[316]. werende: Skeat reads wexende; if any alteration is made, wuniende would give a common OE. and ME. combination: as ‘þæt he her in worulde wunian mote,’ Christ 817; ‘wuniende ⁊ rixlende on worlde,’ OEH 1. 25/17. But weren is equated in Stratmann-Bradley with Mid. Dutch, OHG. weren, to remain, with this place as the only instance.
[317]. lude and stille: see 25/226.
[327]. Comp. ‘For betere were child ounboren þen ounbeten,’ Hending, MS. O, Anglia iv. 191/4.
[328]. ‘Qui parcit virge, sua pignora protinus odit,’ Fec. Ratis 93/438; ‘Quippe diu male cesus lamentabitur infans,’ id. 65/289. spareþ, with dative.
[329]. areche, get at, control.
Manuscript:
Manuscript.
The Cotton MS. ... MS. Stowe 163, B.M. ff.
Stowe, 163 B. M.
... īe in scīene, gesīene gives schene 213, isene 75.
scīene gesīene
ea + h occurs in wexynde 112, 113, iauhteþ 171
113 iauhteþ