18. #frigti luue#, love and awe, ‘luue eie,’ 72/200: comp. ‘ðo wurð
abraham frigti fagen,’ GE 1331.
19. #sen#: Mätzner takes this word to be the infinitive of the
substantive verb, corresponding to OHG. sīn, MDu. sijn; how may this be?
But if the word ever existed, it would surely be found elsewhere in ME.
He quotes ‘Hu mai it hauen, hu mai it sen,’ GE 298, where if hauen is
equivalent to se habere, sen may be to videri. In the third place
instanced, ‘To sen gode witnesse ðor-on, | ðat wond was in ðat arche
don,’ GE 3843, it appears to go closely with ðor-on, as in ‘so faiger he
was on to sen,’ id. 2659 and to represent in both places #tō sēonne#.
22. #luten# usually takes to, as at 193/544, but comp. ‘Þa kingess
fellenn dun, itt seȝȝþ, | To lutenn Crist ⁊ lakenn,’ Orm 7348.
24. #ðoge#; read ðog. As a probable source of the line, Fritsche quotes
Josephus ii. 2, ‘eventurum olim quando tam a parentibus quam a fratribus
adoratione dignus haberetur;’ but perhaps it may be regarded as a
natural inference from ‘pater vero rem tacitus considerabat,’ Gen.
xxxvii. 11.
26. #Hirdnesse#: OE. #hierdnes#; custody, guard; here used for flocks:
comp. ‘for te loken hirdnesse fare,’ GE 2771, to look to the welfare of
the cattle.
30. #he--sogt#, he sought and found them; invenit eos quaesitos; a form
of expression much used by the author, suggested by such places in the
Vulgate as, ‘requisita non invenieris ultra in sempiternum,’ Ezech.
xxvi. 21. Comp. 203/215, where join, ‘to josep sogt for nede;’ ‘ðer het
god abre ðat tagte lond,’ GE 827; ‘And son he fand þe soght cite,’ CM
3254; ‘Ai quen þat þe folk him soght sau,’ id. 7473.