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ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no same,

theft and robbery appeared to him no shame.

Reflac = robbery with violence, rapine. (See Laȝ. i. 172, 272, 424; ii. 526.)

"Þe first sin is o covatise

Þat revis mani man þair praise,

O þis cumes blindnes and tresun,

Reuelaic, theft, extorsiun."

—(The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursor Mundi, Cott. MS. Vesp. A iii.)

[438] stonden agon = withstand, oppose. Cf. O.E. again-stande, to oppose.