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THE CONTRAST TO THE EAST MIDLAND.

(About A.D. 1205.)

(KING LEAR'S ANGER AT CORDELIA'S SPEECH.)

Þe king Leir iwerðe swa blac, swilch hit a blac cloð weoren. iwærð his hude and his heowe, for he was suþe ihærmed, mid þære wræððe he wes isweved, þat he feol iswowen; late þeo he up fusde, þat mæiden wes afeared, þa hit alles up brac, hit wes vuel þat he spac: Hærne Cordoille, ich þe telle wille mine wille; of mine dohtren þu were me durest, nu þu eært me alre læðes: