riwle

On oðer half ȝef þet ha sungið þurh ower ȝemeles {;} ȝe schule beo bicleopet þrof biuore þe hehe deme · ⁊ for {} þi as ow is muche neod · ⁊ ham ȝet mare {;} ȝeornliche leareð ham to halden hare riwle · ba for ow ⁊ for ham seolf {;} liðeliche ⁊ luueliche · for swuch ah wummone lare to beonne · luuelich ⁊ liðe · ⁊ selthwenne sturne.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Hit turneð þe to gode {;} þ̵ tu bidest for oþre. ase ofte ase ȝe readeð out o þisse boc {;} greteð þe lefdi mid one aue marie uor him ðet makede þeos riwle. and for hi {m} þet hire wrot and swonc her abuten.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Ancren_, brother, means 'anchoresses,' recluses, women separated, and living apart from the world pretty much as by rights we men should be living in St. Hospital; and _riwle_ is

Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903