[153]Probably Racheness in the parish of South Acre, where "there was a leper hospital, with church or chapel dedicated to St. Bartholomew, of early foundation" (Victoria History of the County of Norfolk, ii. p. 450). [154]In true union. [155]Established firmly. [156]Wandering. [157]So Horstman. Pepwell reads: "With this wonderful onehede ne may none be fuifilled." [158]Unreasonable impulses. [159]Secret nature. Cf. Mother Juliana, Revelations of Divine Love, xiv. cap. 46: "And our kindly substance is now blessedfully in God." [160]Divers. [161]Cf. De Imitatione Christi, ii. 4: "If thine heart were right, then every creature would be a mirror of life, and a book of holy doctrine. There is no creature so small and vile, as not to represent the goodness of God." [162]Horstman reads: "a mans saule." [163]So Horstman: Pepwell reads: "as virtues in angels and in holy souls and in heavenly things." [164]Pepwell omits the "not." [165]Before. [166]The truth of God's hidden mysteries. [167]According to the measure of its love. [168]All intervening hindrance. [169]Horstman reads: "matter." [170]A little. [171]Before. [172]Overtaxes. [173]Craft. [174]Horstman reads: "wete he wele." [175]This passage is defective in Pepwell. [176]MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, has: "purges." [177]Pepwell has: "in feeling of the sound." [178]MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, reads: "toune" (i.e. tone). [179]Illumined. [180]Cools down grows cold. Also construed with "from." Cf. Richard Rolle Psalter (ed. H. R. Bramley, p. 156): "He gars sa many kele fra godis luf." [181]A mere abstract thought of God. [182]Construe: "But if he hold this feeling and this mind (that is only his own working by custom) to be a special visitation." [183]Surer, safer. [184]Pepwell adds "and in faith." [185]The MSS. add: "And bot if thou spede thee the rather or thou come to the ende of thy prayer." [186]Pepwell reads: "find." [187]Coax, beguile. [188]Falsehoods. [189]The MSS. read: "behetynges of lenger leuyng." [190]Promise. 191Ps. xlvi. 8 (Vulgate), xlvii. 7 (A.V.): "Sing ye praises with understanding." 192Ps. cxi. 10 (cx. 10 Vulgate). [193]So Pepwell; Harl. MS. 674 reads: "Bot forthi that there is no sekir stonding." [194]Pepwell adds in explanation: "or amends"; i.e. satisfaction. Cf. Langland, Piers the Plowman, B. xvii. 237: "And if it suffice noughte for assetz"; and Wyclif, Pistil on Cristemasse Day (Select English Works, ed. T. Arnold, ii. p. 237): "And thus, sith aseeth muste be maad for Adams synne." [195]Ps. xxxiv. 22 (Vulgate xxxiii. 23). [196]The MSS. read: "fro a lyf." [197]The MSS. read: "a lyf." [198]So Harl. MS. 674. Pepwell reads: "Also the steps of thy staff Hope plainly will shew unto thee if thou do it duly, as I have told thee before, or not." [199]Summa Theologica, II.-ii. Q. 82, A. I: "Devotio nihil aliud esse videtur, quam voluntas quaedam prompte tradendi se ad ea, quae pertinent ad Dei famulatum."