on þam siðfæte: hy gesunde æt ham
findaþ witode him wiste ⁊ blisse,
cnosles unrim, care, ȝif se esne
his blaforde hyreð yfle
frean on fore, ne wile forht wesan
broþer oþrum: him þæt bam sceðeð,
þonne hy from bearme begen hweorfað
anre magan ellorfuse
moddor ⁊ sweostor.
This sets forth the same conception of the duality in man as is represented in the O.E. Speech of the Soul to the Body, and in the whole group of Soul and Body poems, and the idea recurs constantly in other monastic texts, cf. Morris, O. E. Miscellany, iii (Sinners Beware), p. 83:—