The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
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The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
Bible. Exodus -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry; Bible. Genesis -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry; Christian poetry, English (Middle)
The sixth petition that one prayeth
in the Pater Noster is that God should
not suffer nor permit loathsome spirits
to gain the upperhand of us
through their loathsome wiles.
—(Orm. i. p. 188.)
"& Hengest hine gon werien.
& nalde it noht _iþeuen_ [þolie]."
And Hengest gan him defend
And would not suffer it.
—(Laȝ. vol. ii. p. 215.)
276 _ðhinge_ = place, office, duty; it seems to be here used adverbially in
the sense of "any wise," "at all." 276 _grauen_ is perhaps an error for
_þrauen_, to compel, control. Cf. _gu_ for _ðu_, p. 11, ll. 365, 366, and
_ðund_ for _gund_. If _grauen_ be the original reading then it is
equivalent to _greven_. O.F. _grever_, Lat. _gravare_, to injure, grieve.
278
_Min sete norð on heuene maken._
"Sette," he (Lucifer) said, "mi sete I sal
Gain him þat heist es of alle;
In þe _north_ side it sal be sette,
O me seruis sal he non gette."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 4b.)
282 _geuelic_ = _geuenlic_ = like. Cf. the A.S. _ge-efenlæcan_, to be
like, to imitate. O.E. _euening_ = equal.
"And ðeðen he sal cumen eft,
and thence he shall come again,
. . . . . .
for to demen alle men,
for to judge all men,
oc nout _on-geuelike_.
but not a-like."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 23.)
"It (the law) fet ðe licham and te gost oc nowt o _geuelike_."
It feedeth the body and the spirit but not alike.
—(Ibid. p. 10.)
295 _ðis quead_ = this wicked one. In Early English writers we meet with
several derivatives of this word, as _kueadliche_, wickedly, _kueadvol_,
sinful. (See Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 4, and extract in Note to l. 271, p.
125.)
301
_Euerilc ðhing haued [haueð] he geue name_,
To everything hath he given name.
309-310 Yet I ween I know of a device, that shall bring them misfortune.
P. 10. l. 314 _ðor buten hunte_, there without search, or hunting, without
delay; _or_ thereabout to _hunt_ or search. 316 _bilirten_, to deprive of
by treachery, to cheat a person out of a thing.
"ða herodes gesægh for-ðon bisuicen
[& _bilyrtet_] wæs from dryum, [& tungul
cræftgum] urað wæs suiðe."
(Matthew ii. 16, Northumbrian version.)
"Listneð nu a wunder,
ðat tis der doð for hunger:
goð o felde to a furg,
and falleð ðar-inne,
in eried lond er in erð-chine,
forto _bilirten_ fugeles."
Listeneth now to a wonder,
That this deer (fox) doth for hunger:
Goeth a-field to a furrow,
And falleth therein,
In eared land or in earth-chink,
For to deceive fowls.
—(O.E. Miscell. p. 13, l. 403.)
318 _dreue_ = trouble, disturb. Cf. O.E. _drove_, to trouble, _droving_,
tribulation. "Þa Herodes þæt gehyrde, þa wearð he _gedrefed_,[397] & eal
Hierosolim-waru mid him."—Matt. ii. 3.
"& for-þi þatt he sahh þatt ȝho
Was _dræfedd_ of his spæche
He toc to froffrenn hire anann."—(Orm. i. p. 74.)
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