l. 307 _westernays_, wrongly, in vain? It may be another form of
westernways, from the A.Sax. _wéste_, barren, empty; _wéstern_,
a desert place. Or is it connected with A.Sax. _winstre_, the
left hand?
320
_Þy corse in clot mot colder keue_,
Thy body in earth (clods) must colder plunge.
321 _for-garte_ forfeited.
322 _ȝore fader_ for _form-fader_, first-father.
323 _drwry_ = _drery_, dreary (?). _boȝ_ (= _bos_ = _bus_ ?) _vch ma_
(_man_ ?) _dreue_, behoves each man to drive (go). See B. l. 687.
327-8
_Now haf I fonte þat I for-lete
Schal I efte forgo hit er euer I fyne?_
Now I have found what I have lost.
Shall I again forego it ere ever I die?