851 _fowre on-seken and fifue weren_ = four attack and five defend. _on-seken_ = attack. "heo wenden to beon sikere. They weened to be secure þeo Belin heom _on-sohte_." when Belin attacked them. —(Laȝ. i. 241.) 864 _witter of figt_ = skilled in fighting. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _wyter_, and Laȝ. i. 260, 409; ii. 247. 866 _Abram let him tunde wel_, Abram caused himself to be well surrounded (well guarded). 869 _wenden_, thought. 875 _wið-ðuten [= wiðð-uten] ðo ðe cuden flen_ = except those who could flee. P. 26. l. 882 _bat_ = _bad_ = _bead_ = literally offered, and hence restored. _bat_ = _bette_ occurs in Legends of Holy Rood for _amended_, restored, p. 210, l. 6. 886 _Borwen_, delivered, rescued, the p.p. of _bergen_ (O.E. _berȝe_, _berwen_). "Þis boc is ymad vor lewede men vor vader and vor moder and vor oþer ken Ham vor to _berȝe_ vram alle manyere zen þet in hare inwytte ne bleve no voul wen." —(Ayenbite, p. 211.) "And huo þat agelt ine enie of þe ilke hestes him ssel þer-of vor-þench, and him ssrive, and bidde God merci yef he wyle by _yborȝe_."—(Ibid. p. 1.) Orm uses _berrȝhenn_, to save, preserve, from which he forms the derivative _berrhless_, salvation. 888 _feres wale_, brave companions (allies). _Wale_ signifies select, choice, worthy, and hence brave. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _Wale_. 893 _He froðer[ed]e him after is swinc._ He comforted him after his toil. Herbert Coleridge (Gloss. Index, p. 33) connects _froðere_ with the A.Sax. _frofrian_, to comfort. Of course there is nothing to be said against the interchange of _f_ and _th_ (cf. _afurst_, thirsty; _afyngred_, hungry, etc.); but the A.S. _freoðian_, to protect, render secure, is nearer in form, and there is the O.E. _vreþie_ (Ayenbite) to prove that this verb had not gone out of use. 895 _ðe tigðe del_ = the tenth part. _tigðe_ = _tithe_ = tenth. 898 _bargt_ = _barg_ (the pret. of _bergen_) preserved. 910 _wið-uten man_ = except the men. The rhyme seems to require us to read _nam_; the meaning would then be "without exception _or_ reserve." 911 _Alle hes hadde wið migte bi-geten._ He had them all with might begotten (obtained). _hes_ = _he_ + _es_ = he + them. The combination _hes_ occurs again in l. 943. _es_ or _is_ = them, as in l. 949. See Note to l. 135, and Preface to O.E. Miscell. p. xv, and O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. xii. P. 27. l. 913 _meðelike wel_, with great moderation, very meetly. Cf. _unmeaðeliche_ in Seinte Marherete, p. 10. _meðeliche_ in O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 7. _meðleas_, Ancren Riwle, p. 96. 918 _algen_ = _halgen_ = hallow. 920 _bi-told_ (rescued) should be the pret. of a vb. _bitellen_, but no such word occurs in the poem. See O.E. Hom. 1st S. p. 205. Owl and Night. l. 263. Laȝamon uses _bi-tellen_, to win. "Ac wih him we scullen ure freoscipe (freedom) mid fehte _bitellen_."—(Vol. i. p. 328.)