1388 _bofte_ = _bi-ofte_, behoof; cf. O.E. _byefþe_, _bi-ofþe_. See l. 1408. 1390 _beges_ = bracelets, armlets, probably from A.Sax. _bugan_ (= _beogan_), to bow, to bend. The original meaning of _beg_ is crown. In Piers Ploughman 346, _beighe_ signifies a collar. In the Middle High German version of the Book of Genesis (ed. Diemer) it is stated that Eliezer, for love, gave Rebekah "Zwêne ôringe und zuêne arm-_pouge_ ûz alrôteme golde." 1391 _ghe_ seems to be an error for _he_. 1394 _kiddit_ = made it known, showed it. 1397 _good grið_ = good entertainment. 1398 _Him_ (the dative of the personal pronoun), for him. 1404 _Quilc selðe and welðhe him wel bi-cam_, What prosperity and wealth had well befallen him. 1409 _wið-ðan_, with-that, thereupon. 1410 _fagneden wel ðis sondere man_, welcomed well this messenger. _fagnen_ is literally to make _fain_ or glad, to welcome, entertain; _sondere man_. The proper form is _sondes-man_. Ancren Riwle, p. 190. Cf. _loder-man_ for _lodes-man_, l. 4110, p. 117; and _sander-bodes_, O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 89. P. 41. ll. 1411-12 When God hath it so ordained, As he sendeth so it shall be. 1417 _garen_, to prepare (to set out), to make _yare_, to get ready. 1419-20 For entreaty nor meed not would he there. Over one night delay no (any) more. _drechen_ is (1) to trouble, annoy, (2) to hinder, delay. (1) "Sir Pilates wife dame Porcula Tille hir Lord thus gan say— 'Deme ȝe noght Ihesus tille ne fra, Bot menske him that ȝe may I have bene _drechid_ with dremes swa, This ilk night als I lay.'" —(Gospel of Nichodemus, Harl. MS. 4196.) (2) "Quhen Claudius þe manhed kend Of þe Brettownys, he message send Tyl Arẅyragus, þan þe kyng Þat Brettayne had in governyng, For til amese all were and stryfe, And tak his dochtyr til his wyfe, And to Rowme þat Tribwte pay Wycht-owtyn _drychyng_ or delay."—(Wyntown, vol. i. p. 92.) In the Cursor Mundi we are told that _wanhope_ (despair) causes "Lathnes to kirc at sermon here _Dreching_ o scrift (delay of shrift)," etc.—(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.) 1427 _Or or_ first ere, i.e. before. 1428 _morgen-giwe_ = _morgen-giue_, nuptial gift, the morning gift, the gift of the husband presented to the wife on the morning after marriage. See Ancren Riwle, p. 94. Hali Meid. p. 39. 1430 _godun dai_, good day. _godun_ = _godne_, the accusative of the adjective. "He let clipie þe saterday: Þe freres bifore him alle And bed alle _godne_ day."—(St Dunstan, l. 200.)