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

Gē furðum manege geþoftan ic hæbbe, gyf hī mē hwæt secgað þæt hī selfe gesēwen oððe gehȳrdon, ic hys gelȳfe eall swā wel swā ic hit self gesēwe oððe gehȳrde. G. Ic gehīre nū þæt ðū gelȳfst þīnum hlāforde bet ðonne þē selfum and þīnum gefērum æmnwel ðē [22] selfum. Þū dēst ēac swīðe rihte and swīðe gerisenlic myd þȳ þæt þū swā gooda trēowa wið [23] hī hefst. Ac ic wolde þæt þū mē sēdest hweðer þē ðince Honorius, Þeodorius sunu, wīsra oððe unlēasera þonne Crīst, Godes Sunu.
A. Nese, lā nese; nē nāwer nēah! Ac me þincð unēðe þæt ðū hī tōgædere metst.
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Portrait of Alfred the Great Alfred the Great King Alfred's Old English Version of St…

G. Hwet sprec God þonne oftor, oððe hwæt sēde hē sōðlicor þurh [30] hys wītgan hys folce þonne be sāwlen undēadlicnesse [31] ? Oððe hwet sǣdon þā apostolos and ealle hālige federas gif hī ne sǣdon ymbe sāwla æccnesse and imbe heora undēadlicnesse? Oððe hwæt mǣnde Crīst, þā [hē] cwæð on hys godspelle: 'Þā unrihtwīsan farað on ǣce wītu and þā rihtwīsan on ǣce līfe?' Nū þū gehērst hwæs Crīst cwæð and hys þegnas; and ic gehērde ǣr þæt þū nāwuht ne twēodast ymbe Honorius segene and hys þegna: hwī twēost ðū þonne ymbe Crīstes, Godes Sunu, and ymbe hēra þegena sæcgena þe hȳ selfe tō sprēcon?
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Portrait of Alfred the Great Alfred the Great King Alfred's Old English Version of St…

G. Ic [10] wundrige hwī ðū swā swīðe georne and swā gewislic [wilnodest] þæt tō witanne, þætte nēfre nān man of ðisse carcerne þises andweardan lȳfes, swā gewislice witan ne myhte swā-swā ðū wilnast, þēah ðe manige gearnodon þæt hī hyt on þis andweardan līfe sweotolor ongeaton þonne oððre mænege hyt gelȳfden be þisra and be unlēasra manna sægena. Ne mæg [11] nǣfre nān [man] ongitan, ǣrðāmþe sēo sāwl byð [12] wyð þām lȳchaman gedēled, æall þæt hē witan wolde [12] ; ne furðum ðonne giet ēr dōmes dæge swā sweotole swā hē wolde [13] .
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