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Portrait of Alfred the Great Alfred the Great King Alfred's Old English Version of St…

Deus cui nos fides excitat, spes erigit, charitas jungit. Deus per quem vincimus inimicum, te deprecor. Deus per quem accepimus ne omnino periremus.
Drihten, þū þe ūs manast þæt wē wacian, ðū ūs sealdeste gescēadwīsnesse þæt wē magon tōsēcan and tōscēadan [1] good and yfel, and flēon þat [2] yfel. Þū þe ūs sealdest þæt geþyld, þæt we ūs ne forþōhton on nānum geswince nē on nānum ungelimpe. Nys þæt nān wundor, forþām þū swīðe wel rīcsast, [3] and gedǣst þæt wē ðē wel þēawiað. Đū ūs wel lērdest þæt wē ongēatan þæt ūs wæs fremde and lēne þæt ðæt wē īuwedon þæt ūre āgen wēre, þæt ys, weoruldwela
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Portrait of Alfred the Great Alfred the Great King Alfred's Old English Version of St…

Hū ne wōst ðū nū þæt ǣlc þāra manna þe ōðerne swīðe lufað, þæt hine lyst bet þaccian and cyssan ðonne oðerne on bær līc, þonne þēr þær clāðas beotwēona bēoð? Ic ongyte nū þæt [þū] lufast þone wīsdōm swā swīðe, and þē lyst hine swā wel nacode ongitan and gefrēdan þæt þū noldest þæt ǣnig [3] clāð betweuh wēre; ac hē hine wyle swīðe seldon ǣnegum mæn swā openlice geāwian. On ðām tīmum þe hē ǣnig lim swā bær ēowian wile, þonne ēowað hē hyt swīðe fēawum mannum; ac ic nāt hū þū hym onfōn mage mid geglofedum handum. Đū scealt ǣac dōn bær līc ongēan, gyf ðū hine gefrēdan wilt.
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Portrait of Alfred the Great Alfred the Great King Alfred's Old English Version of St…

Licet enim mihi in quovis amare rationem, cum illum jure oderim qui male utitur eo quod amo. Itaque tanto magis amo amicos meos, quanto magis bene ntuntur anima rationali, vel certe quantum desiderant ea bene uti.
G. Genōh wel ðū hyt ongitst, and genōh rihte. Ac gyf þē nū hwā sǣdæ þæt hē mæhte þē gelǣran [1] hū þū myhtast [2] ongytan God swā sweotole þæt hē wēre þē swā cūð swā þē nū ys [3] Alippius, þīn cniht, hweðer ðē þonne on dām genōh þūhte, oðde hū swīðe woldest ðū him þæs þancian?
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