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

From þe Munt of olyuete. þo þi sone to heouene steyh. Þu hit by-heolde myd eye swete. for he wes þin heorte neyh. Line 28 Þer he haueþ imaked þi sete. in o stude þat is ful heyh. Þer þe schulen engles grete. for þu ert boþe. hende and sleyh. Line 32
Þe king þat wes of þe ibore. to heouene. he þe vette. To þare blisse þat wes for-lore. and bi hym seolue sette. Line 36 Vor he hedde þe icore. wel veyre he þe grette. Blyþe were þu þer-vore. þo engles þe imette. Line 40
Moder of Milce. and mayde hende. ich þe bidde as i con. Ne let þu noht þe world vs blende. þat is ful of vre ivon. Line 44 Ac help vs at vre lyues ende. þu þat bere god and mon. And vs alle to heouene sende. hwenne we schulle þis lif for-gon. Line 48
Ihesuc for þire moder bene. [folio 254b] þat is so veyr and so bryht. Al so wis so heo is quene. of heouene and eorþe. and þet is ryht. Line 52 Of vre sunnes make vs clene. and yef vs þat eche lyht. And to heouene vs alle i-méne. louerd þu bryng. for wel þu Miht. Line 56
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An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1872.
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English poetry

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