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

                                
                                  Deþ com i þis Middelerd. þurh þe deofles onde.
                                
                                  And sunne. and sorewe. and muchel swynk. a watere. and a londe.
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                                  Vre forme faderes gult. we abuggeþ alle.
                                
                                  Al his ofsprung after him. in harme is ifalle.
                                
                                  Þurst and hunger. chele. and hete. ache and vnhelþe.
                                
                                  Þurh him com in þis myddelerd. and oþe vnyselyhþe.
                                
                                  Nere nomon elles ded ne sek. ne non vnhele.
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                                  Ah myhten libben euer-mo. myd blysse and myd wele.
                                
                                  Lutel hit þincheþ monymon. ah muchel wes þe sunne.
                                
                                  For whon alle þolieþ deþ. þat comen of heore kunne.
                                
                                  Vre sunne and vre sor. vs may sore of-þunche.
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                                  In sunnen we libbeþ alle. and seorewe. and in swynke. [folio 245] 
                                
                                  Hwenne god nom so muche wreche. for one mys-dede.
                                
                                  We þat ofte mys-doþ. we Mowen vs sore adrede.
                                
                                  Adam and his ofsprung. for ore bare sunne.
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                                  Weren feole hundred wynter in pyne. and on vnwunne.
                                
                                  And þeo þat ledeþ heore lif. myd vnriht and myd wronge.
                                
                                  Bute hit godes mylce beo. he beoþ þar wel longe.
                                
                                  Godes wisdom is wel muchel. and al so is his myhte.
                                
                                  Nis his mylce nowiht lasse. ah al by one wyhte.
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                                  More he one may for-yeue. þan al volk agulte kunne.
                                
                                  Þeyh seolf deouel myhte habbe mylce. if he hit bi|gunne.
                                
                                  Þe þat godes mylce sekþ. iwis he hit may fynde.
                                
                                  Ah helle kyng. is ore-les. wiþ þon þat he may bynde.
                                
                                  Þe þat doþ his wille mest. he schal habbe wrst mede.
                                
                                  His baþ schal beo wallynde pich. his bed bernynde glede.
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                                  Also ich hit telle as wyse men vs seyden.
                                
                                  And on heore boke. hit iwryten is. þat me may hit reden.
                                
                                  Ich hit segge for heom. þat er þis hit nusten.
                                
                                  And warny heom wiþ harme. if heo me wulleþ lusten.
                                
                                  Vnderstondeþ nv to me. edye men and arme.

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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 65
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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