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.