_ðo wurð ðe child witter and war_,
Then became the child wise and wary.
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Wonderfully art thou in the world come,
Wonderfully shalt thou be hence taken;
Without long suffering and fight (struggle)
God will thee take from world's night,
And of thyself holocaust have,
Thank Him that He would it crave (demand).
1317 _ðhrowing_ = _throe_, suffering, agony.
"_ðrowwinge_ and pine."—(Orm. ii. 174.)
"Vor soð wisdom is don euere soule-hele biuoren flesches hele: and hwon me
ne mei nout boðe holden somed, cheosen er licomes hurt þen þuruh to stronge
vondunges, soule _þrowunge_."—(Ancren Riwle, p. 372.) For true wisdom is
ever to put soul-health before flesh-health, and when one may not hold both
together, to choose rather bodily hurt than, through too strong trials,
soul-agony (death). 1323 Supply _don_ after _wulde_. 1328 _nuge_ = _nog_,
now. 1331 _frigti fagen_ may be either _frigti and fagen_, timid _and_
glad, or else _frigti-fagen_, timidly glad.
1332 _for ysaac bi-leaf un-slagen_, for Isaac remained unslain.
1333 _Bi-aften_, behind, abaft.
"Tacc þær an shep _bafftenn_ þin bacc
and offre itt forr þe wennchell."—(Orm. ii. 156.)
1336 _on ysaac stede_, instead of Isaac.