77 _a-gon_ = _agen_ = again. 78 _a-gon_ = gone. It is our word _ago_. Grammarians, therefore, altogether err in making the _a_ in _ago_ = the prefixal element _ge_ (y) as in yclept. _agon_ and _ago_ = the A.Saxon _agán_ = _af-gán_, gone by, past. We have abundant examples in O.E. writers of the verb _agon_ (ago) = to go. The past participle is _agon_ or _ago_, in conformity to the rule that the past participles of verbs with this prefix do _not_ take the initial _y_. 81 _o france moal_; in French speech; _moal_ = _mel_ = speech. S.Saxon _mælenn_, to speak. See Orm. vol. i. l. 99, 253. _mol_ also signifies tribute. See O.E. Hom. 2 S. p. 179; O.E. Miscell. p. 151, l. 161. 87 _tellen_ = reckon. 88 _or_ = _ar_ = first. P. 4. l. 102 _It hiled_ [= hileð] _al ðis werldes drof._ = It surrounds (encloses) all this world's drove (assemblage). _drof_ = A.S. _dráf_, company. 105 _Til domes-dai ne sal it troken._ Till doomsday it shall not fail. _troken_ = S.Saxon _truken_, O.E. _trokie_. "Ah for nauer nare teonen Nulle we þe _trukien_." But never for no injury Will we fail thee. —(Laȝ. i. p. 186.) "Ah nauest þu neuere nenne mon. . . . . . . Þe cunne wærc makien. Þe nauere nulle _trukien_." But thou hast never no [any] man . . . . . . Who can make a work, That never will fail. The later copy reads "þat neuere nolle _trokie_." See St. Kath. 1814. 107 _suuen_ = _shoven_, i. e. thrust, prest, driven. 111 _oo_ = O.E. _aa_ = _ai_ = ever. 119 _birðheltre_, fruit tree, from _birðel_, fruitbearing. Adjectives in _-el_, _-ol_, are not uncommon in O.E. See O.E. Hom. 2 S. p. 131. Cp. "ðare bwys bowys all for _byrtht_." Their boughs bend all for fruit.—(Wyntown, i. p. 14.) 124-5 _fodme_. When we find, as on p. 2, l. 43, _ðrosing_ for _ðrosim_, we must not be surprised at learning that _fodme_ is an error for _fodinge_, production; A.S. _fadung_, dispensation, order, production, from _fadian_, _gefadian_, to dispose, order, produce. "Hwæt is se Sunu? He is þæs Fæder Wisdom, and his Word, and his Miht, þurh þone se Fæder gesceop ealle þing and _gefadode_."—(Ælfric—"De Fide Catholica"—Thorpe's Analecta, p. 65.) "An Scyppend is ealra þinga, gesewenlicra and ungesewenlicra; and we sceolon on hine gelyfan, forþon þe hé is soð God and ána Aelmihtig, seðe næfre ne ongann ne anginn næfde, ac hé sylf is anginn, and hé eallum gesceaftum anginn and ordfruman forgeaf, þaet hí beon mihton, and þæt hí hæfdon agen gecynd, swa swa hit þære godcundlican _fadunge_ gelicode."—(Ibid, p. 63.) 125 _quuemeðen_ = _quemeden_, pleased. See l. 86. P. 5. l. 133 _walknes wurðinge, and erdes [erðes?] frame._ welkin's glory and earth's advantage. _frame_ = advantage, gain, profit. See Handlyng Synne, ll. 5, 4249. "Twifold forbisne in ðis der [the fox] To _frame_ we mugen finden her."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 14, l. 425.)