6
OF THE MULBERRY-TREE.
sona he bẏd ȝebeted. Wid blodes flewsan þanne mona [1]sẏ seofontẏne nẏhta eald, æfter sunna setl-gange, ær mona uprẏne, cume þanne[2] to þan treowe *þe[3] man hætað morbeam ⁊ of þan nim æppel mid þinre wẏnstran handa mid twam fingran, ꝥ ys mid þuman ⁊ mid hring-fingrum, hwitne æppel þe panne ȝẏt ne readiȝe. Ahefe hẏne þanne upp ⁊ up aris: he byþ brẏce[4] to þan uferan dæle þæs lichaman. Eft do hine *adune[5] ⁊ onlut: he byð behefe to [Cock. p. 332]ðan nyþeran dæle þas lichaman. Ær þan þu þisne æppel nyme cweþ þane *þas[6] word: Ic nime þe ⁊ cetera.[7]
Ðane þu þas word ȝecweden habbe ȝenim þane æppel ⁊ hẏne ȝewind on weolc[8] readum gode-webbe ⁊ loca ꝥ þes *læcedom[9] ne hrine wæteres ne eorꝥan. Þanne nead-þearf sy ⁊ se ufera dæl þæs lichamas on æniȝun sare oþþe on ærfodum ȝeswince wriþ on þane anwlitan; gif hyt si on Ad fluxum[10]mulierisþan nyþeran dæle wriþ on þa wambe. Wið wifes flewsan nime þane comb *þe[11] heo ane hyre heafad mid cembe ⁊ *næniȝ *man[12] ær mid cemde ne after mid ne *cembe.[13] *Æc[14] under þan treowe morbeame cembe þær hẏre fex, þat þar on þan combe ȝeþoliȝe ȝesomne, ⁊ aho[15] on up standende twi þæs morbeames ⁊ eft embe hwile clane *hit[16] toȝesomne ⁊ ȝehealde: ꝥ hẏre bẏþ læcedom þare þe hẏre heafod þare cembeð. Gif þu wẏlle ꝥ wif ȝeclansod sẏ þe næfre ne mihte clansod bẏon, wẏrc hẏre sealfe of þan fexe ⁊ hyt æthweȝa adriȝ ⁊ do on hẏre lic; þanne bẏð heo ȝeclænsod.
- ↑ ms. here some illegible words in red in the margin.
- ↑ ms. þanne anne.
- ↑ ms. þa.
- ↑ ms. by bryce.
- ↑ ms. ætdun.
- ↑ ms. ꝥus.
- ↑ “Ic nime þe ⁊ cetera” refers to the Greek words found in V.
- ↑ ms. seolc, in the margin.
- ↑ ms. laecedon.
- ↑ ms. A sort of Q before “Ad fluxum” in the margin, probably for W.
- ↑ ms. þa.
- ↑ ms. na mare.
- ↑ ms. cembde.
- ↑ (not in V,) ms. Æt.
- ↑ ms. aho in.
- ↑ (not form V,) ms. him.