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
[Collations: 97. Anker || þe C || naues || nawt | naut C || neh
hond | nech hont C || fode B || beos || bisi || twa wimmen B ||
98. an B || þe C || leaue eau{er} _with erasure of two letters
before_ || eauer leaue C || at hame | ed hame C || þe C ||
99. hwen B || ned driues | neod driueð C || tat || 100. of _om._
|| feiȝer C || ealde B || and _om._ B || wei || as B || ho Gas |
ha geað C || Ga B || seiende | segginde C || beodes || 101. Ni
ne || halde B || heo nout _om._ B || na | nan C || wið B ||
wið B || ni sitte ne stonde | Ne sitten ne stonden C ||
102. þe B || leaste || ho | ha C || ear B || þenne C || ho |
ha C || ham cume B || 103. Nohwider | Nochwder C || ga B || heo
_om._ || ha C || as B || mo{n} sendes || 104a. eote C || ho |
ha C]
Þe oþer beo eauer inne · ne wið{}ute þe ȝeten : ne ga wið{}ute
leaue. Ba beon obedient to hare dame in alle þing · bute i sunne
ane · na þing nabben þet heo hit nute · ne underuo na {130} þing
· ne ne ȝeoue nowðer{;} wið{}uten hire leaue. Na mon ne leote ȝe
in · ne þe ȝung{re} ne speoke wið namon bute leaue · ne ga ha
nawt ut of tune : wið{}uten siker fere · ȝef hit swa mei beon{;}
ne ne ligge ute. ȝef heo ne con oboke{;} segge bi pa{te}r
n{ost}res · ant bi auez hire ures · ⁊ wurche þ̵ me hat hire wið
ute gruchu{n}ge. habbe eauer hire {135} earen opene toward hire
dame.
þe oðer beo eu{er} i{n}ne . ne wið{}ute þe ȝeate ne go heo nout
wið{}ute leaue. boðe beon obedient to hore {105} dame i{n} alle
þinges{;} bute ine sūnne one. no þing nabben heo{;} þet hore
dame hit nute . ne ne underuon no þing . ne ne ȝiuen wið{}uten
hire leaue. Nenne mon ne leten heo in . ne ðe ȝungre ne speke
mid none monne : bute leaue . ne ne go nout ut of tune .
wið{}uten siker uere . ne ne ligge ute. ȝif heo ne con o boke :
sigge bi p{ate}r n{ostr}es {110} and bi auez hire vres . and
wurche þet me hat hire wið{}uten grucchunge. habbe euer hire
earen opene touward hire dame.
[Collations: 104b. eauer B || 105. ȝate | ȝete C || ga B ||
heo _om._ | ha C || nout _om._ B || Baðe | ba C || hare C ||
106. þing B || in B || ane B || Na | Nan C || heo _om._ ||
107. ho | heo C _for_ hore dame || ni vnderfo | Ne underuo C ||
na | nan C || ȝiue | ȝeouen C || _add_ nowðer | nouðer C ||
108. leue || Na | Nan C || heo _om._ B || ni || ðe ȝungre
_om._ C || speoken C || mid none monne _om._ C || wið na
wepmo{n} || 109. wið ute B || leue || Ne ga B || noht |
naut C || 110. fere B || ȝef C || ho | ha C || on C || segge B
|| 111. auees C || wurche ⁊ do hwat C || mo{n} bides ||
wið{}ute || grucchinge B || 112a. eau{er} B || eares ||
toward | towart C || lafdi]
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