Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]

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Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]
Author
Hall, Joseph, 1854-1927.
Publication
Oxford,: The Clarendon press,
1920.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Readers.
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"Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00035. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Hu andswereð scadwisnesse. & þus seið. [f. 16 r]

Ðas þe me þincþ þu wilt godes lore bliðeliche understonden. & liernin. & ðat me likeð swiðe wel. forði ðat hit seið on ðe hali godspelle. Qui est ex deo uerba dei audit. Se ðe is of gode he [ 65] harkeð bleðeliche godes wordes. Nu me cumþ on iþanke an forbisne. þe sanctus Gregorius us seið: Qui uirtutes sine humilitate [67. seid MS.] congregat quasi in uento puluerem portat. Se ðe gadereð mihtes wiðuten eadmodnesse he seið. he is ilich ðo manne ðe berð dust amidewarde ðe winde. For ði me þingþ {that} is wisdom ðat we [ 70] alre ðinge arst speken of ðessere hali mihte wið uten hwam non ne [71. wid MS.] mai bien wið healden te none freme ne te none gode.

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