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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"An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA6129.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

Pages

XIII. Signs of Death. [Jesus Coll. MS. 29, leaf 262.]

                  
                    [H]wenne þin heou blokeþ.
                  
                    And þi strengþe wokeþ.
                  
                    And þi neose coldeþ.
                  
                    And þi tunge voldeþ.
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                    And þe byleueþ þi breþ.
                  
                    And þi lif þe at-geþ.
                  
                    [M]e [MS. He; but the H is by a later hand.]  nymeþ þe nuþe wrecche.
                  
                    On flore me þe streccheþ.
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                    And leyþ þe on bére.
                  
                    And bi-preoneþ þe on here.
                  
                    And doþ þe ine putte. wurmes ivére.
                  
                    Þeonne biþ hit sone of þe. al so þu neuer nere.
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