The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
An Exhortation to Christian Living
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Nu lære ic þe swa man leofne sceal.
Gif þu wille þæt blowende rice gestigan,
þænne beo þu eadmod and ælmesgeorn,
wis on wordum, and wæccan lufa
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on hyge halgum on þas hwilwendan tid,
bliðe mode, and gebedum filige
oftost symle þær þu ana sy.
Forðan þæt halige gebed and seo hluttre
lufu
godes and manna and seo ælmessylen
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and se miccla hopa to þinum hælende,
þæt he þine synna adwæscan
wylle,
and eac oþera fela
godra weorca glengað and bringað
þa soðfæstan sauwle to reste
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on þa uplican eadignesse.
Wyrc þæt þu wyrce, word oððe
dæda,
hafa metodes ege on gemang symle;
þæt is witodlice wisdomes ord,
þæt þu þæt ece leoht
eal ne forleose.
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þeos woruld is æt ende, and we synd wædlan
gyt
heofena rices; þæt is hefig byrden.
And þeah þu æfter þinum ende
eall gesylle
þæt þu on eorðan ær gestryndes
goda gehwylces, wylle gode cweman,
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ne mihtu mid þæm eallum sauwle þine
ut alysan, gif heo inne wyrð
feondum befangen, frofre bedæled,
welena forwyrned; ac þu wuldres god,
ece ælmihtigne, ealninga bidde
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þæt he þe ne forlæte laðum
to handa,
feondum to frofre, ac þu fleoh þanan,
syle ælmessan oft and gelome
digolice; þæt bið drihtnes lac
gumena gehwylces þe on god gelyfð.
35
Ceapa þe mid æhtum eces leohtes,
þy læs þu forweorðe, þænne
þu hyra geweald nafast
to syllanne. Hit bið swiðe yfel
manna gehwilcum þæt he micel age,
gif he him god ne ondræt
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swiðor micle þonne his sylfes gewil.
Warna þe georne wið þære wambe
fylle,
forþan heo þa unþeawas ealle gesomnað
þe þære saule swiðost deriað,
þæt is druncennes and dyrnegeligere,
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ungemet wilnung ætes and slæpes;
þa man mæg mid fæstenum
and forhæfdnessum heonon adrifan,
and mid cyricsocnum cealdum wederum
eadmodlice ealluncga biddan
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heofena drihten þæt he þe hæl
gife,
milde mundbora, swa him gemet þince.
And ondræd þu ðe dihle wisan,
nearwe geþancas, þe on niht becumað,
synlustas foroft swiðe fremman
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earfoðlice, þy þu earhlice scealt
gyltas þine swiðe bemurnan,
har hilderinc; hefie þe ðincaþ
synna þine. Forþam þu sylf ongyte
þæt þu alætan scealt læne
staþelas,
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eard and eþel. Uncuð bið þe þænne
tohwan þe þin drihten gedon wille,
þænne þu lengc ne most lifes brucan,
eardes on eþle, swa þu ær dydest,
blissum hremi. Nu þu ðe beorgan scealt,
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and wið feonda gehwæne fæste healdan
sauwle þine; a hi winnað
embe þæt
dæges and nihtes ongean drihtnes lif.
þu miht hy gefleman, gif þu filian wilt
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larum minum, swa ic lære þe
digollice þæt þu on dægred
oft
ymbe þinre sauwle ræd swiðe smeage,
hu þu þæt ece leoht æfre begytan
mæge,
siðe gesecan; þu scealt glædlice swiðe
swincan
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wið þæs uplican eþelrices
dæges and nihtes, þu scealt druncen fleon
and þa oferfylle ealle forlætan.
Gif þu wilt þa upplican eardwic ceosan,
þænne scealt þu hit on eorðan
ær geþencan,
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and þu þe sylfne swiðe gebindan
and þa unþeawas ealle forlætan
þe þu on þis life ær lufedest
and feddest.
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