A Renée

Amour vous a (des le jour, que fus né)
De mon service ordinaire estrenée:
Et si ne fus de vous oncq estrené
Que de rigueur soubs parolle obstinée:
Si vous supply, noble Nymphe Renée,
Ce nouvel an parler nouveau langage,
Et tout ainsi, qu'on voyt changer d'année,
Vouloir changer envers moy de courage.

Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's - Part 20

Nay, we are loads for them to lift,
And straws to show their current's drift,
And we are riddles they must sift,
Even riddles they must read.
And we are signs of their unthrift—
Ay—signs of tasks that they have left.
They shall be shriven with this shrift:
“Go make their need your need.”

Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte

Moððe word fræt. Me þæt þuhte
wrætlicu wyrd, þa ic þæt wundor gefrægn,
þæt se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes,
þeof in þystro, þrymfæstne cwide
ond þæs strangan staþol. Stælgiest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra, þe he þam wordum swealg.

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