_Sarra was fagen in kindes wune_, Sarah was naturally glad.
_in kindes wune_ = after the manner of kinde (nature); _kindes wune_ =
kind-wise, kin-wise. 1365 _semeð_ is an error for _semes_, burdens, loads,
or for _semed_, burdened, loaded. See l. 1368. _seme_ is properly a load
for a pack-horse.
"An hors is strengur than a mon,
Ac for hit non i-wit ne kon,
Hit berth on rugge grete _semes_,
And draȝth bi-vore grete temes."
—(Owl and Nightingale, ed. Wright, p. 27.)
1372 _min erdne ðu forðe selðhelike_, mine errand do thou perform,
accomplish successfully. _forðe_ = _forðen_. See Orm. l. 1834; Ancren
Riwle, p. 408; Laȝ. l. 31561. 1373 _lene_, grant, still exists in _lend_,
_loan_, etc.
1375
_He bad hise bede on good sel_,
He offered his prayer (in good time) opportunely.
P. 40. l. 1379 _ilc on_ = each one.
1382
_Ne wor nogt so forð ðeuwe numen_,
The custom had not been so forth (up to that time) practised.
1388 _bofte_ = _bi-ofte_, behoof; cf. O.E. _byefþe_, _bi-ofþe_. See l.
1408. 1390 _beges_ = bracelets, armlets, probably from A.Sax. _bugan_ (=
_beogan_), to bow, to bend. The original meaning of _beg_ is crown. In
Piers Ploughman 346, _beighe_ signifies a collar. In the Middle High German
version of the Book of Genesis (ed. Diemer) it is stated that Eliezer, for
love, gave Rebekah
"Zwêne ôringe
und zuêne arm-_pouge_
ûz alrôteme golde."
1391 _ghe_ seems to be an error for _he_. 1394 _kiddit_ = made it known,
showed it. 1397 _good grið_ = good entertainment. 1398 _Him_ (the dative of
the personal pronoun), for him.
1404
_Quilc selðe and welðhe him wel bi-cam_,
What prosperity and wealth had well befallen him.
1409 _wið-ðan_, with-that, thereupon.
1410
_fagneden wel ðis sondere man_,
welcomed well this messenger.
_fagnen_ is literally to make _fain_ or glad, to welcome, entertain;
_sondere man_. The proper form is _sondes-man_. Ancren Riwle, p. 190.
Cf. _loder-man_ for _lodes-man_, l. 4110, p. 117; and _sander-bodes_, O.E.
Hom. 2nd S. p. 89.