273. #Mid--hende#, with pleasant courteous looks, or manner, generally including gesture: ME. lat, lot is OWScand. lát, Björkman, 91. Comp. ‘mid leofliche læten,’ L 19396; ‘mid swiðe uæire læten,’ id. 15661; ‘mid wu{n}su{m}me lades,’ id. 12278. In Havelok 1246, ‘Wesseyl þe[i] ledden fele siþe,’ read seyden for ledden. 274. ‘Quant ami boivent entre amis, | Que cil dist wes hel qui doit boire | Et cil drinkel qui doit recoivre,’ W 7128. #drinc hail#, drink health, the latter word being a noun, OWScand. heill. 276. #oðer--fareð#, one brings another full one there. Different in W, ‘Dont boit cil tote la moitié,’ but afterwards he has ‘Et de boivre plain ou demi,’ 7143. 277. #þreoien#: nothing corresponding in W, only ‘entrebaisier.’ 278. #sele laȝen#, pleasing customs: see KH 1110 note. 284 O. #swipte#, tossed it off: OE. #swipian#, to lash; comp. OWScand. svipa, to move quickly. 286. #fain#: the English had a bad reputation for their drinking habits among their French neighbours. Wace describes their revels on the night before the battle of Hastings, ‘Bublie crient e weisseil | E laticome e drincheheil, | Drinc hindrewart e drintome, | Drenc folf, drinc half e drinc tode,’ Roman de Rou, ed. Andresen, 7377, that is, They cry, be blithe and wassail, and let it (the cup) come and drinchail, drink after and drink to me, drink full, drink half and drink to thee. ‘Fercula multiplicant et sine lege bibunt. Wessail et dringail,’ says Burnellus of the English students at Paris at the end of the twelfth century, Nigelli Speculum, 63/19. The parallel place in the prose Brut is, ‘þat was þe ferst tyme þat “whatsaile” and “drynkehaile” come vp into þis lande; and fram þat tyme into this tyme it Haþ bene wel vsede,’ 52/13. 290. #mod . . . main#, mind and might: an OE. combination; comp. ‘ða ongunnon heo sticcemælum mod ⁊ mægen monian,’ Bede, 54/8, = ‘vires animosque resumere.’ #halde to#, inclined to: OE. #hieldan#: its use elsewhere in L is quite different; ‘þa hæðene hundes[;] hælden to grunde,’ L 19558, is typical. 291. Comp. ‘þe wurse him wes ful neh,’ L 13284, 16636; ‘þe wurs him wes on heorte,’ id. 9215; ‘þe scucke wes bi-tweonen,’ id. 276; ‘Tant l’a diables cimoné | Qui maint homme a à mal torné,’ W 7159. For #ælche#, swilce should perhaps be read. 292. #mæingde#, troubled, lit. mingled: the verb is mostly passive in L, as ‘his mod him gon menge{n}[;] he morȝnede swiðe,’ 3407; comp. ‘Almast menged him his mode,’ CM 8804. 293. #murnede#, said of painful longing. 295. #leoden to hærme#, to his people’s hurt: comp. ‘Twenti ȝer he heold þis lond[;] þa leoden al to hærme,’ L 2580; 176/24 note: #folk# in O is dative. 298. #funde--ræd#, thought it advisable: comp. ‘he uunde on his ræde[;] to don þat heo hi{n}e bede{n},’ L 21933; ‘Hit is on mine rede[;] to don þat þu bede,’ id. 31106; 12/5 in piece v. But W says he took the advice of his brother and friends, ‘Loë li ont et consillié | Que il li doint délivrement,’ W 7172. _Cross-References_