x. THE ALFflEDIAN BOETHIUS. . 55 weorðeu wyrsau, gif hī āsterede -• bīoð cud geswęncte.2 Siime men bēoð ǽlces cræftes fullcræftige, çnd fullhālige weraa ond rihtwīse. ponne þincð þæt Gode unriht þæt he swylce swęnce; ge furðum þone dēað, þe eallum mçn- num is gecynde to þolianne, he Mm gedēð sēftran þonne ; ōðrum mçnnum: swā swā gīo wīsmon cwæð, þæt sē gqd- cunda anwald gefrioðode his dēorlingas under his8 fiðra4 sceade,6 ond hī scilde swā geornlīce swā man dēð þone æppel6 on his ēagan. Manige tiliað Gode to cwēmanne to þon georne, þæt hī wilniað hiora āgnum willum manig- 10 feald earfoðu to ðrōwianne; for ðǽm hī wilniað raāran are çnd māran hlīsan ond weorðscipe mid Gode to hab- banne þonne þā habbað þe sōftor *' libbað. Oft ēac becymð sē anwald þisse" worulde to swīðe goodum monnum, for ðǽm þæt sē anwald þāra yflena8 15 weorðe tōworpen. Sumum monnum God sęleð9 ǽgðer ge good ge yfel gemęnged, for ðǽm hī ǽgþres earniað. Sume he berēafað hiora welaii swīðe hraðe, þæs þe hī ǽrest gesǽlige weorðað, þŷ lǽs hī for longum gesǽlðum hī to up āheþben10 ond þonan on ofermēttum weorðen. 20 Sume he11 lǽt þrēagan mid heardum broce, þæt hī leorn- igen þone cræft geþylde12 on ðǽm. langan geswince. Sume him ondrǽdað earfoðu swīðor þonne liī þyrfen, þēah hī hī13 ēaðe ādrēogan mægen. Sume hī gebycgað weorðlīcne hlīsan þisses andweardan līfes mid hiora 25 āgnum dēaðe; for ðǽm hī wēnað þæt hī næbben14 nan ōðer fioh15 þæs hlīsan16 wyrðe, būton, hiora āgnum fīore. 1 B, astyred. 2 B, geswenoed. 8 C, wanting. * B, fl'Sera. . 6 C, soeate. 6 B, ælp; J, æpl. 7 C, habbanne to softer broken off; J cites C, hæfrben. • C, yfelana. 9 B, Belle's. -» C, ahæbben. . -i B, hi to he wanting. 12 C, geþyldelioe. 13 B, wanting, "B, habben. 16B,floS. -«B.hliosan. | |||