XLIV.
[1]
Mi hert riftet gode worde to bringe;
.I. sai mi werkes to þe kinge;
[2]
Mi tunge rede-pipe maister-writer,
Ofe swiftlike writande be þer.
3
Fairest ofe schap opon to se
Forbi sones ofe men þat be,
Yhotin es hap in þi lippes twai:
For-þi blissed þe god in ai.
4
Girde þi swerde of iren and stele
Ouer þi thee mightlike and wele.
5
For þi wlite and fairehed ilike
Bihald soundful, gaforth, and rike;
6
For sothnes, and handtamenes,
And rightwisenes þat in þe es;
And it sal lede [þe] selkouthli
Þi righthand ful stedefastli.
7
Þine arwes er swa scharp of might
Folke vnder þe be dai and night
Sal falle whider so þou gas—
In hert of þe kinges faas.
8
Þi sete, lauerd, werld of werld es inne;
Yherde ofe rightinge yherde of rike þine.
9
Þou loued rightnes, and hated wicnes;
For-þi þe smered god, þat es
Þi god, with oile of fainenes,
Forbi þine feres mare and les.
10
Mir, and drope, and bike, of schroudes þine,
Ofe houses iuoyred, bright þat schine;
Ofe whilk lusted þe doghtres ofe kinges
In þi worschip, forbi alle thinges.
11
Þe quene on [þi] righthal[u]es stode,
In schroude gilt, vmgiuen with sernes gode.
12
Here, doghter, and se nou,
And þine ere helde þou;
Forgete þi folke for to rine,
And þe hous ofe fadre þine.
13
And yhern sal þe king þi fairehed ai,
For he lauerd þi god, and him bid sal þai.
14
And doghtres of Tiri in giftes salle
Þi face bid; richest ofe folke alle.
15
Alle blis of him to biginne,
Doghtres of kinges fra withinne,
In gliterand gilted hemminges,
Vmlapped with selkouth þinges.
16
Led sal be to þe kinge maidene after ma,
Hir neghbures offred er to þe swa.
17
Þai sal be outborn in gladeschip and fainenes;
Þai sal be led in kirke þe kinges es.
18
For þi fadres, er þe born sones on hand;
Set sal þou þam princes ouer alle þe land.
19
Mined be, lauerd, of þi name sal þai
In strend and strend, be night and dai.
20
For-þi þe folke sal to þe schriue
In ai, and in werld of werld biliue.
