Crossword-Solution: MOTEN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Ther was ynowh to wepe and crie Among the Modres, whan thei herde Hou wofully this cause ferde, Bot natheles thei moten bowe; And thus wommen ther come ynowhe With children soukende on the Tete.

This king the weder gan beholde, And wiste wel thei moten holde 1030 Here cours endlong his marche riht, And made upon the derke nyht Of grete Schydes and of blockes Gret fyr ayein the grete rockes, To schewe upon the helles hihe, So that the Flete of Grece it sihe.

And from Antyoche, men moten so forth goon un to the cytee of Lacuthe; and thanne un to Geble; and thanne un tyl Tourtous: and thare by ys the lande of Cambre, whare that ys a stronge castelle, that men clepen Maubeke.

Bidde we ȝeorne Ihū Crist, and seint Albon wel _faste_, That we moten to the Ioye come, that euere schal i-laste.

The poem on the "Eleven Pains of Hell" (in the _Old English Miscellany_) shows the French influence clearly marked by the language of its opening verses: "Ici comencent les unze peynes De enfern, les queus seynt pool v[ist]." Ure feder þet in heovene is, Þet is al soþ ful iwis! Weo moten to theor weordes iseon, Þet to live and to saule gode beon, Þet weo beon swa his sunes iborene, Þet he beo feder and we him icorene, Þet we don alle his ibeden And his wille for to reden.