Only one of the four quotations, I suspect, is from Beowulf: the first (because of the reference to Heoret). The second is from The Wanderer. The third is from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The fourth is from the Cantebury Tales.
At first, I didn't think any of them contained an obvious allusion, because I was thinking of an allusion as "an indirect reference." A common (and probably more accurate) definition of allusion is "a quick or passing reference." Using this second definition, the two previous posters are absolutely right: the fourth quotation, with the passing reference to a book of the Bible, is the one with the allusion.
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