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MIRACLE CYCLES. 311 (ii) W : Bot in thare nede thou thaym socoure ... 155 C : With all thy mygh t thow schuldist them succure. 984 (iii) Y : (sloo) No man nor woman by any way ... 176 C : Man nor woman that thou schuldist kyll ... 986 (iv) Y : Youre neghboures goodes more or lesse ... 182 C : Thy neyburis goodis more nor les . . . 990 Again, I do not pretend that these resemblances are conclusive of imitation on the part of C, but I should be sorry to adopt a theory that forced me to regard them as fortuitous. Lastly, at the end of the play C has a long extension of the dodtors' disputation, which is carried on after the departure of Jesus. It is in no way parallel to the Y-W text, but scattered through it are at least six apparent reminiscences, some of which are quite conclusive of imitation, but all of which are reminiscences of passages common to Y and W. 1 It may be well to pause for a moment and inquire what textual relations will best account for the fa<5ts we have so far observed. What we have chiefly to account for is that in scene 2 and the Commandments, where W departs from Y, C also ceases to be parallel to Y without being noticeably parallel to W. Now Y must have have had a source, say v, which was presumably an 'original' in the hands of the guild. From the same source was derived, direftly or indiredlly, but not through Y, the copy which underlies W and C, say F. This copy we must suppose to have been defeftive: it lacked scene 2 and a portion at least of the 1 C 1085, cf.Y 272; C 1086, cf. 271; C 1087, cf.Y 279; C 1 1 13-4, cf. Y 275-6 ; C 1 124, cf. Y 268.