A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon PoetryNumber of occurrences in corpus: 32
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 67 | ne could clearly understand. / | Why | should I mention everything? |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 24 | our faith by marrying again, / | why | do you ask here and now in th |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 44 | ached her husband’s deeds: / | ‘Why, | you fool, corrupt in mind and |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 61 | of ransoming their homeland. / | Why | should I now sing more? Behol |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 810 | him in secret, / and asked him | why | he could not be bound, / or wh |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1343 | iately asked it / what it was, | why | it fled, and what wrong it ha |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1572 | wind in your sails up to now. / | Why | you are you keen to remind of |
| ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 7 | from the citadel of heaven: / | why | do you persecute me, opposing |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 391 | coal a heavenly shower. / But | why | does the page only proclaim a |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 881 | e crowd of teachers sprang. / | Why | shall I recall two twin broth |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2214 | of death. / That is the reason | why | the world spreads widely her |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2218 | the Lord. / That is the reason | why | the woman suffered bloody pun |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2525 | g the rights of their beds. / | Why | do I recall Nabal, inebriated |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 25 | nts from a sorrowful heart: / | ‘Why, | dear, do you subject yourself |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 220 | is gentle heart as follows: / | ‘Why, | I ask, does such great listle |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 320 | ns with kindly consolation: / | ‘Why | do you grieve and, melted by |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 346 | Christ from this foul guest. / | Why | should I try to describe his |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 380 | wing to the savage robbers: / | ‘Why, | pray, do you touch with impro |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 395 | hen they ignored his appeals / | ‘Why’ | he said, ‘are you damaging |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 405 | est from harmless material. / | Why, | wild pride, do you seethe wit |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 557 | went according to his words. / | Why | should I try to say what I am |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 567 | ents of the absent [saint]? / | Why | should I strive to capture by |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 613 | ough the mercy of the Lord. / | Why | should I delay? Both of them |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 123 | an, by the vows I have taken. | Why | did I seek out / the swelling s |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 166 | entered the heights of Lyon. / | Why | should I tell of the tears th |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 503 | hand which you have raised. / | Why | do you despise a mother beref |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 624 | they devised malicious lies. / | “Why | am I harmed,” the father as |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 681 | f the holy one. / Unwise woman, | why | do you provoke the righteous |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 683 | essed man from his homeland. / | Why | do you disturb the sea? What? |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 954 | y, and observed no propriety. / | Why | do you shriek, you crop which |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1331 | nly life with righteousness. / | Why | do I delay with these words? |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 239 | d spoke to the sick robbers, / | “Why, | I ask, did you want to harm s |