wíte þoliað hátne heaðo-welm helle to-middes brand & bráde lígas swilce eác þa biteran récas, _þrosm_ and þystro, torment they suffer burning heat intense amidst hell, fire, and broad flames; so also the bitter reeks smoke and darkness. (Caedmon, p. 21, 18.) 45 _ðu wislike mune_ = do thou wisely bear in mind. 47 _hin_ = _hine_ = him. 48 _or_, another form of _ar_, = ere, before. 49-56 The meaning of these lines may be expressed as follows:—"And of them two [God the Father and God the Son] that dearly love, who wield all here and above, _proceeds_ that holy love, that wise will [the Holy Ghost], that wieldeth all things with right and skill [reason]. Might bad with word light exist; also that might [the Holy Ghost] wieldeth _holy consolation_, for there are three persons and one counsel, one might, and one godhead." 54 _Hali froure_ = holy comfort, an allusion to the office of Holy Ghost as the comforter. "Hire uoster moder wes an þe _frourede_ hire." = Her foster mother was one who comforted her.—(St. Marherete, p. 8.) 58 _o sunde[r] sad_ = _on sunder shad_, i. e. a-sunder shed = divided apart, separated. It still exists in _water-shed_, Ger. _wasser-scheide_. Cf. l. 116. See Hampole's Pricke of Conscience, p. 271, l. 32. Cp. "the _schedynge_ of tonges." (Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychron., p. 251.) "The longages & tonges were _ischad_ & to-schift."—Ib. p. 251. P. 3. l. 63 _ðis walkenes turn_ = this welkin's course. See l. 79. 64 _quuad_ = _biquuad_ = bequeathed, ordained. See l. 117. 69 _And euerilc wunder, and euerilc wo._ And every evil and every woe. _Wunder_ = misfortune, evil. S.Saxon _wundre_, mischief, hurt. "hare lust leadeð ham to wurchen to _wundre_." = their lust leadeth them to work to mischief.—(St. Marh. p. 14.) (See Sir Gawaine and the Green Knyght. Ed. Morris, l. 16.) 71-72 Our ancestors had some strange chronological theories. In the Cursor Mundi we read that Adam was made at _undern-tide_, at _mid-day_ Eve was drawn from his side, and at _noon_ they both ate the apple, and were thus only three _tides_ in bliss.[396] 73 _ðis ik_ (ilk?) _wort in ebrisse wen._ This same word is in Hebrew opinion (tradition). The true form is _wene_, "_a wene_" = in supposition. See Laȝ. l. 18752; Orm. l. 4326; Owl and Nightingale, l. 237.