270. #fele#: ‘les plusors.’ #As so . . . ase#, just in the same way
. . . as: ‘issint . . . si come.’
272. All the same no man should put off turning to God, trusting to His
forbearance. ‘Nepurquant ceste grant buntie . damledeu quil done as ous
com as autres . ne se deit nul asseurer (asurer ne targer, A) de sei
torner a deu . ne targier de lui seruir.’ With #Nocht for þan#, not on
that account, comp. 25/240.
274. #þane dai#: ‘le ior ne lore,’ probably a reference to ‘Vigilate
itaque, quia nescitis diem, neque horam,’ S. Matt. xxv. 13, but #þet
holi writ#, ‘lescripture’, is applied to other books than the Bible.
#for Man--wrench#: see 21/108, 29/1, 2 note: there is nothing
corresponding to it in the French, but after ‘seruir’ (note on l. 272)
‘quil ne seit suspris de mort dementres.’