 | An Old English miscellany containing A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century, from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Jesus College Library, etc |  |
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XIII. Signs of Death.
[H]wenne þin heou blokeþ.And þi strengþe wokeþ.
And þi neose coldeþ.
And þi tunge voldeþ.
And þe byleueþ þi breþ.
And þi lif þe at-geþ.
[M]e nymeþ þe nuþe wrecche.
On flore me þe streccheþ.
And leyþ þe on bére.
And bi-preoneþ þe on here.
And doþ þe ine putte. wurmes ivére.
Þeonne biþ hit sone of þe. al so þu neuer nere.
| An Old English miscellany containing A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century, from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Jesus College Library, etc | |