102. #monge#, mixture, alternation of extremes.

103: ‘Ibi omnes comburuntur . . . nec consumuntur,’ V.

104. #forwalleð#, ‘tortures by boiling,’ NED; apparently here only:

comp. 43/222.

106. #unhope#, absence of hope, of any prospect of release: ‘ibi nulla

spes boni,’ V 208 _d_. A rare word, differing in meaning from wanhope:

comp. ‘in desperaunce, þet is, in unhope ⁊ in unbileaue forte beon

iboruwen,’ AR 8/17. See 46/289.

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