[77] a-gon = agen = again. [78] a-gon = gone. It is our word ago. Grammarians, therefore, altogether err in making the a in ago = the prefixal element ge (y) as in yclept. agon and ago = the A.Saxon agán = af-gán, gone by, past. We have abundant examples in O.E. writers of the verb agon (ago) = to go. The past participle is agon or ago, in conformity to the rule that the past participles of verbs with this prefix do not take the initial y. [81] o france moal; in French speech; moal = mel = speech. S.Saxon mælenn, to speak. See Orm. vol. i. l. 99, 253. mol also signifies tribute. See O.E. Hom. 2 S. p. 179; O.E. Miscell. p. 151, l. 161. [87] tellen = reckon. [88] or = ar = first.
P. 4. l. [102]
It hiled [= hileð] al ðis werldes drof.
= It surrounds (encloses) all this world's drove (assemblage).
drof = A.S. dráf, company.
Til domes-dai ne sal it troken.
Till doomsday it shall not fail.
troken = S.Saxon truken, O.E. trokie.
"Ah for nauer nare teonen