[153]. þine monscipe ihæȝed, advanced thy dignity; comp. ‘⁊ mine monscipe hæien,’ 5451; ‘þurh þe haueð Morgan mi mæi; is monscipe afallet,’ id. 3838.
[154]. þine: see 92/26.
[157]. ‘Ai jo assés aparçéu | . . . | Que tu n’en as baron qui t’aint; | Cascuns te het, cascuns te plaint,’ W 7017.
[158]. bare, actual, absolute; comp. ‘his leode hine hateden | in to þan bare dæðe,’ L 7034; ‘bi þine bare life,’ id. 25800. þare O is a scribal error.
[159]. stilleliche, secretly; so too stille 104/170; comp. ‘mid stilliche runen,’ L 355; ‘mid heore stil rune,’ id. 3249: with spilieð comp. 110/266; ‘Þus speken þeos swiken; and spileden mid worde,’ L 3816.
[161]. ambrosie: Aurelius Ambrosius: O has the former name.
[163]. laȝen, ways, practices, a sense developed out of that of custom, but Mätzner translates, in a treasonable manner. His death was compassed by Vortigern, as O says.
[169]. androeinnes: L has elsewhere only Androgeus, and Androgeum as in W, with once Androchies gen. 8194. The present form corresponds to Androgen, Andragen, Andragenus of the prose Brut, ed. Brie, p. 33.
[173]. kineliche, royal, and therefore in the king’s gift.
[175]. Comp. ‘Þin hired þe hateð for me | ⁊ ich æm iuæid for þe,’ L 14458. iuaid is pp. of ȝefeogen, OE. *gefēogan: see NED v. 525, s.v. ivee. iveiþed is pp. of a derivative verb from OE. fæhð, feud: it occurs four times in O. uor þe, because of your unpopularity. ic wene &c., I expect to be killed.