378. #mot#, place of meeting, especially in a court of law. For #wise#
read mene: comp. ‘mannes mene,’ society of men, GE 501. See 26/266.
379. Read, sarp he him biteð; corresponding to ‘bitterlike’ 187/370;
comp. ‘sarp on bite,’ GE 2989. ‘Quos comedit faciens miseros,’ T. #bale
selleð#, does him an injury. ME. sellen, to give, is rarely used with
immaterial object, but comp. ‘sylle heom forȝefenesse,’ Twelfth Cent.
Homilies, 132/20. Similar is ‘nuste noht Bruttes þere[;] þat balu heom
wes ȝiueðe,’ L 29817. Transpose, bale him.