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

XXI. An Orison of our Lady. [Jesus Coll. MS. 29, leaf 253, back.]

ON hire is al my lif ilong. Of hwam ich wille synge. And heryen hire þer-á-mong. Heo gon vs bote brynge. Line 4 Of helle pyne þat is strong. Heo brouhte vs blysse þat is long. Al þureh hire childþinge. Ich bidde hire on my song. Line 8

Line 8 Heo yeue us god endynge. Þauh we don wrong.

Þv eart hele. and lyf. and liht. And helpest al mon-kunne. Line 12 Þu vs hauest ful wel i-diht. Þv yeue vs weole and wunne. Þu brouhtest day. and. Eue Nyht. He brouhte wo þu brouhtest ryht. Line 16 Þu almesse and heo sunne. Bi-syh to me leuedi bryht. Hwenne ich schal wende heonne. So wel þu Myht. Line 20

Al þes world schal a-go. . . . . . And al þis lyf [we] schulleþ for-go. Ne of-þinche hit vs so sore. Line 24 Þis world nys bute vre i-fo. Þar-fore ich þenche hire at-go. And do bi godes lore. Þis lyues blysse. nys wurþ al so. Line 28 Ich bidde god þin ore. Nu and euer-mo.

To longe Ich habbe soth ibeo . . . . . Line 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [[The rest of this song is missing.]] Line 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Line 40

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