# The Metrical Preface to Wærferth's Translation of Gregory's Dialogues

 || /e ðe me rædan ðance
he in me findan mæg || gif hine feola lysteð
gastlices lifes || godre biesene
ðæt he ful eaðe mæg || upp gestigan
to ðam heofonlican hame || ðar byð a hyht and wyn
blis on burgum || ðam ðe bearn godes
sielfes hiora eagum || geseon motan
ðæt mæg se mon begytan || se ðe his modgeðanc
æltowe byð || and ðonne ðurh his ingehygd
to ðissa haligra || helpe geliefeð
ond hiora bisene fulgað || swa ðeos boc sagað
me awritan het || wulfstan bisceop
ðeow and ðearfa || ðæs ðe alne ðrym aof
and eac walden is || wihta gehwelcre
an ece god || eallra gesceafta
bideð ðe se bisceop || se ðe ðas boc begeat
ðe ðu on ðinum handum nu || hafast and sceawast
ðæt ðu him to ðeossum halgum || helpe bidde
ðe heora gemynd her on || gemearcude siendon
and ðæt him god ællmihtig || 
forgyu/ ða gyltas || ðe he geo worhte
and eac resðe mid him || se ðe ah ealles rices geweald
and eac swa his beahgifan || ðe him ðas bysene forgeaf
ðæt is se selesða || sinces brytta
ælfryd mid englum || ealra cyninga
ðara ðe he sið oððe ær fore || secgan hyrde
oððe he iorðcyninga ær || ænigne gefrugne