[2094] wið-uten erd, in a foreign land. [2105] On a bush full grown and very beautiful (seasonable? well-seasoned, prime?). [2107] welkede = withered. drugte numen, seized with drought (dryness).
P. 61. l. [2114] Who could explain the meaning of these dreams. [2119] ðo hogt. Is hogt an error for logt = lagt, taken, or for sogt = sought? [2122] ðis dremes wold = this dream's meaning. Wold signifies (1) power, (2) force, (3) meaning. [2130] nedful = grievous; the O.E. ned often signifies grief, trouble. [2132] rospen and raken, rasp and rake, diminish and scatter. The Swedish raka signifies to clip, shave, shear. [2134] laðes, barns. (See [note] to l. 1919.) Chaucer uses the word in the Reve's Tale. "Berne or lathe, Horreum."—(Prompt. Parv.) [2136] hungri gere, famine years. [2146] so to-bar, so falsely accused him. (See baren in l. [1912].) In the Castle of Love to-beren = disagree; to-boren, at enmity, l. 49.
P. 62. l. [2153]
The seven years of plenty pass away.
Joseph himself knew how to provide beforehand.
[2161] for nede sogt, sought, come by compulsion. (See l. [2165].) [2163] he lutten him, they did obeisance to him.
[2167]-8
Joseph knew them all in his thought (mind),
He made as if he knew them not.
[2176] For hunger doth (causes) them (Jacob's sons) hither to come.