The Old English Physiologus
Translated by Albert S. Cook and James Hall Pitman
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I The Panther
The Panther
Monge sindon geond middangeard unrīmu cynn, [þāra] þe wē æþelu ne magon ryhte āreccan nē rīm witan; þæs wīde sind geond wor[u]l[d] innan fugla and dēora foldhrērendras, wornas widsceope, swā wæter bibūgeð þisne beorhtan bōsm, brim grymetende, sealtȳpa geswing.
Wē bi sumum hȳrdon wrǣtlīc[um] gecynd[e] wildra secgan, fīrum frēamǣrne, feorlondum on, eard weardian, ēðles nēotan, æfter dūnscrafum. Is þæt dēor Pandher bi noman hāten, þæs þe niþþa bear[n], wīsfæste weras, on gewritum cȳþa[ð] bi þām ānstapan.
Sē is ǣ[g]hwām frēond, duguða ēstig, būtan dracan ānum; þām hē in ealle tīd andwrāð leofaþ, þurh yfla gehwylc þe hē geæfnan mæg.
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