Cf. _dore-tree_, Piers Pl. 833, and the phrases "hanged on a _tree_," "the gallows _tree_," etc. O.E. _Tre_ = _tree_ = wood, beam (and _treen_ = wooden), still existing in _axle-tree_, _saddle-tree_, etc. The _-wold_ in _rode-wold_ must therefore = _-tre_ = wood, beam, which we still preserve in _threshold_. O.E. _threshwald_, _threshwold_ (A.S. _thersc-wald_, _thyrscwold_). The affix _-wold_ fortunately occurs again in lines 576 and 614 in the word _arche-wold_ = ark-board. Sexe hundred ger noe was hold, Quan he dede him in ðe _arche-wold_.—(l. 576.) Sex hundred ger and on dan olde Noe ſag ut of ðe _arche-wolde_.—(l. 614.) A passage in Cædmon's poems furnishes us with the very term _ark-board_ by which we have rendered _arche-wold_. "Læd swa ic ðe hate under _earce-bord_ eaforan þine." Lead so I thee hete (command) under the ark-board thy progeny. —(l. 23, p. 80.) "Him þa Noe gewat swa hine nergand het under _earce-bord_." Noah then departed as him the preserver bad, under the ark board. —(l. 4, p. 82.) 259 _Siðen for-les ðat dai is pris_ Afterwards lost that day its honour. 266 _And seli sad fro ðe forwrogt._ And _the_ righteous separated from the wicked (accursed). _Seli_ constantly occurs in O.E. writers in the sense of _good_, and _unseli_, with the opposite meaning of _bad_, _wicked_. At first sight it would appear that the _for_ in _forwrogt_ is the same prefix which we have in _forbid_, _forsake_, O.E. _for-worth_, "good for nothing;" but _forwrogt_ in O.E. = overworked, and, hence, fatigued. _Forwrogt_ seems to be connected with the O.H.Ger. _foruuerget_, cursed; O.E. _weried_, cursed. The first interpretation, however, is supported by the Goth. verb _fra-vaurkjan_; Ger. _verwirken_, sündigen. 271 _Ligber he sridde a dere srud._ Lucifer he shrouded (clothed) in dear (precious) shrouds (vestments). _Ligber_ is evidently _Ligtber_ = Lucifer. It occurs in the Ayenbite, p. 10:—"And verst we willeþ zigge of þe zenne of prede, vor þet wes þe verste zenne and þe aginninge of alle kueade, for prede brek verst velaȝrede and ordre, huanne _Liȝtbere_ the angel for his greate vayrhede and his greate wyt wolde by above þe oþre angeles and him wolde emni to God þet hine zo vayr an zuo guod hedde ymad." 272-276 And he became in himself proud, And with that pride upon him waxed envy That evilly influenced all his conduct; Then might he no lord tolerate, That should in any wise control him. P. 9. l. 275 _ðhauen_ = suffer, endure, tolerate. S.Saxon _ðafen_, _iðeuen_; O.E. _thave_. "Þe sexte bede þatt mann bitt Uppo þe Paterr Nossterr Þatt iss, þatt Godd ne þole nohht Ne _þafe_ laþe gastess. To winnenn oferrhand off uss Þurrh heore laþe wiless."