[151]Plenary.

[152]All the indulgences attached to the Holy Places.

[153]Probably Racheness in the parish of South Acre, where “there was a leper hospital, with church or chapel dedicated to St. Bartholomew, of early foundation” (Victoria History of the County of Norfolk, ii. p. 450).

[154]In true union.

[155]Established firmly.

[156]Wandering.

[157]So Horstman.  Pepwell reads:  “With this wonderful onehede ne may none be fuifilled.”

[158]Unreasonable impulses.

[159]Secret nature.  Cf.  Mother Juliana, Revelations of Divine Love, xiv. cap. 46:  “And our kindly substance is now blessedfully in God.”

[160]Divers.

[161]Cf.  De Imitatione Christi, ii. 4:  “If thine heart were right, then every creature would be a mirror of life, and a book of holy doctrine.  There is no creature so small and vile, as not to represent the goodness of God.”

[162]Horstman reads:  “a mans saule.”

[163]So Horstman:  Pepwell reads:  “as virtues in angels and in holy souls and in heavenly things.”

[164]Pepwell omits the “not.”

[165]Before.

[166]The truth of God’s hidden mysteries.

[167]According to the measure of its love.

[168]All intervening hindrance.

[169]Horstman reads:  “matter.”

[170]A little.

[171]Before.

[172]Overtaxes.

[173]Craft.

[174]Horstman reads:  “wete he wele.”

[175]This passage is defective in Pepwell.

[176]Ms. Dd. v. 55, ed.  Horstman, has:  “purges.”

[177]Pepwell has:  “in feeling of the sound.”

[178]Ms. Dd. v. 55, ed.  Horstman, reads:  “toune” (i.e. tone).

[179]Illumined.

[180]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.”

[181]A mere abstract thought of God.

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

[183]Surer, safer.

[184]Pepwell adds “and in faith.”

[185]The MSS. add:  “And bot if thou spede thee the rather or thou come to the ende of thy prayer.”

[186]Pepwell reads:  “find.”

[187]Coax, beguile.

[188]Falsehoods.

[189]The MSS. read:  “behetynges of lenger leuyng.”

[190]Promise.

191Ps. xlvi. 8 (Vulgate), xlvii. 7 (A.V.):  “Sing ye praises with understanding.”

192Ps. cxi. 10 (cx. 10 Vulgate).

[193]So Pepwell; Harl.  Ms. 674 reads:  “Bot forthi that there is no sekir stonding.”

[194]Pepwell adds in explanation:  “or amends”; i.e. satisfaction.  Cf.  Langland, Piers the Plowman, B. xvii. 237:  “And if it suffice noughte for assetz”; and Wyclif, Pistil on Cristemasse Day (Select English Works, ed.  T. Arnold, ii. p. 237):  “And thus, sith aseeth muste be maad for Adams synne.”