in hweole
in rota

in lihton bliccetunge thine eorthan ymbhwyrfte gesaeh
Inluxerunt coruscationes tuæ orbi terræ vidit

ond onstyred wes eorthe
et commota est terra

in sae wegas thine ond stige thine in wetrum miclum
20. In mari viæ tuæ et semitæ tuæ in aquis multis

ond swethe thine ne bioth oncnawen
et vestigia tua non cognoscentur

thu gelaeddes swe swe scep folc thin in honda
21. Deduxisti sicut oves populum tuum in manu

mosi ond aaron
Moysi et Aaron

These specimens of the Kentish dialect (with the exception of the Epinal
Gloss) are of much later date than the times which our narrative has yet
reached; and they are only offered as a proximate representation of that
which was the first of English dialects to receive literary culture.
This dialect is peculiarly interesting as being that from which the West
Saxon was developed; in other words, it is the earliest form of that
imperial dialect in which the great body of extant Saxon literature is
preserved. But the Kentish did not ripen into the maturer outlines of