316. #wiste . . . gilt#, was conscious of wrong-doing: ‘non est in
nostra conscientia quis posuerit eam in marsupiis nostris,’ Gen. xliii.
22.
318. #min forward# is explained in Specimens of the condition that
Benjamin should be brought, as in 205/290; but that stipulation was
Joseph’s, not the steward’s. It looks like a vague rendering of C., ‘Pax
vobis . . . pecuniam quam dedistis mihi probatam (i.e. checked, found
correct) ego habeo.’ The French version has, ‘Vostre aveir seit tout
vostre, | car nous avons le nostre’; and the English text may mean, for
the price which I was ordered to charge for the corn is actually in my
possession.