182. #numen#, taken, in the sense of dealt with, experienced. Comp.
208/400; ‘Ðe seuend moned was in cumen, | And seuene and xx^ti dais
numen,’ GE 593; ‘Seue nigt siðen forð ben numen,’ id. 1687.
184. The editors take #Sori and nedful# with #men#, but they might
qualify #is#, them, and that would be more consonant with the original,
‘quos (annos) sequentur alii .vii. tante sterilitatis. vt obliuioni dent
cuncta retro abundantia,’ C.
186. #rospen and raken#, waste and scrape away: in these meanings the
words are apparently without parallels.
187. #her biforen#: miswritten for ear biforen: see 211/483 note: for
#her# = ear, comp. ‘ðor he quilum her wisten wunen,’ GE 801.
189. #vndernumen#, taken unawares: comp. ‘Ðis godes folc was undernumen,
| Quan he segen ðis hird al cumen,’ GE 3221, where it appears to mean,
surprised: perhaps influenced in this rare meaning by undergan, as in,
‘Þou hast me gyled and vndurgone’ (= circumvenisti), Horstmann, S. A.
Legenden, 33/479, 75/790.