'dreoseð ond fealleþ' - A Christian commonplace which alludes to the inevitable approach of doomsday. Compare Columbanus's famous poem De vanitate et miseria vitae mortalis, which begins 'this world will pass way' (mundus iste transit), and Blickling Homily V, which announces that the earth daily falls and hastens to its end (þes middangeard daga gehwylce fealleþ and to ende efsteþ). For a complete copy of the Blickling Homilies in translation by R. Morris download these PDFs.