See R. of Gloucester, 6; Ps. (in Surtees' Psalter) xvii. 43. [492] drinkilden = were drowned; drinkil is a derivative of O.E. drinke, to drown, a softer form of which is drenche, which often signifies in O.E. a drink, potion (R. of Gl., p. 151; Ayenbite, p. 151, deaþes drenche), as well as to drink and to drown. See Laȝ. i. 64.
"& att te lattste drunncnenn þeȝȝ
þa wrecchess, þat hemm trowwenn.
And at the last drown they
The wretches who them trow (believe)."—(Orm. ii. 181.)
"The see him gon adrynke
That Rymenil may of-thinke."—(Kyng Horn, 978.)
he began holy custom
Of prayers, and of god-fearing-ness,