"God schewes in his godspelle Of þe riche man and laȝarus, How þat he _warned_ him almus, Þarfor God _warned_ him agayne A drope of water, to sloken his payne In þe fire of helle when he was þan." —(Cott. MS. Tib. E. vii., fol. 37.) 2214 _pilt_ = O.E. _pult_, thrown, placed (R. of Gloucester, 3376, 459; Lay le Freine, 136). P. 64. l. 2219 _ouer-ðogt_, over-anxious. 2224 _ðo agtes_ = the monies. 2232 Death and sorrow come on me; _segeð_ = _sigeð_, cometh, alighteth, falleth. "& þi wracche (wretched) saule [Scal] _siȝen_ to helle."—(Laȝ. ii. 186.) 2233 _bi-lewen_ = _bi-liuen_ = remain. 2235-8 Then quoth Judah, "It will go hard with us, If we do not keep our agreement with him." Famine increased, this corn is gone, Jacob again biddeth them go again (to Egypt). 2241-2 Then quoth he, "When (since) it is necessary, And _I_ know no better plan." 2249 God grant that he may be kindly disposed (towards you); _eði-modes_ = _eðe-moded_ (see note to l. 1584). 2252 _ligt_ = soon; literally easily, without difficulty. 2254 Kind thought (natural affection) was in his heart then; _ðag_ = _ða_ = _ðo_ = then, is necessary for the sense and the rhyme. P. 65. l. 2255 _gerken_ = O.E. _ȝarke_, Mod. Eng. _yark_, prepare, get ready. "He lætte bi sæ flode _ȝearkien_ scipen gode."—(Laȝ. i. 111.) 2258 None of them had then merry cheers (countenances). 2262 _ur non_, none of us; _ur_ should be properly _ure_. Cf. l. 2260, where we have _gur_ for _gure_. 2267-8 Very glad (fain) he was of their coming, For he was held there as a prisoner. _to nome_ may have the same signification as the phrase _to wedde_ = as hostage, as security; _nome_ (_nom_?), derived from _nimen_, to take, capture, signifies seizure. Cf. _wop_ from _wepe_ (weep), _grot_ from _grete_ (lament, cry), _lop_ (flee) from _lepe_ (leap, run), etc. 2269 _vndren time_ = A.Sax. _undern-tid_; _vndren_ is the Prov. _aandorn_, _oandurth_, _orndorn_. It literally denotes "the intervening period, which accounts for its sometimes denoting a part of the forenoon, or a meal taken at that time, and sometimes a period between noon and sunset."—(Garnett.) 2275 And he willingly accepted it. 2279 Know I that none of them but what trembles. 2287-9 Soon he went out, and secretly he wept, That all his face became wet with tears. After that weeping, he washed his face. P. 66. l. 2295 _of euerilc sonde_, of every dish, of every mess; _sond_ signifies a dish, mess, meal. S.Sax. _sonden_, _sunde_, viands. "wanliche (bad) weoren þa _sonden_."—(Laȝ. iii. 32.) "þas beorn þa _sunde_ (þes beare þe _sondes_) from kuchene to þan kinge."—(Laȝ. ii. 611.) "Hwer beoð þine disches midd þine swete _sonde_?"—(O.E. Miscell., p. 174.) 2297 In abundance they became glad. 2302 _ðeden_ = peoples. 2311 _weren ... went_ = had gone. 2316 _vn-selðehe_ = _vnselðe_, misfortune, evil. "Her waas _unnseollþe_ unnride inoh Till an mann forr to dreȝhenn."—(Orm. i. 165.)