84 THE PREDICATIVE INFINITIVE WITH AUXILIARY VERBS. 
a sacri baptismatis gratia prohiberef — 76. 92.6: swa efne baes be meahte 
widmeten beon Saule = 71.13: ita ut Sauli . . . comparandus uideretur. — 76. 
186.25: hu bu gehceled beon meaht = 151.3: quomodo cureris. — 76. 308.12: 
baet heo . . . meahton . . . beholene beon = 237.25: occulendos se . . . credi- 
dissent. — 76. 328.34: he . . . ne meahte gehea&erod beon = 251.19: uidisset 
. . . eum non potuisse cohiberi. — 76. 472.10: be (Sam mceg baet . . . word 
cweden beon = 346.31: de quibus apostolicum ilium licet proferre sermonem. 
Greg. 85.20: we magon beon getrymede mid Iohannes cuide = 56.27: Johannis 
voce roboramur. 
Chron. 229*, 1094 E b : gesemede beon ne mihtan. 
Wcerf. 55.2: hit mceg beon be gecySed = 188 B 4 : valet probari. — 76. 60.33 b : 
swa beh hit forholen beon ne mihte = 192 B 4 : taceri non potuit. 
Bened. 5.16: baes weges ongin . . . ne meg (sic!) beon begunnen = 10.26: 
viam . . ., quae non est . . . incipienda. 
Bl. Horn. 19.22: heo mihte beon acenned. 
Mlf. Horn. I. 48 b : Hwa mceg beon rihtlice gecieged mannes Bearn? — 76. 
II. 28*: beah hi ne magon beon ealle gegaderode. 
Mlf. L. S. 98.137: hu magon hi beon gegladode? 
Ml]. Hept.: Dent. 3.23 b : be mcege . . . beon wi&meten binre strengbe = qui 
possit . . . comparari fortitudini tuae. 
Gosp.: Mk. 10.38: mage gyt . . . beon gefullodf = potestis . . . baptizari? 
With weor&an plus a past participle (all examples) : 
Gen. 261: ne mihte him bedyrned wyr&an. 
Chr. 1431: bu meahte minurn weor&an maegwlite gelic, mane bidoeled. 
Met. 11.19: Forbaem aefre ne magon ba unstillan woruldgesceafta weor&an 
gestilde. — 76. 11.98 a>b : gif hiora modsefa meahte weorSan stabolfaest gereaht 
burh ba strongan meaht 7 geendebyrd swa swa obra sint woruldgesceafta. — 76. 
20.97: baet hio sibban mceg for baem sype weor&an geleht lyftum. 
Boeth. 92.29: Baet fyr . . . ne mceg naefre weorcSan todceled = 80.81: ignis 
uero omnem refugit sedionem. 
Greg. 395.34: gebidde hira aegber for ober baet hie mcegen burh baet weorSan 
gehcelede = 314.9: exhortantes invicem solvent. — 76. 399.18: bonne magon hie 
beah weorSan gehcelede suibe iebelice burh forgiefnesse & burh gebedu = 318.4: 
et tamen venia salvantur. — 76. 431.24: Ac hit wilnab bat hit to bon onwaecne 
baet hit mcege eft weorSan oferdruncen = 356.18: Quae quidem, evigilare optat, 
ut rursum vina reperiat. 
Oros. 64.34: baet hie mid nanum binge ne mehton gesemede weordan =0. — 
76. 94.15: ba hie ne mehton from . . . fyre forbcernede weordan — 95.12: quod 
inmissa per hostem flamma non adiit. 
Wulf. 96.14: swa aefre aenig gold mceg claenost amerod weor&an. — 76.103.20: 
forbam burh baet we magan mycle be yb rabe gehcelede weorSan. 
With wesan plus a past participle (all examples): 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II.: 18.424: baet sio gebungennes ne mceg naefre wesan 
besmitan (sic!). 
Lcece. 19.14: mceg wesan sio wund gehceled. — 76. 152.19: mceg seo wund 
wesan gehceled. 
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