When God bad exist time and space.
[43] ðrosing seems to be an error for ðrosim or ðrosem = fog, mist, chaos. Cf. waspene in l. [1440], p. 41, where the correct form is wasteme. aðrusemen, to suffocate, occurs in Ancren Riwle, p. 40.
wíte þoliað
hátne heaðo-welm
helle to-middes
brand & bráde lígas
swilce eác þa biteran récas,
þrosm and þystro,
torment they suffer
burning heat intense