An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,

                                
                                  Þu woldest bidde þat he þe yeue. drynke þat ilast euere.
                                
                                  Þe þat ene drynkeþ þer-of. ne schal him þurste neuere. [folio 252] 
                                
                                  Louerd þo seyde þe wymmon. yef me þar-of to drynke.
                                
                                  Þat ich ne þurve more. to þisse welle swynke.
                                  Line 26 
                                
                                  Heo nuste hwat heo mende. heo wes of wytte poure.
                                
                                  Heo nuste noht þat heo spek. of þan holy gostes froure.
                                
                                  Sete ádun queþ ihesu crist. wymmon þine stene.
                                
                                  Go and clepe þine were. and cumeþ hider y-mene.
                                
                                  I nabbe heo seyde nenne were. ich am my seolf al one.
                                
                                  Nabbe ich of wepmonne. nones kunnes y-mone.
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  Wel þu seyst quaþ ihesu crist. wére. þat þu nauest nenne.
                                
                                  Fyue þu hauest ar þisse iheued. and yet þu hauest enne.
                                
                                  And þe þat þu nuþe hauest. and heuedest summe þrowe.
                                
                                  He is an oþer wyues were. more þan þin owe.
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  Louerd heo seyde hwat art þu. ich wot myd iwisse.
                                
                                  Þat þu me hauest soþ iseyd. of alle wordes þisse.
                                
                                  Þi of one þinge. sey me iredynesse.
                                  Line 39 
                                
                                  Bi-twene þis twam volke. me þuncheþ a wundernesse.
                                
                                  For alle þeo men þat wunyeþ. in samaryes tune.
                                
                                  Alle heo biddeþ heom to gode. an-vppe þisse dune.
                                
                                  And alle þilke þat beoþ. wiþ-inne iherusaléme.
                                  Line 43 
                                
                                  No-hwere bute in þe temple. ne weneþ god iquéme.
                                
                                  Ilef me wymmon quaþ ihesu crist. and þar-of beo vnderstonde.
                                
                                  Þat schal cume þe ilke day. and nv he is neyh honde.
                                
                                  Þat ne beo neuer þe mon. in so seorre londe.
                                  Line 47 
                                
                                  If he myd swete þouhtes biþ. þat he ne biþ vnderstonde.
                                
                                  Þah he nouþer ne beo. an-vppe þisse dune.
                                
                                  Ne in þe heye temple. of ierusalemes tune.
                                
                                  Ye nuten hwat ye biddeþ. þat of gode nabbeþ imóne.
                                
                                  For al eure bileue. is on stokke. oþer on stone.
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  Ac þeo þat god iknoweþ. heo wyten myd iwisse.
                                
                                  Þat hele. is icume to monne. of folke iudaysse.
                                
                                  Louerd heo seyde nv quiddeþ men. þat cumen is Messyas.
                                  Line 55 
                                
                                  Þe king. þat wurþ. and nuþen. is. and euer yete was.

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Title: An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
Canvas: Page 85
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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