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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Saint Cecilia…

Hi ƿurdon þa gebrohte on bedde ætgædere ·⁠028
Cecilia sona  snotere mæden
gespræc hire brydguman · ⁊ þus to gode tihte ·
Eala þu min leofa man ic þe mid lufe secge ·⁠031
Ic hæbbe godes encgel þe gehylt me on [lufe] [MS. life] ·⁠032
⁊ gif þu ƿylt me geƿemman · he ƿent sona to ðe ·
⁊ mid gramum þe slihð  þu sona ne leofast ·
Gif þu þonne me lufast · ⁊ butan laðe gehylst⁠035
on clænū mægð-hade · crist þonne lufað þe ·
⁊ his gife gesƿutelað þe sylfum sƿa sƿa me ·
Se cniht ƿearð þa afyrht · ⁊ cƿ̅ to þam mædene ·⁠038
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Saint Cecilia…

Se cƿellere hí sloh þa mid his sƿurde⁠353
ænne eft · ⁊ þryddan siðe · ac hire sƿura næs forod ·
⁊ he forlét hí sona sƿa samcuce licgan ·
forþam-þe ƿitan cƿædon  nan cƿellere ne sceolde
feoƿer siðan slean to · þonne man sloge scyldigne ·
Heo leofode þa þry dagas · ⁊ þa geleaffullan tihte ·⁠358
⁊ hire mædena betæhte þam maran papan ·
⁊ hire hus ƿearð gehalgod to haligre cyrcan ·
Þær ƿurdon þurh god ƿundra ge|lome⁠361
⁊ urban᷒ se papa bebyrigde hí arƿurðlice ·
to ƿuldre þam ælmihtigan þe on ecnysse rixað · amen.
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Saint Cecilia…

Heo clypode to halgum ⁊ to heah-englū⁠017
biddende heora fultumes to þā heofon-lican gode ·
 heo on clænnysse criste moste þeoƿian ·
Hit geƿearð sƿa-þeah  se ƿurðfulla cniht⁠020
þa brydlác geforþode · ⁊ gefette  mæden
mid ƿoruldlicū ƿurðmynte sƿa sƿa heora gebyrde ƿæron ·
Þa betƿux þam sangū · ⁊ þam singalū dreamum⁠023
sang cecilia symle þus gode ·
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