512. #ðis# anticipates l. 514: the hunter notes the elephant’s favourite
support, ‘his beste wune.’
514. #wune#, resort; usually custom, but comp. ‘Vyche day in þe temple .
wes myne ywune,’ OEM 43/207. Eudes de Cheriton, 316/26, has, ‘Elephas,
more consueto super illam appodians, simul cum illa cadit.’
515. For #willen# read wiken: to don hise wiken, to perform his
functions, here, to sleep. The phrase ‘don wiken’ occurs in OEH i.
137/11, meaning, to do services. Comp. 84/45 note.
516. #underset#: ‘Quam notat atque secat venator, et obice celat,’ T.
Mätzner translates, underprops; rather, wedges up, underpins.