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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 26

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 119 sections

1. 100

   mod onwendan monna ænig

2. 101

   mid drycræftum, þeah hio gedon meahte

3. 102

   þæt ða lichoman lange þrage

4. 103

   onwend wurdon. Is þæt wundorlic

5. 104

   mægencræft micel moda gehwilces

6. 105

   ofer lichoman lænne and sænne.

7. 106

   Swylcum and swylcum þu meaht sweotole ongitan

8. 107

   þæt ðæs lichoman listas and cræftas

9. 108

   of ðæm mode cumað monna gehwylcum,

10. 109

    anlepra ælc. þu meaht eaðe ongitan

11. 110

    þætte ma dereð monna gehwelcum

12. 111

    modes unðeaw þonne mettrymnes

13. 112

    lænes lichoman. Ne þearf leoda nan

14. 113

    wenan þære wyrde þæt þæt werige flæsc

15. 114

    þæt mod mæge monna æniges

16. 115

    eallunga to him æfre onwendan,

17. 116

    ac þa unðeawas ælces modes

18. 117

    and þæt ingeþonc ælces monnes

19. 118

    þone lichoman lit þider hit wile.

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