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

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An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
Author
Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
Publication
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 18, 2025.

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Significacio.
Ðis deuel is mikel wið wil and magt, So wicches [MS witches.] hauen in here craft, he doð men hungren and hauen ðrist, and mani oðer sinful list, 544 tolleð men to him wið his onde, wo so him folegeð he findeð sonde; ðo arn ðe little in leue lage, ðe mikle ne maig he to him dragen: 548 ðe mikle, i mene ðe stedefast in rigte leue mid fles and gast.

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wo so listneð deueles lore, on lengðe it sal him rewen sore; 552 wo so festeð hope on him, he sal him folgen to helle dim.
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