461. #So# is explained by l. 464.

466. If #seli# represents OE. #gesǣlig#, happy, its use with #mel#,

meal, is singular. But ‘he seruede his fader wel | Wið wines drinc and

seles[t] mel,’ GE 1541 suggests sele, good, as the right word here.

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