_walknes wurðinge, and erdes [erðes?] frame._
welkin's glory and earth's advantage.
_frame_ = advantage, gain, profit. See Handlyng Synne, ll. 5, 4249.
"Twifold forbisne in ðis der [the fox]
To _frame_ we mugen finden her."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 14, l. 425.)
"Summwhatt icc habbe shæwedd ȝuw
till ȝure sawle nede,
ȝiff þat ȝe willenn follȝenn itt
& ȝuw till _frame_ turrnenn."—(Orm. vol. i. p. 31.)
"_Manne frame_ = men's advantage."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 2, l. 39.)
"Jhesu, do me that for thi name
Me liketh to dreȝe pyne ant shame
That is thy (the?) soule note ant _frame_,
Ant make myn herte milde ant tame."—(Lyric Poetry, p. 71.)
134
_He knowned (= knoweð) one ilc sterre name._
He alone knoweth each star's name.
135 _He settes_ = He set (placed) _them_. Cf. l. 156, where _wroutis_ =
wrought _them_. The pronoun _is_ or _es_ = them. See Prefaces to Ayenbite
of Inwyt, O.E. Hom. 1st and 2nd SS. 136 _ðis walkne went_ = this welkin's
course. See l. 63. 141 _bi mannes tale_ = by man's reckoning. 143 _egest_ =
_hegest_ = highest. _ðe sunnes brigt_ = the sun's brightness. 145 _moneð
met_, measure of a month. Cp. O.E. _metwand_. 148 _Reke-fille_ (see l.
3136) = _reke-filleð_ (cp. O.E. _winter-fylleð_ = October. See Menologium,
p. 62, ed. Fox), April (the vapoury or watery month).
155
_wel wurðe his migt lefful ay._
Well worth his might ever holy!
Cf. "_wo worth_ the day!" etc. _lefful_ = O.E. _geleáfful_, faithful, holy.
O.E. Miscell. p. 23, l. 713. 160 _eruerilc_ = _eauerilc_ = every. 162 _his
flotes migt_ = his floating (swimming) power. Cp. "_a flote_," _a float_,
Rob. of Brunne, p. 169, l. 13. 163 _ðen_ = to prosper, be successful. Cf.
the O.E. phrase, "so mot I _the_." 164 _tuderande_ = propagating, fruitful.
"Þa gyt drihten cwæð
. . . . .
wórd to Noe
tymað nu & _tiedrað_."
Again the Lord spake
. . . . .
words to Noah:—
Teem now and propagate.
—(Cæd. p. 91.)
"I was borenn her
Off faderr & off moder.
. . . . .
Þa þeȝȝre time wass all gan
To _tiddrenn_ & to tæmenn."
I was born here
Of father and mother.
. . . . .
When their time was all gone
To propagate and to teem.
—(Orm. ii. p. 284.)
See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 177, where _tuder_ = offspring.