P. 31. l. 1055 _He ros, and lutte, and scroð him_ [hem?] _wel._ He rose, and bowed, and urged (invited) them well. 1060 _He wisten him bergen fro ðe dead._ They wished to preserve him from death. _bergen_ is literally to preserve, but it may be here used passively, as the infinitive often is by O.E. writers, and we must then render the line as follows:—"They wished him to be preserved from death." 1062 _And he him gulden it euerilc del._ And they him requited it every whit. 1063 _Oc al ðat burgt folc ðat helde was on._ But all that townsfolk that were old enough. 1073 _ðat folc vn-seli, sinne wod._ That wretched folk, mad with sin. 1076 _wreche and letting_ = vengeance and failure. 1079 _Wil siðen cam on euerilc on._ Blindness _or_ bewilderment afterwards came on every one. 1082 _fundend_ = _funden_ + _id_ = _funden_ + _it_ = found it. 1084 _don red_ = do (obey) counsel, i.e. take advice. P. 32. l. 1095 _in sel_ = in time, timely, opportunely. 1097 _ðat here non wente agen._ That none of them should turn back. 1101 _gunde under dun_, under yond hill. 1103 _sren_, if correct, might signify _screen_, but it seems to be an error for _fren_, to set free, and hence to save. 1105 _Ai was borgen bala-segor._ Aye was saved Bela Zoar (little Bela). See Gen. xiv. 2; xix. 20, 22. 1107 _hine_ = him, the name of the town being regarded as of the masculine gender. 1108 _erðe-dine_ = earthquake. "Á hundyr á thowsand and seẅyntene yhere Frá þe byrth of our Lord dere, _Erddyn_ gret in Ytaly And hugsum fell all suddanly, And fourty dayis frá þine lestand."—(Wyntown, p. i. 289.) The verb _dinne_ in O.E. has not only the sense of to _din_, but to shake, quake. See Seinte Marherete, p. 20. "Þe erth quok and _dind_ again." —(Cursor Mundi; Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 11b.) 1109 _Sone so_, as soon as. 1110 _brend-fier-rein_, rain of burning fire. 1116 _Ne mai non dain wassen ðor-on_, None may dare to wash therein. _dain_, if not an error for _darin_ = _daren_, dare, venture, may = _ðain_, a man, a servant, or = _duen_, avail. 1119 _wente hire a-gon_, turned her aback. See l. 1097. 1120 _wente in to a ston_, turned into a stone. 1121 _So ist nu forwent mirie dale_, So is there now changed merry (pleasant) dale. _ist_ = _is_ + _it_, _is it_, there is. 1125 _deades driuen_, held (influenced) of (by) death. P. 33. l. 1127 They say the trees that are near it, come to maturity in time, and bring forth fruit and thrive, but when their apples are ripe, fire-ashes one may see therein. _fier-isles_, fire-ashes. For the meaning of _isle_, see Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _Vsle_. 1131-2 That land is called dale of salt, many a one taketh thereof little heed (account). "Of thair schepe thai gif na _tale_, Whether thai be seke or hale."—(MS. Harl. 4196, fol. 92.)