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

                                
                                  And þeo þat ne myhte vuele do. and was hit leof to þenche.
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  Þeo þat luued reving. and stale. and hordom. and drunken.
                                
                                  And on deoueles werke. bluþeliche swunken.
                                
                                  Þeo þat were so lese. þat me heom ne myhte iléuen.
                                
                                  Med-yorne domes men. and wrongwise reuen.
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  Þe þat wes leof oþer mannes wif. and his owe léten.
                                
                                  And þe þat sunegeþ ofte. on drunken. and on méte.
                                
                                  Þeo þat wrecche men bynymeþ. his eyhte. and hit leyþ an horde.
                                
                                  And lutel let on godes bode. and of godes worde.
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  Þeo þat almes nolde yeue þere he iseyh þe neode.
                                
                                  Ne his poure kunesmen. at him ne myhte nouht spede.
                                
                                  Þe þat nolde here godes sonde. þar he sat. at his borde.
                                
                                  And was leof oþer mannes þing. leuere þan beon schulde.
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  And weren al to grédi. of seoluer. and of golde.
                                
                                  And luueden vntrewnesse. þat heo schulden beon hólde.
                                
                                  And léten þat hi scolden do. and duden þat heo ne scholden.
                                
                                  Heo schulleþ wunyen in helle. þe ueondes onwolde.
                                
                                  Þe þat were gaderares. of þisse worldes ayhte.
                                  Line 265 
                                
                                  And duden þat þe loþe gost heom tycede and tahte.
                                
                                  And alle þeo þe myd dusye wise. deouele her iquemeþ.
                                
                                  Þeo beoþ nv in helle wiþ him. fordon. and for-démde.
                                
                                  Bute þeo þat of-þincheþ her. sore heore mysdede. [folio 246] 
                                  Line 269 
                                
                                  And heore gultes gunnen lete. and betere lif to lede.
                                
                                  Þer beoþ neddren. and snaken. euethen and fruden.
                                
                                  Þer tereþ and freteþ. þat vuele spekeþ. þe nyþfule and þe prude.
                                
                                  Neuer sunne þer ne schineþ. ne Móne. ne steorre.
                                
                                  Þer is muchel godes héte. and muchel godes eorre.
                                  Line 274 
                                
                                  Euer þar is muchel smech. þeosternesse and eye.
                                
                                  Nis þer neuer oþer lyht. bute þe swarte leye.
                                
                                  Þer lyþ þe lodliche ueond. in stronge rake-teye.

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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 67
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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