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

[þat] he muge on helde hednesse holdin; migt [K. . . . mist, W. ne mist.] his welþe werchin Godis wille, Line 156 [þ]enne his his gueþe [W. & K. guewe.] swiþe wel bitogen.
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¶ Þus quad Alfred: Monimon wenit Line 160 þat he wenen ne þarf, longer [K. longere.] liuis, ac him scal legen þat wrench; for wanne he is lif alre beste trowen, Line 164 þenne sal he letin lif his ogene. Nis no wurt woxen on woode ne [K. ne, W. no.] on felde, þet [K. þer.] euure muge þe lif up helde. [K. uphelden.] Line 168 Wot no mon þe time wanne he sal henne rimen, ne no mon þen hende, wen he sal henne wenden; Line 172 Drittin [? Drictin.] hit one wot, domis louird, wenne we ure lif letin scullen. Line 176 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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¶ Þus quad Alfred: Line 180 Gif þu hauest welþe a wold [K. awold.] i þis [W. i-wis.] gerlde ne þin wil neure for-þi al to wlone wurþen, [ac]te [K. acte, W. [Ah]te.] nis non eldere stren, Line 184
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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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