195. #bisen#: see 12/14 note.

197. #welden# &c., so, ‘neme hit in here honde,’ KH 60 note. #vnder his

hond#, l. 210, in his control; comp. 204/252; ‘Unnderr þe laþe gastess

hand,’ Orm 11146.

199. #ðo . . . ðanne# together are strange and the line is unmetrical.

Read, was vnder him ðo putifar.

200. #hem so to bar#, caused such dissension between them; OE.

#toberan#, to carry in different directions.

202. #Oðer . . . ðan#, different from what: see 100/122 note. ðan is

Mätzner’s correction.

206. Comp. for the form of the sentence, ‘He was hem lef, he woren him

hold,’ GE 793.

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