273. Comp. generally 76/27-32; 120/95-7. #frute#, toads: frude E; fruden J D: akin to OWScand. frauðr (Björkman, 76). Frod is a child’s name for a frog in Yorkshire, EDD. ii. 504. NED. iv. 570 quotes from Dives and Pauper, ‘Some man hadde leuer for to mete with a froude or a frogge in the waye than to mete with a knyght or a squyre.’ 274. #speke#: speken E; spekeð J D. #niðfulle#: ondfulle D. 276. #hate#: so M; but hete E J D; OE. #hete#, enmity. #eorre#: ȝeorre E; herre D; erre M. 277. #uuel#: muchel J M. 278. #swierte leie#: comp. 76/17; 119/86-8: þiester leie D. 280. #ꝥ beoð þa#: comp. 1/10. 281. #ateliche . . . eisliche#: comp. ‘swo eiseliche and swo ateliche,’ OEH ii. 171/24: J reads ateliche ueondes ⁊ grysliche wyhtes. 282. #ifon#, seize: the other MSS. agree with T: ison E. #ðurh sihte#: bi sihtes J; mid isiȝte M. NED. explains bi sihtes, by looks or glances. The context rather requires, with open eyes, knowingly, wilfully, but I know no parallel. Comp. Heb. x. 26. 283. Comp. 134/93; ‘sathanas þe cwed,’ OEM 180/213. #ealde#: ‘serpentem antiquum, qui est diabolus et Satanas,’ Apocal. xx. 2: comp. ‘Se ealde deofol þe is mid andan afylled,’ Ælf. Lives ii. 180/183; ‘For to beon yuonded · of sathanas þen olde,’ OEM 38/28, 76/130; OEH i. 75/30; SK 1184; HM 15/14. #belzebud#: belsebuc E; belzebuc M: ‘est finalis litera b,’ Catholicon. 285. A common formula; comp. 119/85, 133/48; OEM 173/57-60; AR 144/21. 287. #Wið#, as regards: it has apparently the same meaning in ‘god heom aredde wið heore ifan,’ OEH i. 87/18, for aredden usually takes of or ut of. E T have of, about: comp. 187/350; J For al. 288. #gamen ⁊ gleo#, a favourite combination: comp. ‘Iluued ich habbe gomen and gleo,’ OEM 160/33; Minot iv. 57 note. 292 T. #of þat#, as concerns what; so far as what one may suffer here is concerned. 289, 90. ‘Tut est desespere iceo les par confund | Ke il seuent tres bien ia merci nen aurunt,’ Guischart, 125, 6; CM 23261-4. #deð--wa#, affects them so wofully, causes them such sorrow: see 40/181: such uses of don are very extensive in ME.; comp. 34/69; ‘don us mare wa on,’ SJ 43/8. #naht#: noþing J. 290. #ꝥ#, as that: bute þat E; Ase ꝥ J; swo ꝥ D.