Part 21

Pepwell modernises "conne" to "learn to" throughout this passage.

Harl. MS. 674 reads: "stirring"; the other MS, as Pepwell.

Harl. MS. 674 reads: "have."

Pepwell reads: "else."

Manifestly, i.e. unless they clearly show that they do not know how to act as they should. Pepwell has: "in a part."

i.e. take their advice, but do not simply imitate them. I follow the MSS. in preference to Pepwell, who reads: "Work after no men's counsel, but sith that know well their own disposition; for such men should," etc.

1 John iv. 1-6.

Ps. lxxxv. 8 (Vulgate lxxxiv. 9).

Zech. i. 9-19.

Col. ii. 18.

1 Thess. i. 2-9.

Pepwell adds: "or ambition." Cf. Chaucer, The Persones Tale, ed. Skeat, SS 18: "and coveitise of hynesse by pryde of herte."

Burns.

So Harl. MS. 674; Pepwell has: "war."

Crafty device.

Cf. above, p. 17 note.

Pepwell has: "gladly."

Pepwell reads "ever ready."

Withstand, resist.

Cf. Mother Juliana, Revelations of Divine Love, i. cap. 9: "In general I am, I hope, in onehead of charity with all my even Christian, for in this onehead standeth the life of all mankind that shall be saved."

If it is still guilty of the other two.

Pepwell adds: "and voluptuous."

Ps. cxxxii. (Vulgate cxxxi. ) 13.

Cf. Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection, II. pt. ii. cap. 3: "Jerusalem is, as much as to say, a sight of peace, and betokeneth contemplation in perfect love of God; for contemplation is nothing else but a sight of God, which is very peace."

Probably Isa. lvii. 15.

Pepwell reads: "most folly."

Pepwell adds: "or harm." Cf. The Chronicle of Robert of Brunne, 8905-6: "Now may ye lyghtly bere the stones to schip wythouten dere."

Advisedly.