Quoth this one, "this time next year,

Shall I appear to thee here;

By that time shall bliss befall Sarah,

That she shall of a son conceive."

[1026]

And it hire ðogte a selli ðhing,

And it appeared to her a marvellous thing.

[1028] on wane, wanting one, i.e. one less. "In þis burh was wuniende a meiden swiðe ȝung of ȝeres, two wone of twenti."—(St. Kath. 69.)

[1032]

And it wurð soð binnen swilc sel,