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

                                
                                  Saye heom þat ich astye. to mynes vader riche.
                                
                                  Þer is my vader and eke heore. and ioye euer ilyche.
                                
                                  After þet ihesu crist. myd marie hedde ispeke.
                                
                                  Heo nolde vor none þinge. his heste þo to-breke.
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                                  Heo com to his disciples. þer hi to-gadere were.
                                
                                  Neuer of tydinge. hy er so glad nere.
                                
                                  Heo seyde to heom þe wordes. þet hire heyhte ihesuc.
                                
                                  And þat he wes from deþe aryse. and to me seyde þus.
                                
                                  Þo hi þis iherde. hi were swyþe blyþe.
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                                  Þat vre louerd wes aryse. from deþe to lyue.
                                
                                  As heo stode and speken. and weren at wenynge.
                                
                                  Of vre louerdes aryste. and fele oþer þinge.
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                                  Vre louerd ihesu crist. þe wes ibore. of þe meyde.
                                
                                  He stod amydde heom alle. and to heom þus seyde.
                                
                                  Sibsumnesse eu beo among. ne beo ye nouht of-dredde.
                                
                                  Ich hit am þat her bi-vore. eu alle myd me ledde.
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                                  Hi weren aferd and offruyht. and no wunder nes.
                                
                                  Heo wenden þet hit were a gost. þat a-mong heom wes.
                                
                                  Ihesuc to heom seyde. of hwan beo ye of-ferde.
                                
                                  And beoþ in eure heorte. þouhtes fele a-rerde.
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                                  Iseoþ nuþe boþe myne vét. and ek myne honde.
                                
                                  Þat ich hit am ihesu crist. þat her myd eu stonde. [folio 226b] 
                                
                                  Hondleþ nv and iseoþ. þat gost naueþ none bon.
                                
                                  Ne vleys ne bon nouþer. as me is vp-on.
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                                  Þo he hedde so yseyd. he dude more yet.
                                
                                  He schewede heom his honde. and so he dude his fet.
                                
                                  Yet heo hit nyleuede. þe more ne þe lesse.
                                
                                  Ac þuhte muche wunder. of heore gladnesse.
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                                  Vre louerd ihesu crist. myd heom bi-gon to speke
                                
                                  Habbe ye ouht here. þat mon may of ete.
                                
                                  Hi hym bivore brouhten. of one visse ibred.
                                
                                  And ek enne huny-comb. hi weren swiþe gled.
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                                  Vre louerd nom and et þer-of. to-uore heom euervychone.
                                
                                  And sewede þat he wes a-ryse. myd fleysse and myd bone.
                                
                                  Aveole kunne wise. vre louerd him tok on.
                                
                                  To schewen his apostles. þet he wes god and mon.

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Title: An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
Canvas: Page 54
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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