Wherefore they increased in great envy (jealousy).
wið = in. [1919] soren = shorn = reaped. Shear is still an E.Anglian term for to reap.
"And I sal say til men scherande,
Gaderes the darnel first in bande,
And brennes it opon the land,
And scheres sithen the corn rathe,
And bringes it unto my lathe."
—(Met. Hom. p. 146.)
[1920] here = theirs. Cf. ure = ours. [1923] hu mai ðis sen, how may this appear (be seen). [1928] siðe = siðen = afterwards. [1934] In Dothan he found them come. sogt = sought = come, arrived? [1935] fro feren = from afar.
P. 56. l. [1942] ðisternesse = cisternesse = cistern. (See l. [1960].) Cistern occurs in the Middle High German Book of Genesis and Exodus, ed. Diemer, p. 75.