609. #lude so#, as loudly as: but lude should probably be omitted, as
the line is too long.
610-615. ‘Exit odor talis de gutture, tamque suavis, | Ut virtute sua
superet vel aromata cuncta,’ T. #mid . . . forð# may be equivalent to
forð mid, along with (see 1/19), but #forð# is more probably adverbial,
far, as in, ‘Sum was wið migte so forð gon, | ðat hadden he under hem
mani on,’ GE 835. #oueral#, widely spread.
612. #haliweie#, more usually halewei, some preparation of a balsamic
nature used both as a lotion and a drink. It corresponds to an OE.
*#hǣlewǣg#, healing water, but the spelling in the text shows an
association with #hālig# (NED.). Comp. ‘hwo þet bere a deorewurðe licur,
oðer a deorewurðe wete, as is bame, in a feble uetles, healewi in one
bruchele glese,’ AR 164/13; ‘Kumeð þerof smel of aromaz, oðer of swote
healewi,’ id. 276/11.
615. Comp. ‘For na drie ne for na wate,’ CM 6365. #wete# is by form a
noun, as at l. 57; comp. ‘hwīlum fliht se wǣta ꝥ dryge,’ Boethius, ed.
Fox, 234/10.
617. #wor so . . . of londe#, wherever in the world; comp. ‘Wher he beo
in londe,’ KH 416 note. But the metre requires on ðe londe.
620. #folegeð#: ‘Ferunt odore earum mire sollicitari quadripedes
cunctas,’ Pliny, N. H. viii. 17, 62. The original has ‘Ad quem mox
tendit quae vocem belua sentit, | Ac sectatur cum nimia dulcedine
plenum.’ Eudes de Cheriton says, ‘animalia crudelia, ut Lupus et
Leopardus . . . eam pro bono odore sequuntur et non infestant,’ 232:
he explains the sweet smell as the soft answer that turns away wrath.