The Metrical Preface to the Pastoral Care

this ærendgewrit Agustinus
ofer sealtne sæ suðan brohte
iegbuendum, swa hit ær fore
adihtode dryhtnes cempa,
Rome papa. Ryhtspell monig
Gregorius gleawmod gindwod
ðurh sefan snyttro, searoðonca hord.
Forðæm he monncynnes mæst gestriende
rodra wearde, Romwara betest,
monna modwelegost, mærðum gefrægost.
Siððan min on englisc Ælfred kyning
awende worda gehwelc, and me his writerum
sende suð and norð, heht him swelcra ma
brengan bi ðære bisene, ðæt he his biscepum
sendan meahte, forðæm hi his sume ðorfton,

The Judgment Day

?æt gelimpan sceal, þætte lagu floweð,
flod ofer foldan; feores bið æt ende
anra gehwylcum. Oft mæg se þe wile
in his sylfes sefan soð geþencan.
Hafað him geþinged hider þeoden user
on þam mæstan dæge, mægencyninga hyhst,
wile þonne forbærnan brego moncynnes
lond mid lige. Nis þæt lytulu spræc
to geheganne. Hat bið onæled,
siþþan fyr nimeð foldan sceatas,
byrnende lig beorhte gesceafte;
bið eal þes ginna grund gleda gefylled,
reþra bronda, swa nu rixiað
gromhydge guman, gylpe strynað,
hyra hlaforde gehlæges tilgað,

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