Chapter XXVI: Part 26

241. #for to done# &c., so far as concerned the doing of the works of the devil, they had been industrious enough at that. But that is idleness in God’s sight. ‘Il nauient mie estie oiseus damier le diable . ⁊ de fere les lecheries ⁊ de feire les mauues enginz de gahannier (cultivate) lor terres . de faere lor uignes.’

243. #For--man is#: the French has, ‘Car ce que home faet (fet, A) en cest siecle, desque il deu nen aime[;] ne ne sert[;] tote deit estre recontie pur oiseyse.’ Apparently the translator has read seit for faet.

244. #al# &c., he may count it all as loss and idleness. #for#, as; comp. 27/304: ‘tote deit estre recontie pur oiseyse . ⁊ tot reuient a nient.’ But Bülbring, Ablaut 25, takes for lore for past participle.

245. #aresunede#, called to account; ‘chosa.’

246. #þo þet#, inasmuch as, so in l. 242; lit. when that: ‘quant,’ A.

248. #neuer te#: see 218/135. Restore the MS. iheed in the text. ‘Ceo est a dire . que il nauient onques eu ne prophete ne apostre.’

256. #al so . . . ase#, just as.

259. #of diuers wordles#: ‘del diuers tens del siecle.’

260. #elde#, age, period of life: ‘aez,’ D; ‘age,’ A.

262. ‘quant il apele de tels ia a son seruise.’ #þer bieþ# appears to be a false translation of ‘ia,’ already, as if it were i a.

263. #beswo þet#, provided that: an early instance of the phrase.

264. #At undren# &c.: ‘Et cels met il en sa uigne a tierce . quil torne en son seruise en la hie (= ae, L. aetas) de xx anz.’

267. ‘issint est humene nature de greinor chalor en cest aage.’

269. #agenes þo euen#: ‘uers le uespre:’ see 220/206.

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.’

280. #and#, if: comp. 176/2.

283. #halt alle þo#, keeps in reserve for all those; ‘quae praeparavit Deus iis, qui diligunt eum,’ 1 Cor. ii. 9: ‘pramet ⁊ estore a ceus qui lui aiment.’

_Greek_
χρ [chr]

_Cross-References_

6/18 (note) = III. (The Peterborough Chronicle)
182/213 (note) = XXI. (The Bestiary)
269 = V. A Parable, under Phonology
p. 308 = VII. (Memento Mori)
439 = XIII. Vices and Virtues, under Phonology

_Errata_

#w# is written ... A parasitic #þ# has been inserted [#ꝥ#]
#Accidence:# ... The _pl. n. a._ of masculines
[_“pl.” misprinted as plain (non-italic)_]
The personal pronouns ... _d._ þise _m._ 210
[_“m.” misprinted as plain (non-italic)_]
#Vocabulary:# ... geus 15, gyus 13 [15 gyus]
174. ... The usual construction in ME. is reflexive [ME is]

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_Inconsistencies_ noted by transcriber but not changed:

spelling of the names Batiouchkof(f), Horstman(n)
variant spelling of medi(a)eval
NED and NED.