When God hath it so ordained,
As he sendeth so it shall be.
1417 _garen_, to prepare (to set out), to make _yare_, to get ready.
1419-20
For entreaty nor meed not would he there.
Over one night delay no (any) more.
_drechen_ is (1) to trouble, annoy, (2) to hinder, delay.
(1) "Sir Pilates wife dame Porcula
Tille hir Lord thus gan say—
'Deme ȝe noght Ihesus tille ne fra,
Bot menske him that ȝe may
I have bene _drechid_ with dremes swa,
This ilk night als I lay.'"
—(Gospel of Nichodemus, Harl. MS. 4196.)
(2) "Quhen Claudius þe manhed kend
Of þe Brettownys, he message send
Tyl Arẅyragus, þan þe kyng
Þat Brettayne had in governyng,
For til amese all were and stryfe,
And tak his dochtyr til his wyfe,
And to Rowme þat Tribwte pay
Wycht-owtyn _drychyng_ or delay."—(Wyntown, vol. i. p. 92.)