[607] est = east. Probably only an error for eft = again. [614] arche-wolde. See [note] to l. 255. [617] Rad = hasty, rash. Literally it signifies ready, and frequently occurs in O.E. writers with this meaning. Cf. O.E. gerâd, rædlîce, rædliche, radely, radly, promptly, quickly, suddenly. See l. [2481], and Owl and Nightingale, ll. 423, 1041, 1279; Laȝ. 25603; St Marh. p. 10; Avow. Arth. xix. 6.
P. 19. l. [630] tudered (see [note] to l. 164).
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Often he prayed with timid prayer,
That such vengeance as God then did
Should no more on the world come,
What vengeance so ever there should be taken.
God granted it in token of love,
Showed him in the welkin above
A rainbow, they call it, red and blue.