_logede_ = lay. It is not necessarily unlearned, ignorant, etc., for O.E. writers frequently use the term in contradistinction to clergy. See Ayenbite, p. 197. "Vor all manere of volk studieþ in avarice, and (both) great and smale, kinges, prelates, clerkes, an _lewede_ and religious."—(Ayenbite, p. 34.) "And bathe klerk and _laued_ man Englis understand kan, That was born in Ingeland."—(Met. Hom. p. 4.) 3 _loken_, to take care of oneself, to direct one's course of life, keep from sin. See Ayenbite of Inwyt, pp. 1, 197, 199, 201. "Ac alneway hit is nyed to leawede men that hi ham _loki_ vram þise zenne (avarice)."—Ayenbite, p. 31. 10 _ðund_ is evidently an error for _gund_ = yond, yonder, over. Cp. gu for ðu, ll. 365, 366. "& _þeond_ þat lond he heom to-draf (B. & ouer al þat lond he drof heom)."—(Laȝ. i. 68.) 12 _earuermor_ = _eauermor_ = evermore. 14 _soðe-sagen_ = _soðe-sage_ = _sooth-saw_ = sooth-saying, true saying. 15-16 _Cristene men ogen ben so fagen, so fueles arn quan he it sen dagen._ Christian men ought to be as fain (glad) As fowls (birds) are when they see it dawn. 17 _telled_ = _telleð_ = telleth. 20 _devil-dwale_ = devil-deceiver, devil-heretic = arch-deceiver, arch-heretic. See l. 67. Cf. _maȝȝstredwale_ = master heretic = arch-heretic, in the following passage:— "Off all þis laþe læredd follc Þat we nu mælenn ummbe Wass _maȝȝstredwale_, an defless þeww, Þat Arrius was nemmnedd." Of all this loathsome learned folk That we now talk about Was an arch-heretic, a devil's serf That Arius was named. —(Orm. i. p. 258, l. 7454.) 23 _til god srid him in manliched_, till god shrouded (clothed) himself in manhood. _srid_ = _sridde_. 24 _bote and red_, salvation and counsel. 25 _And unspered al ðe fendes sped_ = undid all the fiend's successful work (luck). 26 _halp_ = Old and Middle Eng. _holp_ = helped, assisted. P. 2. l. 27 _Biddi_, an error for _bidde_? 31-34 _ðu giue me seli timinge, To thaunen ðis wer[l]des biginninge, ðe, leuerd god, to wurðinge, Queðer so hic rede or singe!_ Give Thou me a propitious opportunity To show (declare) this world's beginning, Thee, Lord God, for honour, Whether-so-ever I read or sing! _thaunen_ = _taunen_, show, exhibit. "Ful wel he [Crist] _taunede_ his luue to man, Wan he ðurg holi spel him wan." —Bestiary (O.E. Miscell. p. 24, l. 767.) The word is very uncommon in O.E. writers. Cp. O.Du. _tônen_, to show. See ll. 1022, 2034. _wurðinge_ = for worship, honour. _wurðinge_ is a noun, not a participle or gerund. See l. 133. 38 _Ear ðanne_ = ere that. 41 _ðo bad god wurðen stund and stede,_ When God bad exist time and space. 43 _ðrosing_ seems to be an error for _ðrosim_ or _ðrosem_ = fog, mist, chaos. Cf. _waspene_ in l. 1440, p. 41, where the correct form is _wasteme_. _aðrusemen_, to suffocate, occurs in Ancren Riwle, p. 40.