875
_wið-ðuten [= wiðð-uten] ðo ðe cuden flen_
= except those who could flee.
P. 26. l. 882 _bat_ = _bad_ = _bead_ = literally offered, and hence
restored. _bat_ = _bette_ occurs in Legends of Holy Rood for _amended_,
restored, p. 210, l. 6. 886 _Borwen_, delivered, rescued, the p.p. of
_bergen_ (O.E. _berȝe_, _berwen_).
"Þis boc is ymad vor lewede men
vor vader and vor moder and vor oþer ken
Ham vor to _berȝe_ vram alle manyere zen
þet in hare inwytte ne bleve no voul wen."
—(Ayenbite, p. 211.)
"And huo þat agelt ine enie of þe ilke hestes him ssel þer-of vor-þench,
and him ssrive, and bidde God merci yef he wyle by _yborȝe_."—(Ibid. p. 1.)
Orm uses _berrȝhenn_, to save, preserve, from which he forms the derivative
_berrhless_, salvation. 888 _feres wale_, brave companions (allies). _Wale_
signifies select, choice, worthy, and hence brave. See Gloss. to Allit.
Poems, s.v. _Wale_.
893
_He froðer[ed]e him after is swinc._
He comforted him after his toil.
Herbert Coleridge (Gloss. Index, p. 33) connects _froðere_ with the A.Sax.
_frofrian_, to comfort. Of course there is nothing to be said against the
interchange of _f_ and _th_ (cf. _afurst_, thirsty; _afyngred_, hungry,
etc.); but the A.S. _freoðian_, to protect, render secure, is nearer in
form, and there is the O.E. _vreþie_ (Ayenbite) to prove that this verb had
not gone out of use. 895 _ðe tigðe del_ = the tenth part. _tigðe_ = _tithe_
= tenth. 898 _bargt_ = _barg_ (the pret. of _bergen_) preserved. 910
_wið-uten man_ = except the men. The rhyme seems to require us to read
_nam_; the meaning would then be "without exception _or_ reserve."
911
_Alle hes hadde wið migte bi-geten._
He had them all with might begotten (obtained).
_hes_ = _he_ + _es_ = he + them. The combination _hes_ occurs again in l.
943. _es_ or _is_ = them, as in l. 949. See Note to l. 135, and Preface to
O.E. Miscell. p. xv, and O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. xii.
P. 27. l. 913 _meðelike wel_, with great moderation, very meetly. Cf.
_unmeaðeliche_ in Seinte Marherete, p. 10. _meðeliche_ in O.E. Hom. 2nd S.
p. 7. _meðleas_, Ancren Riwle, p. 96. 918 _algen_ = _halgen_ = hallow. 920
_bi-told_ (rescued) should be the pret. of a vb. _bitellen_, but no such
word occurs in the poem. See O.E. Hom. 1st S. p. 205. Owl and Night. l.
263. Laȝamon uses _bi-tellen_, to win.
"Ac wih him we scullen ure freoscipe (freedom)
mid fehte _bitellen_."—(Vol. i. p. 328.)
"Bi-ðencheð eow ohte (bold) cnihtes
to _bi-tellen_ eoweore rihtes."—(i. 337.)
The editor explains _bitellen_ by to _win_, but _regain_ would suit the
context.
"Nu þu hauest Brutlond,
Al _bi-tald_ to þire hond."—(Vol. ii. p. 335.)
"Nu ich mi lond habben _bi-tald_."—(Vol. iii. p. 258.)
924
_Quo-so his alt him bi-agt_
= Whoso them (goods) holdeth, him it behoveth (yield as tithes).
_His_ = _is_ = _es_, them. 927 _gulden wel_, requited well.
934
_Of ðe-self sal ðin erward ten_,
Of thyself shall thine heir come.
_erward_ = _eruweard_, heir. 939 _nam god kep_ = took good heed to,
attended carefully to. _kep_ = care. See R. of Gl. 177, 191. Owl and Night.
l. 1226. Hampole's P. of C. ll. 381, 597. 941 _Euerilc_, each, every one.
_euerilc_ is the same as the O.E. _euerich_, Mod. Eng. _every_.
943
_Vndelt hes leide quor-so hes tok_,
Undivided he laid them where-so he took (brought) them.
This line refers to the "_duue and a turtul_," in the following line. See
Genesis xv. 10. 945 _on-rum_ the same as _a-rum_, apart, aside.
"Tho Alisaundre sygh this,
_Aroum_ anon he drow, ywis,
And suththe he renneth to his muthe (army)."
—(Kyng Alys., 1637.)
946
_And of ðo doles kep he nam._
And of the pieces care he took.
P. 28. l. 949 _kagte is wei_, drove them away. _kagte_ is the pret. of
_kache_, to drive.
"And he ansuered als he war medde,
And said, Allas and wailewaye.
That ever I com at yon abbaye,
For in na chaffar may I winne
Of tha lurdanes that won tharinne
For likes nan of thaim my play,
Bot alle thar _kache_ me away."—(Met. Hom. p. 151.)
953-954 God said to him in true dream, the _future_ condition of his seed.
_beren-tem_ = _barn-teem_, offspring, descendants.
"We are alle a (one) man _barn-teme_."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 27b.)
956
_And uten erdes sorge sen._
And in foreign lands sorrow see (experience).
Cp.
"_Outen_ sones to me lighed þai,
_Outen_ sones elded er þai."—(Ps. xvii. 46.)
"Filii alieni mentiti sunt mihi, filii alieni inveteraverunt."
Cf. _uten stede_, l. 1741. O.E. _utenlande_, a foreigner. Havelok, l. 2153.
958 _Hor_ = _or_, before. 960 _ðat hotene lond_, that promised land. 964
_untuderi_, barren. The usual O.E. term is _unberand_, unbearing. See O.E.
Hom. 2nd S. p. 177. 965 _abre_ = to Abram. 969-971 And Sarai would not
suffer it, that Hagar were thus swollen (with pride). She held her hard in
thrall's wise (treated her as a slave). 974 _one and sori_, solitary and
sad. 975 _wil and weri_, lonely and weary. _Wil_ literally signifies
astray, _wild_, from the verb _wille_, to go astray. See Gloss. to Allit.
Poems, s.v. _Wyl_.
"He is hirde, we ben sep;
Silden he us wille,
If we heren to his word
ðat we ne gon nowor _wille_."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 2.)
"And child Jesus _willed_ them fra."—(Met. Hom. p. 108.)
977
_wiste hire drogen sori for ðrist._
Knew her to be suffering sorely for thirst.
_drogen_ may be an error for _drogende_ = suffering. _sori_ as an adjective
is not sorrowful, as most editors interpret the word, but heavy, painful,
and hence anxious, etc. See l. 974.
"Quen thai him (Jesus) missed, thai him soht
Imang thair kith and fand him noht,
And forthi Joseph and Mari
War for him sorful and _sari_."—(Met. Hom. 108.)