Rubric C’est le myrroure . . . testes bealment adressere. There seems to be a play on words here as adressere can have both a literal meaning of arranging something, such as hair, as well as a more figurative meaning of moral rectitude, apt for a work suggesting leaving behind worldly vanity for spiritual progress. Thus, we could gloss the second half of the rubric as “instructing/rectifying their heads (i.e., minds) virtuously.”↩back to note source13 Ne. The text seems somewhat corrupt here, as the only manuscript reads “Be” for “Ne”, which ruins the acrostic (see Textual Note to this line).↩back to note source lace. The poem’s use of the imagery of a snare seems to be playing with the idiomatic expression dethes las, which the MED defines as “death’s grasp” (las (n.), sense 4).↩back to note source