13. #kennes#: see 81/80 note.

15. #leðebeiȝe#, pliant, ready to obey: OE. #leoþu-bīege#,

supple-jointed; the figurative use is noteworthy: comp. ‘leðebeih ⁊

hersum gode,’ VV 109/3: ‘Soð was leðebei,’ id. 113/26.

16. #liuiende lande#, land of the living: glossed ‘terra uiuentium,’ VV

41/11.

18. ‘Qui vos audit, me audit: et qui vos spernit, me spernit,’ S. Luke

x. 16.

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