[272]Pepwell modernises "conne" to "learn to" throughout this passage. [273]Harl. MS. 674 reads: "stirring"; the other MS, as Pepwell. [274]Harl. MS. 674 reads: "have." [275]Pepwell reads: "else." [276]Manifestly, i.e. unless they clearly show that they do not know how to act as they should. Pepwell has: "in a part." [277]i.e. take their advice, but do not simply imitate them. I follow the MSS. in preference to Pepwell, who reads: "Work after no men's counsel, but sith that know well their own disposition; for such men should," etc. [278]1 John iv. 1-6. [279]Ps. lxxxv. 8 (Vulgate lxxxiv. 9). [280]Zech. i. 9-19. [281]Col. ii. 18. [282]1 Thess. i. 2-9. [283]Pepwell adds: "or ambition." Cf. Chaucer, The Persones Tale, ed. Skeat, SS 18: "and coveitise of hynesse by pryde of herte." [284]Burns. [285]So Harl. MS. 674; Pepwell has: "war." [286]Crafty device. [287]Cf. above, p. 17 note. [288]Pepwell has: "gladly." [289]Pepwell reads "ever ready." [290]Withstand, resist. [291]Cf. Mother Juliana, Revelations of Divine Love, i. cap. 9: "In general I am, I hope, in onehead of charity with all my even Christian, for in this onehead standeth the life of all mankind that shall be saved." [292]If it is still guilty of the other two. [293]Pepwell adds: "and voluptuous." [294]Ps. cxxxii. (Vulgate cxxxi. ) 13. [295]Cf. Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection, II. pt. ii. cap. 3: "Jerusalem is, as much as to say, a sight of peace, and betokeneth contemplation in perfect love of God; for contemplation is nothing else but a sight of God, which is very peace." [296]Probably Isa. lvii. 15. [297]Pepwell reads: "most folly." [298]Pepwell adds: "or harm." Cf. The Chronicle of Robert of Brunne, 8905-6: "Now may ye lyghtly bere the stones to schip wythouten dere." [299]Advisedly. [300]Partisans, abettors. [301]The MSS. read: "doles." [302]Pepwell reads: "But it is more sorrow to feel of our own spirit's deceits. For sometime our own spirit." [303]The MSS. read: "Bot what thar reche"; what need to care. [304]Pepwell reads: "didst feel in there." [305]Cf. above, p. 95, note. [306]Pepwell adds: "and judgment." [307]Unless because of carelessness in resisting them when they first come. [308]To regard thyself as responsible. [309]Madness. [310]Not in Harl. MS. 674. [311]Pepwell reads: "a full damnable and a full cursed fiend in his living." [312]Pepwell adds: "and desire much." [313]Pepwell reads: "suggestion." [314]On the other hand.