"Sex _feteles_ of stan war thar stan[d]and, Als than was cumand in the land And Crist bad thaim thir _feteles_ fille Wit water, and thai did son his wille." —(Met. Hom. p. 120.) 562 _set_, made, formed. _limed_, daubed, pitched. 564 _sperd_, _sparred_, barred. See Orm. D. 261; H. i. 142, ii. 68; Havelok, 448. _spere_ or _sparre_ signifies also to lock, shut up. _Chaucer_, Troilus and Creseide, v. 455; _Bone Florence_, 1774. _ðig_ = _ðic_, thick. 566 _ðor buten noe(.) long swing he dreg._ Thereabout Noah endured long toil. _swing_ = _swinc_, toil, labour. 568 _welken_, pass away, literally to fade, wither; and usually applied to plants and flowers. "It wites als gresse areli at dai, Areli blomes and fares awai; At euen doun es it brogt, Un-lastes, and _welkes_, and gas to noght."—(Ps. lxxxix. 6.) See Hampole's P. of C. l. 707. 576 _arche-wold_. See note to l. 255. 582 _gette_ or _get_, poured down. _gette_ is the preterite of _geten_ or _gete_. See l. 585. Cf. O.E. _yhete_ (_ȝete_); pret. _yhet_; p.p. _yhoten_ (_iȝote_). "_Yhet_ over þam þi wreth."—(Ps. lxviii. 25.) See Ps. xli. 5, lxxiii. 21. Percy's Reliq. vol. ii. 81. Cf. "a metal _geoter_," a metal caster, Kyng Alys. 6725. _out-yhetted_, poured out, Hampole's P. of C. 7119. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _Gote_. 592 _moned_ = _moneð_ = month. P. 18. l. 598 _dragen_ by metrical license for _wið-dragen_, withdrawn. _ðe watres win_ = the water's force (strife). _Winne_ in O.E. has the signification of to fight, contend with, strive, and hence to get. Cf. O.E. _wunne_, victory; _wan_, contrivance, remedy. See l. 347. "Alle we atter dragen off ure eldere, ðe broken drigtinnes word ðurg ðe neddre; ðer-ðurg haueð mankin boðen nið and _win_."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 11.) 607 _est_ = east. Probably only an error for _eft_ = again. 614 _arche-wolde_. See note to l. 255. 617 _Rad_ = hasty, rash. Literally it signifies ready, and frequently occurs in O.E. writers with this meaning. Cf. O.E. _gerâd_, _rædlîce_, _rædliche_, _radely_, _radly_, promptly, quickly, suddenly. See l. 2481, and Owl and Nightingale, ll. 423, 1041, 1279; Laȝ. 25603; St Marh. p. 10; Avow. Arth. xix. 6. P. 19. l. 630 _tudered_ (see note to l. 164). 631-637 Often he prayed with timid prayer, That such vengeance as God then did Should no more on the world come, What vengeance so _ever_ there should be taken. God granted it in token of love, Showed him in the welkin above A rainbow, they call it, red and blue. _so_ after _swiulc_ is a true relative, as in the oldest period. 635 _gat_ = granted. It is the preterite of a verb _gate_, to grant. "Fourti dais he sal [tham] _yate_ Þat fallen ar ute o þair state Þoru foluing o þat fals prophet, Þat þai mai þam wit penance bete." —(_Antichrist_, in Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur, 1863, p. 204, l. 428.)