78. #hihht#, joyful expectation. 79. #frofreþþ . . . beldeþþ#, comforts . . . encourages, a favourite combination: comp. O. Dedication, 237; i. 20/662. 82. #Toc#, betook himself, began. 89. #shetenn inn hiss herrte#: Holt translates, ‘shut up, harden,’ wrongly connecting #shetenn# with OE. #scyttan#: it represents #scēotan#, meaning, to shoot into his heart, to inflict a deadly wound: the expression was suggested by such places as ‘þæt hi magon sceotan þa unscyldigan heortan dygollice,’ = ‘ut sagittent in obscuro rectos corde,’ Ps. x. 3 (Thorpe), and ‘þine flana synt swyþe scearpe on þam heortum þinra feonda,’ id. xliv. 7. 90. #whas# is for whase, whoso. #itt# is formal nominative; the whole expression is equivalent to, Whosoever is armed. Comp. 116/154; ‘Whasumm itt iss þatt illke mann | Þatt hafeþþ tweȝȝenn kirrtless,’ O. i. 324/9291; ‘Whatt mann se itt iss þatt wepeþþ her,’ id. 196/5666; ‘ꝥ iss ꝥ,’ 116/157. 91. #rihht#, _adv._, utterly, at all: ‘Rihht all swa summ,’ O. i. 39/1188, means, precisely as. 93. #o godess hallfe#, on God’s behalf. 97. #borenn . . . to manne#: see 113/30 note. 98-102: ‘notandum quod Angelus qui in noctis utique vigiliis pastores affatur non ait, hac nocte, sed _hodie natus est vobis salvator_. Non aliam scilicet ob causam, nisi quia gaudium magnum evangelizare veniebat. Nam ubi tristia quaeque nocturnis temporibus gesta vel gerenda significantur, ibi saepe nox vel adiungitur, vel etiam sola nominatur,’ Bede, v. 235. 100. #all#: see 112/3. 104-7: ‘Neque enim frustra Angelus tanto lumine cinctus apparuit, ut claritas Dei pastores circumfulsisse . . . dicatur . . . sed mystice praemonuit, quod aperte postea monuit apostolus dicens, _Nox praecessit, dies autem appropinquavit_,’ Bede, v. 235. 107. #follc#, _dative_. 108-12: ‘Hoc est non tantum humilitatis eum et mortalitatis, sed et paupertatis habitum suscepisse pro nobis. Quia _cum dives esset, pauper factus est pro nobis, ut nos illius inopia ditaremur_,’ Bede, v. 235. 109. #wrecche#, poor, of lowly condition. #doþ uss#, causes, gives us to understand: comp. 209/405; ‘us gedyde nu to witanne Alexander,’ Orosius 126/31 (= ‘nobis prodidit Alexander’). 111. #Off . . . wollde#, because of the fact that he was willing; #off# governs the clause, #þatt he wollde#: so, ‘writen uppo boc . . . off þatt he wisslike ras,’ O. Dedication, 161, 167, written in book concerning the fact that &c. 114-20: ‘mox multitudo militiae coelestis advolans, consono in laudem creatoris ore prorumpit, ut sui sicut semper obsequii devotionem Christo impendat, et nos suo pariter instituat exemplo . . . Deo statim laudes ore, corde et opere reddendas,’ Bede, v. 235. 116. Thereby it was given us to see and understand full well in that incident. 119. #herrtess tunge#: see 56/51: apparently, with sincere and heartfelt praise. 120. #god# is _acc._ of the thing for which thanks are to be given. Comp. 132/11; ‘þonkien hit ure drihten,’ OEH. i. 5/29.