But to wash it (the corpse) and keep it right,
Without anointing, seven nights,
And afterwards (keep it) anointed thirty days.
[2452] yre = iron; O.E. ire, iren (Owl and Night. 1028). The form ize, iron, is also met with in O.E. writers. (See Ayenbite, pp. 110, 133.) [2454] smerles, ointment, belongs to the same class of words as feteles, a vessel, reckeles, incense, etc. "þe smeryels ne is naȝt worþ to hele þe wonde ne non oþer þing þer huile þet þet yzen is þerinne."—(Ayenbite, p. 174.)
[2459]-60
For truth and with good deeds,
Done is then all that watch-deed.
[2460] wech-dede, vigils. [2463] And some every year as it happens or comes round. [2465] Do for the dead church-going; chirche-gong = church-going.
"Þe gret cyte of Medes suþþe afure he (William) sette,
Vor me (one) ne myȝte non chyrche gong wyþ out lyȝte do."