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)
_woded_ = _wodhed_. Cf. _alied_ = _alihed_ = holiness (l. 500, p. 15). "Þe
oþer ontreuþe þet comþ of prede is _wodhede_, me halt ane man _wod_ þet is
out of his wytte, in huam skele is miswent."—(Ayenbite, p. 12.)
534
_Golhed hunkinde he gunnen don_,
Unnatural lust they did commit.
_Golnes_ = lust, lasciviousness, occurs in the Owl and Nightingale, l. 492.
Ancren Riwle, p. 198. Ps. lxvii. 14.
"Non lest (listen) on man do amys
Thorȝ hys oȝene _gale_ (lust)."—(Shoreham, p. 107.)
_hunkinde_ = _unkinde_, unlawful, unnatural. 536 _quad mester_, wicked
craft (practices). See Allit. Poems, p. 46, ll. 265-268. _Quad_ takes
several forms and meanings in O.E.; as _qued_, wicked (Kyng Alys., 5619;
evil, 4237); the devil (R. of Gl., 314); _quead_, wickedness (Ayenbite, p.
4); _quathe_, _wothe_, _wathe_, evil, harm (Hampole's P. of C., 2102, 4558;
Allit. Poems, B. 885).
"De _quât_ deit, de schuwet gêrn dat licht."—(Reynard the Fox.)
537 _hun-wreste plage_, wicked lust; _hun-wreste_ = _unwreste_, weak,
frail, and hence wicked.
"Mærling _vnwærste_ [_onwreste_] man
Whu hæuest þu me þus idon."—(Laȝ. ii. 228.)
"Þenne þat hæfd (leader) is _unwræst_ [_onwrest_]
Þe hæp (host) is þæ wurse."—(_Ibid._ vol. ii. 259.)
"Thanne aȝte men here wyves love,
Ase God doth holy cherche;
And wyves nauȝt aȝens men
Non _onwrestnesse_ werche,
Ac tholye,
And nauȝt _onwrest_ opsechen hy
Ne tounge of hefede holye."—(Shoreham, p. 57.)
See Orm. i. 168-9. A.Sax. Chron., 1052. Wright's Lyric Poems, 37. Kyng
Alys., 878. Owl and Night., 178. 538 _A ðefis kinde_ = in thief's kind, in
sodomy. _thief_ in O.E. was a general term of reproach. Perhaps in _ðefis_
we have an allusion to _Cain_.
542
_And leten godes frigti-hed_
And forsook the fear of God.
544
_And mengten wið waried kin_
And intermixed with accursed kin.
545
_Of hem woren ðe getenes boren_
Of them were the giants born.
—(See Genesis vi. 4.)
546
_Migti men, and figti, for-loren_
= _Migti men, figti and forloren_,
Mighty men, warlike and forlorn (doomed).
548 _litel tale_, little account (worth). 553 _blissen_ = _lessen_ =
_be-lessen_ (?) or _bi_ + _leschen_, to soften. Cf. _blinnen_ and
_linnen_ = to cease. See ll. 3653, 3803.
554
_ðat it ne wexe at more hun-frame_
lest it should grow to greater evil.
_hun-frame_ = _unframe_, loss, disadvantage. 556 _deres kin_ = animals.
P. 17. l. 560 _grið_, protection, safety.
"he wuneden (dwelt) seoððen (afterwards) here
inne _griðe_ and inne friðe (peace)."—(Laȝ. ii. 50.)
"Lauerd, lauerd, ȝef (give) me _grið_."—(Ibid. iii. 35.)
Cf. _greth_, quarter (Sir Cleges, 292). _grith-bruch_, breach of the peace
(Owl and Nightingale, 1043). _grith-sergeant_ (Havelok, 267). 561
_feteles_, a vessel, a _fat_ or _vat_.
"þe firrste _fetless_ wass
Brerdfull off waterr filledd."—(Orm. ii. 148.)
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