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
[Linenotes:
18. _semdest_] _scendest_ S. || 20. [_lo_]_kien_ S.,
[_ma_]_kien_ H., [_þe ma_]_kien_ B. || 24. _leofli_[_c_] B. ||
26. _þæne_ Z., in MS. _þære_.]
_Qui custodit diuitias ser[uus] est diuitiis_
þu were þeow · þines weolan ·
noldest þu nouht þær{}of d[ælen ·] for drihtenes willæn ·
ac æfre þu grædiliche · gæderedest þe more ·
lu[þer]liche eart þu forloren · from al þ̵ þu lufedest · 35
⁊ ic scal wræcche soule [· weo]we nu driæn ·
eart þu nu loþ ⁊ unwurþ · alle þine freonden ·
nu ha{m} [þun]cheþ alto long · þ̵ þu ham neih list ·
ær þu beo ibrouht · þaer þu be[on] scalt ·
on deope sæþe · on durelease huse · 40
þær wurmes wældeþ · al [þet þe] wurþest was ·
füweles quale holde · þe þu icwemdest ær ·
Mid alre [þære] swetnesse · þeo þu swuþe lufedest ·
þeo swetnesse is nu al agon · þ̵ b[ittere] þe biþ fornon ·
þ̵ bittere ilæsteþ æffre · þ̵ swete ne cumeþ þe [næffre ·] 45
[Linenotes:
36. [_weo_]_we_ H., [_ece_] _we_ S. || 38. _nu ham_]
_nu han_ MS. || 43. _þære_] [_kunde_] S., H., B.]
II. SAINT GODRIC’S HYMNS
[[MS description from Notes volume:
“Royal 5 F vii, British Museum ... apparently an inserted leaf. This
leaf ... belongs to the beginning of the thirteenth century....”]]
A ++Sainte marie uirgine [f. 85r
moder ih{es}u cristes nazarene
onfo schild help þin godric ·
onfang bring heȝilich wið þe in godes riche ·
++Sainte marie xpistes bur 5
maidenes clenhad moderes flur ·
dilie min sinne rix in min mod ·
bring me `to´ winne wið þe selfd God.
B Crist and sainte marie swa on scamel me iledde
þat ic on þis erðe ne silde wid mine bare fote i{}tredie · 10
C ++Sainte Nicholaes godes druð ·
tymbre us faire scone hus ·
At þi burth at þi bare.
Sainte nicholaes, bring vs wel þare.
[Linenotes:
II. 3. Over _onfo_, _onfong_ in later hand. || 4. _wið_] _w_ corr.
out of _þ_. || 6. _maidenes_] _id_ corr. out of _rd_.]
III. THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE
[[MS description from Notes volume:
“Laud Misc. 636, Bodleian Library (MS. E).... A new hand begins with
1132 and continues to the end in 1155 A.D.”]]
[Headnote: The Anarchy]
[Sidenote: M·C·XXXII.]
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