89. #ꝥ he makeð#, by his making.

92. #sunne# &c.: the Latin has only ‘elementis mundi’; perhaps the

author had in mind, ‘Nam solis lunaeque simulacra humanum in modum

formant, item ignis et terrae et maris: quae illi Vulcanum, Vestam,

Neptunum vocant,’ Lactantius, de Origine Erroris, ch. vi (ed. Spark,

143/5).

95. #bute ꝥ ow þuncheð#, but by your thinking, lit. but that it seems to

you; the explanation of ‘þing.’ #schulen#: so B, but T has correctly

sehen.

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