mid fæire loten hende,

'Leofue freond, wæs hail!'"

That friend saieth to his friend

With fair comely looks,

"Dear friend, wassail!"

—(Ibid. ii., 175.)

P. 34. l. [1163] Roke, East Anglian for reke, smoke. See Prompt. Parv. p. 436; Beve's, l. 2471.

[1164]

And ðe brinfires stinken smoke,

And the sulphur's stinking smoke.