All þe ska þe þt lesse sufferin of more

Smytiþ as storm of þe se ful sore."

Pp. 115, 116.

2. The word keling (cod-fish) occurs again in the following passage, where the subject of the preacher is the Incarnation of our Lord:

"For right as bayt þe hok heliþ

And so þe gredi keling teliþ,

so telid Ihūs wiþ flesch & blode

Gormond þe gredi on þe rode:

Gormond þe gredi I him calle

Þt swelewiþ synful soulis alle,