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

Natura formice.

Ðe mire is magti, mikel ge swinkeð In sumer and in softe weder, Line 236 So we ofte sen hauen; In ðe heruest hardilike gangeð, and renneð rapelike, Line 240 and resteð hire seldum, and fecheð hire fode ðer ge it mai finden, gaddreð ilkines sed Line 244 boðen of wude and of wed, Of corn and of gres, ðat ire to hauen es, haleð to hire hole, Line 248 ðat siðen hire helpeð ðar ge wile ben winter [folio 6a] agen; caue ge haueð to crepen in, ðat winter hire ne derie; Line 252 Mete in hire hule ðat ðat ge muge biliuen. ðus ge tileð ðar, wiles ge time haueð, Line 256

Line 256 so it her telleð; oc finde ge ðe wete, corn ðat hire qwemeð, Al ge forleteð ðis oðer seð Line 260 ðat ic er seide; Ne bit ge nowt de barlic beren abuten; oc suneð it and sakeð forð, Line 264 so it same were. get is wunder of ðis wirm more ðanne man weneð, ðe corn ðat ge to caue bereð Line 268 al get bit otwinne, ðat it ne forwurðe ne waxe hire fro, er ge it eten wille. Line 272