161. #Ego# &c.: S. John vi. 51; in Vulgate, _descendi_. 162. #astah#: OE. #astīgan# is a neutral word the direction of which is indicated by an adverb. When alone, it is generally used of rising; but comp. ‘Ah crist . . . asteh of heuene riche,’ OEH i. 17/25; ‘he (Christ) asteh to þisse liue,’ id. 19/7. 164. #alswa se#, not, ‘as he also,’ Morris, but, just as, even as, 17/173: so alswa alse, 17/169; alse, 13/42, alswa, 17/170 = as. 165. #⁊ c.#: ‘cadens in terram mortuum fuerit, ipsum solum manet,’ S. John xii. 24. #was ȝesawen#, at the Annunciation. The fanciful comparison is common in mediaeval writers: comp. ‘Elegit autem sibi quasi granum tritici Deus corpus de Spiritu sancto in utero virginali conceptum . . . in cruce illa [grana] moluit, in resurrectione cribravit,’ Petri Cellensis Sermones (Migne, P. L. ccii), 808. 167. #com#, sprang up; a common use in mod. dialects. #ꝥ cweð us of breade# is translated in Specimens, ‘which speaketh to us by bread.’ It means, of course, that is called house of bread: comp. ‘Bethleem is gereht “Hlaf-hús,” and on hire wæs Crist, se soða hlaf, acenned, þe be him sylfum cwæð, “Ic eom se liflica hláf,”’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. i. 34/14; ‘In coelis erat panis angelorum, set in bethleem factus est panis hominum. Merito igitur locus iste domus dicebatur panis, unde angelorum et hominum carnaliter fuerat oriundus panis,’ H. de Losinga, ii. 12; Orm 121/3528-35. 170. #melstanent#: ‘Pastor farinam moluit in cruce tanquam in molendino,’ P. Cellensis, 807. #berient#: the tomb as the oven is original. Comp: ‘Iste est ille, qui seipsum coxit in clibano passionis,’ Bede, vii. 369 (Cologne ed.); ‘Et sicut panis igne coquitur, ita Christus in camino passionis assatur,’ Elucidarium Honorii Augustodun., 1129; Adam. Praemonstr. 178 (Migne, P. L. cxcviii); Petrus Blesensis, iv. 33. 173. #Ego sum# &c.: S. John xv. 1. _Cross-References_ 6/18, 10/167 (notes) = III. (The Peterborough Chronicle) 50/334 (note) = VIII. (Poema Morale) 118/30, 124/249 (notes) = XVI. (Sawles Warde) 176/24 (note) = XXI. (The Bestiary) _Errata_ #Phonology:# ... _y_ in cyme 87 (? #cime#) [cyme,] .... #ǣ{2}# is uniformly _e_ [#æ{2}#] #ē# is regularly _e_, but dieð 51 (= #deð#) [_text unchanged: error for “dēð”?_] ... Final #ēo# is _i_, hi 50 (4), ibi 135, isi 55 (4), si 50 (6) [(4) si 50] ... #æ# + #g# ... _eiȝ_ in seigd 34 [seigð] _e_ in sede 117, 119, seden 69, 160 (= #sǣdon#) [_corrected by author from #sædon#_] #ǣ{1}# + #h# [#æ{1}#] Minor declensions: ... feder 48, _s. d._ [_d. s._] ... man 76, _s. d._, 41, _s. a._ [41.] The infinitive of verbs ... _Pres. s._ 1. forȝete 61 [1:] ȝestrenð 112 (#gestrengeþ#) [ȝestrend] V. ableow 42, bleowu 168 [V ableow] oȝeð 64 (#āgon#), 1 _pr. pl._ [1. _pr. pl._] muȝe (we) 49, 1 _pr. pl._ [1. _pr. pl._] 26. ... KH MS. L 1131 note. [Ms.] 28. ... see 50/334 note. [_final . missing_] 37. #· iii · prou.# [_anomalous spacing unchanged_]