158. #he#: in L only: the others agree with T: #al# is in L T only.

159, 160. #þer men#, wherein men. #stelen . . . helen# change places in

T M only. #wruȝen . . . ⁊ helen#: the combination is formal; comp. ‘ase

þe uikelares wreoð ⁊ helieð,’ AR 88/18; a reminiscence of ‘quoadusque

veniat Dominus, qui et illuminabit abscondita tenebrarum et manifestabit

consilia cordium’, 1 Cor. iv. 5.

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