In the night a message came to him from God,
And a prohibition against this king's counsel.
3941 _me goue hold_ = should give me faithfully; _hold_ = _holde_ =
faithfully, truly. 3945 _Oc or or_ = but first ere. 3951 And turned his
heart on worse thought. 3958 And beat and turned it to the path; _sti_,
path, way. "ðes is forðon ðeðe gecuoeden wæs ðerh esaias ðone witgo
cuoeðende: stefn cliopende in woestern gearuas woeg drihtnes, ræhta doeð
[wyrcas] _stiga_ his." (Matt. iii. 3. Northumbrian Version.) 3964 _negt_ =
_neg_ + _it_ = nigh it.