The Meters of Boethius: Meter 26

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Ic þe mæg eaðe ealdum and leasum
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spellum andreccan spræce gelice
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efne ðisse ilcan þe wit ymb sprecað.
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Hit gesælde gio on sume tide
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ðæt Aulixes under hæfde
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ðæm casere cynericu twa.
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He wæs þracia ðioda aldor
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and Retie rices hirde.
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Wæs his freadrihtnes folccuð nama,
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Agamemnon, se ealles weold
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Creca rices. Cuð wæs wide
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þæt on þa tide Troia gewin
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wearð under wolcnum. For wiges heard
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Creca drihten campsted secan,
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Aulixes mid, an hund scipa
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lædde ofer lagustream, sæt longe ðær
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tyn winter full. þa sio tid gelomp
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þæt hi ðæt rice geræht hæfdon,
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diore gecepte drihten Creca
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Troia burg tilum gesiðum.
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ða ða Aulixes leafe hæfde,
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ðracia cining, þæt he þonan moste,
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he let him behindan hyrnde ciolas
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nigon and hundnigontig, nænigne þonan
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merehengesta ma þonne ænne
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ferede on fifelstream, famigbordon,
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ðriereðre ceol; þæt bið ðæt mæste
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Creciscra scipa. þa wearð ceald weder,
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stearc storma gelac; stunede sio brune
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yð wið oðre, ut feor adraf
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on Wendelsæ wigendra scola
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up on þæt igland þær Apolines
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dohtor wunode dægrimes worn.
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Wæs se Apollinus æðeles cynnes,
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Iobes eafora, se wæs gio cyning.
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Se licette litlum and miclum
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gumena gehwylcum þæt he good wære,
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hehst and halgost; swa se hlaford þa
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þæt dysige folc on gedwolan lædde,
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oððæt him gelyfde leoda unrim,
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forðæm he wæs mid rihte rices hirde,
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hiora cynecynnes. Cuð is wide
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þæt on ða tide þeoda æghwilc
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hæfdon heora hlaford for ðone hehstan god,
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and weorðodon swa swa wuldres cining,
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gif he to ðæm rice wæs on rihte boren.
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Wæs þæs Iobes fæder god eac swa he;
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Saturnus ðone sundbuende
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heton, hæleða bearn. Hæfdon ða mægða
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ælcne æfter oðrum for ecne god.
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Sceolde eac wesan Apollines
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dohtor diorboren, dysiges folces,
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gumrinca gyden; cuðe galdra fela,
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drifan drycræftas. Hio gedwolan fylgde
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manna swiðost manegra þioda,
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cyninges dohtor; sio Circe wæs
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haten for herigum. Hio ricsode
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on ðæm iglonde þe Aulixes,
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cining þracia, com ane to
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ceole liðan. Cuð wæs sona
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eallre þære mænige þe hire mid wunode
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æþelinges sið. Hio mid ungemete
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lissum lufode liðmonna frean,
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and he eac swa same ealle mægne
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efne swa swiðe hi on sefan lufode,
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þæt he to his earde ænige nyste
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modes mynlan ofer mægð giunge;
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ac he mid þæm wife wunode siððan,
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oððæt him ne meahte monna ænig
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ðegna sinra þær mid wesan,
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ac hi for ðæm yrmðum eardes lyste;
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mynton forlætan leofne hlaford.
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ða ongunnon wercan werðeoda spell,
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sædon þæt hio sceolde mid hire scinlace
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beornas forbredan, and mid balocræftum
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wraðum weorpan on wildra lic
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cyninges þegnas, cyspan siððan
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and mid racentan eac ræpan mænigne.
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Sume hi to wulfum wurdon, ne meahton þonne word forðbringan,
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ac hio þragmælum ðioton ongunnon.
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Sume wæron eaforas, a grymetedon
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ðonne hi sares hwæt siofian scioldon.
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þa ðe leon wæron ongunnon laðlice
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yrrenga ryn a ðonne hi sceoldon
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clipian for corðre. Cnihtas wurdon,
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ealde ge giunge, ealle forhwerfde
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to sumum diore, swelcum he æror
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on his lifdagum gelicost wæs,
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butan þam cyninge, þe sio cwen lufode.
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Nolde þara oþra ænig onbitan
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mennisces metes, ac hi ma lufedon
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diora drohtað, swa hit gedefe ne wæs.
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Næfdon hi mare monnum gelices
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eorðbuendum ðonne ingeþonc;
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hæfde anra gehwylc his agen mod,
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þæt wæs þeah swiðe sorgum gebunden
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for ðæm earfoðum þe him on sæton.
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Hwæt, ða dysegan men þe ðysum drycræftum
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longe gelyfdon, leasum spellum,
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wisson hwæðre þæt þæt gewit ne mæg

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