105. #as#: see 121/1; similarly 145/108.

106. #laðin# &c., his love shall be hateful to thee: so, ‘ꝥ te schal

laði þi lif,’ HM 9/2.

108. #as on ernesse#, as a foretaste: probably the first occurrence of

ernes. #besmen#: so, ‘beateð hire bare bodi wið bittre besmen,’ SM 5/19;

‘mid besman swingan,’ Orosius 68/11. Before #ꝥ# something like, ꝥ þe

wule of þunchen, has dropped out. As the reading of R, which means, that

it shall turn to misfortune that you were woman, is plainly an attempt

to mend a faulty original, it may be concluded that the omission belongs

to an earlier stage of the transmission. For #to wraðerheale# see

141/64.

111. Here the scribe became confused: his original had probably, ꝥ ti

wil is wurch þu, but he began with _wur_, and erasing it forgot to add

it at the end. Then he omitted het before #swiðe#, and tried to mend

matters by changing leggen into #leggeð#, but forgot #strupen#.

#bliðeliche#, gladly, is strange.

113. #liðeri#, should be in a lather: comp. ‘ꝥ hire leofliche lich |

liðerede al o blode,’ SK 1542; ‘leiden swa luðerliche on hire leofliche

lich[;] ꝥ hit . . . liðerede o blode,’ SM 5/20.

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