See R. of Gloucester, 6; Ps. (in Surtees' Psalter) xvii. 43. 492 _drinkilden_ = were drowned; _drinkil_ is a derivative of O.E. _drinke_, to drown, a softer form of which is _drenche_, which often signifies in O.E. a drink, potion (R. of Gl., p. 151; Ayenbite, p. 151, _deaþes drenche_), as well as to drink and to drown. See Laȝ. i. 64. "& att te lattste _drunncnenn_ þeȝȝ þa wrecchess, þat hemm trowwenn. And at the last drown they The wretches who them trow (believe)."—(Orm. ii. 181.) "The see him gon _adrynke_ That Rymenil may of-thinke."—(Kyng Horn, 978.) 494 he began holy custom Of prayers, and of god-fearing-ness, for life's help and soul's comfort (counsel). 500 _alied_ = _halihed_ = holiness; _toch_ = _toc_ = took. 501 _fro mannes mene_, from man's fellowship, society. The usual form of _mene_ in O.E. is _ymene_, _ymone_ = common, general. 503-510 From Hampole's Pricke of Conscience, pp. 122-126, we learn that both Enoch and Hely (Elijah) shall come before doomsday to turn the Jews from following Antichrist to the Christian law:—"For 1260 days, or three years, shall they continue to preach. Antichrist, in great wrath, shall put the two prophets to death in Jerusalem, where their bodies shall lie in the streets for three days and a half, after which they shall ascend to heaven in a cloud. After their death Antichrist shall only reign fifteen days, at the end of which time he shall be slain before the Mount of Olivet." Some "clerks" affirm that he shall be slain by St Michael in Babylon, "that great hill." (See "_Antichrist and the Signs before the Doom_," in Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur, 1863.) 517 _Metodius_. In the "Polychronicon Ranulphi Higdeni," p. 23, ed. by Churchill Babington, 1865, amongst the "auctores names" we find mention made of "Methodius etiam martyr et episcopus, cui incarcerato revelavit angelus de mundi statu principio et fine." 518 _sighe sir_ = _sigðhe sir_ = _sheer insight_, clear fore-knowledge. P. 16. l. 525 _quat agte awold_ = what should happen. 526 _water wold_, destroyed by water. _wold_ may = _walled_, flooded, from _wallen_. 530 _hore-plage_, whore-play, whoredom. Cf. O.Sax. _hor-uuilo_; O.H.G. _huorgilust_. In O.E. _hore_ (not _w_hore) was an epithet applicable to men as well as women. It occasionally signifies adultery. It is found in combination as a qualifying term in _hore-cop_, _horesone_, a bastard; _hore-hous_, a brothel. The O.E. _horwed_, defiled, unclean; _horowe_, foul (Chaucer); _hori_, _ouri_, dirty; Provincial E. _horry_ (Devonshire), seem to belong to another family of words. 532 _Wimmen welten weres mester_ Women wielded a man's art.—(See Rom. i. 26.) See Allit. Poems, p. 46, ll. 269-272. 533 _And swilc woded wenten on_, And such madness (folly) went on.