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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xvi
þus queþ Alured.
NE wurþ þu neuer so wod. ne so wyn drunke.
þat éuere segge þine wife. alle þine wille.  [ 185] 
For if þu iseye þe bi vore. þine ivo alle.
And þu hi myd worde iwreþþed heuedest.
Ne scholde heo hit lete. for þing lyuyinde.
þat heo ne scholde þe forþ vp breyde. of þine baleu syþes.
wymmon is word. woþ. & haueþ tunge to swift.  [ 190] 
þeyh heo wel wolde.
ne may heo. hi no wiht welde.