Ne tounge of hefede holye."—(Shoreham, p. 57.)

See Orm. i. 168-9. A.Sax. Chron., 1052. Wright's Lyric Poems, 37. Kyng Alys., 878. Owl and Night., 178. [538] A ðefis kinde = in thief's kind, in sodomy. thief in O.E. was a general term of reproach. Perhaps in ðefis we have an allusion to Cain.

[542]

And leten godes frigti-hed

And forsook the fear of God.

[544]

And mengten wið waried kin

And intermixed with accursed kin.

[545]

Of hem woren ðe getenes boren