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 Chap. II. by intance, if it were not inconitent with my preent deign of brevity.

What the Saxons Language was at their firt arrival into England about the year 440, doth not appear; but ’tis mot probable that the changes and differences of it, have been omewhat proportionable in everal Ages.

About the year of Chrit 700 the Lord’s Prayer in Englih was thus rendred:

Uren fader thic arth in heofnas, ic gehalgud thin noma: to cymeth thin ric: in thin willa ue is in heofnas and in eortho. Uren hlaf ofer wirthic el us to daeg; and forget us cylda urna, ue we forgefen cyldgum urum; and no inlead uith in cutnung. Ah gefrig urich from ifle. Amen.

About 200 years after, it was changed thus :

Thu ure fader the eath on heofenum. Si thin nama gehalgod. Cum thin ric. Si thin willa on eorthen wa, wa on heofenum. Sylo us to dægurn dægthanlican hlaf. And forgif us ure gyltas wa, wa we forgifath tham the with us agyltath. And ne led the us on sotnung. Ac alys us from yfle. Si it wa.

About the ame time it was rendred in the Saxon Gopels, aid to be Tranlated by King Alfred, after this manner.

Fæder ure thu the earth on heofenum, i thin nama Gehalgod to be cume thin Rice, Gewurthe thin Willa on eorthan wa wa on heofnum, urne ge dæghwanlican hlaf yle us to dæg. And forgyf us ure gyltas, wa wa we forgivath urum gyltendum. And ne gelædde thu us on cotnung. Ac Alye us of yfle.

About 260 years after, in the time of King Henry the a$d$, it was rendred thus, and ent over by Pope Adrian, an Englih-man, turned into meter, that the people might more eaily learn and remember it. ­

And about a hundred years after, in the time of Henry the third, it was rendred thus:

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