For Alfred seide a wis word, euch mon hit schulde legge on hord: "3ef thu isihst er he beo icume, his strencþe is him wel neh binume."
On this, hear Alfred's weighty word Which man should treasure once it's heard: "Foresee your trouble in its course: You thereby take away its force." The Owl and the Nightingale, line 1223; as translated by Brian Stone in The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, St. Erkenwald (1971), p. 224
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