Critical and Explanatory Notes. Page 1, lines 123—126. 57
v. 14,266 : ‘ All was lie derne
Bilokenn & bilappedd.’
v. 19,886 : ‘Ace itt iss dep & doerne.’
derne is united with the history of rune; ‘Godess dcerne rune,’ Orrm.
18,786, 18,864; ‘God [scheawede] his derne runes’ Ancr. Riwle, p. 154,
fol. 40; Godes derne runes, p. 96; Spring Time (‘ Specimens of Lyric
Poetry,’ IL, p. 49), 11. 28 ff.:
‘ Deawes donkej> fe dounes,
Deores wil huere derne rounes,
Domes forte deme.’
See King Horn, 1363: ‘He louede Horn wel derne’; Cursor Mundi,
v. 32 of ‘ The Visit of the Magi ’ :
‘ pc thoghtfulest amang >am selue,
and did lam in a montain dem,
[Biseli] to wait le stern.’
Compare underne, ‘not secret,’ Ancr. Riwle, p. 24; Wick, John iv. 6;
Maund. 163; Shor. 84. For its derived and secondary meaning see
Clerkes Tale:
1. 260 : ‘The tyme of vndern of the same day.’
1. 981 : ‘ Abouten vndern gan this erl alyghte.’
Orrm., 1. 19,458 : ‘An da^j at zmnderrn time.’
See also Ancr. R., p. 24 : ‘ Fiftene psalmes sigge<$ abutan undern deies’
1. 124. anuied: anuied occurs in the sense of wearied, troubled, or
reluctant, in several instances in The Persones Tale. See Havelok, 1. 1735,
and Pers. T., 11. 1683, 1684: ‘ Of accidie cometh first that a man is annoied
... to do any goodnesse’; 1. 1656 : ‘ It [accidie] is annoys of goodnesse.'
1. 125. MS. H2 places the line under type A by the substitution of
Welofte for Offte.
mourninge: Read mourninge, dative, to rime with springe. Final -e
of the infinitive is pronounced in the verse of the Speculum. Read
swiche, cancelling wicke, as Prof, Schick suggests, for the improvement of
the metre.
1. 126. Wanhope: a fine English word, suggesting unhope of Lang-
land’s story of the cats and the mice, and described in Ipatis, text D, 11.
422 : Wanhope is [>e [tridde broker; 11. 447 ;
‘ Wanhope it is anoher synne,
That many a man is bounden in.
Yf a man be falle perinne
And doth it ever and wille not blyn,
And troweth not god, ful of my^t,
The fen de to wanhope hym ply^t,
That he wil no mercy crave,
For he hopeth non to have.
And for that wanhope, wrytyn I fynde,
He goth to helle withouten ende.’
See also T. of Gl., 11. 673 and 895, and the quotation cited in Schick’s note
to line 248, Life of our Lady, 18 a :
‘ It is also the myghty pauyce fayre,
Ageyn wanhope and dysperacion,
Cristal shelde of pallas for dispayre.’
Ham. Pr. of Ch, 1. 2228 : ‘ pai sal fande at his last endyng
Hym into wanhope for to bring.’
Kn. Tale, 1. 391 : ‘Wel oughte I sterve in wanhope and distresse’; T. of
Gl., 1. 895 : warihop & dispaire; The Persones Tale, 11. 1705-6 : wanhope