"Item first: thou dost mend apace, lord.

Right is better than Charity; for Right meets, or even anticipates, normal wants, while Charity only mends failures.

Will swearing, I wonder, mend matters?

I once heard a teacher who had been very successful, even in large schools, say that he could hear two classes recite, mend pens, and watch his school all at the same time, and that without any distraction of mind or any unusual fatigue.

"He kens maist aboot the job, sin' he had t' mend t' lade when Hayes refused.