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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Natura columbe. & significacio.
ÐE culuer haueð costes gode.  [ 650] 
alle wes ogen to hauen in mode.
seuene costes in hire kinde.
alle it ogen to ben us minde.
ge ne haueð in hire non galle.
simple & softe be we alle.  [ 655] 
ge ne liueð nogt bi lagt.  [656. bilagt MS.] 
Ilc robbinge do we of hac.  [657. hac] bac MS.] 
ðe wirm ge leteð & liueð bi ðe sed.
of cristes lore we haue ned.
wið oðre briddes ge doð as moder.  [ 660] 
so og ur ilk to don wið oðer.  [661. Before ilk a letter erased : l corr. out of h.] 
woning & groning if lic hire song.
bimene we us. we hauen don wrong.
In water ge is wis of heuekes come.
& we in boke wið deules nome.  [ 665] 
In hole of ston ge makeð hire nest.
In cristes milce ure hope is best.