983. _Ezekias_, Hezekiah; Fr. text, 'Ezechias'; all the MSS. have _Ezekiel_
(wrongly); see Isaiah, xxxviii. 15. The Ayenb. has 'ezechie'; p. 172, l. 9
from bottom.
986-8. See Luke xviii. 13; 1 Pet. v. 6.
994, 996. See Matt. xxvi. 75; Luke vii. 37.
998. _hastily_, without delay; Ayenb. 'hasteliche,' p. 173, l. 10; Fr.
'hastivement.' And see Ayenb. p. 173, l. 25 for the rest of the sentence.
1005. _countrewaite_, watch against, be on his guard against; see Tale of
Melibeus, B. 2508.
1006. _parcel_, part; _departe_, divide; see Ayenb. p. 175.
1008. Cf. Somn. Tale, D. 2095-8.
1013. _nayte_, deny; Icel. _neita_; Tyrwhitt has _nay_. So, in Boeth. bk.
i. met. 1. l. 16, where the original has _negat_, MS. Addit. has _naieth_;
but the Camb. MS. has _nayteth_.
1020. This passage from St. Augustine is alluded to in the Ancren Riwle, p.
337:--'Qui causa humilitatis mentitur fit quod prius ipse non fuit, id est,
peccator.' See S. August. Sermo clxxxi. § 4 (ed. Migne, vol. 38, col. 981):
'Propter humilitatem dicis te peccatorem.... Testis ergo falsus es contra
te.'
1025. Cf. Ayenb. p. 178, l. 13; Ancren Riwle, p. 323.
1027. _ones a yere_, viz. at Easter. In the Ancren Riwle, p. 413, fifteen
times are mentioned. See P. Plowman, C. xxi. 472, xxii. 3, and the note to
the latter passage. _renovellen_, are renewed; i. e. in spring-time.