"Summwhatt icc habbe shæwedd ȝuw till ȝure sawle nede, ȝiff þat ȝe willenn follȝenn itt & ȝuw till _frame_ turrnenn."—(Orm. vol. i. p. 31.) "_Manne frame_ = men's advantage."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 2, l. 39.) "Jhesu, do me that for thi name Me liketh to dreȝe pyne ant shame That is thy (the?) soule note ant _frame_, Ant make myn herte milde ant tame."—(Lyric Poetry, p. 71.) 134 _He knowned (= knoweð) one ilc sterre name._ He alone knoweth each star's name. 135 _He settes_ = He set (placed) _them_. Cf. l. 156, where _wroutis_ = wrought _them_. The pronoun _is_ or _es_ = them. See Prefaces to Ayenbite of Inwyt, O.E. Hom. 1st and 2nd SS. 136 _ðis walkne went_ = this welkin's course. See l. 63. 141 _bi mannes tale_ = by man's reckoning. 143 _egest_ = _hegest_ = highest. _ðe sunnes brigt_ = the sun's brightness. 145 _moneð met_, measure of a month. Cp. O.E. _metwand_. 148 _Reke-fille_ (see l. 3136) = _reke-filleð_ (cp. O.E. _winter-fylleð_ = October. See Menologium, p. 62, ed. Fox), April (the vapoury or watery month). 155 _wel wurðe his migt lefful ay._ Well worth his might ever holy! Cf. "_wo worth_ the day!" etc. _lefful_ = O.E. _geleáfful_, faithful, holy. O.E. Miscell. p. 23, l. 713. 160 _eruerilc_ = _eauerilc_ = every. 162 _his flotes migt_ = his floating (swimming) power. Cp. "_a flote_," _a float_, Rob. of Brunne, p. 169, l. 13. 163 _ðen_ = to prosper, be successful. Cf. the O.E. phrase, "so mot I _the_." 164 _tuderande_ = propagating, fruitful. "Þa gyt drihten cwæð . . . . . wórd to Noe tymað nu & _tiedrað_." Again the Lord spake . . . . . words to Noah:— Teem now and propagate. —(Cæd. p. 91.) "I was borenn her Off faderr & off moder. . . . . . Þa þeȝȝre time wass all gan To _tiddrenn_ & to tæmenn." I was born here Of father and mother. . . . . . When their time was all gone To propagate and to teem. —(Orm. ii. p. 284.) See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 177, where _tuder_ = offspring. 168 _So_, an error for _ðo_? P. 6. l. 169 _wrim_ = _wirm_ = reptiles. 170 _Qwel_ = _qwelc_; _quilc_ = which. 172 _singen_, to sin. It is not an error for _sinnen_, but a genuine form (contracted from _sinigen_), and not uncommon in O.E. writers. See _sineged_ in l. 3555, p. 101. "He _su[n]ggeden_ and sorgeden and weren in ðogt." They sinned and sorrowed and were in thought. (O.E. Miscell. p. 22, l. 682.) "Þe verþe manere to _zeneȝi_ in chapare is to zelle to tyme." —(Ayenbite, p. 33.) "Alsuo may he mid his oȝene wyue _zeneȝi_ dyadliche.—(Ibid. p. 36.) _Sunegi_ = to sin, occurs in the "Owl and Nightingale," 926. See _Sunegie_, _sunehi_, in O.E. Miscell. pp. 67, 68, 78, 79, 193. 173 _to fremen and do frame_, to serve and do good.—(See l. 133.) "Heo scullen me mon-radene mid mo[n]scipe _fremmen_." They shall me homage with honour perform.—(Laȝ. ii. 586.)