Part 17

Horstman reads: "a mans saule."

So Horstman: Pepwell reads: "as virtues in angels and in holy souls and in heavenly things."

Pepwell omits the "not."

Before.

The truth of God's hidden mysteries.

According to the measure of its love.

All intervening hindrance.

Horstman reads: "matter."

A little.

Before.

Overtaxes.

Craft.

Horstman reads: "wete he wele."

This passage is defective in Pepwell.

MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, has: "purges."

Pepwell has: "in feeling of the sound."

MS. Dd. v. 55, ed. Horstman, reads: "toune" (i.e. tone).

Illumined.

Cools down grows cold. Also construed with "from." Cf. Richard Rolle Psalter (ed. H. R. Bramley, p. 156): "He gars sa many kele fra godis luf."

A mere abstract thought of God.

Construe: "But if he hold this feeling and this mind (that is only his own working by custom) to be a special visitation."

Surer, safer.

Pepwell adds "and in faith."

The MSS. add: "And bot if thou spede thee the rather or thou come to the ende of thy prayer."

Pepwell reads: "find."

Coax, beguile.

Falsehoods.

The MSS. read: "behetynges of lenger leuyng."