When their time was all gone
To propagate and to teem.
—(Orm. ii. p. 284.)
See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 177, where tuder = offspring.
[168] So, an error for ðo?
P. 6. l. [169] wrim = wirm = reptiles. [170] Qwel = qwelc; quilc = which.
[172] singen, to sin. It is not an error for sinnen, but a genuine form (contracted from sinigen), and not uncommon in O.E. writers. See sineged in l. [3555], p. 101.
"He su[n]ggeden and sorgeden and weren in ðogt."
They sinned and sorrowed and were in thought.
(O.E. Miscell. p. 22, l. 682.)