Þa cristine liðen after, and heom on læide_n_, & cleopeden Crist, godes sune, beo_n_ heom a _fultume_. The Christians pursued after, and laid on them, and called Christ, God's Son, To be to them in aid (to help them). —(Laȝ. ii. 264.) P. 81. l. 2828 _vnsteken_, disclose. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s. v. _Steke_. 2830 _Gunc_ = you two. See Orm. i. 301; ii. 98. 2831 _funden_; O.E. _founde_, to go, occurs in Allit. Poems, p. 63, l. 903. 2834 _of liues_ = alive. 2838 _is werkes len_, reward of his works. 2845 _feren swike_, unfaithful companions, that is, his two sons who were uncircumcised. _he_ = they, refers to Moses and his wife. 2847-50 Zipporah took this young lad, and made him to have circumcision, and wept, and turned back frightened, and let Moses forth alone proceed. 2855 _Eyðer [h]ere_ = each of them. 2856 _haueð is herte vt-dragen_ = hath his heart out-drawn. Cf. our expression, to unbosom oneself, with the Ger. _sein herz anschütten_. P. 82. l. 2876-78 I defended so that thou wast rescued, And laboured, and great sorrow endured, Yet is it unseen (is it a secret) how I accomplished it? 2882 _hidel-like_ (= hidingly), secretly. Cf. O.E. _hidel_, a hiding place (Ps. xxvi. 5). 2890 _to gode_, for good, gratuitously. 2891-2 And yet they hold (keep up) the number of the tiles (bricks), and knead and bake (them), great and small. 2894 And to God he made his complaint (bemoaning). P. 83. l. 2900 _ðhunerg_ = _ðuner_; O.E. _thoner_, thunder. 2903 _Min milche witter name_ may signify (1) my great wise name, or (2) my merciful wise name. In (1) _milche_ = _michel_ = _mikel_, great; but in (2) it = _milce_, mild, merciful. See l. 3603. 2918 _Iglic_ = _uglic_, ugly, horrible. 2919 _wiches kire_, select (choice) witches. 2920 _in sowles lire_, in soul's loss. 2926 And the heads of them all he bit off. P. 84. l. 2934 _wit_ = we two. See Orm. vii. 73, H. i. 4, 300. 2935-6 This king himself is very bitter against this folk, and of heart hard. 2938 And try better with this token. 2947 _trike_, a rivulet, small stream, evidently connected with the verb _trick-le_. 2951 _wreche_ = _wreke_, vengeance, plague. Cf. _michel_ and _mikel_, _dike_ and _diche_, etc. 2957 _bot_ = _boot_, release, deliverance, is connected with O.E. _bete_, to amend, to alleviate. 2962 _bi-tournen_ = _biturnen_, turn, change. P. 85. l. 2969 _froskes here_ = host of frogs. 2977-8 Pole-heads (tadpoles) and frogs, and sport of podes (toads), Bound hard Egypt's wretched folk. _in sile_ = _vn-sile_ = _vn-sele_, miserable, wretched. Stratmann says that _sile_ = _sele_, epirhedium. _Polheuedes_ (Provincial Eng. _pole-head_), a tadpole. Palsgrave has _polet_. _Polly-wigs_, tadpoles. "Tadpoles, _pole-wigges_, young frogs." (Florio, p. 212.) _Pol-wygle_, wyrme, occurs in the Prompt. Parv. (Hall.); _pode_ = Prov. E. _pode_, _paddock_, a toad (Shakespeare); W. Prov. E. _padstool_ = toadstool. (See King Alis. 6124.)