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Willes

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ad :-- Be dam men de willes man ofslihd de homine qui voluntate aliquem occidit, . L. Ecg. P. ii. I. tit. ; Th. ii. 180, I. Ne scylan hyg ǣnig unriht willes geþafian, L. I. P. 6 ; Th. ii. 310, 18. Hē willes deád þrowade, R. Ben. 26, 15. Geneádod tō ānre mīle gange, gang willes twā, 28, 3. Hwīlum willes, hwīlum geneádode, Homl. Ass. 145, 45. Gif hit geweordeþ dæt. man un-willes oþþe ungewealdes ǣnig þing misdēd, nā bid dæt nā gelīc dam de willes and gewealdes sylfwilles misdēd, L. Eth. vi. 52; Th. i. 328, 22 : L. Ed. 7 ; Th. i. 162, 26 : L. O. 1 ; Th. i. 178, 6. [Gif heo hit breked willes and woldes, A. R. 6, 26.] Þu þat forschuppes te self willes and waldes, H. M. 27, 2.
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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L.
Latin

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R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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