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The Metrical Epilogue to MS 41, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 11 sections

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   Bidde ic eac æghwylcne mann,

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   brego, rices weard, þe þas boc ræde

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   and þa bredu befo, fira aldor,

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   þæt gefyrðrige þone writre wynsum cræfte

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   þe ðas boc awrat bam handum twam,

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   þæt he mote manega gyt mundum synum

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   geendigan, his aldre to willan,

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   and him þæs geunne se ðe ah ealles geweald,

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   rodera waldend, þæt he on riht mote

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    oð his daga ende drihten herigan.

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    Amen. Geweorþe þæt.

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