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

                                
                                  Þat is þe þat wes myd god. in heouene swiþe heye.
                                  Line 278 
                                
                                  Þer beoþ ateliche ueondes. and grysliche wyhtes.
                                
                                  Þer schule þe wrecche soulen iseon. þat sunegeden bi sihtes.
                                
                                  Þer is þe loþe sathanas. and beelzebub þe olde.
                                
                                  Eþe heo mwue beon adred. þat heom schulde biholde.
                                
                                  Ne may non heorte hit þenche. ne no tunge telle.
                                  Line 283 
                                
                                  Hw muche pyne. hw ueole ueondes. beoþ in þeostre helle.
                                
                                  For al þe pyne þat her is. nulle ich eu nouht lye.
                                
                                  Nis hit bute gome and gleo. al þat mon may her dreye.
                                
                                  And yet ne doþ heom noþing so wo. in þe loþe bende.
                                
                                  Ase þat witen heore pyne. ne schal habbe non ende.
                                
                                  Þar beoþ þe heþene men. þat were lawe-lese. [MS leve, altered by a later hand to lese.] 
                                  Line 289 
                                
                                  Þet nes nouht of godes forbode. ne of godes hese.
                                
                                  Vuele cristenemen. beoþ þer heorure nere.
                                
                                  Þeo þat heore cristendom. vuele heolden here.
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  Yet heo beoþ a wrse stude. anyþe helle grunde.
                                
                                  Ne schullen heo neuer cumen up; for marke. ne for punde.
                                
                                  Ne may helpe þer. nouþer beode ne almesse.
                                
                                  For nys noþer in helle. ore ne [for]yeuenesse.
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Nu schilde him vych mon hwile he may. wiþ þe ilke pyne.
                                
                                  And warny vich his freond. so ich habbe myne.
                                
                                  Þeo þat schilde heom ne kunnen. ich heom wille teche.
                                
                                  Ich con beon eyþer if ich schal. lycome and soule leche.
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  Lete we þat god forbed. alle mon-kunne. [folio 246b] 
                                
                                  And do we þat he vs hat. and schilde we vs wiþ sunne.
                                
                                  Luuye we god myd vre heorte. and myd alle vre myhte.
                                
                                  Vre euen-cristen. as vs seolf. for so vs lerede dryhte.
                                
                                  Al þat me redeþ and syngeþ. bi-voren godes borde.
                                  Line 305 
                                
                                  Al hit hongeþ and hald. bi þisse twam worde.

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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 68
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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