Ælfric

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Chair of Saint Peter

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Ælfric,  Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Chair of Saint Peter

“ On anginne middan-eardes · cƿæð se ælmihtiga god ·⁠211
beoð gemenig-fylde · ⁊ ge-fyllað þas eorðan ·
⁊ crist ƿolde on his to-cyme clænnysse aræran ·
⁊ his halgan hired · heold on clænnysse ·
Menn hæfdon on frymðe heora magan to ƿife ·⁠215
⁊ sƿa ƿel mosten for ðære ƿif-leaste ·
⁊ gif nu hƿa sƿa deð næfð he godes bletsunge ·
Under moyses ǽ · moste se bisceop habban⁠218
an ge-æƿnod ƿíf · for þære geƿissan æfter-gencgnysse ·
 is  se sunu sceolde symle fón to þam hade ·
æfter his fæder geendunge ⁊ nan oðer ne moste · ”
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Ælfric,  Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Chair of Saint Peter

“ Hire ƿæs sum oþer mæden geferlæht felicula gehaten⁠249
ful-fremed on godes ege · ⁊ on ealre godnysse ·
ac petronella ƿæs sƿyðe ƿlitig on hiƿe ·
Þa com sum heretoga · se ƿæs gehaten flaccus ·⁠252
mid mycelre fare to þære mæran petronellan ·
ƿolde hi niman to ƿife for hire ƿlitigan hiƿe ·
Þa cƿ̅  halige mæden to þam hæþenan menn ·⁠255
hƿi come þu mid ƿæpnum ⁊ mid ƿælreoƿum cempum
to anum mædene unmihtigum to ƿige ·
ac gif ðu me habban ƿylt hat cuman to me
æðelborenne ƿíf · ⁊ ƿlitige mædenu
nu æfter ðrym dagum · ⁊ ic efne mid him
to þinum huse cume · ⁊ he hire gelyfde · ”
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