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

                                
                                  Seoþþe þat he wes a-ryse. from deþe to lyue.
                                
                                  Þet vs alle bouhte. myd his wndes fyue.
                                
                                  Ofte he heom myd spek. þer hi weren to-gedere.
                                
                                  Er he wolde astyen. to heuene to his vedere.
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                                  He heyhte heom holde treowe luue. euerych to oþre.
                                
                                  As ich habbe eu yluued. for ye beoþ alle broþre.
                                
                                  Vre louerd heom bleu vp-on. þet alle þing con dyhte.
                                
                                  Vnder-uongeþ he seyde. þe holigostes myhte.
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                                  Þeo þat ye aleseþ here, of heore sunnes bende.
                                
                                  Hi schulle beon vnbunden. euer buten ende.
                                
                                  And þeo þat ye her byndeþ. ine lyue þisse.
                                
                                  Hi beoþ euer ibunde. wyteþ ye myd iwisse.
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                                  Þo vre louerd astye wolde. from eorþe to heuene
                                
                                  He seyde to his apostles. hi weren elleouene.
                                
                                  Herkneþ alle to me. þe more and þe leste.
                                
                                  Ich eu wille senden on. mynes fader biheste.
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                                  Sytteþ in þe burewe. and ich eu wille dihte.
                                
                                  Fort ye beon byweued. of heueliche myhte. [folio 227] 
                                
                                  He seoþþe heom vt ledde. in-to bethany.
                                
                                  And myd his swete honde. gon heom blessy.
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                                  Þo he heom hedde iblessed. þat scop þe sunne and mone.
                                
                                  He astey to heuene. þer-after ful sone.
                                
                                  Hi stoden and biheolden. hw he to heuene asteyh.
                                
                                  Mid his swete moder. he wes hire heorte neyh.
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                                  Þer stoden twei veyre men. neren hi nouht ihud.
                                
                                  Ac were myd hwite cloþes. swyþe veyre iscrud.
                                
                                  And hi to heom seyden. men of galile.
                                
                                  Toward þare heuene. hwat bi-holde ye.
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                                  Þe ilke sulue ihesuc. þat is from eu y-nume.
                                
                                  He wile hym sulf eft-sone. hider to ev cume.
                                
                                  Mid fleysse and myd bone. as he heonne ywende.
                                
                                  He wile eft hider cume. þeos word he eu sende.
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                                  Þo heo þis iherden. hi turnden heom ayeyn.
                                
                                  Mid muchele gladnesse. eft to iherusalem.
                                
                                  And weren in þe temple. god heryinde.
                                
                                  And þene king of heuene. euer blessynde.

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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 55
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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