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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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1
III
2
THE OLD ENGLISH CATO.
3
4 Mann sceal þurh his modes snoternysse hine sylfne geglengen
5to wisre lare. Ne beo þu to slæpel ne to idelgeorne, for þan
6þe slæp & idel fedeð unðeawes & unhæle þæs lichamen. We
7cweðeð ꝥ ꝥ seo betst ætforen Gode, ꝥ man seo gescadwis & gemetigen
8cunne ægðer gea his spæce gea his swige, & wyte hwænne he
9gespecan habbe and hwænne him geandswerod seo. Þonne þu
10oðerne mann tæle, þonne geðænc þu ꝥ nan man nis lehterleas.
11Þeh þin wif hwæne to þe gewreige, ne gelef þu hire to raðe,
12for þan heo wyrcð hire oft manege to feond, for þan þe heo
13byð þan hlaforde holdre þone hire, for þan heo hateð oft ꝥ ꝥ
14se hlaford lufeð. Ne flit þu wið anwillne man ne wið oferspæcne.
15Manegan is forgyfen ꝥ he specan mæg & swyðe feawen
16ꝥ heo syn gescadwise. Wyte þæs mare þanc þe þu habbe, þone
17þæs þe þe man behate. Þær lyt gehaten byð, þær byð lyt leane.
18Ne beo þu to anwille, for þan þe is lihtlicre, ꝥ þu seo mid rihte
19ofertaled, þone þu ofertalie oðerne mid woge. ꝥ byð se
20mæste wurðscipe, ꝥ man cunne riht gecnawen, & hit þonne wylle
21geðafigen. Spec ofter emb oðres mannes weldæden, þone emb þine
22agene & cyð þa manega mannen. Ðonne þu eald seo & manegra
23ealdre cwides & lare geacsod habbe, gedo heo þonne þan gingren to
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24wytene. Ðeh þe man hwylces yfeles belige, & þu þe unscyldigne
25wyte, ne rech þu hwæt heo ræden oððe runigen, heo beteoð þe þæs
26þe heo sylfe þænceð. Ðonne þu gesæligest beo, geðænc þonne þæt
27þu muge þa gesælðen eaðe geðoligen, gyf heo þe on becumen, for
28þan þe se ænde & ꝥ anginn ne byð eallne weig gelice. Ne hope þu
29to oðres mannes deaðe, uncuð hwa lengest libbe. Ðeh þe earm
30freond lytel sylle, nym hit to mycele þance. Gyf þu earm wurðe,
31geðænc ꝥ þu hit eaðe geðolige, geðænc ꝥ þin moder þe hnacodne
32gebær. Ne ondræd þu þe deað to swyðe, ne leofeð man naht
33myriges þa hwyle þe he him ondrætt. Ne forgitt þu hine þeh
34ealne, þelæste þu þornige þæs ecen lifes. Gyf þe man mid yfelan
35geleanige ꝥ ꝥ þu to gode do, ne wyt þu hit na Gode, ac
36warne þe sylfen. Þe fæstere man gehealt ꝥ ꝥ he hæfð, gyf he him
37ondrætt, ꝥ hit ætsceote. Þeo man dælð sparlice, þe man nele ꝥ hit
38forberste. Gyf þu bearn habbe, lær heo þa cræftes, ꝥ heo mugen
39beo þan libben. Uncuð, hwu heom æt æhte getide. Cræft byð
40betre þone æht. Ne gehat þu nan þing twygge. Hwat sceal hit
41þe eft gehaten bute hit wære ær alogen? Ne becep þu þin witod
42on wen. Wyte mare þanc þæs þe þu habbe þone þæs þe þu wene.
43Ne beo þu to weamod. Of eorsunge cumð hatunge, & of þære
44geðwærnysse lufe; & þær þær þu nede eorsigen scule, gemetega ꝥ
45þeh. Forber oð ꝥ þu eaðe wrecan muge. Geðyld byð mihtene mæst.
46Help æigðer gea cuðen gea uncuðen, þær þu muge; uncuð hware
47hwa oðres beðurfe. Ne wilne þu ofer þinne mæðe to wytene emb
48þa heofonlice þing, for þu eart eorðlic mann, axe þe embe þan.
49Ne beo þu on þinre eorre to ofermodig, for mod adweleð þone
50mann, ꝥ he ne mæg riht gecnawen. Beo gehealden on þan þe þu
51habbe. Unpleolucar man rowð mid lytle bate on lytle
52watere þone mid mycelan scipe on mycele wætere. Ne wen þu
53na, ꝥ se yfele aht godes gestreone mid his yfele, for þan þeh hit
54sume hwile forholen beo, hit wurð eft a bemeldod. Þonne þe
55toberð wið unspedigre mænn þone þu sylf beo, forber him &
56geðænc ꝥ wel oft man ofercumð þone þe hine ær ofercom, swa man
57on ealden bigspellan cwyðð, 'Hwilen byð esnes tid, hwilen oðres.'
58Ne sech þu na þurh hlotes hwu þe gelimpen scule, ac do swa
59þu betst muge. Eaðe gerædeð God his wille beo þe & þine þearfe,
60þeh he hit þe ær ne secge.
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61 Forlæt ꝥ þu nabbe to oðres mannes gode ande, for þu swæncst
62þe sylfen swyðer þone hine.
63 Ne beo þu to ormod, þeh þe beo unriht gedemed. Lyt manna
64byð lange gefagen þæs þe heo oðren ætwræncð. Gyf þu wið hwan
65saca hæfdest, & gyt þonne gesemed wæron, ne ætwit þu eft þa
66ealde saca, bute he heo eft geneowed habbe.
67 Ne do þu naðer, ne þe sylfen ne here, ne þe sylfen ne leh;
68æigðer þære is dysigre manna þeaw, þe swincað æfter idele gelpe.
69Þæt is þeh wisedom, ꝥ wis mann læte dysig, & ꝥ is ꝥ mæste
70dysig, ꝥ dysig man læte wisedom. Swa mann mare specð, swa him
71læs manna gelefeð. Gyf þu hwæt on þin druncan misdo, ne wit
72þu hit na þær drince, for þan þu his weolde þe sylf. Nafe þu to
73yfel ellen, þeh þe hwylc unwille on becume. Oft bryncð seo wyrd
74þone wille, þe eft byð andergelde.
75 Ne wurðe þe næfre swa wa, ꝥ þu þe ne wene betere, for þan þe
76se wene þe ne lætt næfre forwurðen. Ne ceos þu nænne mann
77beo his æhte, ne þin agen ne amerr. Manig man hæfð mycel fex on
78forheafde & gewurð þeh færlice calow.
79 Bisne þe beo sume mæn, for þan þe ælces mannes lif byð sumes
80lare & forbisne. Ne forswige þu na ꝥ untæle gedon beo, þelæste
81mæn wenen ꝥ hit þe lichige. Gyf þe man for rihtre scylde
82brochige, geðole hit wel & beo his wel geðæfe. Spec þe gemætlice
83& eac swa gebær, þelæst man þe leasunge teo, þær þu wene, ꝥ þu
84þine cyste habbe, & þu þe ænigre wille wene. Ne hlyst þu na
85unscadwises mannes word, for þan þe manig man hæfð þone þeaw,
86ꝥ he ne cann nytt specan & naðelæs ne mæig swigigen.
87Hit byð dysig ꝥ man speca ær, þone he þænce. Ne rece þu na
88weamodes wifes wopes, for þan heo þe þæncð oft mid hire wope
89beswican. Ne ondræd þu þe deað to swyðe for nanre wite, þeh he
90þe full god ne þyncce, he byþ ælces yfeles ænde & ne cumð he næfre
91ma. Forsih þysser wurlde wlænce, gyf þu wylle beon welig on
92þinen mode. For þan þa þe þas welen gitsigeð, byð simle wædle &
93eremingas on heora mode. Ac beo gehealden on þine gecynde,
94þonne hæfest þu æfre genoh. Gyf þu þin agen amerre, ne wit þu
95hit na Gode, ac warne þe sylfen. Bruc þinre æhte þahwile
96þe þu hal seo. Se unhale gitsere ah ꝥ feoh, & ne ah hine sylfne.
97Geðole þines hlafordes & þines larðeawes eorre & his word, þeh he
98þe cide. Gyf þe þynce ꝥ þu towræne sy, wit ꝥ þinre ceola, for
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99þan seo ceola is þære wambe freond, þanen þe cumeð þa unnytte
100lustes. Dysig mann him ondrætt nietes & ne ondrætt þone mann,
101þe him teale lærð. Gyf þu strægncðe habbe, bruc þære to nytte.
102Gyf þu wylle godne hlyse habben, ne fagene þu nanes
103yfeles. Leorne æthweige, þeh þe þine welen forlæten, ne forlæte
104þe na þin cræft. Ne beo þu na oferspæce, ac hlyst ælces mannes
105wordan swyðe georne, for þan þa word geopenigeð ælces mannes
106wille & his þeawes, þeh he heo hwilen behelige. Gyf þu hwylcne
107cræft cunne, bega þone georne. Swa swa sorge & embhogen
108geeceð mannes mod, swa geecð se cræft his are. Leorne æfre
109æthweige æt þan wisen, ꝥ þu muge læren þa unwise; æiðer þære
110is swyðe nytt weorc & gerisendlic. Gyf þu wylle hal beon, drinc
111þe gedæftlice; ælc oferfylle & ælc idel fett unhæle. Ne læt þu na
112unlofed ꝥ þu swutele ongyte ꝥ ꝥ licwurðe seo; þær þe aht twenige,
113lofe ꝥ gemettlice, þelæste þe man leasunge teo. Ne treowwe þu na
114smylte wætere, ne bilewitne mann ne forsih. Of stille wæter staðe
115brecað. Onginn ꝥ þe to onhagige. Treowlicre hit is beo staðe to
116rowen, þonne ut on sæ to segeligen. Gyf þe æt hwylcen gesælðen
117tosæle, acse þe, hweðer ænigen ær swylc gesælde, þonne miht
118þu hit þe eð geðoligen. Ne flit þu na wið rihtwisen
119mænn & wið unscyldigne, for þan þe God wrecð unrihte domes.
120Ðeh þe þin eald gefere abelge, ne forgyt þu, gyf he þe æfre ær
121gecwemde. Ere mid þinen oxen, & offre mid þinre recele. Dysige
122byð þa mæn, þe weneð, ꝥ heo God gecwemen, þonne heo cwelleð
123heora oxen. Ælce dæige þu byst on roðe wene, ælce dæige þu
124scealt Gode þancigen þines lifes. Þeh þe manig man herige, ne
125gelef þu heom to wel, ac geðænc þe sylf hwæt hit soðes seo, læt þe
126sceomigen þæs hlysen. Gyf þe man onlige, fægene þæs, gyf þe
127man soþ secge, & þeh gemetelice. Mæng þa blisse wið þa unrotnysse,
128for þan gyf heora aðer byð aht lange buten oðre, þonne is
129hit ungemæte, & þu miht þe uneaðe aberen, þas þe þe on becumð,
130for þan heora naðer ne mæig beon æltæwe buten oðren, þe ma þe
131wæt mæig beon buten drygen, oððe wearm buten cealden, oððe
132liht bute þeostren. Leorne manige bech & geher manig spell, wyte
133þeh hwylcen þu gelefen scule. Feale writeð mæn ungeleaflices.
134Ne merr eall ꝥ þu habbe, þelæste þe beðearfe to oðres mannes.
135Ne recc þu toswyðe, hwu seo wyrd wandrige. Se þe
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136fullice þas wurld forsicð, ne ondræt he deað swyðe. Ðonne hit
137æfre geðwærest seo, ondræd þe þonne ungeðwærnysse, & þonne hit
138þe frecnest seo, wen þe þonne frofre & selre. Beo þe æfre getreowre,
139þone þe man to gelefe, þelæste mæn wenen, ꝥ þu nane
140treowðe nabbe bute wið hlysen. Se þe him eallne weig ondrætt,
141se byð swylce he beo ealne weig cwellende. Gyf þu þe wylle don
142maniges betere, þonne do þu anes wyrse. Gyf þu wylle, ꝥ þe
143manige olæchien, þonne olæce þu anen georne. Gyf þu nelle nanen
144olæcen, forlæt þonne eall, ꝥ þu age, bute wiste & gewæden & tolen
145to swylce weorca, swylce þu cunne. Olæce þonne Goden ana & ne
146wilne þonne nanes mannes olæcunge. Gyf þu wylt æt manega
147mannen habben ꝥ ꝥ þe licað, þu scealt eac æt manegan habben ꝥ þe
148mislicað. Gyf þu wylt æt anen mæn habben ꝥ þe licað, þu scealt
149him oft geðafigen ꝥ þe ne licað. Ne scealt þu æt manega mannen
150heora god habben, bute þu muge hwilen heora yfel geðafigen, for
151þan þe nan þing nis full god bute God ane. Ster þeh ælces yfeles,
152swa þu swyðest muge, swa þeh, ꝥ þu hit to wyrrsen ne
153gebringe. Ne byð ꝥ yfel to nahten gebett, þe byð to wyrsen
154gebroht. Gemetnysse byð ednysse. Gyf ænig man byð a ðe
155wurðere, þe hine manig wis man forsicð, þonne byð ælc dysig man
156þe unwurðre, a ðe he mare rice hæfeð. On ælcere ea swa wyrse
157fordes swa betere fisces. Hweðer sceal cepinge þe lofigen, þe se þe
158heo syllen sceall, þe se þe heo byggen wyle? Wa þære þeode, þe
159hæfð ælðeodigne cyng, ungemetfæstne, feohgeorne & unmildheortne,
160for on þære þeode byð his gitsung & his modes gnornung on his
161earde. Se þe anwealdes wilneð ofer his hlaford, for twam þingen
162he his willneð: oðer for he wyle þone hlaford lecgen anunder hine
163& setligen him mid þan, ꝥ he sylf sitte þe ufer; oððe he wyle þone
164hlaford habben up ofer hine sylfne & stigen hym sylf æfter & eac
165onhangigen, scufen þeh simle þone hlaford beforen. Ne acse þu
166nanre wicce rædes, ne sech þu riht æt deaden. Soðlice God
167ascuneð swylce þing. Ne nym þu medsceattes, for heo ablændeð
168wisra manna geðancas & wændeð rihtwisra word.