YMNUS AD VESPERAM.1 eala þu god sceppend ealra þinga heofones reccend gefrætuigende 2 Polique rector vestiens nihte slæpes gyfe lipa toslopene þæt stilness Artus solutos ut quies do gespinces gepunan Reddat laboris usui mod gepæhte he gelipepæce Mentesque fessas allevet heofunga he tolyse ancsume Luctusque solvat ancxios.1 pancas geendedum eallunga dæge Grates peracto jam die nihte of upspringe bena Et noctis exortu preces mid gepilnungu scildige pu gefultumige lofsang singende pe gelæston þe heortan nipolnyssum hleoprion 5 Two copies of this hymn are found in the D. MS., fol. 1, and again fol. 2. 2 gefrætpigende, D. ii. 3 In the first copy in D., gratiæ, but corrected in the second. 4 In D. i. no gloss accompanies this line, but it is supplied in D. ii. 5 hleoðrian, D. ii. 6 gedreme, D. ii. þæt þænne on deopnysse beclysp Ut cum profundo clauserit geleafa þeostru nyte niht geleafan scine Et nox fidei luceat. eallunga nu þu fæderlice beorhtnyss Jam nunc paterna claritas þe pe biddap genihtsumlice Te postulamus affatim apeg gepite galnyss gehorpigende Absit libido sordidans YMNUS AD MATUTINAS.1 6 eala þu ece gescæfta scyppend nihte L dæg þu þe gepissast Noctem diemque qui regis Ét tidena þu selst tida Et temporum das tempora bu gelidepæce aprytnysse Ut alleves fastidium. bydel dæges nu speg nyhtlic leoht peg ferendum peg to derigenne forlæt þisum scypman magnu gaderað sæs gelipepæca brymmas uton arysan eornostlice hrædlice Surgamus ergo strenue hana þa licgenda apeco Gallus jacentes excitat Durham MS., fol. 3. 2 In the Durham MS. the termination is altered by erasure. |