Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]
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- Title
- Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]
- Author
- Hall, Joseph, 1854-1927.
- Publication
- 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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Page 195
he fedeð him al mid oðer der.
of ðo ðe he wile he nimeð ðe cul.
& fet him wel til he is ful. [ 605]
In his hole siðen stille.
ðre dages he slepen wille.
ðan after ðe ðridde dai.
he riseð & remeð lude so he mai.
ut of his ðrote cumeð asmel. [ 610]
mid his rem forð oueral.
ðat ouer cumeð haliweie.
wið swetnesse. [ic] it gu seie
& al ðat eure smelleð swete.
be it drie be it wete. [ 615]
For ðe swetnesse off his onde.
wor so he walkeð o londe.
wor so he walked. er wor so he wuneð.
Ilk der ðe him hereð to him cumeð. [619. Before to him, to him deleted MS.]
& folegeð him up one ðe wold. [ 620]
for ðe swetnesse ðe ic gu haue told.
ðe dragunes one ne stiren nout.
wiles te panter remeð ogt.
oc daren stille in here pit.
als so he weren of dede offrigt. [ 625]