38. #for þan þe# is the usual expression: for þat þe may be right.

42. #sawle ableow#: comp. ‘God þa geworhte ænne mannan of láme, and him

on ableow gast,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. i, 12/28; ‘him on bleow gast’, OEH i.

221/17; ‘him anbleow sawle,’ id. 223/9; ‘And his licham of erðe he nam,

| And blew ðor-in a liues blast,’ GE 200; ‘dû bliese im dînen geist în,’

MSD i. 81/7. #fett# &c.: comp. ‘he scryt me wel and fett,’ Wright’s

Vocabularies, i. 93/27.

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