Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
[Linenote:
122. _neggen_] the initial _n_ on an erasure MS.]
+[Significacio.]+
++Knov c{ri}stene man . wat tu c{ri}st higtest
Atte kirke dure . ðar ðu c{ri}stned were.
ðu higtes to leuen on him . ⁊ hise lages luuien. 135
to helden wit herte . ðe bodes of holi k[i]rke.
If ðu hauest is broken.
Al ðu forbredes . forwurðes ⁊ forgelues.
Eche lif to wolden . Elded art fro eche blis.
So ðis wirm o werld is. 140
Newe ðe fordi . so ðe neddre doð.
It is te ned.
Feste ðe of stedefastnesse . ⁊ ful of ðewes.
⁊ help ðe poure | men . ðe gangen abuten. [f. 5v
Ne deme ðe nog[t] wurdi . ðat tu dure loken. 145
up to ðe heueneward.
Oc walke wið ðe erðe mildelike among men.
no mod ðu ne cune . mod ne mannes vncost.
oc swic of sineginge.
⁊ bote bid tu ðe ai . boðe bi nigt ⁊ bi dai. 150
ðat tu milce mote hauen . of ðine misdedes.
ðis lif bitokneð ðe sti.
ðat te neddre gangeð bi.
⁊ tis is ðe ðirl of ðe ston.
ðat tu salt ðurg gon. 155
Let ðin filðe fro ðe . so ðe wirm his fel doð.
Go ðu ðan to godes hus . ðe godspel to heren.
ðat is soule dri{n}k . sinnes quenching.
Oc or sei ðu in scrifte . to ðe prest sinnes tine.
feg ðe ðus of ði brest filde . ⁊ feste ðe forðward. 160
fast at tin h{er}te . ðat tu firmest higtes.
ðus art tu ging ⁊ newe.
forðward be ðu trewe.
Nedeð ðe ðe deuel nogt . for he ne mai ðe deren nogt.
oc he fleð fro ðe . so neddre fro de nakede. 165
On ðe cloðede ðe neddre is cof . ⁊ te deuel cliuer on sinnes.
Ai ðe sinfule bisetten he wile.
⁊ wið al mankin
he haueð nið ⁊ win.
wat if he leue haue of ure heuen louerd. 170
for to deren us . So he ure eldere or dede.
do we ðe bodi in ðe bale . ⁊ bergen ðe soule.
ðat is ure heued geuelic . helde we it wurðlic.
[Linenote:
160. _segðe_ MS.]
+Natura formice.+
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