"Ah ich heom singe, for ich wolde That hi wel understonde schulde That sum _unselthe_ heom is i-hende (near)." —(Owl and Nightingale, p. 43.) Later writers use the word in the sense of wickedness. (See Shoreham's Poems, p. 43.) 2314 _bi-calleð_, accuses. See Ywain and Gawin, p. 21, l. 491. 2318 _gure on_ = one of you. 2320 _vp_ = _vpe_ = _upon_. "Moni of þisse riche þat wereden foh and grei, An rideþ _uppe_ stede and uppen palefrai, Heo schulen atte dome, suggen weilawei."—(O.E. Miscell., p. 164.) P. 67. l. 2335 Provided that thou spare Benjamin. 2341 _so e gret_ = _so he gret_, so he wept. 2342 That all his face became wet of (with) tears. See l. 2356. 2354 _sundri_ = _on-sundri_, apart. 2356 _Ilc here_, each of them. P. 68. l. 2367 _twinne srud_, two _changes of_ raiment. 2369 _fif weden_, five garments. 2373 _wið semes fest_, with burdens loaded. 2380 He knew not who they were (on account of their princely garments). 2384 All Egypt in his power is placed (fixed). 2390 _or ic of werlde chare_, ere I from the world go (turn) = ere I die. P. 69. l. 2399 _derer_, an error for _derë_ = beloved. 2400 How many years are on thee. 2403 _fo_ = few; O.E. _fowe_. Cp. Northern _fon_, few, in Hampole's P. of C. 2404 Although I have passed (suffered) them in woe. 2406 _her vten erd_ = here in foreign lands. See l. 2410. 2412 _seli mel_, good sustenance (food). Cf. l. 1542. 2416 _y-oten_ = _y-hoten_, called. 2427-31 So was it pleasing to him to be laid, Where the Holy Ghost secretly had said To him and his elders, far ere before, Where Jesus Christ would be born, And where be dead, and where be buried. P. 70. l. 2435 _Or ðan_ = ere that. 2441-3 Joseph caused his body to be honourably prepared (for burial), To be washed, richly anointed, And with spices to be scented. _Smaken_ usually signifies to taste, savour, but here means to scent, to be scented. _Smac_ in the Owl and Night., 821, is used for scent, while in the Ayenbite of Inwyt it has the sense of flavour. "Zalt yefþ _smac_ to þe mete." See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s. v. _Smach_. 2444-9 And Egypt's folk him bewaked, Forty nights and forty days, Such were Egypt's laws; _The_ first nine nights the bodies they bathe, And anoint, and shroud, and bewail And watch them afterwards forty nights. 2451-5 And Hebrew folk had a custom, Not immediately to bury it with iron, But to wash it (the corpse) and keep it right, Without anointing, seven nights, And afterwards (keep it) anointed thirty days. 2452 _yre_ = iron; O.E. _ire_, _iren_ (Owl and Night. 1028). The form _ize_, iron, is also met with in O.E. writers. (See Ayenbite, pp. 110, 133.) 2454 _smerles_, ointment, belongs to the same class of words as _feteles_, a vessel, _reckeles_, incense, etc. "þe _smeryels_ ne is naȝt worþ to hele þe wonde ne non oþer þing þer huile þet þet yzen is þerinne."—(Ayenbite, p. 174.) 2459-60