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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 12, 2024.

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Significacio. prima. [ 240]

Alle we atter dragen off ure eldere. ðe broken drigtinnes word ðurg ðe neddre. ðer ðurg haueð mankin. boðen nið & win. golsipe. & giscing. [ 245] giuernesse & wissing. pride & ouerwene. swilc atter i mene. Ofte we brennen in mod.

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& wurden so we weren wod. [ 250] ðanne we ðus brennen. bihoueð us to rennen. to cristes quike welle. ðat we ne gon to helle. drinken his wissing. [ 255] it quenchet ilc siniging. forwerpen pride euril[c] del. so hert doð hise hornes. gingen us tus to godeward. & gemen us siðen forðwarð. [ 260]

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