The Meters of Boethius: Meter 18

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Eala ðæt se yfla         unrihta gedeð
wraða willa         wohhæmetes,
þæt he mid ealle gedræfð         anra gehwylces
monna cynnes         mod fulneah ðon.

5

Hwæt, sio wilde beo,         þeah wis sie,
anunga sceal         eall forweorðan
gif hio yrringa         awuht stingeð.
Swa sceal sawla gehwilc         siððan losian,
gif se lichoma         forlegen weorðeð

10

unrihthæmede,         bute him ær cume
hreow to heortan,         ær he hionan wende.