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OF THE MULBERRY-TREE.

sona he bẏd ȝebeted. Wid blodes flewsan þanne mona [1]sẏ seofontẏne nẏhta eald, æfter sunna setl-gange, ær mona uprẏne, cume þanne[2] to þan treowe *þe[3] man hætað morbeam ⁊ of þan nim æppel mid þinre wẏnstran handa mid twam fingran, ꝥ ys mid þuman ⁊ mid hring-fingrum, hwitne æppel þe panne ȝẏt ne readiȝe. Ahefe hẏne þanne upp ⁊ up aris: he byþ brẏce[4] to þan uferan dæle þæs lichaman. Eft do hine *adune[5] ⁊ onlut: he byð behefe to [Cock. p. 332]ðan nyþeran dæle þas lichaman. Ær þan þu þisne æppel nyme cweþ þane *þas[6] word: Ic nime þe ⁊ cetera.[7]

Ðane þu þas (plura) word ȝe (uerba)cweden habbe ȝenim þane æppel ⁊ hẏne ȝewind on weolc[8] readum gode-webbe ⁊ loca ꝥ þes *læcedom[9] ne hrine wæteres ne eorꝥan. Þanne nead-þearf sy ⁊ se ufera dæl þæs lichamas on æniȝun sare oþþe on ærfodum ȝeswince wriþ on þane anwlitan; gif hyt si on Ad fluxum[10]
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þan nyþeran dæle wriþ on þa wambe. Wið wifes flewsan nime þane comb *þe[11] heo ane hyre heafad mid cembe ⁊ *næniȝ *man[12] ær mid cemde ne after mid ne *cembe.[13] *Æc[14] under þan treowe morbeame cembe þær hẏre fex, þat þar on þan combe ȝeþoliȝe ȝesomne, ⁊ aho[15] on up standende twi þæs morbeames ⁊ eft embe hwile clane *hit[16] toȝesomne ⁊ ȝehealde: ꝥ hẏre bẏþ læcedom þare þe hẏre heafod þare cembeð. Gif þu wẏlle ꝥ wif ȝeclansod sẏ þe næfre ne mihte clansod bẏon, wẏrc hẏre sealfe of þan fexe ⁊ hyt æthweȝa adriȝ ⁊ do on hẏre lic; þanne bẏð heo ȝeclænsod.
  1. ms. here some illegible words in red in the margin.
  2. ms. þanne anne.
  3. ms. þa.
  4. ms. by bryce.
  5. ms. ætdun.
  6. ms. ꝥus.
  7. “Ic nime þe ⁊ cetera” refers to the Greek words found in V.
  8. ms. seolc, in the margin.
  9. ms. laecedon.
  10. ms. A sort of Q before “Ad fluxum” in the margin, probably for W.
  11. ms. þa.
  12. ms. na mare.
  13. ms. cembde.
  14. (not in V,) ms. Æt.
  15. ms. aho in.
  16. (not form V,) ms. him.