P. 55.

l. 623 _orppedly_, quickly, hastily.

626 _happe_, cover, still in use in the north provincial dialects.

627 _som quat fat_, some sort of a vessel; _þe fyr bete_, make up the

fire; _bete_ signifies, literally, to mend.

632 _deruely_ = _derfely_, quickly.

635 _þerue kakeȝ_ = _therfe_ or _tharfe_ cakes, _i.e._, cakes made

without leaven.

646 _mensk_, thanks.

648 _leþe_, cease.

652 _ȝark_, select, chosen.

653 _for busmar_, in scorn.

655

_May þou traw for tykel þat þou tonne moȝteȝ_,

Mayst thou trow (believe) for the uncertainty (of such a thing)

that thou mightest conceive;

_for tykel_, on account of the uncertainty.

654 _sothly_ = truly (? _sotly_, foolishly or _softly_).

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