# The Metres of Boethius: Metre 25

geher nu an spell || be þæm ofermodum
unrihtwisum || eorþan cyningum
þa her nu manegum || and mislicum
wædum wlitebeorhtum || wundrum scinaþ
on heahsetlum || hrofe getenge
golde gegerede || and gimcynnum
utan ymbestandne || mid unrime
þegna and eorla || þa bioþ gehyrste
mid heregeatwum || hildetorhtum
sweordum and fetelum || swiþe geglengde
and þegniaþ || þrymme micle
ælc oþrum || and hi ealle him
þonan mid þy þrymme || þreatiaþ gehwider
ymbsittenda || oþra þeoda
and se hlaford ne scrifþ || þe þæm here waldeþ
freonde ne feonde || feore ne æhtum
ac he reþigmod || ræst on gehwilcne
wedehunde || wuhta gelicost
biþ to up ahæfen || inne on mode
for þæm anwalde || þe him anra gehwilc
his tirwina || to fultemaþ
gif mon þonne wolde || him awindan of
þæs cynegerelan || claþa gehwilcne
and him þonne oftion || þara þegnunga
and þæs anwaldes || þe he ær hæfde
þonne meaht þu gesion || þæt he biþ swiþe gelic
sumum þara gumena || þe him geornost nu
mid þegnungum || þringaþ ymbeutan
gif he wyrsa ne biþ || ne wene ic his na beteran
gif him þonne æfre || unmendlinga
weas geberede || þæt him wurde oftogen
þrymmes and wæda || and þegnunga
and þæs anwaldes || þe we ymbe sprecaþ
gif him ænig þara || ofhende wyrþ
ic wat þæt him þynceþ || þæt he þonne sie
becropen on carcern || oþþe coþlice
racentan geræped || ic gereccan mæg
þæt of ungemete || ælces þinges
wiste and wæda || wingedrinces
and of swetmettum || swiþost weaxaþ
þære wrænnesse || wodþrag micel
sio swiþe gedræfþ || sefan ingehygd
monna gehwelces || þonan mæst cymeþ
yfla ofermetta || unnetta saca
þonne hi gebolgene weorþaþ || him wyrþ on breostum inne
beswungen sefa on hraþre || mid þæm swiþan welme
hatheortnesse || and hreþe siþþan
unrotnesse || eac geræped
hearde gehæfted || him siþþan onginþ
sum tohopa || swiþe leogan
þæs gewinnes wræce || wilnaþ þæt irre
anes and oþres || him þæt eall gehæt
his recelest || rihtes ne scrifeþ
ic þe sæde ær || on þisse selfan bec
þæt sumes goodes || sidra gesceafta
anlepra ælc || a wilnode
for his agenum || ealdgecynde
unrihtwise || eorþan cyningas
ne magon æfre þurhtion || awuht goodes
for þæm yfle || þe ic þe ær sæde
nis þæt nan wundor || forþæm hi willaþ hi
þæm unþeawum || þe ic þe ær nemde
anra gehwelcum || a underþeodan
sceal þonne nede || nearwe gebugan
to þara hlaforda || hæftedome
þe he hine eallunga ær || underþiodde
þæt is wyrse get || þæt he winnan nyle
wiþ þæm anwalde || ænige stunde
þær he wolde a || winnan onginnan
and þonne on þæm gewinne || þurhwunian forþ
þonne næfde he || nane scylde
þeah he oferwunnen || weorþan sceolde