402. _stremes_, currents. _him bisydes_, ever near at hand.

403. _herberwe_, harbour; see note to l. 765. _mone_, moon, time of the

lunation.

_lodemenage_, pilotage. A pilot was called a _lodesman_; see Way's note in

Prompt. Parv. p. 310; Riley's Memorials of London, p. 655; Chaucer's Legend

of Good Women, 1488. Furnivall's Temporary Preface, p. 98, gives the Lat.

form as _lodmannus_, whence _lodmannagium_, pilotage, examples of which are

given. Sometimes, _lodesman_ meant any guide or conductor, as in Rob. of

Brunne, Handlyng Synne, 9027; Monk of Evesham, ed. Arber, p. 106. M. E.

_lode_ is the A. S. _l[=a]d_, a way, a course, the sb. whence the verb to

_lead_ is derived. It is itself derived from A. S. _l[=i]ðan_, to travel.

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