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This year died King Edwy, on the calends of October; and Edgar his brother took to the government of the West-Saxons, Mercians, and Northumbrians. He was then sixteen years old. It was in this year he sent after St. Dunstan, and gave him the bishopric of Worcester; and afterwards the bishopric of London.
<poem>
::In his days
::it prosper'd well;
::and God him gave,
::that he dwelt in peace
::the while that he lived.
::Whate'er he did,
::whate'er he plan'd,
::he earn'd his thrift.
::He also rear'd
::God's glory wide,
::and God's law lov'd,
::with peace to man,
::above the kings
::that went before
::in man's remembrance.
::God so him sped,
::that kings and earls
::to all his claims
::submissive bow'd;
::and to his will
::without a blow
::he wielded all
::as pleased himself.
::Esteem'd he was
::both far and wide
::in distant lands;
::because he prized
::the name of God,
::and God's law traced,
::God's glory rear'd,
::both far and wise,
::on every side.
::Wisely he sought
::in council oft
::his people's good,
::before his God,
::before the world.
::One misdeed he did,
::too much however,
::that foreign tastes
::he loved too much;
::and heathen modes
::into this land
::he brought too fast;
::outlandish men
::hither enticed;
::and to this earth
::attracted crowds
::of vicious men.
::But God him grant,
::that his good deeds
::be weightier far
::than his misdeeds,
::to his soul's redemption
::on the judgment-day.</poem>
(Ingram, p.90-91)

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 ::than his misdeeds,
 ::to his soul's redemption
-::on the judgment-day.</poem>
+::on the judgment-day.</poem><p>
 (Ingram, p.90-91)

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