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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2

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Preface

I. Worcester Fragments (A)

I. Worcester Fragments (B, C)

II. Saint Godric’s Hymns

III. The Peterborough Chronicle

IV. Charter of Henry the Second

V. A Parable

VI. The Proverbs of Alfred

VII. Memento Mori

VIII. Poema Morale

IX. Ancrene Wisse A. The Seven Deadly Sins B. The Outer Rule

X. In Diebus Dominicis

XI. Hic Dicendum est de Propheta

XII. Sermons for Palm Sunday and Easter Day

XIII. Vices and Virtues

XIV. Laȝamon

XV. Orm

XVI. Sawles Warde

XVII. Saint Katherine

XVIII. The Orison of our Lady

XIX. Saint Juliana

XX. The Owl and the Nightingale

XXI. The Bestiary

XXII. Genesis and Exodus

XXIII. Kentish Sermons

Thematic Index (added by transcriber)

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