P. 88. l. [3075] but, without exception (?). [3077] Hu = how? [3080] Erewhile alone of men was leave besought. [3086] an newe figt, in a new conflict. [3087] skipperes, the grasshoppers. See l. [3096], where opperes is similarly used. [3088] They did on grass and corn injuries. [3102] ðherknesse = derknesse, darkness, is a genuine form, and occurs in the Coventry Mysteries:—"Therknesse, or derknesse, tenebre, caligo."—(Prompt. Parv.) [3105] Many there suffered sorrow in life; bead = abead, suffered. [3108] sowen = sogen, saw. See l. [3329].
P. 89. l. [3111] boden = both. See bothen in Glossary to Morte Arthure, ed. E. Brock. [3120] Death shall be avenged over you.
[3123]-6
Said God, "Yet I shall on Pharaoh,
Ere ye go out, put a plague
(Now I shall into Egypt go)—
Such a plague was never any before."
[3131]-2
I shall not fail you
Of what I have promised you.