92. #mihte#, virtues, the power to accomplish certain purposes.

93. #eorðe þrelles#: a combination after the pattern of #eorðwaru#, as

in ‘Sunne dei blisseð togederes houeneware ⁊ horðeware,’ OEH i. 139/22:

not ‘slaves,’ Morris, but said of men generally as enslaved by earthly

pursuits; comp. 14/54-56.

94. #heom#: the corrupt reading of the MS. perhaps points to he heom as

the original; see 77/39 note. Comp. ‘þe sonenday is best of alle | þanne

aungles habbuz heore pley,’ Archiv lii. 35, the Latin has only ‘in quo

[die] gaudent angeli et archangeli maior diebus ceteris.’

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