4, C. _lescoun_, reading. Lat. _lectiones_.
7, 8, C. _blessi_ : _herkni_. Cf. _blessyth_ : _herkenythe_ F, _blis_ :
_herkenis_ D.
15, 16, C. _also_ : _mo_. H and F have _also_ : _two_.
19-22. Add. Not in H or D, or F.
21-2, C. _red_ : _ded_. The scribe has neglected to cross his _d_ to
make _ð_. D 21-2 has _beth_ : _deth_.
17-44, C. Omitted in F.
29-30, C. _weop_ : _fet_. _let_ : _fet_ in H and D.
33-4, C. _fless_ : _was_. H and D have _blode_ : _mode_.
41-2, C. Not in H, or F, or D.
51-56, C. In D (49-54) all is told in a command to John. F (25-32)
follows D rather than C in rimes.
59-60, C. _were_ : _forbere_. F (35-5) has _saumpull_ : _tempull_. D
(57-8) has _exemple_ : _temple_.
61-2, C. _þore_ : _more_. Cf. F (37-8) _more_ : _ore_, D (59-60) _more_
: _lore_.
63-4, C. Not in F or D.
69-70. _fedde_ : _bedde_. Cf. F (43-4), D (65-6): _Therfore þey loued
hur well all_ (D is substantially, not exactly, the same as F): _And
sche hyt seruyd wele with all_ F.
[[The rimes are at 65-66, C, and 71-72, A.]]
70-1, C. _slep_ : _kep_. Cf. F (45-6) and D (67-8):
_Besy sche hur made þat swete may_
_hur sone to serue nyght and day._ F.
and H 67-8:
_besy shee was day and nyght_
_for to serue god almyght._
75-88, C. Not in F.
80-86, C. Cf. D (76-80):
_al þat sche wolde he dide sone_
_Crist hem sette boþe Iliche_
_In to þe blisse of heuene riche_
_But whan mane þat mayden hende_
_Schulde out of þis world wende._
Cf. also H (75-78):
_Crist ham blessid bothe y liche_
_that sone hem brought to heuen riche._
_Tho Marie that mayden hende_
_shuld out of this world wende,_
_Crist here sent an Angel fro heuen._
97-8, C. _quen_ : _ben_. Cf. F (57-8):
_That hye flowre þat groweþ on a tree_
_Mary modyr he sent to the._
also D (91-2):
_þe lilye flour þat grew on the_
_Mayden & moder wel the be._
also H (89-90):
_lady þe flour that come of the_
_mayde and moder y-heried þu be._
103-4, C. _þinge_ : _bringe_. Cf. _brynge_ : _tithynge_. F (61-2), D
(97-8), H (95-6).
107-8, C. _beo_ : _þe_. Cf. _come_ : _wone_. F (65-6), D (101-2), H
(99-100).
110, C. _meigne_. Cf. F 68, D 104, H 102, _plente_.
121-2, Add. F, D, and H have these verses and an additional couplet:
_lady swete y say to the That here schall þow no lengur be_. F (75-6.) D
and H have substantially the same.
116, C. _hire by_. F, D, and H have _belamy_ in agreement with Add.
121-2, C. _kenesmen_ : _beon_. Cf. H 118: _and of my frendes that y
kene_.
127-8, C. _come_ : _aboue_. Cf. H (123-4), _come_ : _doune_.
131-2, C. _lefdy_ : _belamy_. Cf. H (127-8):
_Then seid Marie to þat angel fre._
_What is thi name tel thu me._
139-146, C. Cf. F (101-4):
_The aungell to heuene wande_
_Whan he had seyde hys errande_
_Mary toke that palme in honde_
_and thoght moche of þat sonde._
D (135-8) has substantially the same. H (135-8) has, _yede_ : _seide_,
_hond_ : _sond_.
151-2, C. _idon_ : _on_. Cf. F (109-10) _ydo_ : _to_, D (143-4) _ido_ :
_to_.
162, C. _vnriȝt_. Cf. F (154): _boþe be dayes & be nyght_; do. D (154),
H (154).
164, C. _dred_. H, F, and D have _qued_ : _for I dowte me of þe quede_,
F 156.
177-180 C. _wo_ : _fo_, _so_ : _to_. F (137-40) has _bone_ : _sone_,
_also_ : _to_. D (171-4) has the same rimes. H (171-4) has _bone_ :
_sone_, _also_ : _tho_.
190, C. _idriȝt_. F (148), D (172), and H (182) have _plight_.
193-4, C. _ded_ : _ned_. F (151-2), D (185-6) have _pyne_ : _tyme_. H
does not have these verses.
199-200, C. Cf. F (157-60):
_And sayde lady how may thys be_
_yf thow wynde sory we bee._
_lady thou haste seruyd vs so_
_allas how schall we the for goo._