P. 6. l. 169 _wrim_ = _wirm_ = reptiles. 170 _Qwel_ = _qwelc_; _quilc_ =
which.
172 _singen_, to sin. It is not an error for _sinnen_, but a genuine form
(contracted from _sinigen_), and not uncommon in O.E. writers. See
_sineged_ in l. 3555, p. 101.
"He _su[n]ggeden_ and sorgeden and weren in ðogt."
They sinned and sorrowed and were in thought.
(O.E. Miscell. p. 22, l. 682.)
"Þe verþe manere to _zeneȝi_ in chapare is to zelle to tyme."
—(Ayenbite, p. 33.)
"Alsuo may he mid his oȝene wyue _zeneȝi_ dyadliche.—(Ibid. p. 36.)
_Sunegi_ = to sin, occurs in the "Owl and Nightingale," 926.
See _Sunegie_, _sunehi_, in O.E. Miscell. pp. 67, 68, 78, 79, 193.
173
_to fremen and do frame_,
to serve and do good.—(See l. 133.)
"Heo scullen me mon-radene mid mo[n]scipe _fremmen_."
They shall me homage with honour perform.—(Laȝ. ii. 586.)
See St. Kath. 288; Anc. Riwle, p. 284.
_Freme_ and _frame_ are radically the same words, the former being of
A.Saxon and the latter of Norse origin. In the Ayenbite, p. 91, _vreme_ =
_freme_ = _frame_ is used exactly in the sense of _frame_: "We wylleþ wel
þet we be yvonded (tempted) vor hit is oure _vreme_ ine vele maneres, vor
we byeþ þe more ymylded and þe dredvoller and þe more wys ine alle þinges
and þe more worþ and þe more asayd." 197 _oc_ = _og_ = _ow_, ought.