Metrical Charm 10: For Loss of Cattle
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
ðis man sceal cweðan ðonne his ceapa hwilcne man for-
stolenne. Cwyð ær he ænyg oþer word cweðe:
Bethlem hattæ seo burh ðe Crist on geboren
wes,
seo is gemærsod ofer ealne middangeard;
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swa ðeos dæd wyrþe for monnum mære,
per crucem Christi! And gebide þe ðonne þriwa east
and
cweð þriwa: Crux Christi ab oriente reducat. And III
west and cweð: Crux Christi ab occidente reducat. And
III suð and cweð: Crux Christi a meridie
reducant. And
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III norð and cweð: Crux Christi abscondita
sunt et inuenta
est. Iudeas Crist ahengon, gedidon him dæda þa wyrstan;
hælon þæt hi forhelan ne mihton. Swa næfre ðeos
dæd
forholen ne wyrðe per crucem Christi.
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