432
_wið dead him stood hinke and age._
Of death he stood _in_ dread and fear.
_hinke_ = _inke_, doubt, dread. See note on l. 392.
436
_ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no same_,
theft and robbery appeared to him no shame.
_Reflac_ = robbery with violence, rapine. (See Laȝ. i. 172, 272, 424; ii.
526.)
"Þe first sin is o covatise
Þat revis mani man þair praise,
O þis cumes blindnes and tresun,
_Reuelaic_, theft, extorsiun."
—(The Seven Deadly Sins: _Cursor Mundi_, _Cott. MS. Vesp. A_ iii.)