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

                                  
                                    Hwenne he cumeþ he wyle vs alle ryhtleche. [folio 252b] 
                                  
                                    For he nule. ne he ne con. nenne mon bipeche.
                                  
                                    Ich hit am quaþ ihesu crist. þat wiþ þe holde speche.
                                  
                                    Þat Messyas am icleped. and am þes worldes leche.
                                    Line 60 
                                  
                                    Mid þon comen from þe bureh. þe apostles euervychóne.
                                  
                                    And wundrede þat ihesu wolde speke. wiþ þare wymmon one.
                                  
                                    Ah þeyh heom þuhte wunder. no þing heo ne seyde.
                                  
                                    Ac þe wymmon anon. hire stene adun leyde.
                                    Line 64 
                                  
                                    And orn to þare bureh anon. and dude heom to vnder|stonde.
                                  
                                    Of one Mihtye wihte. þat cumen is to londe.
                                  
                                    Tó alle þat heo myhte. iseon oþer y-mete.
                                    Line 67 
                                  
                                    Heo gradde and seyde. ich habbe iseye þane soþe pro|phete.
                                  
                                    ch wene wel þat hit beo crist. of hwam. þe prophete sayde.
                                  
                                    Þurh ihesu cristes Milce. and þureh his wyssynge.
                                    Line 70 
                                  
                                    Monye þer byleuede. on þe heye kinge.
                                  
                                    And vrnen vt of þe bureuh. myd wel Muchel þrynge.
                                  
                                    And comen to ihesu þar he set. and beden his blessynge.
                                  
                                    Þo byléuede þat folk. mucheles þe more.
                                    Line 74 
                                  
                                    For his mylde speche. and for his mylde lore.
                                  
                                    And þus was þes bureuh a-red. vt of helle sore.
                                  
                                    And byléuede on al-Mihty god. nuþe and euer-more.

V. Fortune.

                                    
                                      Weole þu art awaried þing. vn-euene constu dele.
                                    
                                      Þu yeuest a wrecche weole y-nouh. noht þurh his hele.
                                    
                                      Wyþ freomen þu art ferly feid. wiþ sauhte and make heom sele.
                                    
                                      Þe poure i londe naueþ no lot. wiþ riche for to mele.

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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 86
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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