_It hiled_ [= hileð] _al ðis werldes drof._
= It surrounds (encloses) all this world's drove (assemblage).
_drof_ = A.S. _dráf_, company.
105
_Til domes-dai ne sal it troken._
Till doomsday it shall not fail.
_troken_ = S.Saxon _truken_, O.E. _trokie_.
"Ah for nauer nare teonen
Nulle we þe _trukien_."
But never for no injury
Will we fail thee.
—(Laȝ. i. p. 186.)
"Ah nauest þu neuere nenne mon.
. . . . . .
Þe cunne wærc makien.
Þe nauere nulle _trukien_."
But thou hast never no [any] man
. . . . . .
Who can make a work,
That never will fail.
The later copy reads "þat neuere nolle _trokie_." See St. Kath. 1814.