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Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 125 sections

1. 100

   gold to geoce for godes egsan,

2. 101

   þonne he hit ær hydeð þenden he her leofað.

3. 102

   Micel biþ se meotudes egsa, forþon hi seo molde oncyrreð;

4. 103

   se gestaþelade stiþe grundas,

5. 104

   eorþan sceatas ond uprodor.

6. 105

   Dol biþ se þe him his dryhten ne ondrædeþ; cymeð him se deað unþinged.

7. 106

   Eadig bið se þe eaþmod leofaþ; cymeð him seo ar of heofonum,

8. 107

   meotod him þæt mod gestaþelað, forþon he in his meahte gelyfeð.

9. 108

   Stieran mon sceal strongum mode, ond þæt on staþelum healdan,

10. 109

    ond gewis werum, wisum clæne,

11. 110

    scyle monna gehwylc mid gemete healdan

12. 111

    wiþ leofne ond wið laþne bealo,

13. 112

    þeah þe he hine wille fyres fulne

14. 113

    oþþe on bæle forbærnedne

15. 114

    his geworhtne wine. Wyrd biþ swiþre,

16. 115

    meotud meahtigra þonne ænges monnes gehygd.

17. 116

    Uton we hycgan hwær we ham agen,

18. 117

    ond þonne geþencan hu we þider cumen,

19. 118

    ond we þonne eac tilien, þæt we to moten

20. 119

    in þa ecan eadignesse,

21. 120

    þær is lif gelong in lufan dryhtnes,

22. 121

    hyht in heofonum. þæs sy þam halgan þonc,

23. 122

    þæt he usic geweorþade, wuldres ealdor,

24. 123

    ece dryhten, in ealle tid.

25. 124

    Amen.

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