The Metrical Epilogue to MS 41, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Bidde ic eac         æghwylcne mann,
brego, rices weard,         þe þas boc ræde
and þa bredu befo,         fira aldor,
þæt gefyrðrige þone writre         wynsum cræfte

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þe ðas boc awrat         bam handum twam,
þæt he mote manega gyt         mundum synum
geendigan,         his aldre to willan,
and him þæs geunne         se ðe ah ealles geweald,
rodera waldend,         þæt he on riht mote

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oð his daga ende         drihten herigan.
Amen.         Geweorþe þæt.