9. Skinked: poured out; from Anglo-Saxon, “scencan.”

10. Marcianus Capella, who wrote a kind of philosophical

romance, “De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae” (Of the Marriage

of Mercury and Philology) . “Her” and “him,” two lines after,

like “he” applied to Theodomas, are prefixed to the proper

names for emphasis, according to the Anglo- Saxon usage.

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