“Thus An Aged Father Taught His Free-born Son”: Anglo-saxon Precepts.

“Thus An Aged Father Taught His Free-born Son”: Anglo-saxon Precepts. Thus an aged father taught his free-born son,  a mind-wise man, elderly in virtue of his kinsmen,  in perceptive words, so that he was well proud: (ll. 1-3) “Always do what best avails you, and your work will succeed.  God will always be yours, belonging...