_gestninge_ (feasting) seems to be the same as the S.Saxon _gistninge_, a banquet. The original meaning is hospitality; O.E. _gesten_, to entertain a guest; S.Sax. _gistnen_, to lodge. See Ancren Riwle, p. 288_a_, 414. Laȝ. ii. 172. 1212 _And ysmael was him vn-swac_, And Ishmael was to him (Isaac) disagreeable. _vn-swac_, displeasing, distasteful. There is no such word as _un-swæc_ to be found in the A.Sax. glossaries, but we have _swæc_, savour, taste, from which I have deduced the meaning here given to _un-swac_. See Ancren Riwle, p. 48, where _spekung_ = _swekung_, and cp. _swæc_, stenc, and hrepung, in Ælfric's Hom. i. 138. 1213 _un-framen_, to annoy, from O.E. _frame_, to benefit, to profit. 1216 _Hir was ysmaeles anger loð_, To her was Ishmael's anger displeasing. 1217 _Ghe bi-mente hire to abraham_, She bemoaned her to Abraham. _bimente_ = pret. of _bimene_, to complain, lament. "_bimene_ we us, we hauen don wrong."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 25; see R. of Gloucester, p. 490.) 1220 _dwale_, complaint, grief. See l. 1037. "Be þu neuere to bold, to chiden agen oni scold, ne mid mani tales to chiden agen alle _dwales_." (O.E. Miscell., p. 127. See p. 126, l. 414.) 1221 _rapede_, hastened, hurried away. See Rich. Cœur de Lion, 2206. "The wretche stiward ne might nowt slape; Ac in the morewing he gan up _rape_."—(Seven Sages, l. 1620.) "The king saide, 'I ne have no _rape_ (I am in no hurry) For me lest yit ful wel slape.'"—(Ibid. l. 1631.) 1224 _In sumertid, In egest sel_, In summer time, in the highest time (the hottest season) of the year. Cp. 'in a _hyȝ_ seysoun.'—Allit. Poems, p. 2, l. 39. 1228 _hete gram_, fierce heat. 1229 _wexon ðrist_. The sense requires us to read _wex on ðrist_, with fatigue and heat thirst waxed on them. 1231 _Tid-like hem gan ðat water laken_, Soon did that water fail them. P. 36. l. 1238 _Bi al-so fer so a boge mai ten_, By as far as a bow may reach. 1239 _sik and sor_, sighing and sadness. 1241 _dede hire reed_, brought her help. 1242 _An angel meðede hire ðat ned_, An angel alleviated her distress. _hire_ is the dative of the personal pronoun. 1244 _seli timing_, a fortunate occurrence. See note to l. 1180. 1247 _nam fro ðan_, went from that place. _fro ðan_ = Sc. _fra thine_, from thence. 1252 _mikil and rif_, great (powerful) and wide-spread. 1254 In Arabia his kin dwell. 1258 _kungriche_ = _kineriche_, kingdom. Cf. _kungdom_ = _kunedon_ = kingdom, l. 1260. _kunglond_, _kunelond_ = _kinglond_, kingdom, l. 1262. _guglond_ = _kunglond_, kingdom, l. 1264. 1261-2 His ninth son was Tema, Wherefore is there a kingdom called Teman. 1264 _Het a guglond esten_ (eften ?) _fro ða_, Was called a kingdom afterwards from that time. _esten fro ða_ = eastwards from those _other kingdoms_. 1269 _siker pligt_, firm, sure pledge. P. 37. l. 1275 _feren pligt_, pledged fellows. 1279