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

                                
                                  More eye stondeþ mon of mon. þan him to cryste.
                                
                                  Þe wel ne doþ hwile he may. hit schal him sore reowe.
                                
                                  Hwenne alle men repen schule. þat heo ear seowe.
                                
                                  Dod to gode þat ye Muwen. þe hwile ye beoþ alyue.
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                                  Ne lipne no mon to muchel. to childe. ne to wyue.
                                
                                  Þe him seolue for-yet. for wiue. oþer for childe.
                                
                                  He schal cumen on vuele stude. bute god him beo Milde.
                                
                                  Sende vch sum god bivoren him. þe hwile he may to heouene.
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                                  Betere is on almes bi-uoren. þane beoþ after seouene.
                                
                                  Ne beo þe leouere þan þi seolf. þi mey ne þi mowe.
                                
                                  Sot is þat is oþer mannes freond. more þan his owe.
                                
                                  Ne lipne no wif to hire were. ne were to his wyue.
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                                  Beo vor him seolue vych mon. þe hwile he beoþ alyue.
                                
                                  Þis [Read Wis.]  is þat him seolue biþenkþ. þe hwile he mot libbe.
                                
                                  Vor sone willeþ him for-yete þe fremede and þe sibbe. [folio 242b] 
                                
                                  Þe wel nule do hwile he may. ne schal he hwenne he wolde.
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                                  Mony monnes sore iswynk. ofte habbeþ vnholde.
                                
                                  Ne scholde nomon don a virst. ne slakien wel to donne.
                                
                                  Vor mony mon bihoteþ wel. þat hit for-yeteþ sone.
                                
                                  Þe mon þat wile syker beo. to habbe godes blysse.
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                                  Do wel him seolf þe hwile he may. þenne haueþ he hit myd iwisse.
                                
                                  Þeos riche men weneþ to beon syker. þurh walles and þurh diche.
                                
                                  Ah heo doþ heore ayhte in siker stude. þat sendeþ hit to heoue-riche.
                                
                                  Vor þer ne þarf. he beon adred. of fure ne of þeue.
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                                  Þar ne may hit bynyme. þe loþe ne þe leoue.
                                
                                  Þer ne þarf he beon of-dred. of yefte. ne of yelde.
                                
                                  Þider we sendeþ and seolf bereþ. to lutel and to selde.
                                
                                  Þider we schulde drawen and don. wel ofte and ilóme.
                                
                                  Ne may þer non hit vs bynymen. myd wrongwise dome.

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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 59
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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