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

Be-leue we stede-fast-liche. þet he is fader and sune. and holy gost. is on-lepi god. Wo so hath beleaue ine gode swo offreth him god gold [folio 129b] þet Stor signefied gode werkes. [sic, but ? biddinge.] for ase se smech of þe store wanne hit is i-do into þe ueréé and goth upward to þo heuene and to gode ward Swo amuntet si gode biddinge to gode of þo herte of þo gode cristenemanne. Swo we mowe sigge þet stor signefieth þe herte. and se smech luue of gode. Li þet Mirre [? and þet si Mirre (or Bi þet, &c.).] þat is biter. and be þo biternesse defendet þet Cors þet is mide i-smered. þet no werm nel comme i-hende; signefiet þo gode werkes þet is biter to þo yemernesse of ure flesce. Si Mirre signefiet uastinge. for þo luue of gode wakie. go ine pelrimage. uisiti þe poure. and to sike. and to do alle þe gode þet me may do for godes luue. þo ilke þinges so bieth bitere to þo wrichede flessce. Ac al-so si mirre loket þet bodi þet no werm ne may þer i-hende come; so us defendet þo ilke [MS ilèke.] þinges fram senne. and fram þe amonestement of þo dieule þet ha ne may us mis-do. Lordinges nu ye habbet i-herd þo signefiance of þo offringes þet maden þo þrie kinges of heþenesse to gode. hye [sic ? ye.] habbet to gode i-offred of yure selure. and of yure erþliche godes. Ne ne offreth him nacht on-lepiliche to day. ac alle þo daies i þo yere gostliche. Gold. and Stor. and Mirre. ase hic habbe i-told. Gold; fore Gode belaue. Stor; for holy urisun. Mirre. for gode werkes. þet bieth þo offringes. þet ure louerd be-sekeþ aueriche daye þo cristenemanne. and werefore se christenman yef has deþ; of-seruet þo blisce of heuene. And ihesu crist þet for us wolde an erþe bi [i]-bore. and anured of þo þrie kinges of painime; he yeu[e] us his grace of þo holi gost in ure hertes wer-bi we moue hatie þo ileke þinges þet he hatedh. and lete þo ileke [read ilke.] þinges þat he for-biet. and luuie þo ilek [read ilke.] þinkes þat he luued. and do þo ilek þinges
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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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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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