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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 110
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Ic andytte þe, ece drihten,
mid hyge ealle heortan minre
for gesamnuncge þæra soðfæstra
and on gemetingum mycel drihtnes weorc.
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Swylce ic his willan wylle georne
swyþe secean, samed andettan,
hu his mægenþrymnes mycellic standeð
and his soðfæstnyss wunað symble ece.
He gemynd dyde mærra wundra;
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mildheort he is and modig; mihtig drihten
syleð eallum mete þam þe his ege habbað.
And he on worulde wearð gemyndig
his gewitnesse, þe he wel swylce
myhtum miclum and mærweorcum
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fægrum gefylde and to his folce cwæð,
þæt he him wolde yrfe ellþeodigra
on agene æht eall gesyllan.
Ys his handgeweorc hyge soðfæstra,
ryhte domas, þa he ræran wyle;
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wærun his bebodu ealle treowfæste,
on ealra weorulda weoruld wurdan soðfæste
and on rihtnysse ræda getrymede.
He alysinge leofum folce
soðe onsende and him swylce bebead,
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þæt hi on ecnysse a syððan
his gewitnesse well geheoldan
and his þone halgan naman hæfdan mid egsan.
þæt byð secga gehwam snytru on frymðe,
þæt he godes egesan gleawe healde,
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and þæt byð andgit good eallum swylce
þe hine wyllað well wyrcean and healdan.
Herenes drihtnes her sceal wunian,
on worulda woruld wynnum standan.