Felde he twenti to þe grund.
[78] Sic in MS.
[79] MS. ar; but see l. 1894.
[80] MS. vnto me datheit,—evidently the repetition of the first word in the succeeding line.
[81] Qu. Hauelok let the. MS. “haue le.”
THE THIEVES SHOOT AT HIM FROM A DISTANCE.
Þo bigan gret dine to rise,
For þe laddes on ilke wise
They throw stones at him.
Him asayleden wit grete dintes,