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

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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 11, 2024.

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Natura. ija.
Ðe hertes hauen anoðer kinde.
ðat us og alle to ben minde.
Alle he arn off one mode.
For if he fer fetchen fode.  [ 265] 
& he ouer water ten.
wile non at nede oðer flen.
Oc on swimmeð bi forn.
& alle ðe odre folegen.
weðer so he swimmeð er he wadeð  [ 270] 
Is non at nede ðat oðer lateð.
Oc leigeð his skinbon.
on oðres lendbon.
gef him ðat biforn teð.
Bilimpes for to tirgen.  [ 275] 
Alle ðe oðre cumen mide.
& helpen him for to her[t]ien. 
beren him of ðat water grund
up to ðe lond al heil & sund.
& forðen here nede.  [ 280] 
ðis wune he hauen hem bi twen
ðog he an hundred to giddre ben.

Notes

277. herien MS.

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