P. 58.

l. 732 _smolt_, be at peace.

740 _for hortyng_, for hurting = for fear of hurting. This sense of

_for_ is very common in writers of the 16th and 17th centuries.

743 _fryst_, delay, put off.

747 _vsle_, ashes, cinders.

752 _leþe_, destroy.

754 _I schal my þro steke_, I shall moderate (literally, shut up) my

anger.

756 _reken_, wise.

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century · 第 127 / 191 题