Dobbie, 1942 126-8; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York).
Ic me on þisse gyrde beluce
and on godes helde bebeode
wið þane sara
stice[?],
wið þane sara slege,
wið ðane micela egsa
þe bið eghwam lað,
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and wið eal þæt lað
þe in to land fare.
Sygegealdor ic begale,
sigegyrd ic me wege,
wordsige and worcsige.
Se me dege;
ne me
mere[?] ne gemyrre,
ne me maga ne geswence,
ne me næfre minum feore
forht ne gewurþe,
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ac gehæle me
ælmihtig[?] and sunu
and[?] frofre gast,
ealles wuldres
wyrðig[?] dryhten,
swa swa ic gehyrde
heofna scyppende.
and swilce men,
Moyses and Iacob,
and Evan and Annan
and Elizabet,
Saharie and ec Marie,
modur Cristes,
and eac þæ gebroþru,
Petrus and Paulus,
and eac þusend
þinra[?] engla
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clipige ic me to are
wið eallum feondum.
Hi me ferion and friþion
and mine fore nerion,
eal me gehealdon,
me[?] gewealdon,
worces stirende;
si me wuldres hyht,
hand ofer heafod,
haligra rof,
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sigerofra
sceolu[?],
soðfæstra engla.
þæt me beo
Matheus[?] helm,
Marcus byrne,
leoht, lifes rof,
Lucos min swurd,
scearp[?] and scirecg,
scyld Iohannes,
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wuldre gewlitegod
wælgar[?] Serafhin.
Forð ic gefare,
frind ic gemete,
eall engla blæd,
eadiges lare.
Bidde ic nu sigeres god
godes miltse,
siðfæt godne,
smylte and lihte
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windas[?] on[?] waroþum[?].
Windas gefran,
circinde wæter
simble[?] gehælede[?]
wið eallum feondum.
Freond ic gemete wið,
þæt ic on þæs
ælmihtgian[?] frið[?] wunian mote,
belocun wið
þam[?] laþan,
se me lyfes eht,
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on engla
blæd[?] gestaþelod,
and inna halre hand
heofna[?] rices[?],
þa hwile þe ic on þis life
wunian mote.