Alms-Giving

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wel bið þam eorle         þe him on innan hafað,
reþehygdig wer,         rume heortan;
þæt him biþ for worulde         weorðmynda mæst,
ond for ussum dryhtne         doma selast.

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Efne swa he mid wætre         þone weallendan
leg adwæsce,         þæt he leng ne mæg
blac byrnende         burgum sceððan,
swa he mid ælmessan         ealle toscufeð
synna wunde,         sawla lacnað.