140. #swep# occurs in the same connection at 202/166, and in ‘For þai
can swyth of a sweuyn · all þe swepe tell,’ Wars of Alexander, 248,
evidently with the meaning, scope, significance. Mätzner refers it to
OE. #swǣp#, for which see Napier, OE. Glosses, 78/2894 note; its
meaning, persuasion, or more probably, deceit, does not suit our word.
More probably its OE. congener is seen in #ymbswǣpe# which glosses L.
ambages, Sweet, Oldest E. Texts, 599; if so, it would mean compass,
content, like the noun sweep of more recent origin.
144. #ðat#, from that: #werien# usually takes wið (50/335), fram, but
the pronouns are frequently used alone in all sorts of loose syntactical
relations: see 46/292 note. Omit #sal#; though it might be defended by
GE 1818, agte is commonly plural. Not in the Vulgate or Comestor, but
‘It sal na raunsun ga for þe,’ CM 4494; ‘te trenchera la teste; | ne te
lera raendre,’ Joseph 854.