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 20, 2025.

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Significacio prima.

                  
                    Alle we atter dragen off ure eldere,
                  
                    ðe broken drigtinnes word ðurg ðe neddre;
                  
                    ðer-ðurg haueð mankin
                  
                    boðen nið and win,
                    Line 332 
                  
                    golsipe [MS kolsipe.]  and giscing,
                  
                    giuernesse and wissing,
                  
                    pride and ouerwene;
                  
                    swilc atter i-mene.
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                    Ofte we brennen in mod,
                  
                    and wurðen so we weren wod;
                  
                    ðanne we ðus brennen
                  
                    bihoueð us to rennen
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                    to cristes quike welle,
                  
                    ðat we ne gon to helle;
                  
                    drinken his wissing,
                  
                    it quenchet ilc siniging;
                    Line 344 
                  
                    forwerpen pride euril[c] del,
                  
                    so hert doð hise hornes;
                  
                    gingen us tus to godeward,
                  
                    and gemen us siðen forðward.
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