More for necessity than for pleasure.

P. 13. l. [417] al swilc sel = all such time.

[420]

ðan he was of is broðer wold,

When he was by his brother killed.

[421], [422]

An hundred ger after is dead,

Adam fro eue in srifte abead.

A hundred years after his death,

Adam from Eve in shrift (penance) abode.