In Hórnes ilíke | þú schalt hùre beswíke. 289–90.
Hi rúnge þe bélle | þe wédlak fòr to felle. 1253–4.
Of this type of verse a great many examples are of course to be met with in the earlier alliterative poems:
wúldres wédde | wī́tum āspḗdde. An. 1633.
wýrmum bewúnden, | wī́tum gebúnden. Jud. 115.
rā́d and rǣ́dde | ríncum tǣ́hte. Byrhtn. 18.
on míddan gehǣ́ge | éal swā ic sécge. Dom. 4.
þat lónd to léden | mid láweliche déden. Prov. 75–6.
þe póure and þe ríche | démen ilíche. ib. 80–1.
bivóren þan kínge | fáirest àlre þínge. Lay. 14303–4.