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

And summe to heore myd-þeyh. And summe to heore vuere breyh. And summe riht to heore theþ. As he her his sunnes deþ. Line 100 Bakbiteres weren þeo. Þat stondeþ vp to heore kneo. Þat wes heore oþer copynere. Stondeþ vp to heore swere. Line 104 And heo þat her wedlac brekeþ. To heore muþe þe flod takeþ. He þat is glad of oþres harme. Stondeþ vp in-to þan arme. Line 108 Þat spek in chirche. þat nes no god. To his muþe takeþ þe flod. Þat wreyeþ his sibbe. oþer him fled. Abuuen his eyen. þe flod geþ. Line 112 Þat doþ his wil þat nys noht ryht. Of him ne may me iseo nowiht. Hwo is wis bi me beo war. Þat his saule ne cume þar. Line 116 For þeyh þe Middenerd ago. Heore pyne ilesteþ .o. [folio 272:2]
Uvrþur. is a ful deop fen. Ful of wowares. and of wymmen. Line 120 Þe stude is þustrore. þene þe nyht. For þer. ne cumeþ neuer lyht. And stinkeþ fulre þane þe hund. For Brunston walleþ at þe grund. Line 124 Ten þusend feondes. and wel mo. Þar freteþ heore tunge a two. And dreyeþ vt heore brayn. Vor heo weren of gauele vayn. Line 128 Such is heore pyne þer. Vor heo weren gauelers her. Þenne beoþ þe wymmen furþer i-don. Þat nowiht nabbeþ heom up-on. Line 132
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An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century,
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1872.
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English poetry

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