At he ðat fruit, and dede unskil,
Ate he that fruit and committed sin.
unskil, literally, signifies indiscretion, folly, and by an easy transition, sin, crime. (See Ormulum, vol. i. p. 12. Cf. O.E. unskilwis = irrational.)
P. 11. l. [345] Vn-buxumhed = disobedience; but in line [346] it signifies weakness, un-lithesomeness.
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Vn-welde woren and in win
Here owen limes hem wið-in.
Their own limbs within them
Were powerless and in strife.
vnwelde = unwieldy = the S. Saxon vniwælde, heavy.—(Gower i. 312.)