263. None of them suspected that they were understood: ‘nescientes quod
intelligeret eos ioseph, quia per interpretem loquebatur eis,’ C. #on
his mod#: a common tag; comp. ‘ðo ðogte thare on his mod, | long bigging
is here nogt god,’ GE 717; ‘He þoȝte vpon his mode | Hit nas for none
gode,’ KH 281 note.
265. #ðor quiles#, meanwhile, as at 198/45, usually whilst, as at
196/648.
270. #ðor biforen#, ‘there as before,’ Morris; ‘over it,’ Kock. biforen
here and at 205/299, 207/362 has plainly the meaning of, in addition,
besides. The development of meaning is parallel to that of besidan, by
the side of, in addition to: so biforen, in the presence of (the common
meaning in our author, as at 207/337), in addition to. #ðor biforen#
then means, in addition to that; ðor rounds off the expression, as in
ðor quiles.
273. #ouerðogt#, ‘vexed,’ ‘grieved,’ NED.; ‘anxious,’ Bradley-Str.;
‘very anxious,’ Morris: it apparently occurs here only. The original had
probably, o seri ðogt, of sorry mood; comp. 208/384 for the form of the
expression and ‘dredful and bleð and sori mod,’ GE 3520; ‘And sumdel
quemeð it his seri mood,’ id. 408.
277. Comestor does not mention that one of the sacks was opened on the
way: our author follows him, not the Vulgate, Gen. xlii. 27.
279. #sori#, sorely; comp. ‘wiste hire drogen sori for ðrist,’ GE 977.
Holthausen suggests sor.
280. #o rigt#: the meaning is doubtful, it may be justly, reasonably,
OE. #on riht#, but for that the author has ‘wit rigt,’ GE 52. In the
other place where it occurs, ‘Abraham was buxum o rigt,’ GE 1299, it
means, straightway.
283. #ending non#, Of Joseph I know not how he ended: comp. ‘Of his
endinge ne wot ic nogt,’ GE 487.