751
Each thing dieth that therein is cast.
753 _ðus it is went_ = thus is it turned _or_ changed. 754 _brimfir_, if
not an error for _brin-fire_ (burning fire; see l. 1164), signifies
wild-fire, _i.e._ brimstone. Cf. A.Sax. _cwic-fyr_ = fire of brimstone. 763
_hunger bond_. We ought, perhaps, to read _hunger-bond_, corresponding to
the German _hungersnoth_, famine, dearth. Cf. luue-bond, l. 2692, force of
love. 764 _feger_ = _feyer_, far. 767 _to leten_ = to lose.
P. 23. l. 787 _erdne_ = _ernde_, errand, prayer, petition, message.
"Ih scal iu sagen imbot,
gibot ther himilisgo Got,
Ouh nist ther er gihorti
so fronsig _arunti_."—(Otfried's Evangelienbuch.)
_to god erdne beren_ = to intercede with God. _Ernde_ occurs in Lyric
Poetry, p. 62, in the sense of to intercede. 792 _arsmetike_ =
_arsmet[r]ike_ = arithmetic.
793
_He was hem lef, he woren him hold_,
He was dear to them, they were true to him.
795 _sat_ = _schat_, treasure, still existing in _scot_, _shot_. 796
_vn-achteled_, unestimated, immense; from _achtel_, to estimate, reckon.
See Stratmann, s.v. _ahtlien_.
801
_ðor he quilum her wisten wunen_,
Where they formerly wished to dwell.
P. 24. l. 813 _atteð_ = _hatteð_, is called.
827
_ðer het god abre ðat tagte lond_, etc.
There God promised Abraham that promised land, etc.
_tagte_ = _bitagte_, literally, assigned, appointed. 832 _giscinge of
louerd-hed_ = desire of lordship, greed of dominion. _Giscinge_ =
covetousness; the correct form is _gitsing_ (_ȝitsung_, _ȝittsung_), but
_ȝissinge_ is found in Laȝ. ii. 227. Cp. _yssing_, O.E. Miscell. p. 38.
_icinge_, Ayenbite, p. 16, and see Orm. i. 157.
"Al his motinge (talk)
was ful of _ȝitsinge_."—(Laȝ. i. 280.)
833
_Neg ilc burge hadde ise louereding_,
Nigh each borough (city) had its lord.
834 _kumeling_ is literally a stranger, foreigner, but here signifies a
king or ruler not of native blood, one of foreign extraction. See
_Comeling_ in Prompt. Parv. p. 89.
"For I am a _commelyng_ toward þe
And pilgrym, als alle my faders was."
—(Hampole's P. of C., 1385.)
"Wande ein _chomelinch_ ih bin mit dir unde ellente also alle uatere
mine."—(Wendb. Ps. xxxviii. 22.)
P. 25. l. 842 _ferding stor_, a great army. See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 189.
844 _gouel_, tribute, tax. Later writers use the word _gauel_ or _gouel_ in
the sense of usury. See Ayenbite, p. 35; O.E. Miscell. p. 46. Cf.
_gaueler_, usurer. Ayenbite, p. 35; Ps. cviii. 11. 847 _haued_ = _haueð_,
hath. 848 _here-gonge_, invasion.
"For ich am witi ful iwis,
And wot (knoweth) al that to cumen is:
Ich wot of hunger [and] of _hergonge_."
—(Owl and Nightingale, l. 1189.)
851 _fowre on-seken and fifue weren_ = four attack and five defend.
_on-seken_ = attack.
"heo wenden to beon sikere. They weened to be secure
þeo Belin heom _on-sohte_." when Belin attacked them.
—(Laȝ. i. 241.)
864 _witter of figt_ = skilled in fighting. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems,
s.v. _wyter_, and Laȝ. i. 260, 409; ii. 247.
866
_Abram let him tunde wel_,
Abram caused himself to be well surrounded (well guarded).