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Examples
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_ Þis dai haueð ure drihten maked to gladien. ⁊ to blissen us þonked wurðe him. ⁊ giarked þ̵ holie gestni {n} ge. þe he offe spe ` c´ð þus q {ue} ðinde.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Nu sæiþ [ure] drihten þus · _Sicut aq {ui} la p {ro} uocat 20 pullos suos ad uolandu {m} · ⁊ sup {er} eo [s uolitat ·] _ þis beoþ godes word to worlde asende · þ̵ we sceolen fæier feþ [festen to him] ·
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Nu ic þe bidde for þine kinedome ⁊ for þine engles. ⁊ for þine muchele milce. ⁊ for alle þine weorkes. ⁊ for alle þine haleȝen. ⁊ ec þine icorene. þat þu heom milcie þes þe redþer þ̵ ic to heo {m} com ⁊ reste ȝefe þen sunne {} dei a þ̵ cume þin heh domes dei. þa onswerede him drihten mildere steuene.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Enes drihten helle brec his fro {n} d he ut brochte. him solf he þolede deð for him. wel dore he hom bohte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Wel late he lateð euel werc þan he hit ne mai don no more. þ̵ achten we to leuen wel. for ure drihten solf hit seide.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Louerd nu ic bidde þe ȝef þin wille is þ̵ þu heom ȝefe {60} reste la hwure þen su {n} ne dei a þet cume domesdei. þa cweð drihten to him. paul wel ic wat hwer ic {} sceal milcien.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Ænes drihten helle brac his frend he ut brohte 185
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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+Nis na lau {er} d swich se is c {ri} st+. ne king swuch ure drihten.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Gif hwa wule witen hwa erest bi won reste þam wrecche saule to soþe ic eow segge. þet wes s {an} c {t} e paul þe apostel and mihhal þe archangel heo tweien eoden et sume time in {} to helle alswa heo {m} drihten het for to lokien hu hit þer ferde.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Nē hīe hūru wine-drihten wiht ne lōgon, glædne Hrōðgār, ac þæt wæs gōd cyning.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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