12. Holthausen transposes, Til ðe sunne haueð ðries · sinen him abuten.
But the inflectional rhyme is sufficient.
13. Transpose, his faðer him reiseð. #makeð#: perhaps remeð; comp.
193/540.
15. #lage#: a variant on ‘kinde,’ l. 10, characteristic, habit; comp.
‘þenne hafest þu þes hundes laȝe,’ OEH i. 25/4; ‘Ðe unwise man and
forwened child habbeþ boðe on laȝe,’ OEH ii. 41/23, and see 20/63.
16. ‘Qui quociens dormit nunquam sua lumina claudit,’ T. ‘Crederis esse
leo vigilanti semper ocello,’ Ruodlieb iv. 85.
17. This interpretation springs from, ‘Catulus leonis Iuda: ad praedam
fili mi ascendisti: requiescens accubuisti ut leo, et quasi leaena, quis
suscitabit eum?’ Gen. xlix. 9; see Honorius Augustod. 935 c.