46. ‘that was carried out in secret haste,’ Morris, who proposes derue
for derne. But the meaning is, advice that was filled full of secret
gain. For #of# comp. 217/91, 94, for #sped#, ‘of euerilc sed, | Was erðe
mad moder of sped,’ GE 121. In the OF. Joseph, it is said of Judas,
‘mult iert escientous | et auques coveitous,’ ll. 347, 348, and he makes
a speech to his brothers, ‘Touz temps somes berchier, | onc n’ëumes
denier. | Ore en porrons aveir | senz vendre nostre aveir,’ ll. 365-368.