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
+vnde p{ro}ph{et}a. No{n} claudit sup{er} te puteus os suu{m}
nisi clauseris os tuum.+ þe p{ro}ph{et}e seið. þ̵ þe put ne
tuneð noht lihtliche his muð ouer us bute we tunen ure muð. ah
ȝif we tuneð ure muð{;} þe{n}ne do {w}e alse þe mon þe delueð
ene put feower daȝe`s´ oðer fiue ⁊ þenne {45} he haueð hine alra
le{n}gest idoluen{;} þenne ualleð he þer{}inne. þ̵. him brekeð
þe sweore. þ̵. is þ̵ he ualleð in to helle pine þer neuer eft ne
cumeð of bote. Ah leofemen godalmihtin haueð isceaweð us wel
muchele g{ra}ce. þenne he haueð geuen us to beon mud freo. þ̵.
we maȝe{n} mid ure muðe bringen us ut of þisse putte{;} þe {50}
bitacneð þeo deopnesse of sunne. ⁊ þ̵ þurh þreo herde weies þe
þus beoð ihaten.
[Linenotes:
44. _we_] _þe_ MS. || 46. After _haueð_, _ạḷ_ MS. || 49. Before
_grace_, _ḷụụẹ_ MS.]
+Cordis contricione. Oris confessione. Operis satisfactione.+
þurð heorte bireusunke . þurh muðes openunge. þurh dede wel
endinge. +Cordis cont{ri}tione morit{ur} peccatum.+
[f. 20r] +oris confessione defertur ad tumulum. op{er}is
satisfact{i}one {55} tumulatur in p{er}petuum.+ þe[nne] we beoð
sari in ure heorte þ̵ we isuneged habbeð þenne slage we ure
sunne; þene we to sunbote cumeð. þenne do we bi ure sunne al swa
me deað bi þe deade. for eft{er}þan þ̵ þe mon bið dead me leið
þene licome in þere þruh. Al swa þu leist þine sunne i{n} þare
þruh{;} hwenne þu {60} scrift underuongest of þe sunnen þe þu
idon hauest to{}ȝeines godes wille. þenne þu hauest þine
su{n}nen ibet{;} eft{er} þines scriftes wissunge. þenne buriest
þu þine su{n}nen and bringest heom ut of þine on walde.
+P{er} ieremiam notat{u}r quilibet peccator qui in suo peccato
moram facit.+ Bi ieremie þe p{ro}ph{et}e we aȝen to
understo{n}den {65} ulcne mon sunfulle. þ̵. lið i{n} heuie sunne
⁊ þurh soðe sc{ri}ft his sunbendes nule slakien. +funiculi
amaritudines penitencie significa{n}t.+ Þe rapes þe weren icast
to him{;} bitacneð þe herdnesse of scrifte. for nis nan of us se
strong þe hefde idon þre hef[ed] sunnen þ̵ his licome nere swiðe
feble er he hefde idreȝen þet {70} sc{ri}ft þe þer to bilimpeð.
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