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The Seasons for Fasting

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 230 sections

1. 200

   þurh dryhtnes ege dugeþum healdan,

2. 201

   nu þa, folces mann, fyrna ne gyme

3. 202

   þe gehalgod mann her gefremme,

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   ac þu lare scealt lustum fremman

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   ryhthicgennde þe he to ræde tæchð,

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   drince he him þæt drofe oððe þæt dæghluttre

7. 206

   wæter of wege, þæt is wuldres lare.

8. 207

   Ac ic secgan mæg, sorgum hremig,

9. 208

   hu þa sacerdas sace niwiað,

10. 209

    dæghwamlice dryhten gremiað

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    and mid æfeste ælcne forlædað

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    þe him fylian wyle folces manna;

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    sona hie on mergan mæssan syngað

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    and forþegide, þurste gebæded,

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    æfter tæppere teoþ geond stræta.

16. 215

    Hwæt! Hi leaslice leogan ongynnað

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    and þone tæppere tyhtaþ gelome,

18. 217

    secgaþ þæt he synleas syllan mote

19. 218

    ostran to æte and æþele wyn

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    emb morgentyd, þæs þe me þingeð

21. 220

    þæt hund and wulf healdað þa ilcan

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    wisan on worulde and ne wigliað

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    hwæne hie to mose fon, mæða bedæled.

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    Hi þonne sittende sadian aginnað,

25. 224

    sinne semað, syllað gelome,

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    cweðað goddlife gumena gehwilcum

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    þæt wines dreng welhwa mote,

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    siþþan he mæssan hafað, meþig þicgan,

29. 228

    etan ostran eac and oþerne

30. 229

    fisc of flode

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