58. #doð#: yeueþ J, with T.

62. #Eiðer#, both. Both of them shall hereafter seem both too little and

too much; a curious way of saying, He shall think his good deeds too

little and his bad deeds too much. The MSS. are in accord. Comp. ‘De tut

le plus kat fait est dolens e pensanz | Del bien li semble poi · li mals

li semble granz,’ Guischart 30, 31.

63. #weien#: comp. ‘Dunc serrat a chascon tuz ses biens demustrez |

Sulum nostre labur dunc serrum mesurez | E les biens e les mals tuz nus

serrunt pesez,’ Guischart 442-4.

64. #swinkes lan#: comp. ‘⁊ ta shall ure Laferrd Crist | Att ure lifess

ende | Uss ȝifenn ure swinnkess læn | Wiþþ enngless eche blisse,’ Orm

111/3256-9; ‘lure ow is to leosen | ower swinkes lan,’ SK 804; ‘La

receura chacon luer de sun labor,’ Guischart 311. #lan#: lyen E; lien e

M; lean JTD: see 27/289.

66. #þe (mare)#: þe þe E e M; se ꝥ D. J rewrites, þe riche and þe poure

boþe · ah nouht alle ilyche. #muȝen#: mai E; mei e; the others omit

as T.

67. #Al se#, just the same: e Eal se, omitting the nominative, like L,

but He alse E; þe poure J; Al suo on D; Ase wel þon M. #alse oðer#: se

þe oþer E e; alse þe oþer M; swo oþer D; þe riche J.

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