89. #for nawt#, to no purpose.

90. #iȝemen#: OE. #gegīeman# occurs only in the sense of treating as a

patient, amending: ȝeme T means, take heed to, give attention, the

variant in N, #ihwulen#, have leisure: comp. ‘hwon so ȝe euer muwen

ihwulen,’ AR 44/5. Apparently it occurs nowhere else.

91. ‘In desideriis est omnis otiosus,’ comp. Prov. xxi. 26. For

#awakeneð# see 54/24. ‘Ecce haec fuit iniquitas Sodomae, sororis tuae,

superbia, saturitas panis et abundantia, et otium ipsius,’ Ezech. xvi.

49.

94. #rust#: ‘otium enim et desidia quasi quaedam rubigo sapientiae est,’

S. Jerome, ii. 773.

95, 96. From Ailred; ‘sunt quaedam inclusae, quae in docendis puellis

occupantur, et cellam suam vertunt in scholam,’ 641 f. #forwurðe#,

degenerate into; a meaning apparently found only in AR; its ordinary

sense is, to perish, 54/23. Comp. ‘Þeo þet schulden one lecnen hore

soule mid heorte bireousunge . . . uorwurðeð fisiciens ⁊ licomes leche,’

AR 368/28; ‘bicumeð (forwurðeð T) meister, þe schulde beon ancre,’

64/24.

96. #ꝥ--of#, concerning whom it would be danger; comp. 1/3. For #of#,

meaning ground, cause, comp. ‘strengðe of,’ 66/116; ‘gostlich fondunge

þat is more dred of,’ AR 194/23: for #pliht#, risk, ‘Nu ne sceole ȝe

halden eower child to plihte to longe hæþene,’ Twelfth Cent. Hom. 6/7:

#dute# 79 N has the same meaning.

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