Quilc selðe and welðhe him wel bi-cam,
What prosperity and wealth had well befallen him.
[1409] wið-ðan, with-that, thereupon.
fagneden wel ðis sondere man,
welcomed well this messenger.
fagnen is literally to make fain or glad, to welcome, entertain; sondere man. The proper form is sondes-man. Ancren Riwle, p. 190. Cf. loder-man for lodes-man, l. [4110], p. 117; and sander-bodes, O.E. Hom. 2nd S. p. 89.
P. 41. ll. [1411]-12
When God hath it so ordained,