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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — In Caput Ieiunii…

Eft is us to smeagenne hu se ælmihtiga crist⁠284
his eadmodnysse cydde · þaða he to cƿale sealde
hine sylfne for us · ⁊ sƿa ure synna æt-bræd ·
hu mæg nu manna eadmodnys beon mycel geþuht ·
togeanes his eadmodnysse þe ælmihtig god is ·
Ƿe sædon nu þis spel · forðan þe her bið læs manna⁠289
on ƿodnes dæg · ðonne nu to dæg beoð ·
⁊ eoƿ gebyrað  ge beon gescrifene ·
on ðissere ƿucan · oððe huru on ðære oðre ·
Sy him á ƿuldor ðe leofað · ⁊ rixað on ecnysse ·⁠293
ece drihten · AMen
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — In Caput Ieiunii…

Se man þe ƿile his synna andettan ⁊ gebetan ·⁠254
he sceal dón þonne forgifnysse eallum þam mannum
þe him ær abulgon · sƿa sƿa hit stent on þam pater-nostre ·
⁊ sƿa sƿa crist cƿæð on | his godspelle ·
He cƿæð ·⁠257
Buton ge forgifan þam mannū þe ƿið eoƿ agyltað⁠258
mid inƿerdre heortan · nele se heofonlica fæder
eoƿ forgifan eoƿre gyltas ·
Ælc cristen man sceal cunnan his pater-noster · ⁊ his credan ·⁠261
Mid þam pater-nostre he sceal hine gebiddan ·⁠262
⁊ mid þam credan he sceal his geleafan getrymman ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — In Caput Ieiunii…

On þære ylcan ƿucan com sum truð to þæs bisceopes hirede ·⁠059
se ne gymde nanes lenctenes fæstenes · ac eode him to kicenan ·
þa hƿíle ðe se bisceop mæssode ⁊ began to etenne ·
he feoll þa æt ðære forman snæde
under-becc gesƿogen · ⁊ spaƿ blod ·
ac him gebyrede sƿa ðeah  feorh earfoðlice ·
Us sæde eac oft aþelƿold se halga bisceop⁠065
þe nu ƿyrcð ƿundra ðurh god ·
 he cuðe anne mann mid ælfege bisceope ·
se ƿolde drincan on lenctene þonne hine lyste ·
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