"For I am a commelyng toward þe
And pilgrym, als alle my faders was."
—(Hampole's P. of C., 1385.)
"Wande ein chomelinch ih bin mit dir unde ellente also alle uatere mine."—(Wendb. Ps. xxxviii. 22.)
P. 25. l. [842] ferding stor, a great army. See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 189.
[844] gouel, tribute, tax. Later writers use the word gauel or gouel in the sense of usury. See Ayenbite, p. 35; O.E. Miscell. p. 46. Cf. gaueler, usurer. Ayenbite, p. 35; Ps. cviii. 11. [847] haued = haueð, hath. [848] here-gonge, invasion.
"For ich am witi ful iwis,
And wot (knoweth) al that to cumen is:
Ich wot of hunger [and] of hergonge."
—(Owl and Nightingale, l. 1189.)