_gate_ or _yate_, pret. _yatte_, is the Northern form of the word, the corresponding southern term is _ȝete_, pret. _ȝette_. "& ȝho ne wass nohht tær onnȝæn, Acc _ȝatte_ hemm hĕre wille & _ȝatte_ þatt ȝho wollde ben Rihht laȝhelike fesstnedd Wiþþ macche, swa summ i þat ald Wass laȝhe to ben fesstnedd."—(Orm. i. 80.) "& þe king him _ȝette_ swa Hengist hit wolde."—(Laȝ. ii. 172.) "& þe king him _ȝette_ al þat he ȝirnde."—(Laȝ. i. 189.) See Seinte Marherete, p. 18. Allit. Poems, p. 17, l. 557. _a_ = _an_ = in. 637 _men cleped_ = one calleth it; _cleped_ = _clepet_ = _clepe_ + _et_; _et_ = it. We have a similar construction in l. 1082: "for al ðat nigt he sogten ðor ðe dure, and _fundend_ neuere mor." _fundend_ = _funden_ + _ed_ = _founden_ + _et_ = found it. The author of the poem constantly joins the pronoun _et_ = _it_ to the preterite of weak verbs. See line 479, where _letet_ = let it. 590 _stodet_ = _stod it_ = it stood. 1654 _kiddit_ = _kidd it_ = showed it. As the plurals of the present indicative do not end in _-eþ_ or _-et_ in the poem, but in _-en_ (_-n_), _cleped_ may be an error for _clepeð_ or _clepeth_ = calls, and _men_ = O.E. _me_ = one. See line 750. 643-644 And as high the flame shall go, As the flood flowed on the downs (hill). _lowe_, a northern term (of Norse origin) for flame, the southern form (of A.Sax. origin) is _leie_. Religious Songs in Old Eng. Miscell., pp. 67, 182. "Of his neose-þurles cumeð þe rede _leie_." See also Legend of St Brandan, 512. "Þair throtes sal ay be filled omang Of alle thyng þat es bitter and strang, Of _lowe_ and reke with stormes melled, Of pyk and brunstane togyder welled." —(Hampole's P. of. C., l. 9431.) 653 _vten_ = _wið-vten_, without, besides. See l. 656. Cf. l. 596, with l. 598. 655 _bi tale_, in number. P. 20. l. 676 _gan ille wune_, began wicked practices. 678 _muni[gin]g_ = remembrance. 692 _fendes fleiðing_, fiends' strife. Probably _fleiðing_ = _flitting_, contention, strife. The phrase _fendes fleathe_ = ? _fendes fleiðing_, occurs in Shoreham's poems, p. 97. "ȝyf thou rewardest thyne eldrynges nauȝt A-lyve and eke a-dethe, That were wel besy to brynge the forthe, . . . . . . . . ȝyf thou hy gnaȝst and flagȝst eke, Ryȝt hys that _fendes fleathe_." P. 21. l. 713 _hicte_ = _higte_, was called, named. 724 _wol wel_ = _wel wel_ = very well, extremely well. Cf. the O.E. expressions _wel ald_, _wel lang_, etc., very old, very long, etc.; _wol wel_ corresponds exactly to the O.H.G. and M.H.G. _vil wol_; Mod. Ger. _sehr wohl_. See Erec. (ed. Haupt. 1839), 2017. 725 _Thare let hur, and ðeðen he nam_, Terah left Ur, and thence he went. _let_ (pret. of _lete_) = left; _nam_, literally took, and hence took the way, departed, went. See ll. 744, 745. 727 _burgt_, an error for _burg_. P. 22. l. 743 _for_, went. See l. 763. 748