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- Aelfric: The Old Testament
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Homilies (15)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/27.2)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/29)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/8)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (14)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (26)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (32)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (9)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Sigefyrth
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Sigeweard ('On the Old and New Testament')
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Wulfsige
- Aelfric: Aelfric's First and Second Letters to Wulfstan (1)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's First and Second Letters to Wulfstan (2)
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Grammar
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Lives of Saints
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Catholic Homilies I
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Catholic Homilies II
- Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Genesis
- Aelfric: De Temporibus Anni
- Aethelwold: The Benedictine Rule
- Aldred: The Durham Ritual
- Aldred: Lindisfarne Gospels
- Alfred: Alfred's Boethius
- Alfred: Alfred's Cura Pastoralis
- Alfred: The Meters of Boethius
- Alfred: Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis
- Alfred: Alfred's Preface to Soliloquies
- Anonymous: Adrian and Ritheus
- Anonymous: Aelred of Rielvaux's De Institutione Inclusarum (3)
- Anonymous: Aelred of Rielvaux's De Institutione Inclusarum (4)
- Anonymous: Alexander's Letter
- Anonymous: Laws (ALFRED)
- Anonymous: Alfred's Introduction to Laws
- Anonymous: Ancrene Wisse
- Anonymous: Andreas
- Anonymous: Apollonius of Tyre
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (Sweet-Whitelock 35)
- Anonymous: The New Testament (Authorized Version)
- Anonymous: The Old Testament (Authorized Version)
- Anonymous: Bede's Death Song
- Anonymous: Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Anonymous: The Benedictine Rule
- Anonymous: Beowulf
- Anonymous: A Bestiary
- Anonymous: The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (BIRCH 451)
- Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (10)
- Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (12)
- Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (17)
- Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (2)
- Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (6)
- Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (10)
- Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (12)
- Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (5)
- Anonymous: The Battle of Brunanburh
- Anonymous: Brut (1333)
- Anonymous: Caedmon's Hymn
- Anonymous: Satire on the Consistory Courts (HP6)
- Anonymous: Chad
- Anonymous: The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac
- Anonymous: Christ
- Anonymous: Gregory's Chronicle
- Anonymous: Chronicle MS A Early (O2)
- Anonymous: Chronicle MS A Late
- Anonymous: Chronicle MS E (Early)
- Anonymous: Chronicle MS E (Late)
- Anonymous: The Cloud of Unknowing
- Anonymous: A Letter by the Commissioner of Customs (to Lord Clifford)
- Anonymous: A Letter by the Privy Council (to Lord Rochester)
- Anonymous: Cursor Mundi
- Anonymous: Deor
- Anonymous: Depositions
- Anonymous: Dicts of Cato
- Anonymous: Digby Plays
- Anonymous: The Dream of the Rood
- Anonymous: Wulf and Eadwacer
- Anonymous: The Life of St. Edmund
- Anonymous: The Equatorie of the Planetis
- Anonymous: The Trial of the Earl of Essex
- Anonymous: Exodus
- Anonymous: The Fortunes of Men
- Anonymous: The Fox and Wolf in the Well
- Anonymous: Gregory the Great, Dialogues (MS H)
- Anonymous: Genesis
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 1)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (HARMER 12)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 18)
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 2)
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 3)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 4)
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 5)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 7)
- Anonymous: Havelok
- Anonymous: The Proclamation of Henry III
- Anonymous: Hali Meidhad
- Anonymous: King Horn
- Anonymous: A Treatise on Horses
- Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (3)
- Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (4)
- Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (5)
- Anonymous: History of the Holy Rood-Tree
- Anonymous: Song of the Husbandman (HP2)
- Anonymous: Indenture
- Anonymous: Laws (INE)
- Anonymous: In Die Innocencium
- Anonymous: Interlude (Appendix to Dame Sirith)
- Anonymous: Judgements, London
- Anonymous: Juliane
- Anonymous: Kyng Alisaunder
- Anonymous: Katherine
- Anonymous: The Kentish Hymn
- Anonymous: The Kentish Psalm
- Anonymous: Kentish Sermons
- Anonymous: Lacnunga
- Anonymous: Laeceboc
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (1)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (14)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (15)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (3)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (4)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (7)
- Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (8)
- Anonymous: Laws (Eleventh Century)
- Anonymous: Laws (LATE)
- Anonymous: The Leiden Riddle
- Anonymous: Vision of Leofric
- Anonymous: The Trial of Lady Alice Lisle
- Anonymous: Letter(s), London (to the King)
- Anonymous: A Letter by the Lords of the Council (to the King)
- Anonymous: Proclamations, London
- Anonymous: Ludus Coventriae
- Anonymous: Mandeville's Travels
- Anonymous: Mankind
- Anonymous: Margarete
- Anonymous: A Passion of St Margaret
- Anonymous: Martyrology
- Anonymous: Marvels
- Anonymous: Maxims I
- Anonymous: A Hundred Mery Talys
- Anonymous: Man in the Moon
- Anonymous: The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter
- Anonymous: The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter
- Anonymous: The Northern Homily Cycle
- Anonymous: The Trial of Titus Oates
- Anonymous: Ohthere and Wulfstan (MS L)
- Anonymous: Ohthere and Wulfstan (MS G) (3)
- Anonymous: Alfred's Orosius
- Anonymous: The Panther
- Anonymous: The Partridge
- Anonymous: Penny Merriments
- Anonymous: Peri Didaxeon
- Anonymous: History of Sir John Perrott
- Anonymous: Petitions, London
- Anonymous: Petitions (M4), London
- Anonymous: The Peterborough Chronicle
- Anonymous: Phlebotomy
- Anonymous: Phoenix
- Anonymous: The Paris Psalter
- Anonymous: The Pricke of Conscience
- Anonymous: Prognostications (Caligula)
- Anonymous: Prognostications (CCCC)
- Anonymous: Prognostications (Hatton)
- Anonymous: Quadrupedibus
- Anonymous: The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh
- Anonymous: Returns, London
- Anonymous: Satire on the Retinues of the Great (HP7)
- Anonymous: Riddles
- Anonymous: The Riming Poem
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 1)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 10)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 101)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 103)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 16)
- Anonymous: Documents 4 (ROBERTSON 2)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 26)
- Anonymous: Documents 1 (ROBERTSON 3)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 32)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 41)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 44)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 46)
- Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 6)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 66)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 83)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 87)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 91)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 94)
- Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 1)
- Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 3)
- Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 4)
- Anonymous: Sermon (MS Royal 18 B)
- Anonymous: The Ruthwell Cross
- Anonymous: The Seafarer
- Anonymous: Dame Sirith
- Anonymous: The Siege of Jerusalem
- Anonymous: The Life of St. Edmund
- Anonymous: Solomon and Saturn
- Anonymous: Statutes (II)
- Anonymous: Statutes (III)
- Anonymous: Statutes (IV)
- Anonymous: Statutes (VII)
- Anonymous: A Homily for the Sixth (or Fourth) Sunday After Epiphany
- Anonymous: Sawles Warde
- Anonymous: Testaments and Wills, London
- Anonymous: Liber de Diversis Medicinis (Thornton MS)
- Anonymous: The Trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
- Anonymous: The Thrush and the Nightingale
- Anonymous: Towneley Plays
- Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (12)
- Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (20)
- Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (23)
- Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (5)
- Anonymous: A Letter by the Fellow of Trinity College (to Lord Burghley)
- Anonymous: The Vespasian Psalter
- Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (3)
- Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (32)
- Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (33)
- Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (42)
- Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (48)
- Anonymous: Vices and Virtues (1)
- Anonymous: The Book of Vices and Virtues (4)
- Anonymous: The Wanderer
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES1)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES11)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES27)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES40)
- Anonymous: The Whale
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 13)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 14)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 15)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 16/1)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 19)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 20)
- Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 30)
- Anonymous: Widsith
- Anonymous: The Wife's Lament
- Anonymous: Laws (WILLIAM I)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S16)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S23)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S28)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S32)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S36)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S4)
- Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S43)
- Anonymous: West-Saxon Gospels
- Anonymous: The New Testament (Wycliffe)
- Anonymous: The Old Testament (Wycliffe)
- Anonymous: York Plays
- Armin, Robert: A Nest of Ninnies
- Ascham, Roger: The Scholemaster
- Aungier, Francis: Letter (to Lord Essex)
- Bacon, Francis: The Twoo Bookes of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
- Barrington, John: Letters (to his mother)
- Barrington, Thomas: Letter (to his mother)
- Beaumont, Elizabeth: Letter (to her husband)
- Bedyll, Thomas: Letter (to Cromwell)
- Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko
- Betson, Thomas: Letter (to his bride) & Letters (to his mother-in-law)
- Blundevile, Thomas: A Briefe Description of the Tables of the Three Speciall Right Lines Belonging to a Circle
- Boyle, Robert: Electricity & Magnetism
- Brinsley, John: Ludus Literarius
- Burnet, Gilbert: The Reign of Charles the Second
- Burnet, Gilbert: Biography of the Earl of Rochester
- Byrhtferth: Byrhtferth's Manual
- Capel, Arthur: Letters (to the King)
- Capgrave, John: Capgrave's Chronicle
- Capgrave, John: Capgrave's Sermon
- Caxton, William: Prologues and Epilogues
- Caxton, William: The History of Reynard the Fox
- Cecil, Robert: Letters (to Sir Thomas Edmondes)
- Cecil, William: Letter (to the University of Cambridge)
- Cely, George: Letters (to his father)
- Cely, Richard: Letters (to his brother)
- Charles II: Letters (to Lord Essex)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: A Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: Boethius
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Tale of Melibee
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Merchant's Tale
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Parson's Tale
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Summoner's Tale
- Clowes, William: Treatise for the Artificiall Cure of Struma
- Colville, George: Boethius
- Conway, Edward: Letter (to Lord Buckingham)
- Coverte, Robert: A Trve and Almost Incredible Report of an Englishman
- Cromwell, Gregory: Letters (to his father)
- Cromwell, Thomas: Letter (to the Earl of Chester)
- Cumberland, Eleanor: Letter (to her husband)
- Cynewulf: Fates of Apostles
- Cynewulf: Elene
- Cynewulf: Juliana
- Deloney, Thomas: Jack of Newbury
- Edmondes, Thomas: Letter (to Sir Robert Cecil)
- Edward VI: The Diary of Edward VI
- Elizabeth I: Boethius
- Elizabeth I: Letter (to Sir Thomas Edmondes) & Letter (to Sir Robert Cecil)
- Elyot, Thomas: The Boke Named the Gouernour
- Evelyn, John: Diary of John Evelyn
- Everard, Joan: Letters (to her mother)
- Fabyan, Robert: The New Chronicles of England and France
- Farman: Rushworth Gospels
- Farquhar, George: The Beaux Stratagem
- Ferrar, Nicholas: Letter (to his mother)
- Ferrar, Richard: Letter (to his mother)
- Fiennes, Celia: My Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall
- Fisher, John: Sermon (against Luther) & Sermon (on Good Friday)
- Fitzherbert, Anthony: The Book of Husbandry
- Fitzjames, Richard: Sermo Die Lune in Ebdomada Pasche
- Forman, Simon: Autobiography and Personal Diary of Dr. Simon Forman
- Fox, George: Journal of George Fox
- Fryer, John: A New Account of East India and Persia
- Gawdy, Philip: Letter (to his father)
- Gaytryge, Dan Jon: Dan Jon Gaytryge's Sermon
- Gifford, George: A Handbook on Witches and Witchcraft
- Gloucester, Robert: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
- Gower, John: Confessio Amantis
- Haddock, Nicholas: Letter (to his father)
- Haddock, Richard Jr: Letter (to his father)
- Haddock, Richard Sr: Letters (to his wife) & Letters (to his son)
- Harley, Brilliana: Letters (to her husband)
- Harman, Thomas: A Caveat or Warening for Commen Cursetors Vulgarely Called Vagabones
- Hatton, Alice: Letters (to her father)
- Hatton, Anne: Letters (to her father)
- Hatton, Charles: Letter (to his wife)
- Hatton, Elizabeth: Letter (to her son)
- Hatton, Frances: Letter (to her husband)
- Hayward, John: Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
- Henry V: Letters (to a Bishop) & Letter (to -)
- Henry V: Letter(s) (to Mayor of London)
- Henry VIII: Letter (to the Earl of Surrey) & Letter (to the citizens of London)
- Henry, Philip: Letter (to his wife)
- Hilton, Walter: Eight Chapters on Perfection
- Hoby, Margaret: Diary of Margaret Hoby
- Hooke, Robert: Micrographia
- Hooker, Richard: Sermon upon part of S. Judes Epistle (1) & Sermon upon part of S. Judes Epistle (2)
- Hoole, Charles: A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole
- Howard, Thomas: Letter (to the King)
- Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
- Knyvett, Thomas: Letters (to his wife)
- Langford, T.: Plain and Full Instructions to Raise All Sorts of Fruit-Trees That Prosper in England
- Latimer, Hugh: Sermon (on ploughers) & Sermon (before Edward VI)
- Layamon: Layamon's Brut
- Leland, John: Itinerary
- Locke, John: Directions Concerning Education
- Machyn, Henry: The Diary of Henry Machyn
- Madox, Richard: Diary of Richard Madox
- Malory, Thomas: Morte Darthur
- Mannyng, Robert: Handlyng Synne
- Markham, Gervase: Countrey Contentments
- Masham, Elizabeth: Letters (to her mother)
- Metham, John: Days of the Moon
- Metham, John: Physiognomy
- Michel, Dan: Ayenbite of Inwyt
- Middleton, Thomas: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
- Milton, John: The History of Britain
- Mirk, John: Festial
- More, Thomas: Letter (to his wife) & Letters (to his daughter)
- More, Thomas: The History of King Richard III
- More, Thomas: Letters (to Cardinal Wolsey)
- Mowntayne, Thomas: The Autobiography of Thomas Mowntayne
- Mull, Thomas: Letter (to his brother-in-law) & Letter (to his relative)
- Norwich, Julian: Revelations of Divine Love
- Orm: The Ormulum
- Osborne, Thomas: Letters (to Lord Essex)
- Oxinden, Elizabeth: Letters (to her mother-in-law)
- Oxinden, Henry: Letters (to his wife)
- Oxinden, Katherine: Letter (to her son)
- Oxinden, Richard: Letters (to his son)
- Paston, Clement: Letters (to his brother)
- Paston, John: Letters (to his brother)
- Paston, Katherine: Letters (to her son)
- Paston, Margaret: Letters (to her husbard)
- Paston, William: Letters
- Paston, William: Letters (to his mother)
- Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Pettit, Valentine: Letters (to her son)
- Peyton, Mary: Letter (to her daughter)
- Pinney, Jane: Letter (to her daughter) & Letter (to her husband)
- Pinney, John: Letter (to his daughter)
- Plumpton, Agnes: Letters (to her husband)
- Plumpton, Dorothy: Letter (to her father)
- Plumpton, Isabel: Letter (to her husband)
- Plumpton, Robert: Letter (to his mother)
- Plumpton, William: Letters (to his father) & Letter (to his son)
- Preston, Viscount: Boethius
- Proud, Mary: Letter (to her mother)
- Purvey, John: The Prologue to the Bible
- Record, Robert: The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie
- Reynes, Robert: Commonplace Book (Tanner MS 407)
- Rolle, Richard: The Bee and the Stork
- Rolle, Richard: The Psalter or Psalms of David
- Rolle, Richard: Prose Treatises
- Roper, Margaret: Letters (to his father)
- Roper, William: The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, Knighte
- Scrope, Katherine: Letter (to her father)
- Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Shillingford, John: Document(s) (Shillingford)
- Shillingford, John: Letter (to his fellows)
- Smith, Henry: Two Sermons on "Of Usurie" (1) & Two Sermons on "Of Usurie" (2)
- Somers, John: Letter (to the King)
- Spencer, Robert: Letters (to the King's agent)
- Stevenson, William: Gammer Gvrtons Nedle
- Stonor, Elizabeth: Letters (to her husband)
- Stow, John: The Chronicles of England from Brute unto This Present Yeare of Christ
- Strype, John: Letters (to his mother)
- Taylor, Jeremy: The Marriage Ring
- Taylor, John: The Pennyles Pilgrimage
- Tillotson, John: Sermon on "The Folly of Scoffing at Religion" & Sermon on "Of the Tryall of the Spirits"
- Torkington, Richard: Ye Oldest Diarie of Englysshe Travell
- Trevisa, John: Polychronicon
- Tunstall, Cuthbert: Letter (to the King)
- Turner, William: Book of Wines
- Tyndale, William: The New Testament (Tyndale)
- Tyndale, William: The Old Testament (Tyndale)
- Udall, Nicholas: Roister Doister
- Usk, Thomas: Appeal(s), London
- Vanbrugh, John: The Relapse
- Vicary, Thomas: The Anatomie of the Bodie of Man
- Waerferth: Gregory the Great, Dialogues (MS C)
- Walton, Izaak: The Compleat Angler
- Wolsey, Thomas: Letter (to the King)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's 'Institutes of Polity'
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (10C)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (12)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (13)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (17)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (1B)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (2)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (20)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (3)
- Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (8C)
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3 Ic eow bidde, leofe men, ꝥ swa ofte swa ȝe faren bi ricre monnæ
4burines ꝥ ȝe sceawiæn & asmeȝen hwær heoræ wælan beoð bicumene,
5& heore gold, & heore þeȝenscypæs, & heore worldprude
6þære ydelnesse. Hwi! nyte ȝe ꝥ all ꝥ tofaræð & toglit, swa swa
7monnes sceadu dæþ? & heore worldþrym, swa rice, ȝedwæscte, &
8ȝedwan, & aidlode, & afulode? Ac loca þenne on þa buriȝnes & sæȝ
9to þe sylfum, 'Hwæt! þæs mon iu on þissre worlde wunsumlice
10lyfede þe ic ær cuðe.' Þenne maȝon þa ðyrle ban us læren, & þæs
11deaden dust of þre buriȝnes to us cwæðon wolden, ȝif heo specen
12mihten, 'To hwan, þu earme, on þisse worlde ȝytsungum swinces?
13oðer to hwam þu on oferhydo þe sylf up ahæfst on ofermetto, & on
14unþeawes, & sunne to swyðe fyliȝedest? Beheald me, & onscyne
15þine yfelæ þoncæs, & onȝit þe sylfum! Sceawe mine ban her on
16þissere molde, & biþeng þe sylfen! Iu ic wæs swylc þu nu eart,
17& ȝyt þu iwurðæst swulc ic nu eom. Geseoh mine ban & mi dust
18& forlæt þine yfele lustæs.' Þenne, leofe men, þeah þe ða deade
19ban of þare buriȝnes specon ne maȝon, þeah we maȝen us sylfæn bi
20þam læren: for þam þe we sceolen æfre ȝemunen þæs ures heonensiþes,
21& we næfre æft ne wendæþ hider on worlde, ꝥ we æniȝ god don,
22ac þenne beoð þa edlean & þa ær idone weorc isceawod. Beþence
23we eac æfre þone endedæȝ þissre worlde, ꝥ is domes dæȝ, þonne
24Drihten mid þam heofenlice weredo haliȝræ & englæ þisne middæneard
25sæcð to weane & to wrace synfulle monnum, & eac haliȝe monnum
26his fultum to bringenne. Þenne arisæþ of þam ealde buriȝnes alle þa
27lichame & þa ban, þe fæle ȝeare ær deade on swefete læȝen & mid synnæ
28deopnysse ifestnode wæren. & þenne arisæþ all moncynn togædere,
29& heo þenne iseoð þas world sweliȝende, mid fure brastlende &
30bærnende, ant þone heahroder on reade liȝeum; & all
31þæs middaneard byð mid fure aræred. Þonne cymð þe soðfestæ
32demæ of heofenæs wolcnum , & he byð ymbþrungæn mid þam
33heofenlice weredo; & þenne beoð alle igæderæde þe soðfæste & þa
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34synfullæ ætforen þæs strecen demen heahsetle, & Drihten heom
35þonne sceadæþ on twa healfæ. & he sæt þa soðfestæ on þam
36swiðere healfe, & þa synfulle on þam wunstren healfe, & he þenne
37sæð to þam soðfestæn, 'Cumeð, ȝe iblesode, on þenne roderlice
38æþel,
39& þær symle wuniæð, & on blisse, & on murhðe efne englen ilice
40& þider ȝe beoð ibrohte mid muriȝe lofsongum, & þær ȝe beoð mid
41me wuniende on heofene rice murhþe on eower Drihtines ansyne;
42þær eow nan wiðerweardnes ne deræð, ac on sundfulnesse þæs
43brihte lihtes ȝe þær bliþe wuniæð, for þam þe ȝe lustlice mine æ &
44mine lare heolden, & alle þe ðing þe ic eow bead to healden. Alle
45ic heom eft iseah last on eowre gode weorcum, swa ic heom ær
46sæde.' Þenne syððæn bisihð Drihten to þam synfullæn monnum &
47þus to heom cwæð, 'Gewitæþ, ȝe awariȝede, from me on þane
48mycele æðm, & on þæne ece brune, & on þene bittræ þrosm hælles
49fures, þær þe leiȝ reþelice bærneð, & þær þa dracæn þa synfullen
50teræð mid heoræ toþum. & þær þa scyldiȝe bærnæþ, & þa wurmæs
51heom mid weallende muðes forswolȝeð; & heoræ ansyne bið þær
52mid teares oferfleowen, & þær bið eȝeslic toðene grind; & þær
53næfre ne ateoræð þeo swearte niht, ne þeo þystre dymnes, ne heom
54þær nefre ne bið isceawed lihtes leome: for þam þe ȝe mine lare on
55eowre mode oferhoȝoden, & ȝe, recelease, nolden mine bodu healdon.'
56Þenne æfter þam þe þa manfulle beoð isceofene wepende on ꝥ ece
57fyr, þær heo on pine & on ece yrmþe wuniæð, heo iseoð þare
58soðfestræ & englæ murhðe & isæliȝe monnæ hwit werod heriȝende
59ure Drihten. & þa ðær cumeð þe her man wrohten & Godes lare
60iheren nolden. Heo beoð bisencede on þa hate liȝæs þær heo
61þrowiæð on ecere seoreȝe. Þenne faræþ þa haliȝe men & þa
62soþfeste mid sweȝe to life, ant samod siþiæð mid englæ werod to
63þam upplice rice, þær heo bliþe wuniæð on ece eadiȝnesse; & heo
64næfre ne beoð isceadde fram þare ece murhðe. Þenne is us mucel
65neod, leofe men, ꝥ we Godes bodu ȝeorne healden & earniæn ꝥ we
66moten mid heofenwaræ lifes brucen, & ꝥ we ne weorþæn aweorpen
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67on þa deopestæ helles grunde. For þam þe we iseoð þis læne lif
68mid fræcednesse & mid mycele earfoðnesse ifulled, & ylce dæȝ þis
69lif wonæð & wursæð; & na lifiende mon ne þurhwuneð on þisse
70weorlde, ne nan eft to lafe ne wurð. Al moncyn is ilice on þas
71weorld icenned, þeah heore lif beo syððæn unilic; & heo æft on
72ende alle ȝewitæð. Ne nan swa longe her on weorlde ne leofað, ꝥ
73eft þe deaþ hine ne ȝenime, & þa modiȝæn & þa oferhudiȝen deaþes
74gneornung gripð. & ꝥ heo her for Godes lufe syllen nolden heoræ
75sawle to hælpe, heo hit rædlice forlæteð, & oðre þerto foð, þa heo
76for Criste hit letæn nolden, þa hwile þe heo lifedon. Ac
77þenne þe deaþ cymæð, þenne sceolen heo forlæten heoræ æhtæ
78heoræ unðancæs, & heo his þenne nan þing nabbæð. Ylce dæȝ þis
79andwearde lif wonæð þe we lufiæð, ac þa pine ne woniæð þam
80monnum þe heom nu æfter earniæð. Uton we þenne, leofe men,
81þas þing alle ȝemunen & iþencean ꝥ þæt mennisce lichame is swa
82blowende wurten, þe for þare sunnæ hæte fordruȝiæð & forscrincæð.
83Swa eac þæs monnes ȝeoȝeþæ & feȝernes dæþ. Þenne
84þeo ælde on him siȝæð mid unhæle, all þare ȝeoȝeðe feȝernes aweȝ
85awit & forwurð. Ac Cristes ansyne is to lufiȝenne ofer alle oðre
86þing mucele swiðor þenne þes lichames ȝeoȝæðhad. Ac habbæþ
87eowre heorte on þisse eorþlice ȝewinne & earniæþ eow ꝥ heofenlice
88rice, þær is ece eadiȝnesse; þær eald ne graneð, ne child ne
89scræmeð. Ne bið þær þurst, ne hungor, ne wop, ne teoðe ȝegrind,
90ne morþer, ne man; ne þær nan ne swæltæð, forþam ðe þær
91ne byð nan acenned; ne þer ne byð sar, ne seoreȝæ, ne nan
92longing, ne unlustes ȝewin. Ac þær is þæs hestæn kynges kynerice,
93& þær wuniæþ alle þa þe Godes bodu heolden on ece murhðe;
94& heo dæȝhwamlice þene heofenlice kyng bliðne iseoð, & heo mid
95him & mid his halȝan libbæþ, & rixæð a on eccenesse. Hwæt we
96maȝen bi þissum underȝytæn & icnawon ꝥ þe Almihtiȝ Drihten nele
97ꝥ mon his ȝefenæ nænne þanc nyte. Ne þearf us na tweoȝean ꝥ he
98us næle eft þare læna muneȝiæn þæs þe he us her on weorlde to
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99forlæt. Æfre swa he us merlucor ȝyfð, swa we him swiðe
100þonciæn sceolen; & swa þrymlicor ar, swa beo þær maræ eadmodnesse.
101Þam ðe Drihten mycel sylþ, myceles he him eft æt biddæþ;
102& þam þe he her on worlde mucel to forlæteþ, mucel he to þam eft
103seceð. Æȝhwylc heah ar her on worlde bið mid frecednesse bewunden;
104& swa þeo ar bið mare, swa beoþ þa frecednesse swiðræn.
105Be þam we wullæð eow sume bysne sæcgen: ꝥ treow þe weaxeð
106on þam wude be ar up ofer alle þa oðre treon, & hit þenne feringæ
107strang wind wiðstont, þenne bið hit swiðor iwæȝed & iswenced
108þene þe oðer wudæ. Eac þa heahȝæ torræs & clifæs þe heaȝæ
109stondæþ ofer alle oþre eorðæ, heo eac þe mare rune nimæð, ȝyf heo
110feringæ to eorðe fællæþ. Swylce eac þa heaȝæ muntæs & dunæ þa
111ðe heaȝe stondæþ & torriæð ofer alne middæneard; þeahhwæðere
112heo habbæð wite þæs ealderdomes, ꝥ heo beoð mid heofenlice fure
113iþread & iþreste, & mid liȝe toslaȝene. Swa eac þa heaȝæ mihtæ
114her on worlde fællæð & drosæð & to lure wurðæþ. & þisre weorlde
115welæ wurðæþ to soreȝæ. Þeah we us scrydæn mid þam rædeste
116golde & mid þam hwiteste seolfre, & we mid þam feȝereste ȝymstanes
117all uten embihangene beon, þeah þe mon sceal ece ende
118abidæn; & þeah þa mihtiȝe men & þa ricostæn haten heom ræste
119wurcean of marmanstane & of goldfretewum, & heom haten mid
120ȝymmum & mid seolfrene ruwum ꝥ bed al wreon, & mid
121þe deorewurðeste godewebbe al uton ymbhon, - þeah cymeð þe
122bitter deaþ & todæleþ all ꝥ. Þenne beoð þa welæn & þa glenȝæ
123aȝotene, & þe þrym tobrocen & þa ȝymmæs toglidene, & ꝥ gold
124tosceaken, & þe lichame todroren & to dyste iwordon. For þam nis
125þissere weorlde wlite noht, ne þisses middaneardes feȝernes, ac
126he is hwilwendlic, & feallendlic, & brosnodlic, & drosendlic, &
127brocenlic, & yfellic, & forwordenlic. Swa swa ricu beoð her on
128worlde. Hwær beoð þæ rice caseres, & þa kyngæs, þe we iu cuþæn?
129Hwær beoð þa ealdormen þe boden setten? Hwær is domeræ
130domselt? Hwær beoð heoræ ofermedo, buton mid molde beþeaht,
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131& on wite wræcen ? Wa byð weorldscryftum buton heo mid rihte
132ræden & tæcæn. Swa bið eac þam læwæde monnum, buton heo
133heore scriffte lusten & hearæn, & þa haliȝe lare healden. Hwær com
134middaneardes ȝestreon? Hwær com weorlde welen? Hwær com
135folce feȝernes? Hwær comen þa men þe ȝeornlucost eahte tyloden,
136& oþrum eft yrfe læfden? Swylc bið þeo oferlufe eorþlice ȝestreonæ.
137Efne heo bið smeke ilic, oððe rænæs scuræs, þonne heo
138of heofenne swiðost reoseð, & raþe eft toglidene wurðæþ; & cymð
139þenne fæȝer wæder & brihte sunnæ. Swa wace & swa tealte beoð
140eorðlice dreames, & swa wace beoð eahtæ mid monnum. Swa bið
141todæled lichame & sawle, þenne heo bið of þam lichame ilæð; &
142bið syððæn ful uncuþ hu þe deme embe þa sawle wule. Ðenne
143nis us nan þing bætere ne sælre, buton ꝥ we lufien ure Drihten
144mid alle mode, & mid alle mæȝne, & mid alle inþoncæ. Swa hit bi
145þam iwriten is, 'Þe ðe his Drihten lufæð, & his bene to him sendeþ,
146he iheræð him eafre, & his mildse on him sendeþ.' Swa Crist sylf
147sæde, 'Þa ðe to me cerræð from heoræ gyltæs, & heoræ synnæ
148andedtæð on mine nome, & dædbote doþ mid fæstene & mid teare
149gute, & mid clæne ȝebedum & mid ælmes, - ic ȝeate heom mine milse;
150& sylle heom forȝefenesse, & alyfe heom mine rice, & to heofene wæȝ
151tæche, þær beoð alle gode, & þeo singale blis, & þeo mucele mede.
152Ic sylle for þisse eorþlice swinke þæ heofenlice reste, & for þisse
153læne rice, þa heofenlice ȝife; & for þissum earme life, ꝥ eadiȝ & ꝥ
154æȝeendlice rice.' Ealæ, iseliȝe beoð þa men þe ꝥ rice lufiæð; &
155unlæde beoð þa ðe him wiðsacæð. Hwæt fremæþ þam men, þeah
156he al middæneard on his aȝene æht istreone, ȝif þe deofel nimæþ eft
157his sawle? Oððe hwæt, þeah he libbe her on life a þusend wintræ?
158Al hit bið him unnyt, ȝyf he æfter his deaþe bið into hælle ilædd,
159& þær on pine wunæð a buton ende. Uton we wenden us nu to
160þam beteræ & cerræn to ure Drihten, & him ȝeorne iheræn, & his
161bodum healdon. & secea we ure chyrceæn mid clænnesse, & þær
162ȝeorne lystæn þare halȝæ lare. & þerinnæ nane spece ne spæken,
163buton ꝥ we mid stilnesse ure bedu singæn, & earniæn us ꝥ uplice
164rice. Þær is Kynges þrym isyne, & þær is feȝer englæ werod, &
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165apostola song, & Godes lof, & þæs heahsten kynges herung. Þer þa
166soðfeste men scinæð swa sunne, & men rixiæð swa englæs on
167heofene rice. We beoð ihatene & ilaðode to þam haliȝe hame & to
168þam kynelice friðstole, þær ðe Almihtiȝ Drihten leofæð ant rixæð
169mid alle his halȝæn a abuten ende. Amen.