Bot al watz nedlez her note, for never cowþe stynt
Þe roȝe raynande ryg, þe raykande wawez, [M. unnecessarily inserts & after ryg; if any word is omitted, it would more probably be ne.]
Er uch boþom watz brurdful to þe bonkez eggez,
And uche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez.
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Þe moste mountaynez on mor þenne watz no more dryȝe,
And þeron flokked þe folke, for ferde of þe wrake.
Syþen þe wylde of þe wode on þe water flette;
Summe swymmed þeron þat save hemself trawed,
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Summe styȝe to a stud and stared to þe heven,
Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede.
Harez, herttez also, to þe hyȝe runnen,
Bukkez, bausenez, and bulez to þe bonkkez hyȝed;
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And alle cryed for care to þe Kyng of heven,
Recoverer of þe Creator þay cryed uch one,
Þat amounted þe mase—his mercy watz passed, [MS., M. þe masse þe mase; Sk. þe mase.]
And alle his pyte departed fro peple þat he hated.
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Bi þat þe flod to her fete floȝed and waxed, [folio 66b]
Þen uche a segge seȝ wel þat synk hym byhoved;
Frendez fellen in fere and faþmed togeder,
To dryȝ her delful deystyne and dyȝen alle samen;
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Luf lokez to luf and his leve takez, [MS. to, letters curiously combined, o perhaps by another hand.]
For to ende alle at onez and for ever twynne.
By forty dayez wern faren, on folde no flesch styryed,
Þat þe flod nade al freten wyth feȝtande waȝez; [MS., M., Sk. waȝez, M. note wawez(?).]
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For hit clam uche a clyffe cubites fyftene,
Over þe hyȝest hylle þat hurkled on erþe.
Þenne morkne in þe mudde most ful nede
Alle þat spyrakle inspranc, no sprawlyng awayled, [MS., M., Sk. inspranc; M. note insprang(?).]
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Save þe haþel under hach and his here straunge,
Noe þat ofte nevened þe name of oure Lorde,
