The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 25
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Geher nu an spell be ðæm ofermodum
unrihtwisum eorðan cyningum,
ða her nu manegum and mislicum
wædum wlitebeorhtum wundrum scinað
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on heahsetlum, hrofe getenge,
golde gegerede and gimcynnum,
utan ymbestandne mid unrime
ðegna and eorla. þa bioð gehyrste
mid heregeatwum hildetorhtum,
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sweordum and fetelum swiðe geglengde,
and þegniað ðrymme micle
ælc oðrum, and hi ealle him
ðonan mid ðy ðrymme þreatiað
gehwider
ymbsittenda oðra ðeoda;
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and se hlaford ne scrifð, ðe ðæm
here waldeð,
freonde ne feonde, feore ne æhtum,
ac he reðigmod ræst on gehwilcne,
wedehunde wuhta gelicost;
bið to up ahæfen inne on mode
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for ðæm anwalde þe him anra gehwilc
his tirwina to fultemað.
Gif mon ðonne wolde him awindan of
þæs cynegerelan claða gehwilcne,
and him þonne oftion ðara ðegnunga
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and þæs anwaldes ðe he ær
hæfde,
ðonne meaht ðu gesion þæt he bið
swiðe gelic
sumum ðara gumena þe him geornost nu
mid ðegnungum ðringað ymbeutan;
gif he wyrsa ne bið, ne wene ic his na beteran.
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Gif him þonne æfre unmendlinga
weas geberede þæt him wurde oftogen
þrymmes and wæda and þegnunga
and ðæs anwaldes þe we ymbe sprecað,
gif him ænig þara ofhende wyrð,
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ic wat þæt him þynceð þæt
he þonne sie
becropen on carcern, oððe coðlice
racentan geræped. Ic gereccan mæg
þæt of ungemete ælces ðinges,
wiste and wæda, wingedrinces,
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and of swetmettum, swiðost weaxað
þære wrænnesse wodðrag micel;
sio swiðe gedræfð sefan ingehygd
monna gehwelces, þonan mæst cymeð
yfla ofermetta, unnetta saca.
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þonne hi gebolgene weorðað,
him wyrð on breostum inne
beswungen sefa on hraðre mid ðæm swiðan
welme
hatheortnesse, and hreðe siððan
unrotnesse eac geræped,
hearde gehæfted. Him siððan onginð
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sum tohopa swiðe leogan
þæs gewinnes wræce; wilnað þæt
irre
anes and oðres; him þæt eall gehæt
his recelest, rihtes ne scrifeð.
Ic ðe sæde ær on ðisse selfan bec
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þæt sumes goodes sidra gesceafta
anlepra ælc a wilnode
for his agenum ealdgecynde.
Unrihtwise eorðan cyningas
ne magon æfre þurhtion awuht goodes
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for ðæm yfle þe ic ðe ær
sæde.
Nis ðæt nan wundor, forðæm hi willað
hi
þæm unðeawum þe ic ðe ær
nemde,
anra gehwelcum, a underðeodan.
Sceal ðonne nede nearwe gebugan
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to ðara hlaforda hæftedome,
þe he hine eallunga ær underþiodde.
ðæt is wyrse get, þæt he winnan
nyle
wið ðæm anwalde ænige stunde;
þær he wolde a winnan onginnan,
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and þonne on ðæm gewinne þurhwunian
forð,
þonne næfde he nane scylde,
ðeah he oferwunnen weorðan sceolde.
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