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 16, 2024.

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þus queþ Alured.  [ 255] 
Þvrh sawe mon is wis. And þurh hiselþe. glev.  [256. his elþe. mon is glev MS.] 
þurh lesinge mon is loþ. and þurh luþre wrenches.
And | vnwurþ.  [f. 264 v] 
And þurh hokede honde. þat he bereþ.
him seolue he for vareþ.  [ 260] 
From lesynge þu þe wune.
And alle vnþewes þu þe bi schune.
so myht þu on þeode.
leof beon in alle leode.
And luue þyne nexte. he is at þe neode gód.  [ 265] 
At chepynge. and at chyreche.
freond þu þe iwurche.
wyþ pouere and wiþ riche.
wiþ alle monne ilyche.
þanne myht þu sikerliche. sely sytte.  [ 270] 
And ek faren ouer lond le
hwider so beoþ þi wille.