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Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 [extracts]

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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 May 11, 2024.

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þus queþ Alured. Lvsteþ ye me leode. [ 140] ower is þe neode. And ich eu wille lére. wit and wisdom. þat alle þing ouer goþ. syker he may sitte. þe hyne haueþ to i vere. For þeyh his eyhte him a go. [ 145] his wit ne a goþ hym neuer mo.

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for ne may he for vare. þe hyne haueþ to vere. þe wile his owe lyf. ileste mote.

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