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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

5

on heahsetlum,      hrofe getenge,
golde gegerede      and gimcynnum,
utan ymbestandne      mid unrime
ðegna and eorla.      þa bioð gehyrste
mid heregeatwum      hildetorhtum,

10

sweordum and fetelum      swiðe geglengde,
and þegniað      ðrymme micle
ælc oðrum,      and hi ealle him
ðonan mid ðy ðrymme      þreatiað gehwider
ymbsittenda      oðra ðeoda;

15

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

20

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

25

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.

30

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,

35

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,

40

and of swetmettum,      swiðost weaxað
þære wrænnesse      wodðrag micel;
sio swiðe gedræfð      sefan ingehygd
monna gehwelces,      þonan mæst cymeð
yfla ofermetta,      unnetta saca.

45

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

50

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

55

þæt sumes goodes      sidra gesceafta
anlepra ælc      a wilnode
for his agenum      ealdgecynde.
Unrihtwise      eorðan cyningas
ne magon æfre þurhtion      awuht goodes

60

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

65

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,

70

and þonne on ðæm gewinne      þurhwunian forð,
þonne næfde he      nane scylde,
ðeah he oferwunnen      weorðan sceolde.




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