beas = be'st = art. The present has also a future signification.

[369] niðful = envious.

"O nyth þare springes mani bogh,

Þat ledes man to mikel wogh,

for nithful man he luuves lest,

Þe quilk he wat es dughtiest."

—(Cursor Mundi, MS. Cott. Vesp. A iii. fol. 153b.)

loð an liðer, loathsome and vile.

[372]

And atter on is tunge cliuen,