20. #wu--liked#, how (anticipating ‘hu,’ l. 22), when it pleased him;
similar is ‘hu,’ 192/504. #ligten#: see 141/42 and comp. 199/79.
21. Comp. ‘ah þurh þe mon ꝥ he wes | ischrudd ⁊ ihudd wið, | he bicherde
þene feont, | ⁊ schrenchte þen alde deouel, | ⁊ teschrapet his heaued,’
SK 1181. #derne#, cunning.
22. The missing half line may have been something like, to ðis dale
niðer, as in l. 4.
23. #dennede him#, hid himself as in a den, suggested by den in l. 8;
comp. ‘caldeliche dennet in a beastes cribbe,’ OEH i. 277/29.
24. #to manne frame#, for men’s benefit; #manne# is _pl. gen._, but the
original reading was probably manne to frame with the usual _dative_:
comp. 15/110; ‘naht him to mede ac hus to freme ⁊ to fultume,’ OEH i.
217/17; ‘folce to frofre,’ Beowulf 14: see 3/37, 85/107, 86/126,
110/295, 186/323, 187/360.
27. #doluen#, buried; comp. ‘Brend and doluen was ðat folc soth,’ GE
3685. so for #also# would improve the rhythm; comp. 177/33.
29. #it#: formal subject; comp. ‘Til hit sprang dai liȝt,’ KH 124 note:
similar is 114/90.
30. #filstnede#, helped; a derivative beside the more common filsten;
comp. ‘He badd hiss maȝȝstre fillstnenn himm,’ Orm i. 181/5236,
213/6170.
32. A half line is missing, something like, liues louerd so he is,
corresponding to ‘mortis vindex’ in T. Comp. 147/149. #vs--holden#, to
hold us to life, maintain us alive, save us from death; add to before
holden; comp. ‘Butt iff þatt Godd himm hullpe þær, | ⁊ helde himm þær to
life,’ Orm ii. 63/12033: similarly ‘þa alde[;] þe to fehte heom scolde
halden,’ L 9458, the elders who had to keep them fighting. But this
transitive use is rare.
33. #wakeð#, keeps watch. ‘Tu nos custodis, tu nullo tempore dormis |
Pervigil ut pastor ne demat de grege raptor,’ T. This is the explanation
of natura iii. #hirde#: some such word as wakeman 113/56 would restore
the alliteration.
35. #heren to#, obey. OE. #hīeran# with this meaning takes the dative,
‘Ne mæg nan mon twæm hlafordum hieran,’ Cura Past. 128/23, but it is
rare in ME. #nowor wille#, nowhere, in no case, never, astray; comp. ‘ðo
fleg agar fro sarray, | . . . | In ðe diserd, wil and weri,’ GE 28/973,
5; ‘In a foreste þay were gone wylle,’ Ysumbras 157.
37. #kinde# is without rhyme and Holthausen suggests that a line like l.
263 or l. 653 has fallen out. T. has ‘Esse ferunt aquilam super omne
volatile primam | Quae se sic renovat quando senecta gravat’: something
like, ðe moste ðat on lift we finde, would correspond, comp. 188/384.