[3139] Every house-folk (family) that may permit of it.
[3141]-3
The tenth day it should be taken,
And kept on the tenth night,
And slain on the fourteenth day.
[3144] so it noten mai, as may partake of it; noten = O.E. note, naite, to make use of, enjoy, eat.
P. 90. l. [3147] bred = O.E. brad, roasted. (See Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, l. 891.) [3148] wreken, taken, thrown out. "God nele naȝt þet me make, his hous marcat ne boþe, huerout he wrek þo þet zyalde and boȝte in þe temple."—(Ayenbite, p. 172.) [3150] his owen fond, his own wants (need). [3153] wriðel; can it mean haste? (see Ex. xii. 11.) At first sight it seems to be a derivative of wirt (by metathesis writ), an herb; but the mention of rew mete[n] in l. 3151 renders this rather doubtful. [3154] bi-leuen, the remainder. O.E. lave, leve, the remainder. [3155] dure-tren = door-trees, posts.
"For James the gentile
Jugged in hise bokes
That feith withouten the feet