Of þe riche man and laȝarus,

How þat he warned him almus,

Þarfor God warned him agayne

A drope of water, to sloken his payne

In þe fire of helle when he was þan."

—(Cott. MS. Tib. E. vii., fol. 37.)

[2214] pilt = O.E. pult, thrown, placed (R. of Gloucester, 3376, 459; Lay le Freine, 136).

P. 64. l. [2219] ouer-ðogt, over-anxious. [2224] ðo agtes = the monies. [2232] Death and sorrow come on me; segeð = sigeð, cometh, alighteth, falleth.

"& þi wracche (wretched) saule

[Scal] siȝen to helle."—(Laȝ. ii. 186.)