Witeð into éce fer. þe is {155} `ȝ´æarced mine fó ⁊ his ȝegen. Son[e] hi wrðeð abroden of his ȝesecþe. ⁊ þan sone geð se hlaford mid his frenden to his mete. þ̵ his to is esten. þe seið an þan hali write _Delicie méé sunt e{ss}e cu{m} filiis ho{minum}_. þat is. Mine esten beoð wunian mid mannen bearnen. Ac we sed[en] ȝíu litl her þ̵ hi sceolde{n} abbe{n} god b{ra}d ⁊ uin. ⁊ vii {160} sonden. hi sculen habe þ̵ brad þe{}seið iþe godspel. _Ego su{m} panis uiu{us} q{ui} d{e} c{elo} d{escendi}._ Þet is. Ic ám cwuce bread þe astah fram hefene. seȝð ure helende. Se þe of þese brad ett. ne sterfeð he nefer. Þis bread was ímaced of ane `h´wete corne. al{}swa se he cweð ȝeðe godspelle. _Nisi {gra}n{um} frum{en}ti_. ⁊ c. þis corn was ȝesawen {165} þurh þes ængles muð into ðes meidenes ære Marie. in þare burh of nazareth. þis corn có{m} fer`s´t i{n}ne bethlée{m}. þ̵ cweð us of breade. hit wex ⁊ bleówu. in iudea. hit rípede in ier{usa}l{e}m. Judas ⁊ þat leoðre folc hit répén. ⁊ deden hit an þar rode alswa alse be{}twenen melstanent. Se{ð}e hit was idon into þer berient alswa into hófne. þanen {170} hit was ibroht up into heofene to þes hahes hlafordes borde. þer hit fet. ⁊ engles. ⁊ mancinn in écenisse. ⁊ þis is hare b`r´ead. hwer scule we win finden? Al swa se he cweð. _Ego su{m} uitis uera._ ⁊ c. [Linenotes: 160. _gṛod_ MS. || 162. _þe_] _q̣þe_ MS. || 167. _cóm_] _cón_ MS. || 170. _Seðe_] _sede_ MS.] VI. THE PROVERBS OF ALFRED [[MS description from Notes volume: “Jesus College, Oxford, E 29, formerly Arch. i. 29 (J).... written not long after 1276 (Anglia xxx, 222).... Our piece is written continuously as prose, each stanza forming a paragraph, but iv and v are in one without l. 54, which is here supplied, while l. 43 is written at the end of the preceding paragraph and similarly the lines beginning viii-xvii, xix-xxiii. The scribe was evidently struggling with an original which he could not always read; see footnote to l. 105. “.... the copy of the Poema Morale in the same MS. has undergone a drastic revision which sets it apart among the versions of that poem, and the version of the Owl and Nightingale has suffered, though not to the same extent. On the other hand MS. T was copied by a man who was incapable of remodelling it; though a ruin, it often preserves in details the original.”]] INCIPIUNT DOCUMENTA REGIS ALUREDI. [Headnote: Þus Queþ Alured]