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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 16

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 24 sections

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   Se þe wille anwald agon, ðonne sceal he ærest tilian

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   þæt he his selfes on sefan age

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   anwald innan, þy læs he æfre sie

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   his unþeawum eall underðyded,

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   ado of his mode mislicra fela

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   þara ymbhogona þe him unnet sie,

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   læte sume hwile siofunga ana

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   ermða sinra. þeah him eall sie

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   þes middangeard, swa swa merestreamas

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    utan belicgað, on æht gifen,

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    efne swa wide swa swa westmest nu

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    an iglond ligð ut on garsecg,

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    þær nængu bið niht on sumera

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    ne wuhte þon ma on wintra dæg

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    toteled tidum, þæt is Tile haten;

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    þeah nu anra hwa ealles wealde

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    þæs iglandes, and eac þonan

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    oð Indeas eastewearde;

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    þeah he nu þæt eall agan mote,

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    hwy bið his anwald auhte ðy mara,

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    gif he siððan nah his selfes geweald

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    ingeðances, and hine eorneste

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    wel ne bewarenað wordum and dædum

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    wið ða unþeawas þe we ymb sprecað?

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