Þat he ne made hi{m} sone kesten, And in fet{er}es ful faste festen; [Sidenote: Them who wrought shame he punished.] And wo so dide maydne shame Of hire bodi, or brouth i{n} blame, 84 Bute it were bi hire wille, He[6] made hi{m} sone of limes spille. He was te[7] beste knith at nede, Þat heuere micthe ride{n} on stede, 88 Or wepne wagge, or folc vt lede; Of knith ne hauede he neu{er}e drede, Þat he ne spro{n}g forth so sparke of glede, [Sidenote: [Fol. 204b, col. 1.]] And lete him [knawe] of hise hand-dede, 92 Hw he couþe with wepne spede; [Sidenote: He made his foes cry for mercy.] And oþer he refte hi{m} hors or wede, Or made him sone ha{n}des sprede, And “louerd, me{r}ci!” loude grede. 96 He was large, and no wicth gnede; Hauede he non so god brede, Ne on his bord no{n} so god shrede, [Sidenote: He fed the poor.] Þat he ne wolde þorwit fede, 100 Poure þat on fote yede; Forto haue{n} of him þe mede Þat for vs wolde on rode blede, Crist, that al kan wisse and rede, 104 Þat euere woneth i{n} ani þede. [Footnote 3: MS. “Rirth wise.”] [Footnote 4: Supplied from conjecture. Cf. v. 653, 787. A few more instances will be found where a similar liberty has been taken, for the purpose of completing the sense.] [Footnote 4*: Changed by editor from “red”: see Emendations.] [Footnote 5: MS. athayse.] [Footnotes 5* (all from Emendations): l. 66: “For the MS. reading _here_ Mr Garnett proposed to read _othere_, which is clearly right.” l. 74: “For _his soule_ (as in the MS.) we should probably read _of his soule_.” l. 79: “For _wo diden_ (as in the MS.) we should read _wo so dide_.”] [Footnote 6: MS. Ke.] [Footnote 7: MS. Ke waste.] [Headnote: ATHELWOLD IS ABOUT TO DIE.]