Vices and Virtues : a Soul's Confession of its Sins with Reason's Description of the Virtues : a middle-english dialogue of about 1200 A.D. Part I Text and Translation / edited by F. Holthausen

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Holthausen, Ferdinand, 1860-1956

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London: Oxford University Press

1888

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"Vices and Virtues : a Soul's Confession of its Sins with Reason's Description of the Virtues : a middle-english dialogue of about 1200 A.D. Part I Text and Translation / edited by F. Holthausen." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/VicesV1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.

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Hu andswereð ðe saule and seið:

ICH ðe bidde for ðan ilche hlauerd ðe ðe iscop, me to helpe, ðat alswo ðu hauest ȝegunnen and ðane grundwall ileid of ðese hali mihtes, ðat tu hes forð-bringe and me hes tæsche. Forðan hie bieð me swiðe unbecnawe for ðe maniȝe unðeawes ðe ic mid me to longe habbe ihafd. Ac nu ic hes wile leten, and mid godes fultume of hem ȝeswiken, and min ȝeþanc to ðine lore healden. For ðare hali mihte ðe cariteð is icleped, ic ðe beseche and bidde ðat tu ðese halwende lore on write sette, for ðan ic am michel þenchinde ðar hwile ðe ic on ðese wrecche lichame am wuniende, and ofte forȝete ðat me god wære te healden; and ec sum oðer saule hit wile helpen.