1137 _biggede_, dwelt. It signifies more properly to _build_. 1139-40 Here is an allusion to the destruction of the world by fire mentioned in lines 640-644, p. 19. Those maidens erewhile heard some say that fire should all this world consume. 1140 _forsweðen_, to burn up entirely, from the O.E. _swethe_ or _swithe_, to burn, scorch. See Ancren Riwle, p. 306 (footnote). Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _swythe_. 1142 _fieres wreche_, vengeance (plague) of fire. 1143-4 The Cursor Mundi says that Lot's daughters seeing only their father, thought that all men had perished. "Bot Loth him held þat cave wit-in, He and his doghtres tuin; For þai nan bot þair fadre sau, Þai wend alle men war don odau, Thoru þat ilk waful wrak; Þe elder to þe yonger spak: 'Sister to þe in dern I sai, Þou seis þe folk er alle awai; Bot Loth our fader es carman (male) nan, Bot we twa left es na womman; I think mankind sal perist be, Bot it be stord wit me and þe.'"—(fol. 18.) 1147 _vnder-gon_, (1) to go under, (2) to cheat, deceive. In line 1160 _under-gon_ = to undertake, take up again. Cp. "ȝet our by-leave wole _onder-gon_, That thyse thre (Persons of the Trinity) beth ryȝt al on." —(Shoreham, p. 142.) "Ope the heȝe eȝtynde day He _onder-ȝede_ the Gywen lay."—(Ibid. p. 122.) "And tus adam he [Christ] _under-gede_, reisede him up, and al mankin, ðat was fallen to helle dim."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 22.) 1151 _eiðer here_, each of them. Cf. O.E. _eiðer eȝe_, each eye, both eyes. 1159-60 Now behoveth us to turn back and take up _the_ song concerning Abraham. 1162 _Wið reuli lote and frigti mod._ With mournful cheer and frightened mood (mind). _reuli_ = sad, rueful, from the verb _rue_, to pity, compassionate, grieve for. Cf. O.E. _rueness_, compassion; _Ruer_, a merciful person; _reuthe_, pity. "He saith 'we ben ybore euerichone Making sorwe and _reuly_ mone.'"—(MS. Addit. 11305.) _lote_, fare, cheer. "Þis isah þe leodking grimme heore _lates_." The king saw this, their grim gestures. —(Laȝ. ii., 245.) "Þat freond sæiðe to freonde, mid fæire _loten_ hende, 'Leofue freond, wæs hail!'" That friend saieth to his friend With fair comely looks, "Dear friend, wassail!" —(_Ibid._ ii., 175.) P. 34. l. 1163 _Roke_, East Anglian for _reke_, smoke. See Prompt. Parv. p. 436; Beve's, l. 2471. 1164 _And ðe brinfires stinken smoke_, And the sulphur's stinking smoke.