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

                                  
                                    Hwo may þider cume and nule. hit schal hym sore of|þinche.
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                                    Þer is blysse bute teone. and lif wiþ-vte deþe.
                                  
                                    Þeo þat schulle wunye þer. bliþe mvwen heo beon eþe.
                                  
                                    Þer is yonghede buten ealde. and hele buten vnhelþe.
                                  
                                    Þer nys seorewe ne no sor. neuer non vnhelþe.
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                                    Seoþþe me dryhten iseo. so he is myd iwisse.
                                  
                                    He one may beon and schal. englene and monne blisse.
                                  
                                    Þeo schulen of him more iseon. þat her him luuede more.
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                                    And more iseon and iwyten. his Milce and his ore.
                                  
                                    On him heo schullen fynden. al þat mon may luste.
                                  
                                    And on lyues bec [MS bee.]  iseon. al þat heo her nusten.
                                  
                                    Crist seolf one schal beon. i-nouh to alle derlinges.
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                                    He one is more and betere. þan alle wordliche þinges.
                                  
                                    Inouh hi habbeþ þat hyne habbeþ. þat alle þinges weldeþ.
                                  
                                    Him to seonne murie hit is. so fayr he is to biholde.
                                  
                                    God is so swete and so muchel. in his godnesse.
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                                    Al þat wes and is. is wel wurse and lasse.
                                  
                                    Ne may nomon hit segge. ne wyten myd iwisse.
                                  
                                    Hu muchele Murehþe habbeþ heo. þat beoþ in heuene blisse.
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                                    To þare blisse bringe vs god. þat lesteþ buten ende.
                                  
                                    Hwenne he vre saule vn-bind. of lichomliche bende.
                                  
                                    Crist vs lete such lif lede. and habbe her such ende.
                                  
                                    Þat we mote to him cume. hwenne we heonne wendeþ. Amen.
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                                    Bidde we nu leoue freond. yonge and ek olde.
                                  
                                    Þat he þat þis wryt wrot. his saule beo þer atholde. Amen.

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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 71
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1872.
Subject terms: English poetry

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