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The Sources of Standard English.
| wiþþ heore wæpenn alle bun,p | p ready | |
| swa summ itt birrþ,q wiþþ like, | q it befits | |
| and ec þær ʓedenn wiff þe lic | ||
| full wel fif hunndredd þewwess,r | r servants | |
| to strawwenn gode gresess s þær, | s herbs | |
| þatt stunnkenn swiþe swete, | ||
| biforenn þatt stinnkendde lic | ||
| þær menn itt berenn sholldenn. | ||
| and tuss þeʓʓ alle brohhtenn himm | ||
| wiþþ mikell modiʓnesse | ||
| till þær þær t he þeʓʓm haffde seʓʓd | t where | |
| þat teʓʓ himm brinngenn sholldenn. | ||
| swillc u mann wass þatt Herode king | u such | |
| þatt let te chilldre cwellenn, | ||
| for þatt he wollde cwellenn Crist | ||
| amang hemm, ʓiff he mihhte. |
THE CONTRAST TO THE EAST MIDLAND.
(About A.D. 1205.)
(KING LEAR'S ANGER AT CORDELIA'S SPEECH.)
Þe king Leir iwerðe swa blac,
swilch hit a blac cloð weoren.
iwærð his hude and his heowe,
for he was suþe ihærmed,
mid þære wræððe he wes isweved,
þat he feol iswowen;
late þeo he up fusde,
þat mæiden wes afeared,
þa hit alles up brac,
hit wes vuel þat he spac:
Hærne Cordoille,
ich þe telle wille mine wille;
of mine dohtren þu were me durest,
nu þu eært me alre læðes:
