[19]

See Ormulum, Introduction, p. lxxviii., note 105.

[20]

Sinden, are, occurs in the Ormulum and the Bestiary, but is not employed in the present poem.

[21]

These forms occur in O.E. Hom., 2nd Series.

[22]

In O.E. Hom., 2nd Series, we find hes = them. See Moral Ode, l. 186, O.E. Hom., 2nd Series: "wel diere he hes bohte."

[23]

Robt. of Gloucester, Shoreham, Dan. Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt.