Is right nothyng worthi
And as ded as a dore-tre
But if the dedes folwe."
—(Piers Ploughman, 833.)
uuerslagen = overslagen, ouerslage, over-piece, lintel. "Ovyrslay of a doore. superliminare."—(Prompt. Parv.) [3172] For their toil they now have hire.
P. 91. l. [3206] fro = for, on account of. [3211] stunden does not mean stood, but is a vb. (formed from the sb. stund, a stound, a short space of time) signifying to delay awhile, to wait. [3212] How Pharaoh should act toward them. [3213] Pharaoh summoned (assembled) out his army; bannen = to call to arms.
"Þa bleou Brutus
& bonnede [bannede] his ferde."
Then blew Brutus his horn
And assembled his forces.