Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts

_+E+t cu{m} ueniss{et} bethfage ad monte{m} o{liuarum}. Mittens [duos] de dis{cipulis} iussit adduci asina{m} [&] sedit sup{er} eam_. Þo þe co{m} to bethfage Swo hatte þe þrop þ...

[Collations: 187. Ase | Alse C || forð as B || muhen | mu[gh]en C || baðe _add._ || drinch || of drunch and _om._ C || and _after_ mete _om._ || claðes B || 188. oðre C || þi{n}...

Þa `þe´ king S{tephne} to englal{ande} co{m} þa macod he his gadering æt Oxeneford. [&] þar he na{m} þe b{iscop} Roger of Sereb{er}i [&] Alex{ander} b{iscop} of lincol [&] te ca...

"i. Lambeth 487 (L), a small quarto, 177 × 135 mm., of 67 leaves, written towards the end of the twelfth century... nos. x, xi. of this book are also taken from it. The words pr...

++Hvnger wex in lond chanaan. And his .x. sunes iacob for{}ðan. Sente in to egipt to bringen coren. He bilef at hom ðe was gungest boren. | ðe .x. comen for nede sogt. [f. 42v 2...

[Þ]a narewe pað is godes has · þar forð fareð wel feawe [Þ]at beð þo þe hem sildeð [gh]ierne wið achen unðeawe. 350 [Þ]os goð uneaðe a[gh]ien þe cliue [&] a[gh]ien þe heie hulle...

Olhnin þe heiward · wearien hwen he punt hire · [&] [gh]elden þah þe hearmes. ladlich þing is hit wat crist hwen me makeð i tune man of ancre ahte. Nu þenne [gh]ef eani mot nedl...

++Hercnið nu þenne he seið. [&] [gh]eornliche understondeð. [I]ch am murðes sonde. [&] munegunge of eche lif. ant liues luue i{}haten [&] cume riht from heouene [þ/] ich habbe i...

¶ Þatt {g}odd all{}mahhti[gh] wurrþenn wass. [Gh]un{g} child i{nn} ure ki{n}de. [&] wrecche child. off wrecche kinn{;} ðatt doþ uss tunnderrstanndenn. Þatt uss birrþ mikell lufe...

++Ancre þet naueð nout neih honde hire uode : beoð bisie two wu{m}men . on ðet bi{}leaue eu{er} ethom . an oðer þet wende ut hwon hit is neod . and þeo beo ful unorne *oðer a lu...

Ac þoðre habbeð same [&] grame [&] oðer fele sore[gh]e. Þe dom {s}al ben sone idon ne last hit nowiht longe Ne sal him noman mene þar{}of strencðe ne of wronge 170 Þo sulle habb...

ham þet swinkeð dei [&] niht iðine seruise 50 al þin hird is i{}schrud mid hwite ciclatune. and alle heo beoð ikruned mid guldene krune. heo beoð so read so rose so hwit so þe l...

Swa muche q{uo}ð [þ/] meiden ich beo him þe leou{er}e. se ich {110} derfre þing for his luue drehe. [wurch] þu [þ/] ti wil is. [Gh]e q{uo}ð he bliðeliche. ant swiðe heatterliche...

++Perseuerancia hatte an hali mihte. Hie nis naht [f. 48v] to laten for ðan hie makeð ðanne man ðe godd `h´is. to sant [þ/] he þurwuneð on his godnesse. On ðare ealde la[gh]e hi...

An þisser were ærndraces [&] {105} [gh]elaðieres þa ap{ost}les [&] þe leorni{n}ch[n]ihtes. þer{}efter ures helendes upstí[gh]e to heuene. þa ap{ost}les [&] hare íunglenges þe[r]...

++Cethegrande is a fis. ðe moste ðat in wat{er} is. ðat tu | wuldest seien get. [f. 8r 385 gef ðu it soge wan it flet. ðat it were á neilond ðat sete `one´ ðe se sond. ðis fis ð...

++Þe vle. one hwile hi bihouhte. 155 And after þan þis word up brouhte. | Ich graunti wel þa`t´ he vs d{e}me. [f. 230v¹ For þeyh he were hwile breme. [&] leof him wre Nihtingale...

To seche hyne. is lyhtlych þing. he naueþ buten o wunyng. [þ/] is biscopen muchel schame. [&] alle þan [þ/] of his nome. 405 habbeþ iherd. [&] of his dede. hwi nulleþ hi nyme{n}...

And þu [gh]if me swa muchel lond{;} to stonden a mire a[gh]ere ho{n}d. Swa wule anes bule hude{;} Ælches weies ouer{}spræden. feor from ælche castle{;} amidden ane ualde. þen{n}...

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Ase þe custome [f. 130r²] was ine þo time. þo serga{n}z uuluelden þo faten of watere and hasteliche was i{}went into wyne. bie þo wille of ure louerde. þo seide ure lord. to þo...