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

I. The Passion of our Lord. [Jesus College (Oxford) MS I. Arch. I. 29, leaf 217.]

Ici cumence la passyun ihesu crist en engleys. Incipit prologus.

Ihereþ nv one lutele tale. þat ich eu wille telle. As we vyndeþ hit iwrite. in þe godspelle. Nis hit nouht of karlemeyne ne of þe Duzeper. Ac of cristes þruwinge. þet he þolede her. 4 Al volk wes to-dreued. so schep beoþ in þe wolde. Lute ymvnde. hi hedde of gode. heore heorten weren so colde. He þet is. and euer wes. in heuene myd his fadere. Ful lowe he alyhte. for bryngen heom to-gadere. 8 Þurst. and hunger. chele. and hete. þis beoþ stronge pyne. Þeos he þolede al vor vs. þat turnde water to wyne. Þrytty wyntre and more. he wes among Monkunne. Seoþþe þat Mayde hyne yber. al wiþ-vte sunne. 12 Þo he hedde so longe ibeo. ine wrecche lyue þisse. He wes swyþe of-longed. to his fader blysse. Nouht for þan þat he nedde. in his godcunnesse. Ac he wolde þat we myd him. boþe more and lesse. 16 Heo habbe scolde. and so we Mvwe. ne þerfþ þer non adrede. Yf we vs wyteþ from heued-sunne. and doþ al by his rede. Þe louerd þet alle þing ischop. [MS iscohp.] to þere blysse vs brynge. Nv bigynneþ vre tale. nys hit no lesynge. 20
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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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