Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
391. #oþer#: oþre D, both meaning, to another; Ne may nomon hit segge ·
ne witen myd iwysse J.
392. #godes#: heuene J. Here D adds, Vten eftin þiderward | mid aldre
ȝernuolnesse | ⁊ vorsien þisne midelard | mid his wouernesse. || Ef we
vorsieð þis loþe lif | vor heuenriche blisce, | þanne selð us Crist ꝥ
eche lif | to medes on ecnesse. Zupitza notes that eftin is for efstin
(that is, hasten, OE. #efestan#), and wouernesse is OE. #wǣfernes#,
pomp, show.
393. #rixlet#: rixeð D; ricscleþ M; lesteþ J. #abuten#: buten J D; ay
bute M: see 34/85.
394. #of#: comp. 38/134; 112/11; 132/15: but ‘alesede hem eche deaðe,’
OEH ii. 5/26. Lines 393-4 are echoed in ‘And yef þat eche lif · þat
neuere ne haueþ ende. | Hwanne vre soule vnbynd · of lykamlyche bende,’
OEM 53/551, 2. #licames#: J D M agree with T.
395. #ȝyue#: lete J; leue M. #swilc#: swichne D; suicchne M.
396. After this J adds, Bidde we nu leoue freond · yonge and ek olde. |
þat he þat þis wryt wrot · his saule beo þer atholde. Amen.; which I
take to be a prayer for the scribe himself, not for the composer of the
Moral Ode.
_Cross-References_
6/18, 8/84, 10/167 (notes) = III. (The Peterborough Chronicle)
30/10, 34/74, 46/292 (notes) = _present selection_
74/229 (note) = IX. B (Ancrene Wisse: Outer Rule)
79/17, 80/58 (notes) = XI. (Hic Dicendum est de Propheta)
132/9 (note) = XVIII. (The Orison of our Lady)
176/24 (note) = XXI. (The Bestiary)
p. 274 = V. (A Parable, under Pronouns)
p. 285 = VI. (The Proverbs of Alfred) under Manuscripts.
_Errata_
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