_Of weledes fulsum and of blis_ Rich of (in) wealth and of (in) bliss. _weledes_ is an error for _welðes_; it may = _werldes_ = world's; _fulsum_ = rich, plenteous, bountiful, occurs in O.E. _fulsumhed_ (see l. 1548), _fulsumly_. 749 _ist_ = _is it_, is there. 751 Each thing dieth that therein is cast. 753 _ðus it is went_ = thus is it turned _or_ changed. 754 _brimfir_, if not an error for _brin-fire_ (burning fire; see l. 1164), signifies wild-fire, _i.e._ brimstone. Cf. A.Sax. _cwic-fyr_ = fire of brimstone. 763 _hunger bond_. We ought, perhaps, to read _hunger-bond_, corresponding to the German _hungersnoth_, famine, dearth. Cf. luue-bond, l. 2692, force of love. 764 _feger_ = _feyer_, far. 767 _to leten_ = to lose. P. 23. l. 787 _erdne_ = _ernde_, errand, prayer, petition, message. "Ih scal iu sagen imbot, gibot ther himilisgo Got, Ouh nist ther er gihorti so fronsig _arunti_."—(Otfried's Evangelienbuch.) _to god erdne beren_ = to intercede with God. _Ernde_ occurs in Lyric Poetry, p. 62, in the sense of to intercede. 792 _arsmetike_ = _arsmet[r]ike_ = arithmetic. 793 _He was hem lef, he woren him hold_, He was dear to them, they were true to him. 795 _sat_ = _schat_, treasure, still existing in _scot_, _shot_. 796 _vn-achteled_, unestimated, immense; from _achtel_, to estimate, reckon. See Stratmann, s.v. _ahtlien_. 801 _ðor he quilum her wisten wunen_, Where they formerly wished to dwell. P. 24. l. 813 _atteð_ = _hatteð_, is called. 827 _ðer het god abre ðat tagte lond_, etc. There God promised Abraham that promised land, etc. _tagte_ = _bitagte_, literally, assigned, appointed. 832 _giscinge of louerd-hed_ = desire of lordship, greed of dominion. _Giscinge_ = covetousness; the correct form is _gitsing_ (_ȝitsung_, _ȝittsung_), but _ȝissinge_ is found in Laȝ. ii. 227. Cp. _yssing_, O.E. Miscell. p. 38. _icinge_, Ayenbite, p. 16, and see Orm. i. 157. "Al his motinge (talk) was ful of _ȝitsinge_."—(Laȝ. i. 280.) 833 _Neg ilc burge hadde ise louereding_, Nigh each borough (city) had its lord. 834 _kumeling_ is literally a stranger, foreigner, but here signifies a king or ruler not of native blood, one of foreign extraction. See _Comeling_ in Prompt. Parv. p. 89. "For I am a _commelyng_ toward þe And pilgrym, als alle my faders was." —(Hampole's P. of C., 1385.) "Wande ein _chomelinch_ ih bin mit dir unde ellente also alle uatere mine."—(Wendb. Ps. xxxviii. 22.) P. 25. l. 842 _ferding stor_, a great army. See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 189. 844 _gouel_, tribute, tax. Later writers use the word _gauel_ or _gouel_ in the sense of usury. See Ayenbite, p. 35; O.E. Miscell. p. 46. Cf. _gaueler_, usurer. Ayenbite, p. 35; Ps. cviii. 11. 847 _haued_ = _haueð_, hath. 848 _here-gonge_, invasion. "For ich am witi ful iwis, And wot (knoweth) al that to cumen is: Ich wot of hunger [and] of _hergonge_." —(Owl and Nightingale, l. 1189.)