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[38] "Led me all one:" "brought me back to peace, unity, harmony." (?)
[39] "That I read on (it)."
[40] _Of_ in the original, as in the title.
[41] Does this mean by contemplation on it?
[42] "I paid good attention to it."
[43] "Greeted thee"--_in the very affliction._
[44] "For Christ's love let us do the same."
[45] "Whatever grief or woe enslaves thee." But _thrall_ is a blunder,
for the word ought to have rhymed with _make._
[46] "The precious leader that shall judge us."
[47] "When thou art in sorry plight, think of this."
[48] "And death, beyond renewal, lay hold upon their life."
[49] _Sending, message:_ "whatever varying decree God sends thee."
[50] "Receives his message;" "accepts his will."
[51] Recently published by the Early English Text Society. S.L. IV.
[52] "Child born of a bright lady." _Bird, berd, brid, burd_, means
_lady_ originally: thence comes our _bride_.
[53] In _Chalmers' English Poets_, from which I quote, it is
_selly-worme;_ but I think this must be a mistake. _Silly_ would here
mean _weak_.
[54] The first poem he wrote, a very fine one, _The Shepheard's
Calender_, is so full of old and provincial words, that the educated
people of his own time required a glossary to assist them in the reading
of it.
[55] _Eyas_ is a young hawk, whose wings are not fully fledged.
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