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

Dobbie, 1942 113; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).

 

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.