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18 mid rihte hab[ban ꝥ ic wære wela] 7 weorðscipe, ac hy [hine habbað] on me genumen, 7 hi [me habbað e]sealdne hiora wlencu [7 getehhod] to heora leasū welū, ꝥ ic *ne mot [mid] minum ðeo[wum] min[ra þe]nunga f[ulgan]gan swa ealla oþra [ge]sceafta moton. Ða mine þeowas si[nd]on wisdomas 7 cræftas 7 soðe welan; mid þæm þeowum wæs on symbel min plega; mid þæm þeowu ic eom ealne þone hefon ymbhweorfende, 7 þa niðemystan ic gebringe æt þæm hehstan, 7 þa hehstan æt ðæm niðemæstan ; ðæt is ꝥ ic gebringe eadmodness[e] on heofonum, 7 ða hefonlican god æt þæm eaðmodū. Ac þonne ic up gefere mid minum þeowū [þo]nne forseo we þas styrmendan woruld swa se earn ðonne he up gewit bufan ða wolcnu styrmendū wedrū, ꝥ him þa stormas derigan ne mægen. Swa ic wolde, la [Mod], ꝥ þu þe fore up to us gif þe lyste, on þa gerad ꝥ þu eft mid us þa eorðan secan wille for godra manna þearfe. Hu ne wastu mine þeawas, hu georne ic symle wæs ymbe godra manna þearfe? Wast þu hu ic gewand ymb Croeses þearfe Creca cyninges, þa þa hine Cirus Pærsa cyning gefangen hæfde 7 hine forbærnan wolde? Ða hine mon on þæt fyr wearp þa alysde ic [hine mid heofonlicon rene. Ac þu ðe fortruwu]dest for þinre r[ihiwis]nesse ⁊ [fo]r þinum godan willan; wendest þæt þe nanwuht unrihtlices on becuman ne meahte, swelce þu

wolde ' >2i lean eal f>inra godena weorca on J)isse weonild habban. Hu meahtest f>u sittan on middu gemgenu rice 25 •f tSu ne sceolde * -f ilce ge}?olian -f otSre men ? Hu meahtes )?u bion on midre ))isse hwearfunga -f ^ tSu eac mid ne hwearfode ^ ? Hwaet singaS )?a leotSwyrhtan oSres be tSisse woruld buton mislica hwearfunga J?isse worulde? Hwaet is fe "Sonne -f )?u J>germid ne hwearfie ? Hwaet recstu hu ge 30 hwearfigen nu ic [siemle mid pe heo ? Se waes f>ios hwe[a]rfung* hetex^ forSaem $ Se "Sissa woruldsael"Sa to wel ne lyste, 7 }jaet Su )?e eac betre na gelefde *.

' woldest B. • sceoUest B. ^ ^/*< ^<^ ^'^ earefode su eofel ne
 * geheldene B. ^ mahan B. ^ From B, ^(?drn/ C. * Croesos B.

gef eldest B. ® hwearfung salj>a to wel gelyste, ypjm eac betera ne

gelefdest B. na in text is from J.