Heaven's dew and earth's fatness,
Abundance of wine and oil.
1550 Supply _and_ after _migt_.
1565-6
Quoth Esau, "right is his name
Called Jacob, to my disadvantage."
1569-70
Nevertheless, dear father, intreat I thee
That thou give me some blessing.
1573 _erðes smere_, earth's fatness; _smere_ is properly _fat_, grease,
butter. In the Orm. ii. 106 it is used in the sense of ointment. 1574
granted him blessing that was precious to him; _gere_ is evidently an error
for _dere_, beloved, dear, precious.
1575-6
For Idumea, that rich land,
Of pasture good, was in his hand.
_lewse_, cf. O.E. _leswen_, to pasture; _lezzer_[398] (Shropshire), a
pasture-land. (Wicliffe, 1 Kings xvi. 11; 1 Cor. ix. 7; Luke viii. 34.) "If
ony man schal entre by me, he schal be saved; and he schal go yn, and schal
go out, and he schal fynde _lesewis_." (Wicliffe, St John x. 9.) "Egipte
aȝenst kynde of oþer londes haþ plenté of corn; he is bareyne of _lesue_,
and whan he haþ plenté of _lesue_ it is bareyne of corn." (Trevisa's
translation of Higden's Polychronicon, vol. 1, p. 131.)
1577-8
Quoth Esau, "_The time of_ mourning shall pass away,
And _I_ shall take vengeance of (on) Jacob."
1577 _grot_ is a noun formed from the vb. to _grete_ (to weep, mourn), just
as _wop_ is from _wepe_ (weep). It is the same as the O.E. _gret_, _grete_,
cry, outcry.