[20]. auele: see [132/9 note].
[21]. he: see [135/127 note].
[22]. þan, than that.
[26]. hire tide, her hours; see [163/230 note], and comp. ‘Gif preost on gesetne timan tída ne ringe oððe tida ne singe, gebete þæt,’ Liebermann, Gesetze, i. 382/36.
[27]. ⁊: comp. 81/82 note. bigrowe, overgrown: comp. ‘mid iui grene al bi-growe,’ ON 617.
[30]. ouerseȝ, looked down at from her higher position: comp. 34/75.
[31]. þuȝte: impersonal; supply hire from the subject of the preceding sentence: wl is predicative adjective.
[35]. lete, behaviour, i.e. hooting: comp. 165/281, 171/358.
[37]. atfliþ, takes flight, deserts me: comp. ‘expavit cor meum et emotum est de loco suo,’ Job xxxvii. 1. Mostly with acc., but comp. ‘leste þe heorte etfleo ⁊ wende ut,’ AR 50/19. falt, folds, collapses: comp. ‘and þi tunge foldet,’ PRL 250/3, 249/2; OEM 101/4 and see [2/19 note].
[38]. when you thrust yourself on me. Comp. ‘Bruttes him þrungen to; þræfliche swiðe,’ L 27796.