307. Comp. Hendyng 144 and Kneuer 55; Förster’s note, ES xxxi. 6; ‘Osse caret lingua, secat os tamen ipsa maligna,’ Prov. Hein. 149; ‘Mo sleað word þene sweord,’ AR 74/1; ‘plaga . . . linguae comminuet ossa,’ Ecclus. xxviii. 21. 310. ‘Exultat gaudio pater iusti,’ Prov. xxiii. 24: ‘Him stondes wel þat god child strenes,’ Havelok 2983. 311. #ibidest#, dost obtain: OE. #gebīdan#, to await, experience, attain to. 312. #mon þewes#: comp. ‘hauest þu nu quene þeouwes inume,’ L 30281. ‘Curva cervicem eius in iuventute, et tunde latera eius dum infans, ne forte . . . erit tibi dolor animae,’ Ecclus. xxx. 12. The ‘child unþewed’ is one of the ‘Ten Abuses,’ OEM 185/9. 314. The better things will ever go in the world. For #buuen eorþe#, see 23/177. 316. #werende#: Skeat reads wexende; if any alteration is made, wuniende would give a common OE. and ME. combination: as ‘þæt he her in worulde wunian mote,’ Christ 817; ‘wuniende ⁊ rixlende on worlde,’ OEH 1. 25/17. But #weren# is equated in Stratmann-Bradley with Mid. Dutch, OHG. weren, to remain, with this place as the only instance. 317. #lude and stille#: see 25/226. 327. Comp. ‘For betere were child ounboren þen ounbeten,’ Hending, MS. O, Anglia iv. 191/4. 328. ‘Qui parcit virge, sua pignora protinus odit,’ Fec. Ratis 93/438; ‘Quippe diu male cesus lamentabitur infans,’ id. 65/289. #spareþ#, with dative. 329. #areche#, get at, control. _Cross-References_ 13/34 (note) = V. (A Parable) 23/172 (note) = _present selection_ 46/292, 50/334 (notes) = VIII. (Poema Morale) _Errata_ The Cotton MS. ... MS. Stowe 163, B.M. ff. [Stowe, 163 B. M.] ... #īe# in #scīene#, #gesīene# gives schene 213, isene 75. [#scīene# #gesīene#] #ea# + #h# occurs in wexynde 112, 113, iauhteþ 171 [113 iauhteþ] The personal pronouns ... _a. f._ 280, non [non,] _s. g. neut._ 276, echere [echere,] ... Past of Weak Verbs: _s._ 2. heuedest 187; [187:] 1. #Seuorde#: siforde T; Sifforde W, RJ, which is [RJ.,] 38. ... #ryhtwis# [rightwis] 87-92. ... sende þe Adu{er}site [Aduersite] 129. #vouh#, for veoh [_“veoh” misprinted as bold_] 144. ... the divergence of T [of B] 258. ... which is not in T, [T.,] 271. Skeat takes #lond le# as a mere scribal error [_“lond le” misprinted as plain (non-bold)_] VII. MEMENTO MORI #Manuscript:# As for no. vi. There are other copies in (C) MS. Cotton Caligula A ix., B.M., of the first quarter of the thirteenth century, and (B) MS. Laud 471, Bodleian, of the end of the same century. In (A) MS. Arundel 57, B.M. there is a fourteenth-century version of nine lines. CJ form a group, B belongs to another branch. #Editions:# Of CJ; Morris, R., OEM, pp. 156-9 under the inappropriate title, Long Life: of B; Zupitza, J., Anglia i. p. 410: of B, corrected by CJ; Kluge, F., ME. Lesebuch, p. 56; of C; Wright, T., Percy Society, vol. xi. p. 63. Of A; Morris, R., Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 129.