine nexte, ðat is, aurich mann ðe berð ðin anlicnesse,’ VV 39/13: a translation of _proximus_, S. Luke x. 29. #þe#: comp. 22/141, 25/217: ‘Au besoing voit on qui amis est’, Li Proverbe au Vilain, no. 72. 266. Comp. 188/378; ‘Vrom mulne ⁊ from cheping, from smiðe ⁊ from ancre huse, me tiðinge bringeð,’ AR 88/26; ‘At chireche and at chepyng | hwanne heo to-gadere come,’ OEM 189/57; Böddeker, AE. Dicht. 112/82. 270. #sytte#: comp. 22/144: rest in contentment; ‘sit soft.’ 271. Skeat takes #lond le# as a mere scribal error for londe which T reads. I think it points to an original londe ⁊ se: comp. 40/194; ‘Mid mede man mai ouer water faren And mid weldede of giue[;] frend wuerche,’ OEH ii. 41/20 (possibly a reminiscence of this place). For the proverb comp. ‘Mieux vaut amis en voie, ke deniers en corroie. Melius valet amicus in via quam denarius in corrigia,’ Hauréau, Notices et Extraits, ii. 283. 274-6. Comp. 22/133-5. #mixe#: T has nocht. 280. #holde#, maintain: ‘vpholde,’ 21/113. 285. Comp. 18/9-11. 288. Comp. generally 32/39-65; 29/20-24. Perhaps the allusion is to ‘In timore Domini esto [tuum cor] tota die: Quia habebis spem in novissimo, et praestolatio tua non auferetur,’ Prov. xxiii. 17, 18. 289. #lyen#: comp. ‘ꝥ sind þa gecostan cempan þa þam cyninge þeowað | se næfre þa lean alegeð þam þe his lufan adreogeð,’ Exeter Book, ed. Gollancz, 108/91. See 32/64 note. 293. #gabbe#, talk mockingly or derisively: the meaning of Fr. _gaber_, to talk boastingly, would suit well here, but it lacks support. #schotte# is difficult: the obvious sense is, to pay scot, to take part in convivial assemblies, but this does not go well with #gabbe#. Borgström thinks that it may be _schoute_, to shout, or possibly to scout, sneer, modified for the sake of the rhyme. If that principle may be admitted, _stroute_, to swagger (Havelok, 1779), would be preferable. 294. #chid#, wrangle, engage in a ‘flyting,’ or scolding match: ‘Ne respondeas stulto iuxta stultitiam suam,’ Prov. xxvi. 4. Whether #tales# be taken with the preceding or the following line, it is equally unsuitable, unless it may mean reproaches, charges, after OE. #talian#. It goes best with l. 296; _ne_ should be omitted before _chid_. #dwales#, not ‘fools’ in the general sense, but erring ones; _dwall_ in mod. dialects means to wander in mind, to talk incoherently. With #cunnes# comp. 81/80. 298. ‘Rumores fuge, neu studeas novus auctor haberi,’ Cato 218/12. With 299 comp. ‘Pauca in convivio loquere’, id. 217/51. ‘Inter convivas fac sis sermone modestus,’ Columbanus 92; ‘Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: | Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis,’ Cato 217/10. 302. #biluken#, enclose, comprehend: the brief utterances of the wise man are weighty. 303. See Hendyng 85 and Kneuer 28. 305. With #wille#, comp. 24/185.