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HALI MEIDENHAD. MS. Bodley 34
[leaf 52b] [ At the foot of leaf 52, is this heading in very faint red, hardly noticeable: "Epistel of meiden-had, meidene frome."--A. F. Parker.]AVDI, filia, & uide, & inclina aurem tuam; & obliuiſcere populum tuum, & domum patriſ tui. Dauið, þe pſalm-wruhte, ſpekeð i þe ſawter towart godeſ ſpuſe, þet iſ, euch meiden þet haueð meiið þeaweſ, & ſeið:
"I-her me, dohter! bihald, & bei þin eare; & forȝet ti folc & tineſ feader huſ!"Nim ȝeme hwet euch worð beo ſunderliche to ſeggen.
"I-her me, dohter,"he seið.
"dohter"he cleopeð hire, for-þi þet ha underſtonde, þet he hire luueliche liueſ luue leareð, aſ feader ah hiſ dohter, ant heo him, aſ hire feader, þe bliþeluker luſtin.
"I-her me, deore dohter": þet iſ, ȝeornne luſtne me wið earen of þi heauet;
"Ant bihald": þet is, opene, to underſtonde me, þe ehnen of þin heorte.
"Ant bei þin eare": þet is, beo buhſum to mi lare. `Ant hwet is nu þis lare, þet tu nimeſt ſe deopliche, & learſt me ſe ȝeone [sic]?' low, þiſ:
"forȝet ti folc, & tineſ