150. #bote bid#, pray for deliverance: for the usual combination see
179/201. With l. 151 comp. ‘bidden for heom deies ⁊ nihtes þet crist
heom milcie of heore misdede,’ OEH i. 7/36.
152. #sti# is subject of bitokneð: ‘Signat hunc callem lapidis foramen.
| Signat et christum petra, nam per ipsum | Fit novus quisque,’ T.
Perhaps for tis, l. 154, we should read Christ.
156. Comp. 181/160. #Let#, permit it to escape, as in ‘þe king bigan to
grete | ⁊ teres for to lete,’ KH 889. Transpose ðe fro.
157-160. ‘Cuius ad celsum veniendo templum, | Ut bibas sacrum beatumque
verbum, | Evomas primum quod habes nocivum | Corde venenum,’ T.
158. A defective line; read drench · þi sinnes to cwenchen. Comp. 28/10;
‘swa bihoueð þe saule fode[;] mid godes wordes mid gode mode,’ OEH i.
63/153; ‘to cwennkenn oþre sinness,’ Orm 11652.
160. Omit #brest#. #forðward#: read forward, covenant of 180/133: the
combination is formal; comp. ‘my forwarde with þe I festen on þis wyse,’
E. E. Allit. Poems, 47/327; ‘Pepigi fedus cum oculis meis . . . Ich
habbe ivestned, seið Job, foreward mid min eien,’ AR 62/23; ‘ꝥ ich þis
forward wulle[;] fastliche halden,’ L 23607. After this there are eight
lines in the Latin which are not represented at all in the English poem,
which is only slightly dependent on the original for the rest of the
section.