Folio 34r contains a line in Old English : " Memento saxonicum uerbum : oft daedlata dome foreldit sigi sitha gahuem suuyltit thiana . " The line is listed in the Anglo-Saxon Corpus as " A Proverb from Winfrid's Time " ( Winfrid was Saint Boniface's original name ), and is cited as the earliest English poetic proverb, and was translated by Elliot V . K . Dobbie as " Often a sluggard delays in his [ pursuit of ] glory, in each of victorious undertakings ."
