"ðare nakyn best of wenym may Lywe, or lest atoure a day; As ask, or eddyre, táde or _pade_, Suppos þat þai be þiddyr hade."—(Wyntown, i. p. 15.) 2988 _up-wond_ = up-went, but literally up-wound. 2989 _on bite_, in _their_ bite. 2990 _smite_, a blight, plague. P. 86. l. 3011 _bad meðe_, entreated for mercy. 3013 _wroð_ = _worð_ = _wurð_, became. 3014 And broke them that promise (see l. 3062). 3027 _dolc_ = O.E. _dolg_, wound, ulcer. O.E. _dolc_ = pin, tongue. 3037 _ðe to un-frame_, to thy sorrow. P. 87. l. 3045 _al sir_ = _all sheer_, clearly, openly. 3047 _vnghere_ may be an error for _undere_ = badly, or, what is more probable, for _vngere_ = unready, unexpectedly, _gere_ being the same as _gare_, _yare_, ready, prepared. 3048 _bergles_ = unprotected, shelterless, from _bergen_, to protect. 3055-6 Moses, cause this weather to turn, And I shall let you out fare (go). 3058 _vnweder_, storm. See ll. 3059, 3061. _Weder_ in O.E. is often used for a tempest, storm. See Ywaine and Gawin, 411; Wyntown, i. 387; Romaunt of the Rose, 72, 4302. _atwond_, departed = away-wound, or away winded. Cf. _at_ in _at-wot_, departed, p. 30, l. 1049. 3065 _gresseopp-e_, grasshopp-e-r, locust. Cf. O.E. _hunt-e_, a hunt-e-r, etc. "And to lefe-worm þar fruit gaf he, And þar swynkes (labours) to _gress-hope_ to be." —(Ps. lxxvii. 46.) 3066 And what the hail then left (untouched) shall all be consumed. P. 88. l. 3075 _but_, without exception (?). 3077 _Hu_ = how? 3080 Erewhile alone of men was _leave_ besought. 3086 _an newe figt_, in _a_ new conflict. 3087 _skipperes_, the grasshoppers. See l. 3096, where _opperes_ is similarly used. 3088 They did on grass and corn injuries. 3102 _ðherknesse_ = _derknesse_, darkness, is a genuine form, and occurs in the Coventry Mysteries:—"_Therknesse_, or derknesse, tenebre, caligo."—(Prompt. Parv.) 3105 Many there suffered sorrow in life; _bead_ = _abead_, suffered. 3108 _sowen_ = _sogen_, saw. See l. 3329. P. 89. l. 3111 _boden_ = both. See _bothen_ in Glossary to Morte Arthure, ed. E. Brock. 3120 Death shall be avenged over you. 3123-6 Said God, "Yet I shall on Pharaoh, Ere ye go out, put a plague (Now I shall into Egypt go)— Such a plague was never any before." 3131-2 I shall not fail you Of what I have promised you. 3139 Every house-folk (family) that may permit of it. 3141-3 The tenth day it should be taken, And kept on the tenth night, And slain on the fourteenth day. 3144 _so it noten mai_, as may partake of it; _noten_ = O.E. _note_, _naite_, to make use of, enjoy, eat.