115. #ward# is merely expletive; see 178/89 note.

116. #or#, previously, before drinking; comp. ‘siðen,’ 118. #speweð#:

the explanation is in 181/159, 160: comp. ‘heo schal speowen al ut þet

wunder,’ AR 346/6; ‘þet is þet beste þeonne speowen hit ut anon mid

schrifte to þe preoste,’ id. 240/6; 119/91, 92, mostly with ut. Read

here, Oc he speweð ut or. al ðe uenim ðor; for or : ðor comp. GE 4033

with 3845.

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