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

He yeorreþ and heo gredeþ. Þe feondes heom forþ ledeþ. Boþe lychom and saule. And beteþ heom and schredeþ. Line 328 And luþre heom biledeþ. Mid pykes and myd eaule.
Þe saule seyþ to þe lychome. Acursed wurþe þi nome. Line 332 Þin heaued and þin heorte. Þu vs hauest iwroht þes schome. And alle þene eche grome. Vs schal euer smerte. Line 336
Þe gode. þe Milde. and þe clene. Þah heo i-seon alle y-mene. Al þat kun þat we of come. Nulleþ heo neuer ene. Line 340 By-reusy ne bi-mene. Ne þar-to nyme góme.
Ah wolde we vs wel dihte. And leden vre lyf myd rihte. [folio 251b] Line 344 Þe hwiles we beoþ here. Ich hit eu segge and plyhte. A domes day we Myhte. Beon engles ivére. Line 348
Bidde we vre dryhte. Þat day scop and nyhte. Þat do vre saule bote. Þat we in heuene lyhte. Line 352 Among þan englen bryhte. Wunyen and beo mote. Amen.
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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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