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

                                
                                  Þider we schulden drawen and don. wolde ye me ileue.
                                
                                  Vor þer ne may hit vs by-nyme. þe king. ne þe schirréue.
                                
                                  Al þe beste þat we habbeþ. þider we schulde sende.
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  Vor þer we hit myhte vinden eft. and habben .o. buten ende.
                                
                                  He þat her doþ eny god. to habbe godes ore.
                                
                                  Al he schal vynde þer. an hundred folde more.
                                
                                  Þe þat ayhte wile holde wel. þe hwile he may him wolde.
                                
                                  Yeue hit for godes luue. þenne doþ he hit wel iholde.
                                
                                  Vre swynk and vre tylehþe. is iwuned to swynde.
                                  Line 58 
                                
                                  Ah heo þat hit yeueþ for godes luue. eft hit mowen ivynde.
                                
                                  Ne schal non vuel beon vn-bouht. ne no god vn-vor-gulde.
                                
                                  Vuel we doþ al to muchel. god; lasse þane we scholde.
                                
                                  Þe þat mest doþ nv to góde. and te þe leste to laþe.
                                  Line 62 
                                
                                  Eyþer to lutel and to muchel. schal þunchen heom ef[t] to baþe.
                                
                                  Þer me schal vre werkes weyen by-vore heouene kinge.
                                
                                  And yeuen vs vre swynkes lean. after vre earnynge.
                                
                                  Everuych mon myd þat he haueþ. may bugge heoueriche.
                                
                                  Þe riche and þe poure boþe. ah nouht alle ilyche.
                                  Line 67 
                                
                                  Þe poure. myd his penye. þe riche myd his punde.
                                
                                  Þat is þe wunderlicheste ware. þat euer was ifunde.
                                
                                  And ofte god con more þonk. ye þat yueþ him lasse.
                                
                                  Alle his werkes. and his yeftes. is in ryhtwisnesse. [folio 243] 
                                
                                  Lvtel lok is gode leof. þat cumeþ of gode wille.
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  And lutel he let on muchel wowe. þer þe heorte is ille.
                                
                                  Heouene and eorþe he ouer-syhþ. his eyen beoþ so brihte.
                                
                                  Sunne. and Mone. heuene. and fur. beoþ þeostre. ayeyn his lyhte.
                                
                                  Nis him for-hole nowiht. ne ihud. so muchele beoþ his myhte.
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  Nis no so derne dede idon. in so þeostre nyhte.
                                
                                  He wot hwat þencheþ. and hwat doþ. alle quyke wyhte.
                                
                                  Nis no louerd such is crist. ne king. such vre dryhte.

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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 60
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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