Of weledes fulsum and of blis Rich of (in) wealth and of (in) bliss.

weledes is an error for welðes; it may = werldes = world's; fulsum = rich, plenteous, bountiful, occurs in O.E. fulsumhed (see l. [1548]), fulsumly.

[749] ist = is it, is there.

[751]

Each thing dieth that therein is cast.

[753] ðus it is went = thus is it turned or changed. [754] brimfir, if not an error for brin-fire (burning fire; see l. [1164]), signifies wild-fire, i.e. brimstone. Cf. A.Sax. cwic-fyr = fire of brimstone. [763] hunger bond. We ought, perhaps, to read hunger-bond, corresponding to the German hungersnoth, famine, dearth. Cf. luue-bond, l. [2692], force of love. [764] feger = feyer, far. [767] to leten = to lose.

P. 23. l. [787] erdne = ernde, errand, prayer, petition, message.

"Ih scal iu sagen imbot,

gibot ther himilisgo Got,

Ouh nist ther er gihorti