494. #strif#: ‘Militia est vita hominis super terram,’ Job vii. 1. Comp.
‘He made on werlde al erue tame, | ðe sulde him her, in swinkes strif, |
to fode and srud, to helpen ðe lif,’ GE 174.
498. #bi waken#, ‘waked,’ watched by his body: comp. ‘He was biwaked
richeliche, | And wel faire browt on erthe,’ Seuyn Sages (Weber), 2578.
502. #biqueðen#, ‘bewail,’ Morris, whom Mätzner follows. But this use is
without parallel and is not a natural development of OE. #becweðan#:
possibly it descends from #cwīþan#, to lament. In NED, bigreden, lament,
or bigreiðen, prepare, make ready, are suggested. Perhaps biwreðen,
representing OE. #bewrīðan#, to surround with bands: the line would then
mean, to anoint, shroud and enwrap.