3966. F has a stop after ‘specheles,’ there being a natural tendency even in the best copies to treat ‘and’ or ‘for’ as the beginning of a new clause: so (to take examples from the fifth book only) v. 231, 410, 444, 2318, 2937, 5096, in all which places F has apparently wrong punctuation in connexion with this kind of inverted order.
3971 ff.
‘Ter se convertit, ter sumptis flumine crinem
Irroravit aquis, ternis ululatibus ora
Solvit’: 189 f.
3981. The punctuation is that of F, but perhaps we ought rather to read,
‘Sche preide and ek hield up hir hond,
To Echates and gan to crie.’
3986. help. For this use of the imperat. sing, (with ‘helpeth’ just above) see Introduction, p. cxviii.
3994.