84. #hereð# &c.: see 130/49.

87. #fint#: ‘malorum omnium inventor diabolus.’ #crokinde creftes#,

comp. 129/42: not ‘crooked crafts,’ but either, perverting devices, or

more probably, devices by which he hooks his victims; the idea of both

words being pursued in ‘keccheð’ and ‘creftluker’: for the termination

of the latter, see 125/270.

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