P. 86. l. [3011] bad meðe, entreated for mercy. [3013] wroð = worð = wurð, became. [3014] And broke them that promise (see l. [3062]). [3027] dolc = O.E. dolg, wound, ulcer. O.E. dolc = pin, tongue. [3037] ðe to un-frame, to thy sorrow.
P. 87. l. [3045] al sir = all sheer, clearly, openly. [3047] vnghere may be an error for undere = badly, or, what is more probable, for vngere = unready, unexpectedly, gere being the same as gare, yare, ready, prepared. [3048] bergles = unprotected, shelterless, from bergen, to protect.
[3055]-6
Moses, cause this weather to turn,
And I shall let you out fare (go).
[3058] vnweder, storm. See ll. [3059], [3061]. Weder in O.E. is often used for a tempest, storm. See Ywaine and Gawin, 411; Wyntown, i. 387; Romaunt of the Rose, 72, 4302. atwond, departed = away-wound, or away winded. Cf. at in at-wot, departed, p. 30, l. [1049]. [3065] gresseopp-e, grasshopp-e-r, locust. Cf. O.E. hunt-e, a hunt-e-r, etc.
"And to lefe-worm þar fruit gaf he,
And þar swynkes (labours) to gress-hope to be."
—(Ps. lxxvii. 46.)
[3066] And what the hail then left (untouched) shall all be consumed.