þa boceras gesawun þa wundru
The learned men saw the marvelous things
Matthew 21.15
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Hu mæg se man wel faran, ðe his mod awent fram eallum wisum bocum
How can the man be successful whose mind has strayed from all books full of wisdom?
Ælfric, De Novo Testamento: from 1638.1, sig. K4v, cited in 1690.1, sig. 3C2r
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