"Nalde ha nane runes
Ne nane luue runes
leornen ne lustnen."—(St. Kath. 108.)
logede = lay. It is not necessarily unlearned, ignorant, etc., for O.E. writers frequently use the term in contradistinction to clergy. See Ayenbite, p. 197. "Vor all manere of volk studieþ in avarice, and (both) great and smale, kinges, prelates, clerkes, an lewede and religious."—(Ayenbite, p. 34.)
"And bathe klerk and laued man
Englis understand kan,
That was born in Ingeland."—(Met. Hom. p. 4.)
[3] loken, to take care of oneself, to direct one's course of life, keep from sin. See Ayenbite of Inwyt, pp. 1, 197, 199, 201.
"Ac alneway hit is nyed to leawede men
that hi ham loki vram þise zenne (avarice)."—Ayenbite, p. 31.