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 16, 2024.

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Natura aranéé.  [ 355]   [355. iranéé MS.] 
Seftes sop ure seppande . sene 'is' on werlde.
leiðe & lodlike . ðus we it leuen.  [357. loldike MS : after we erasure of one letter.] 
man'i'kines ðing.
alle manne to wissing.
ðe spinnere on hire [webbe] swid[e] ge weveð.  [ 360]   [360. sþinnere] inne on an erasure. weveð] veð on an erasure.] 
festeð atte hus rof . hire fodredes.  [361. fo dredes MS.] 
o rof er on ouese . so hire is on elde.
werpeð ðus hire web . & weueð on hire wise.  [363. werþeð] þe on an erasure.] 
ðanne ge it haueð al idigt . ðeðen ge driueð.
hitt hire in hire hole . oc ai ge it biholdeð.  [ 365] 
til ðat ðer fleges faren . & fallen ðer inne.
wiðeren in ðat web . & wilen ut wenden.
ðanne renneð ge rapelike . for ge is ai redi.
nimeð anon to ðe net . & nimeð hem ðere.
bitterlike ge hem bit . & here bane wurðeð.  [ 370] 
drepeð & drinkeð here blod.
doð ge hire non oðer god.
bute fret hire fille
& dareð siðen stille.