"Bi-ðencheð eow ohte (bold) cnihtes to _bi-tellen_ eoweore rihtes."—(i. 337.) The editor explains _bitellen_ by to _win_, but _regain_ would suit the context. "Nu þu hauest Brutlond, Al _bi-tald_ to þire hond."—(Vol. ii. p. 335.) "Nu ich mi lond habben _bi-tald_."—(Vol. iii. p. 258.) 924 _Quo-so his alt him bi-agt_ = Whoso them (goods) holdeth, him it behoveth (yield as tithes). _His_ = _is_ = _es_, them. 927 _gulden wel_, requited well. 934 _Of ðe-self sal ðin erward ten_, Of thyself shall thine heir come. _erward_ = _eruweard_, heir. 939 _nam god kep_ = took good heed to, attended carefully to. _kep_ = care. See R. of Gl. 177, 191. Owl and Night. l. 1226. Hampole's P. of C. ll. 381, 597. 941 _Euerilc_, each, every one. _euerilc_ is the same as the O.E. _euerich_, Mod. Eng. _every_. 943 _Vndelt hes leide quor-so hes tok_, Undivided he laid them where-so he took (brought) them. This line refers to the "_duue and a turtul_," in the following line. See Genesis xv. 10. 945 _on-rum_ the same as _a-rum_, apart, aside. "Tho Alisaundre sygh this, _Aroum_ anon he drow, ywis, And suththe he renneth to his muthe (army)." —(Kyng Alys., 1637.) 946 _And of ðo doles kep he nam._ And of the pieces care he took. P. 28. l. 949 _kagte is wei_, drove them away. _kagte_ is the pret. of _kache_, to drive. "And he ansuered als he war medde, And said, Allas and wailewaye. That ever I com at yon abbaye, For in na chaffar may I winne Of tha lurdanes that won tharinne For likes nan of thaim my play, Bot alle thar _kache_ me away."—(Met. Hom. p. 151.) 953-954 God said to him in true dream, the _future_ condition of his seed. _beren-tem_ = _barn-teem_, offspring, descendants. "We are alle a (one) man _barn-teme_."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 27b.) 956 _And uten erdes sorge sen._ And in foreign lands sorrow see (experience). Cp. "_Outen_ sones to me lighed þai, _Outen_ sones elded er þai."—(Ps. xvii. 46.) "Filii alieni mentiti sunt mihi, filii alieni inveteraverunt." Cf. _uten stede_, l. 1741. O.E. _utenlande_, a foreigner. Havelok, l. 2153. 958 _Hor_ = _or_, before. 960 _ðat hotene lond_, that promised land. 964 _untuderi_, barren. The usual O.E. term is _unberand_, unbearing. See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 177. 965 _abre_ = to Abram. 969-971 And Sarai would not suffer it, that Hagar were thus swollen (with pride). She held her hard in thrall's wise (treated her as a slave). 974 _one and sori_, solitary and sad. 975 _wil and weri_, lonely and weary. _Wil_ literally signifies astray, _wild_, from the verb _wille_, to go astray. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _Wyl_. "He is hirde, we ben sep; Silden he us wille, If we heren to his word ðat we ne gon nowor _wille_."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 2.) "And child Jesus _willed_ them fra."—(Met. Hom. p. 108.) 977 _wiste hire drogen sori for ðrist._ Knew her to be suffering sorely for thirst.