253. #sone on on#, soon forthwith, very quickly: a favourite phrase of
our author.
255. If #sone# be correct, it must stand for sone so, as soon as, as in,
‘sone so loth ut of sodome cam,’ GE 1109. But that is inconsistent with
ll. 263, 264, where, as in the Vulgate and C., their lamentations are
uttered in the presence of Joseph. Probably sone has been repeated from
l. 253, displacing or, before: so ‘ðor,’ l. 257, means, in Joseph’s
hearing.
258. #Wrigtful#, guilty; deserving punishment for our misdeed; ‘Merito
hec patimur,’ C.; comp. wrigteleslike, undeservedly, 201/130. But
Kölbing suggests that the original had Rigtful, justly, rightfully;
comp. ‘Rihtful was iacob cald his name,’ CM 3742.