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 June 20, 2024.

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Significacio.
Twifold forbisne in ðis der.
to frame we mugen finden her.
warsipe & wisedom.
wið deuel & wið iuel man.  [ 325] 
ðe deuel dereð dernelike.
he lat he ne wile us nogt biswike.
he lat he ne wile us ðon non loð.
& bringeð us in a sinne. & ter he us sloð.
he bit us don ure bukes wille.  [ 330] 
Eten & drinken wið unskil.
& in ure skemting.
he doð raðe a foxing. |
He billeð one ðe foxes fel.  [f. 7 v] 
wo so telleð idel spel.  [ 335] 
& he tireð on his ket.
wo so him wið sinne fet.
& deuel geld swilk billing.
wið same & wið sending.
& for his sinfule werk.  [ 340] 
ledeð man to helle merk.