P. 90. l. 3147 _bred_ = O.E. _brad_, roasted. (See Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, l. 891.) 3148 _wreken_, taken, thrown out. "God nele naȝt þet me make, his hous marcat ne boþe, huerout he _wrek_ þo þet zyalde and boȝte in þe temple."—(Ayenbite, p. 172.) 3150 _his owen fond_, his own wants (need). 3153 _wriðel_; can it mean _haste_? (see Ex. xii. 11.) At first sight it seems to be a derivative of _wirt_ (by metathesis _writ_), an herb; but the mention of _rew mete[n]_ in l. 3151 renders this rather doubtful. 3154 _bi-leuen_, the remainder. O.E. _lave_, _leve_, the remainder. 3155 _dure-tren_ = door-trees, posts. "For James the gentile Jugged in hise bokes That feith withouten the feet Is right nothyng worthi And as ded as a _dore-tre_ But if the dedes folwe." —(Piers Ploughman, 833.) _uuerslagen_ = _overslagen_, _ouerslage_, over-piece, lintel. "_Ovyrslay_ of a doore. superliminare."—(Prompt. Parv.) 3172 For their toil they now have hire. P. 91. l. 3206 _fro_ = _for_, on account of. 3211 _stunden_ does not mean stood, but is a vb. (formed from the sb. _stund_, a stound, a short space of time) signifying to delay awhile, to wait. 3212 How Pharaoh should act toward them. 3213 Pharaoh summoned (assembled) out his army; _bannen_ = to call to arms. "Þa bleou Brutus & _bonnede_ [_bannede_] his ferde." Then blew Brutus his horn And assembled his forces. —(Laȝ. i. 75.) 3218 _of fote ren_ = swift of foot. P. 92. l. 3220 _to werchen wi_, to work war, to make war upon. 3224 _ne gate_ = _no gate_, no ways; _gate_ is often used by Northern writers as an affix = -wise or -ways; as _al-gate_, _thus-gate_, etc. 3230 On (against) Moses they set _up_ a cry. 3234 Supply _don_ after _gu_. 3235 _dregen wið skil_, endure with patience. 3240 That for you ways (paths) may be well prepared. P. 93. l. 3255 _an skige_, a cloud. Cf. Milton's '_sky-tinctured_' (Paradise Lost, Book V.). "..... it ne left not a _skie_ In al the welkin long and brode." —(House of Fame, iii. 508-511.) 3264 _daiening_ = _daigening_, dawning. 3271 _in twired wen_, in perplexing doubt; _twired_ signifies two-fold (doubtful) counsel. "and [Bruttes] dude_n_ swiðe vnwraste ...... alle his haste, and weoren alle _twiræde_." And Brutus did very evilly all his behests, and all were of two counsels. —(Laȝ. ii. 392.) 3274 _helden_, an error for _holden_. 3275 _a morgen quile_, a morrow while, a minute. 3282 _weken_ seems to be an error for _wreken_, taken (see l. 3148.) P. 94. l. 3292 _pert_ = _apert_, open, clear. 3300 _wlath_, the reading of the MS., = _lað_, loathsome. But _wlach_ = brackish, properly _warm_; cp. _luke_-warm. 3301 _a funden_ (discovered) _trew_ = a tree _which he_ found. 3310 _bred wantede_, bread failed. 3315 _Bet us were in egipte ben_, It were better for us in Egypt to be. 3319 _on-dreg_ = 'bear up,' endure patiently. 3324 _so fele so_, as many as.