ðer het god abre ðat tagte lond, etc.
There God promised Abraham that promised land, etc.
tagte = bitagte, literally, assigned, appointed. [832] giscinge of louerd-hed = desire of lordship, greed of dominion. Giscinge = covetousness; the correct form is gitsing (ȝitsung, ȝittsung), but ȝissinge is found in Laȝ. ii. 227. Cp. yssing, O.E. Miscell. p. 38. icinge, Ayenbite, p. 16, and see Orm. i. 157.
"Al his motinge (talk)
was ful of ȝitsinge."—(Laȝ. i. 280.)
Neg ilc burge hadde ise louereding,
Nigh each borough (city) had its lord.
[834] kumeling is literally a stranger, foreigner, but here signifies a king or ruler not of native blood, one of foreign extraction. See Comeling in Prompt. Parv. p. 89.