Iacob and Iosep; a middle English poem of the thirteenth century, ed. by Arthur S. Napier.

                                
                                  Wel ouȝte we to heren [MS. ẉheren.]  him þat is riȝtwis,
                                
                                  & nou ȝe mowen ihere hou hende oure Louerd is,
                                
                                  Hou feire he sende help to Iosep þe ȝungling
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  Þurȝ a sweuene þat mette Pharaon þe king.
                                
                                  Þe king ase he slepte him þuȝte þat he rod
                                
                                  In a medewe grene þat long was & brod.
                                
                                  Seue kuin fatte him þuȝte þat he sauȝ gon:
                                
                                  So fatte ne so feire sauȝ he neuere non.
                                  Line 285 
                                
                                  Oþer seue lene toȝeines hem gonne gon
                                
                                  & frete þe seue fatte kyn eueruchon.
                                
                                  Þo þe seue fatte kin alle forswolewed were,
                                
                                  Þe seue kin lene neuere þe fullore nere.
                                
                                  Amorewen þe king awoc, his sweuen he tolde
                                  Line 290 
                                
                                  Vrles & barons & burgeis ful bolde.
                                
                                  Ac þer nas neiþer baron ne kniȝt
                                
                                  Þat of þisse þinge couþe reden him aiwiȝt.
                                
                                  Þo herde þe botiler of þisse sweuene speke,
                                
                                  Þo þouȝte he furst on Iosep, þat so longe lai bisteke.
                                  Line 295 
                                
                                  He cam to þe kinge & tolde him anon
                                
                                  Of him & of þe baxtere hou hit was igon.
                                
                                  'Louerd, of þi sweuene ȝif he ne seiþ þen ende [MS. þenende.] , [folio 6b] 
                                
                                  Do me, Louerd, aȝein into þine bende.'
                                
                                  Þenne seide Faraon, Faraon þe king,
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  'Let bringe bifore me þene ȝungling.
                                
                                  Ȝif he of mi sweuene seiþ me þen ende,
                                
                                  Al his gult ich him forȝiue & quite faten [faten altered from faren.]  of bende.'
                                
                                  Forþ me feccheþ Iosep, þat bloc was & lene,
                                
                                  Durste for þe quene no man him bimene.
                                  Line 305 
                                
                                  'Louerd,' seide Iosep, 'ich hit þonke þe,
                                
                                  Nou ich wot mid iwisse islawe þat ich ssal be,

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Title: Iacob and Iosep; a middle English poem of the thirteenth century, ed. by Arthur S. Napier.
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Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon press,; 1916.

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