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

                                
                                  Al schal beon þer þeonne ikud. þat er men lowen and stelen.
                                
                                  Al schal beon þer þeonne vnwrien. þat men her wrien and helen.
                                  Line 166 
                                
                                  Vve schulleþ alre monne lyf. iknowe al so vre owe.
                                
                                  Þer schulle beon euenynges. þe riche and ek þe lowe.
                                
                                  Þe dom schal beon sone idon. ne lest he nowiht longe.
                                
                                  Ne schal him nomon menen þer. of strengþe. ne of wronge.
                                  Line 170 
                                
                                  Þeo schullen habbe harde dom. þat er weren harde. [folio 244b] 
                                
                                  Þeo þat vuele heolde wrecche men. and vuele lawe arerde.
                                
                                  Alle þeo þat beoþ icumen. of adam and of eve.
                                
                                  Alle heo schule þider cumen. and so we owen hit ileue.
                                
                                  Þeo þat habbeþ wel idon. after heore Mihte.
                                  Line 175 
                                
                                  To heoueriche heo schulle vare. forþ myd vre dryhte.
                                
                                  Þeo þat habbeþ feondes werk idon. and þer-in beoþ ifunde.
                                
                                  Heo schulle fare forþ myd him; in-to helle grunde.
                                
                                  Þer ho schulle wunyen .o. buten ore and ende.
                                
                                  Ne brekeþ nouht crist eft helle dure. to lesen heom of bende.
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Nys no seollich þeh heom beo wo. he mawe wunye eþe.
                                
                                  Nul neuer eft crist þolye deþ. to lesen heom of deþe.
                                
                                  Enes drihte helle brek. his freond he vt brouhte.
                                
                                  Him seolue he þolede deþ for vs. wel deore he vs abouhte.
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  Nolde hit nomon do for me. ne suster for broþer.
                                
                                  Nolde hit sone do for vader. ne nomon for oþer.
                                
                                  Vre alre louerd for vs þrelles. ipyned wes on rode.
                                
                                  Vre bendes he vnbond. and bouhte vs myd his blode.
                                
                                  And we yeueþ vnneþe. a stucche of vre brede.
                                  Line 189 
                                
                                  We ne þencheþ nouht þat he schal deme. þe quyke and ek þe dede.
                                
                                  Muchel luue he vs cudde. wolde we hit vnderstonde.
                                
                                  Þat vre elderne mys-duden. we habbeþ harde on honde.

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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 64
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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