P. 77. l. 2682 _vn-warnede_, unexpected. This enables us to correct the reading _unwarde_ in l. 480. 2688 _ut-ðhurg_ = out-through, throughout. Cf. O.E. _ut-with_, without, _in-with_, within, etc. 2696 Nevertheless that sojourn was very distasteful to him. 2701 _meten_ is the p.p. of _mete_, to measure. 2702 _This_ causes remembrance, _the other_ causes forgetfulness. 2703 _He fest is_ = he fixed them. 2704 Gave her the first _gem_; he was kind to her. Two lines seem missing after this line. We might supply the following:— And quan awei nimen [faren] he wolde Gaf hire ðe toðer, he was hire colde. And when he would go away, he gave her the other gem, and was distasteful to her. 2708 _e_ = he. 2712 _a modi stiward_, a moody (proud) steward. 2714 That seemed to Moses _a_ great shame. P. 78. ll. 2718-20 And secretly he buried him in the sand, He weened that no Egyptian Had known it, or should have seen it. 2720 _a sen_ may signify 'have seen.' Northumbrian _ha_, to have; but more probably we should read _a-sen_, to see, the infinitive being required after _sulde_, so that _sulde a-sen_ = should see. In the Romans of King Alysaundre _asen_ occurs as the p.p. of _a-see_, to see. Cf. our modern words _wake_ and _awake_, _rise_ and _arise_, etc. These double forms were far more common in O.E. writers than in the modern stage of our language. 2727 And enquired _of_ him what it should mean. 2730 _to rad_, too hasty. 2736 _his weige ðeðen ches_ = chose (took) his way thence. P. 79. l. 2757 _ðewe and wursipe_, courtesy and honour. 2758 _estdede_, kindly deed (actions). (See Owl and Nightingale, l. 997.) _Esste mete_ occurs in the Ormulum for delicate meat (food), etc. "Ac thar lond is bothe _este_ and god." —(Owl and Nightingale, p. 36, l. 1029.) 2764 To wife in law he her took; _in lage_ = in law, in marriage, is an early use of a common phrase. 2769 And Moses had gone on a time. 2771 To look after the condition of the herds. 2775 _brennen_ = _brennende_. See l. 2653. 2776 And nevertheless green and whole remained. 2783 _in min geming_, under my care (protection). 2788 _milche_, milk; _queðen_, to promise. P. 80. l. 2789 _an_ = _in_. 2790 _on hond_ = _on-hond_, soon, speedily. Ger. _in die hand_. (See Laȝ. vol. ii. pp. 96, 106, 251, 264.) 2792 _to ðan_, to that = for that purpose. 2797 If he refuse it and be there-_to_ contrary. 2803 _to token_, for a token (sign). Cf. _to wedde_, for a pledge, etc. 2812 _fer_, sound, and hence _unfer_ (l. 2810), diseased. (See Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, l. 103; Ormulum, i. 41, 153, 212.) 2815 _get_ = pour (see l. 582). 2817 _wanmol_ = un-eloquent; _wan_ occurs in O.E. _wan-hope_, despair; _wan-trauthe_, disbelief; _mol_ is the same as _moal_ (speech) in l. 81, p. 3; _vn-reken_ = un-ready, slow. (See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s. v. _reken_.) 2822 Who made the blind, and who the looking (seeing)? 2824 _fultum_, aid, assistance.