incipit Tractatus quidam. MS: Written in red ink.↩back to note source

1 Louerd. MS: Begins with red capital L, four lines high.↩back to note source

1–2 Louerd Crist . . . and swete. MS: Written continuously on one line. ↩back to note source

4 nome. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: nóme.↩back to note source

8 icore. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: icóre.↩back to note source

7–8 Of the mayde . . . wel icore. MS: Written continuously on one line.↩back to note source

9 come. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: cóme.↩back to note source

11 grete. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: gréte.↩back to note source

13 wowe. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: wówe.↩back to note source

21 fast. So MS, Morris, Fein-Children. A later hand has added inge to fast.↩back to note source

22 teonedest. So MS, Morris, Fein-Children. A later hand has added the phrase vor to þe us bringe after this word.↩back to note source

23 donne. So MS, Morris. Fein-Children: doune.↩back to note source

27 harde. So MS (word written at end of the line, marked /. for insertion), Morris, Fein-Children.↩back to note source

31–32 Buffetes . . . al myd wowe. MS: Written continuously on one line.↩back to note source

37 tholdest. So MS (the scribe or a later hand has corrected woldest to þoldest), Fein-Children. Morris: þoledest.↩back to note source

51 tholeburnesse. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: þoleburne and þarto don bothe mayn and myht.↩back to note source

52 That. So Morris. MS: þer or þat (abbreviation mark is ambiguous). Fein-Children: Ther.↩back to note source

57 grete. So Fein-Children. MS, Morris: gréte.↩back to note source

61–62 On thine werkes . . . by thine rede. MS: Written continuously on one line.↩back to note source