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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.
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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 May 23, 2024.

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Page 183

Natura cerui.

Ðe hert haueð kindes two. & forbisnes oc al so. ðus it is on boke set. [ 220] ðat man clepeð fisiologet. He drageð ðe neddre of de ston. ðurg his nese up on on. of ðe stoc er of ðe ston. for it wile ðerunder gon. [ 225] & sweleð it wel swiðe. ðerof him brinneð siðen. of ðat attrie ðing. wiðinnen he | haueð brenning. [f. 6 v] he lepeð ðanne wið mikel list. [ 230] of swet water he haueð ðrist. he drinkeð water gredilike. til he is ful wel sikerlike. Ne haueð ðat uenim non migt. to deren him siðen non wigt. [ 235] oc he werpeð er hise hornes. in wude er in ðornes. & gingid him ðus ðis wilde der. So ge hauen nu lered her.

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