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 12, 2024.

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xii
þus queþ Alured.
Ne ilef þu nouht to fele. uppe þe séé þat floweþ.
If þu hafst madmes monye and inowe.
gold and seoluer. hit schal gnyde to nouht.
to duste hit schal dryuen. Dryhten schal | libben euere.  [f. 263 v] 
Monymon for his gold. haueþ godes vrre.  [ 136] 
And for his seoluer. hymseolue foryemeþ. foryeteþ and forleseþ.
Betere him by come iboren þat he nére.