Compiled at the University of Helsinki under the direction of Matti Rissanen, The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts consists of a selection of texts covering the Old, Middle, and Early Modern English periods, in all 242 text files (total 1.5 million words.)
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Sample of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
[^ TEXT: ALFRED'S PREFACE TO CURA PASTORALIS.
KING ALFRED'S WEST-SAXON VERSION
OF GREGORY'S PASTORAL CARE, PART I.
EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, O.S. 45.
ED. H. SWEET.
LONDON, 1958 (1871).
PP. 3.1 - 9.7 ^]
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<R 1>
[}+DEOS BOC SCEAL TO WIOGORA CEASTRE.}]
+alfred kyning hate+d gretan W+arfer+d biscep his wordum
luflice & freondlice;
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& +de cy+dan hate +d+at me com swi+de oft on gemynd, hwelce
wiotan iu w+aron giond Angelcynn, +ag+der ge godcundra
hada ge woruldcundra;
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