An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,

                                  
                                    Leste he schulde his saule. horyen and schede.
                                  
                                    In heþene helle þer hirdsype is gnede.
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                                    Bi-seche we vre louerd. þat schal þis world fede.
                                  
                                    Þat he haue mercy of vs. of vre Misdede.
                                  
                                    Seynt iohan is þe beste. þat euer wes iwrouht.
                                  
                                    Seoþþe god makede Middelerd. and mon myd his þouht.
                                  
                                    Þureh his sely sermun. serewe him wes by-þouht.
                                  
                                    Þe prophetes heued to present me brouht.
                                  
                                    For to folewen vre fader. so he haueþ [þouht]. [In a later hand.] 
                                  
                                    Hwo ysayh. euer blisse byterluker ibouht.
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                                    Seynt thomas wes biscop. and barunes him quolde.
                                  
                                    Heo brutlede him ful breoly. þe beornes þat were bolde.
                                  
                                    For he wolde þe lawe. leoflyche holde.
                                  
                                    As god wyþ his werkes. i þis world stolde.
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                                    For þe luue of vre fader. vihten. he nolde.
                                  
                                    Þer he þolede pyne. as þe peple. me tolde.
                                  
                                    For þe dute of þe dom. he þet lif solde.
                                  
                                    Hwe schullich [So in MS.]  þauh vre heorte beon in [? wolde]
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                                    Alle we schulle to þe deþ dreoreliche gon.
                                  
                                    And bi-leuen vre leoue freond. euervych on.
                                  
                                    Me graueþ þis gode. in greote and in ston.
                                  
                                    Þer wereþ vre wlite. in wurmene won. [folio 260] 
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                                    Ne geyneþ vs no grene. ne no [scarlat non]. [In a later hand.] 
                                  
                                    Þe robes of russet. ne of rencyan.
                                  
                                    Ne þe ronke racches. þat ruskit þe ron.
                                  
                                    Boþe him schal rotye þat body and þe bon.
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                                    Þayh þu frayny after freond. ne fyndestu nón.
                                  
                                    Bute saule for seorewe makeþ hire mon.
                                  
                                    He þat fulewede him seolue. in þe flum iurdan.
                                  
                                    Þureh þe sybnesse of seynt iohan.
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                                    Þureh þe riche blode þe roche to-chon.
                                  
                                    Louerd haue mercy of vs. euervychon. Amen.

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Title: An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
Canvas: Page 92
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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