164. #Nedeð#, presses on, vexes: comp. 179/113; ‘I me sellf all ah itt
wald | Þatt deofell maȝȝ me scrennkenn, | Þurrh þatt I do min lusst
tærto, | To don summ hefiȝ sinne | Þatt he me maȝȝ wel eggenn to, | ⁊
nohht ne maȝȝ me nedenn,’ Orm 11815, a passage which may have been in
the writer’s mind here. But Mätzner suggests neggeð, comparing 179/122.
Omit the second nogt, and in l. 165 transpose ðe fro.
166. #cliuer#, expert in seizing: the only ME. example of the word
clever: noted by Sir Thomas Browne as an East Anglian word. See NED
_s.v._ clever; the connection with #clifer#, claw, suggested by this use
is illustrated by, ‘Hweðer þe cat of helle claurede euer toward hire ⁊
cauhte mid his cleafres hire heorte heaued,’ AR 102/4. With #on# comp.
‘gredi uppen woreld richeise,’ OEH ii. 195/1.
169. #nið ⁊ win#: comp. 183/244: ‘nið and strif’ is the equivalent in GE
373: nið usually takes to, ‘he haueð to us muchel nið,’ OEH i. 55/11,
but see 197/11.