... frayes my flesche e fyngres so gry{m}me." Scoleres skelten eratte e skyl forto fynde, Bot er wat[gh] neu{er} on so wyse coue on worde rede, Ne what ledisch lore ne langage nau{er} 1556 What tyy{n}g ne tale tokened o dra[gh]tes. [Sidenote: Belshazzar is nearly mad.] e{n}ne e bolde balta[gh]ar bred ner wode. [Sidenote: Commands the city to be searched throughout for the "wise of witchcraft."] & ede[82] e Cet to ... — Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
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