52. as directly in front as he is able.

53. #houeð#, remains poised, floats; comp. 188/395, 189/409, Minot iii.

83.

54. #swideð--fligt#, burns all his wings; comp. ‘In dai swiþe noht sunne

(MS. sinne) þe sal,’ Surtees Psalter, MS. E. cxx. 6 (= ‘Per diem sol non

uret te’). T. has, ‘Tunc sibi sol ambas incendit (_a. l._ accendit)

fervidus alas. | Et minuit grandes alleviatque graves.’

56. ‘ex calore poris apertis et pennis relaxatis subito descendens in

fontem ruit,’ Bartolomeus Anglicus, lib. xii.

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