330. #bukes#, belly’s: see 4/19, where it means body.

331. #wið unskil#, without discretion: comp. ‘Ne rend, ne beat nogt wið

vnskil,’ GE 3506; Orm 427.

332. And while we are amusing ourselves, he quickly plays us a fox’s

trick. #foxing#, a nonce-word in this sense, but it is common in dialect

for shamming.

334-341. ‘Cuius (read eius) edit carnem quisquis rem fingit inanem, |

Hoc est peccatum quodlibet et malum | Quem quasi deglutit, cum secum ad

tartara ducit,’ T.

335. #idel spel#: ‘verbum otiosum,’ S. Matt. xii. 36; ‘tel heom þer

spelles,’ L 26538 appears to mean, tell them tales there.

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