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 May 23, 2024.

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þus queþ Alfred. IDelschipe and ouer prute. [f. 264 r] þat lereþ yong wif vuele þewes. [ 195] And ofte þat wolde. do. þat heo ne scholde. þene vnþev lihte. leten heo myhte. If heo ofte a swóte for swunke were. [ 200] þeyh hit is vuel to buwe. þat beo nule treowe. For ofte Museþ þe kat. after hire moder. þe mon þat let wymmon his mayster iwurþe. Ne schal he neuer beon ihurd [ 205] his wordes louerd. Ac heo hine schal steorne to trayen. and to teóne. And selde wurþ he blyþe and gled.

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þe mon þat is his wiues qued. [ 210] Mony appel is bryht wiþ vte. and Bitter wiþ inne. So is mony wymmon. on hyre fader bure. Schene vnder schete. and þeyh heo is schendful. So is mony gedelyng. godlyche on horse. and is þeyh lutel wurþ. [ 215] wlonk bi þe glede. and v́uel at þare neode.
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