208. For #nummore# read more.

209. After #barlic# add sed or corn. In the earlier bestiaries barley

stands for heretical writers: Eudes de Cheriton, p. 247, explains wheat

as good works.

210. Omit #to#. #hauen moten#, must have, is feeble and does not rhyme.

Holthausen suggests hauen geten, have to observe: moten geten, must get,

or moten seken, which makes up for an indifferent rhyme by its contrast

with sunen, seem better. ‘Ipse novam legem colligo, non veterem,’ T.

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