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

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Ðanne ðe neddre is of his hid naked, Line 144 and bare of his brest atter, If he naked man se ne wile he him nogt neggen, oc he fleð fro him Line 148 als he fro fir sulde. If he cloðed man se, cof he waxeð, For up he rigteð him Line 152

Line 152 redi to deren, to deren er to ded maken, if he it muge forðen. wat if ðe man war wurðe, Line 156 and weren him cunne, figteð wið ðis wirm and f[a]reð on him figtande; ðis neddre siðen he nede sal, Line 160 makeð seld of his bodi, and sildeð his heued; litel him is of hise limes, bute he lif holde. Line 164