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 June 15, 2024.

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Page 27

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þus queþ Alured. Alle world ayhte schulle bi cumen to nouhte. [ 275] And vyches cunnes madmes. to mixe schulen i Multen. And vre owe lif. lutel hwile ileste. for þeyh o mon. wolde al þe worlde. And al þe wunne. þe þar inne wunyeþ. Ne myhte he þar myde his lif. none hwile holde. [ 280] Ac al he schal for leten. on a litel stunde. And schal vre blisse{punctel} to balewe us iwurþe. Bute if we wurcheþ. wyllen cristes. Nu biþenche we þanne vs sulue. vre lif to leden. so crist vs gynneþ lere. [ 285] þanne mawe we wenen. þat he wule vs wrþie. for so seyde salomon. þe wise. þe mon þat her wel deþ. he cumeþ þar he lyen foþ. on his lyues ende. [ 290] he hit schal a vynde.
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