24.
¶ Þus quad Alured:
Gif þu hauist duge,
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and drich[t]en þe senden,
ne þeng þu neuere þi lif
to narruliche leden,
ne þine faires
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to faste holden.
For wer hachte is hid,
þer is armþe i-noch;
and siker ich it te saige,
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letet gif þe liket, [K. licket.]
swich mon mai after þe þi god welden,
ofte [K. oft.] binnen þine burie
bliþe wenden,
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þad he ne wele heren
mid muþe [W. ennþe.] monegen;
ac euere [W. evvere.] him of-þinket,
þen he þe þenked. [K. þenced.]
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¶ Þus quad Alvred: [K. Alfred.]
Elde cumid to tune,
mid fele unkeþe costes;
and doþ [W. doþe.] þe man to helden,
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þat him selwe ne mai he him noch welden.
Hit makit him wel vnmeke,
and binimit him is migte. [W. & K. miste.]
Gif [W. ȝif.] it swo bitided, [K. betided.]
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þat þu her so longe abidist,
and þu in þine held [K. helde.] werldes
welþe weldest,
þi dugeþe gin [W. duȝeþe giv.] þu delen
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þine dere frend,
hwile þine dages dugen,
and þu þe selwen liue mowe.
