454. #ger#: read geres, 203/207, or gere, 202/190. #be ðe on#:
constructions with on are frequent in GE; comp. 205/286, 208/370; ‘ðat
burgt folc ðat helde was on,’ GE 1063; ‘For swinc and murning hem was
on,’ id. 3205, in each case rhyming with don. Comp. the Latin
inscription, ‘scire laboras, annos quod tulerim mecum.’