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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 2,936 sections

1. 600

   þurh þæs laðan læn þe hie mid ligenum beswac,

2. 601

   dearnenga bedrog, þe hire for his dædum com,

3. 602

   þæt hire þuhte hwitre heofon and eorðe,

4. 603

   and eall þeos woruld wlitigre, and geweorc godes

5. 604

   micel and mihtig, þeah heo hit þurh monnes geþeaht

6. 605

   ne sceawode; ac se sceaða georne

7. 606

   swicode ymb þa sawle þe hire ær þa siene onlah,

8. 607

   þæt heo swa wide wlitan meahte

9. 608

   ofer heofonrice. þa se forhatena spræc

10. 609

    þurh feondscipe (nalles he hie freme lærde):

11. 610

    "þu meaht nu þe self geseon, swa ic hit þe secgan ne þearf,

12. 611

    Eue seo gode, þæt þe is ungelic

13. 612

    wlite and wæstmas, siððan þu minum wordum getruwodest,

14. 613

    læstes mine lare. Nu scineð þe leoht fore

15. 614

    glædlic ongean þæt ic from gode brohte

16. 615

    hwit of heofonum; nu þu his hrinan meaht.

17. 616

    Sæge Adame hwilce þu gesihðe hæfst

18. 617

    þurh minne cime cræfta. Gif giet þurh cuscne siodo

19. 618

    læst mina lara, þonne gife ic him þæs leohtes genog

20. 619

    þæs ic þe swa godes gegired hæbbe.

21. 620

    Ne wite ic him þa womcwidas, þeah he his wyrðe ne sie

22. 621

    to alætanne; þæs fela he me laðes spræc."

23. 622

    Swa hire eaforan sculon æfter lybban:

24. 623

    þonne hie lað gedoð, hie sculon lufe wyrcean,

25. 624

    betan heora hearran hearmcwyde ond habban his hyldo forð.

26. 625

    þa gieng to Adame idesa scenost,

27. 626

    wifa wlitegost þe on woruld come,

28. 627

    forþon heo wæs handgeweorc heofoncyninges,

29. 628

    þeah heo þa dearnenga fordon wurde,

30. 629

    forlæd mid ligenum, þæt hie lað gode

31. 630

    þurh þæs wraðan geþanc weorðan sceolden,

32. 631

    þurh þæs deofles searo dom forlætan,

33. 632

    hierran hyldo, hefonrices þolian

34. 633

    monige hwile. Bið þam men full wa

35. 634

    þe hine ne warnað þonne he his geweald hafað!

36. 635

    Sum heo hire on handum bær, sum hire æt heortan læg,

37. 636

    æppel unsælga, þone hire ær forbead

38. 637

    drihtna drihten, deaðbeames ofet,

39. 638

    and þæt word acwæð wuldres aldor,

40. 639

    þæt þæt micle morð menn ne þorfton

41. 640

    þegnas þolian, ac he þeoda gehwam

42. 641

    hefonrice forgeaf, halig drihten,

43. 642

    widbradne welan, gif hie þone wæstm an

44. 643

    lætan wolden þe þæt laðe treow

45. 644

    on his bogum bær, bitre gefylled;

46. 645

    þæt wæs deaðes beam þe him drihten forbead.

47. 646

    Forlec hie þa mid ligenum se wæs lað gode,

48. 647

    on hete heofoncyninges, and hyge Euan,

49. 648

    wifes wac geþoht, þæt heo ongan his wordum truwian,

50. 649

    læstan his lare, and geleafan nom

51. 650

    þæt he þa bysene from gode brungen hæfde

52. 651

    þe he hire swa wærlice wordum sægde,

53. 652

    iewde hire tacen and treowa gehet,

54. 653

    his holdne hyge. þa heo to hire hearran spræc:

55. 654

    "Adam, frea min, þis ofet is swa swete,

56. 655

    bliðe on breostum, and þes boda sciene,

57. 656

    godes engel god, ic on his gearwan geseo

58. 657

    þæt he is ærendsecg uncres hearran,

59. 658

    hefoncyninges. His hyldo is unc betere

60. 659

    to gewinnanne þonne his wiðermedo.

61. 660

    Gif þu him heodæg wuht hearmes gesprece,

62. 661

    he forgifð hit þeah, gif wit him geongordom

63. 662

    læstan willað. Hwæt scal þe swa laðlic strið

64. 663

    wið þines hearran bodan? Unc is his hyldo þearf;

65. 664

    he mæg unc ærendian to þam alwaldan,

66. 665

    heofoncyninge. Ic mæg heonon geseon

67. 666

    hwær he sylf siteð, (þæt is suð and east),

68. 667

    welan bewunden, se ðas woruld gesceop;

69. 668

    geseo ic him his englas ymbe hweorfan

70. 669

    mid feðerhaman, ealra folca mæst,

71. 670

    wereda wynsumast. Hwa meahte me swelc gewit gifan,

72. 671

    gif hit gegnunga god ne onsende,

73. 672

    heofones waldend? Gehyran mæg ic rume

74. 673

    and swa wide geseon on woruld ealle

75. 674

    ofer þas sidan gesceaft, ic mæg swegles gamen

76. 675

    gehyran on heofnum. Wearð me on hige leohte

77. 676

    utan and innan, siðþan ic þæs ofætes onbat.

78. 677

    Nu hæbbe ic his her on handa, herra se goda;

79. 678

    gife ic hit þe georne. Ic gelyfe þæt hit from gode come,

80. 679

    broht from his bysene, þæs me þes boda sægde

81. 680

    wærum wordum. Hit nis wuhte gelic

82. 681

    elles on eorðan, buton swa þes ar sægeð,

83. 682

    þæt hit gegnunga from gode come."

84. 683

    Hio spræc him þicce to and speon hine ealne dæg

85. 684

    on þa dimman dæd þæt hie drihtnes heora

86. 685

    willan bræcon. Stod se wraða boda,

87. 686

    legde him lustas on and mid listum speon,

88. 687

    fylgde him frecne; wæs se feond full neah

89. 688

    þe on þa frecnan fyrd gefaren hæfde

90. 689

    ofer langne weg; leode hogode

91. 690

    on þæt micle morð men forweorpan,

92. 691

    forlæran and forlædan, þæt hie læn godes,

93. 692

    ælmihtiges gife an forleten,

94. 693

    heofenrices geweald. Hwæt, se hellsceaða

95. 694

    gearwe wiste þæt hie godes yrre

96. 695

    habban sceoldon and hellgeþwing,

97. 696

    þone nearwan nið niede onfon,

98. 697

    siððan hie gebod godes forbrocen hæfdon,

99. 698

    þa he forlærde mid ligenwordum

100. 699

     to þam unræde idese sciene,

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