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

                                
                                  At þon heye vndarne. a wit-suneday.
                                
                                  Þer hi were to-gadere. as ich eu segge may.
                                
                                  And heryeden vre louerd crist. and heore bede sunge.
                                
                                  Þe holy gost heom com vp-on. in fury tunge.
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                                  So sone so hi weren. of þe holy goste attende.
                                
                                  Heo arysen alle to-gadere. and vt heom iwende.
                                
                                  And speken godes wordes. hi weren swiþe gled.
                                
                                  Of none monne in eorþe. nere hi þo of-dred.
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                                  Þo were in iherusalem. as ich me vnderstonde.
                                
                                  Men wunyinde. of alle kunnes londe.
                                
                                  Þo heo iherden þe apostles. godes lore teche.
                                
                                  Eueruych þer vnderstod. his icunde speche.
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                                  Heo seyden heom bi-twenen. hwat may þis beo.
                                
                                  Þeos men þat we heren speke. hi beoþ of galile. [folio 227b] 
                                
                                  And we iherden heom heryen. in heore preching.
                                
                                  After vre tunge. þen heoueliche kyng.
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                                  Seoþþe in alle londes. hi eoden vor to prechen.
                                
                                  And for to fully þat folk. and godes lawe techen.
                                
                                  Hi nolden þo bileue. vor kayser. ne vor kynge.
                                
                                  Ne vor nore pyne. heore prechynge.
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                                  Þer-vore heo iwenden. in-to alle londes.
                                
                                  And fullede kinges. eorles. and bondes.
                                
                                  And alle men and wymmen. þat wolde to heom cume.
                                
                                  And bileuen on ihesu crist. þet is godes sune.
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                                  Þer-uore þe veond of helle. hedde muchel onde.
                                
                                  Vor hi by-nomen him saulen. in water. and in londe.
                                
                                  Þer-vore he hine bi-þouhte. hw he don myhte.
                                
                                  And euer wes abute. bi daye. and bi nyhte.
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                                  Vor bryngen heom to deþe. þet spek myd his y-corene.
                                
                                  Þat wes. Nerun. and Dacyen. and mo þet beoþ vor-lorene.
                                
                                  Þeos nómen þe apostles. and heom to deþe dude.
                                
                                  And vre louerd heom vnderveng. a-non i þe stude.
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                                  Nv hi beoþ ine blisse. myd þon heuene kynge.
                                
                                  Þat is heore mede. vor heore prechinge.
                                
                                  Bidde we alle ihesu crist. vor heore erndinge.
                                
                                  Þat he vre saule. to þare blisse brynge.

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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 56
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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