_stinken_ = _stinkende_, stinking. 1166 _him reu_. The verb _rewe_ is used impersonally in O.E. 1167 _suðen_ = southwards. (See Gen. xx. 1.) 1171-2 Erewhile as first Pharaoh her took, now taketh Abimelech her also. 1177 _wif-kinnes_, womankind. 1178 _wið-helð_ = _wið-held_. 1179-80 In dream to him came tidings why he suffered and underwent that misfortune. 1180 _untiming_ is literally that which is unseasonable. We have the same notion expressed in O.E. _unhap_ (mishap), misfortune; E. _happen_, happy, and E. _hap_, _happen_, etc. Cp. _untime_, in Ancren Riwle, p. 344. 1184 _ðat il sel_, that same time, immediately. 1186 _And his yuel sort was ouer-gon_, And his evil lot was passed. 1188 _ða ðe swinacie gan him nunmor deren_, When the quinsy did him no more vex (annoy). Our author or his transcriber is certainly wrong about the "_swinacie_;" for the punishment of "_lecher-craft_" was _meselry_ (leprosy), the quinsy being the penalty for _gluttony_. The seven deadly sins were thus to be punished in Purgatory:— 1. Pride, by a daily fever. 2. Covetousness, " the dropsy. 3. Sloth, " the gout. 4. Envy, " boils, ulcers, and blains. 5. Wrath, " the palsy. 6. Gluttony, " the quinsy. 7. Lechery, " meselry or leprosy. 1192 _ðat faire blod_, that fair woman. _blod_ in O.E. was used as a term of the common gender, as also were such words as _girl_, _maid_, etc. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. _blod_. 1193 _Bad hire ðor hir wið heuod ben hid_ = _Bad hire ðor-wið hir heuod ben hid_? Bad her there-with her head to be hid, (That is, she was to buy a veil for her head). 1194 _timing_, good-fortune, happiness. See note to line 1180. 1195 _bi-sewen_, be seen. _so_ in this line seems an unnecessary addition of the scribe's. 1197 _wurd_ = _wurð_, became; _on elde wac_, in age weak (feeble). _Woc_ = weak; the older form is _wac_. See Laȝ. ii. 24, 195, 411. "Forr icc amm i me sellfenn _wac_, & full off unntrummnesse."—(Orm. ii. 285.) "Vor nout makeð hire _woc_ but sunne one." For nought maketh hir weak but sin only. —(Ancren Riwle, p. 4.) See O.E. Miscell. p. 135; ll. 581, 595. 1198 _trimede_ is, perhaps, for _timede_ = _teemed_ = brought forth; if not it must be referred to O.E. _trumen_. See _trimen_ in l. 1024. P. 35. l. 1200 _a-buten schoren_ = about shorn, is merely the explanation of circumcized. "O thritte yeir fra he was born, was ysmael wen he was _schorn_."—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 16b.) 1201 _lay_ is another form of _law_. Cf. O.E. _daye_ and _dawe_. 1204 _al swilk sel_, even at such time. 1206 _is told_, is reckoned. 1208 _fro teding don_, removed from his mother's care (?). _teding_ = _tending_ (?), nursing, care, not _teðing_ = _teething_. "_fro teding don_" in the Cursor Mundi is expressed by the phrase _spaned fra the pap_ = weaned from the breast. 1209 _Michel gestninge made abraham_, great feasting _or_ entertainment made Abraham.