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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Maurus

He gegaderode þa sƿiðe gode ƿyrhtan gehƿanon · ⁠157
⁊ arærde  mynster eall be maures ræde ·
ƿið þa mycclan éá · þe menn hatað liger ·
Hƿæt ða on sumū dæge · sæton him æt-gædere · ⁠160
florus · ⁊ maurus · to middan þam ƿyrhtum ·
⁊ maurus rædde · ⁊ rehte hit flore ·
þa feol sum preost færlice of þam ƿeorce ·
sƿá  hé samcucu læg · sƿeltendum gelíc ·
⁊ fleoƿ eall blode · ac maurus hine hét beran
to martines cyrcan · ⁊ maurus inn eode ·
⁊ bæd ðone ælmihtigan for his arfæstnysse ·
 hé þam preoste gemiltsode · ⁊ hine mihtelice gehælde ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Maurus

He cƿæð  he ne mihte embe munuc-líf þa smeagen · ⁠119
be oðres bisceopes dihte · ac ƿolde beon embe his þincg ·
be his agenum dihte · ⁊ ge-dreoh-læcan his hamas ·
Hi feordon þa þanon fram þære scire bisceope · ⁠122
⁊ god him foresceaƿode on sumere oðre scire
on francena rice fulgode ƿununge ·
Sum forð-þegn ƿæs ða ƿelig · on þam lande · ⁠125
florus gehaten · ⁊ se hæfde gemynt
mynster to arærenne · ⁊ mid munecum gesettan ·
gif he ænige geaxode · þe æƿfæste ƿæron ·
forðan þe benedictus hlisa · on  land becuman ƿæs ·
⁊ him ƿearð eac gecydd be maures to-cyme ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Maurus

On sumne sæl eode se halga maurus · ⁠015
ham to mynstre ƿeard mid his gebroðrū ·
benedictus ƿæs þa mid anū æƿfæstū ƿere ·
forþan þe his ƿif ƿæs mid ƿodnysse gedreht ·
⁊ maurus ða gemette ær he to mynstre come ·
ænne dumbne cnapan · ⁊ se ƿæs creopere eac ·
ac se fæder · ⁊ seo modor · hine feredon þider ·
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