L.6.89KD.6.86 In dei nomine amen · I make it my-seluenL.6.89: A sixteenth-century scribe has written piers testament in the right margin. The end of testament has been cropped, perhaps removing -um.
How Pi
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keth hys
testament .
Cr1.6.89KD.6.86 IN DEI NOMINE amen I make it mi-selfe .
C.6.87KD.6.86 ¶ In dei nomine amen I make it my-selue
Testamentum
petri .PlowmanO.6.90: The rubric is divided after Testamentum, so that it appears as two lines.
R.6.89KD.6.86-87a
In dei nomine amen
I make it my-selue he schal
haue my soule .R.6.89: Here alpha differs from beta by merging the opening phrase from the
archetype's next line (= He shal haue my soule ) with this one, and then
truncating the third line by deleting its final phrase (= for so I
bileue), so that the three lines in Langland's presumptive original are reduced to two
non-alliterating ones.
F.5.741KD.6.86-87¶ In dei nomine amen / god shal have myn soule. Alpha two lines here appear in beta witnesses as three. Beta reads as follows:
In dei nomine amen I make it myselue
He shal haue my soule þat best haþ deserued
And fro þe fend it defende for so I bileue.