Outen sones elded er þai."—(Ps. xvii. 46.)

"Filii alieni mentiti sunt mihi, filii alieni inveteraverunt."

Cf. uten stede, l. [1741]. O.E. utenlande, a foreigner. Havelok, l. 2153. [958] Hor = or, before. [960] ðat hotene lond, that promised land. [964] untuderi, barren. The usual O.E. term is unberand, unbearing. See O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 177. [965] abre = to Abram. [969]-971 And Sarai would not suffer it, that Hagar were thus swollen (with pride). She held her hard in thrall's wise (treated her as a slave). [974] one and sori, solitary and sad. [975] wil and weri, lonely and weary. Wil literally signifies astray, wild, from the verb wille, to go astray. See Gloss. to Allit. Poems, s.v. Wyl.

"He is hirde, we ben sep;

Silden he us wille,

If we heren to his word

ðat we ne gon nowor wille."—(O.E. Miscell. p. 2.)

"And child Jesus willed them fra."—(Met. Hom. p. 108.)

[977]

wiste hire drogen sori for ðrist.