_vnwelde_ = unwieldy = the S. Saxon _vniwælde_, heavy.—(Gower i. 312.) "——hise limes arn _unwelde_."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 3.) (_i. e._ weak with age); _in win_, in strife, conflict. "and wið al mankin he (the devil) haueð nið and _win_" (envy and strife). (O.E. Miscell. p. 8.) "ðis fis wuneð wið ðe se grund, and liueð ðer eure heil and sund, til it cumeð ðe time ðat storm stireð al ðe se, ðanne sumer and winter _winnen_ (strive)." (O.E. Miscell. pp. 16, 17.) "Þar aros wale and _win_." There arose slaughter and strife.—(Laȝ. i. 18.) 349 _flesses fremeðe and safte same boðen he felten on here lichame._ Lust of flesh, and shame of form both they felt in their bodies. _fremeðe_ seems connected with _fremen_ and _frame_. In the translation I have connected _fremeðe_ with O.E. _frim_, vigorous; but it may be another form of O.E. _frumðe_, beginning. Then the translation of l. 349 would be 'the beginning of flesh and shame of form.' 360 _ðu haues ðe sorges sigðhe waked._ Thou hast for thyself a sight of sorrow roused. _sigðhe_ = sight, but if it be an error for _siðhe_ it will signify adversity, mishap. 362 _ut luken_ = shut out. 363 _tilen ði mete[n]_ = earn thy food. _tilen_ (till), earn, procure. "Ne maig he _tilen_ him non fode." He is not able to procure food for himself. (O.E. Miscell. p. 3.) 364 _wid_ = _wið_, with. _swotes teres_ = tears of sweat, _i. e._ drops of sweat. We may, however, by spoiling the metre, read _swotes & teres_, for in O.E. writers _swot_ is frequently used in the singular and makes the plural _swotes_. 365, 366 _Til gu beas eft into erðe cumen_, Till thou art again into earth come. _beas_ = _be'st_ = art. The present has also a future signification. 369 _niðful_ = envious. "O _nyth_ þare springes mani bogh, Þat ledes man to mikel wogh, for _nithful_ man he luuves lest, Þe quilk he wat es dughtiest." —(Cursor Mundi, MS. Cott. Vesp. A iii. fol. 153b.) _loð an liðer_, loathsome and vile. 372 _And atter on is tunge cliuen_, And poison on his tongue shall cleave. 373 _san_ = _schand_, disgrace, shame. Did the scribe originally write _sam_ = shame? 377 _pilches_. This word answers to the "coats of skin" in our English version of the Scriptures. In modern English _pilch_ is merely the flannel swathe of an infant, but it formerly signified a fur garment. Cf. Ital. _pellicia_, _pelizza_, any kind of fur; also Fr. _pelisse_ (pelice), a furred garment. "Here kirtle, here _pilche_ of ermine, Here keuerchefs of silk, here smok o line, Al-togidere, with both fest, Sche to-rent binethen here brest."—(Seven Sages, 473.) P. 12. l. 384. _Cherubin hauet [haueð] ðe gates sperd_, Cherubim have the gates bolted (barred, fastened). 391 _swem_ = sorrow, grief. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _swemande_. Legends of Holy Rood, pp. 135, 201. 392 _Of iwel and dead hem stondeð greim_ Of evil and death they stand in awe.