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

                                
                                  Nou ich wot mid iwisse þat ich ssal ben islawe,
                                
                                  For nabbi none blisse of mi lifdawe.'
                                
                                  Ac þe king wel feire his sweuen he tolde,
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                                  & bad swiþe feire reden þat he hit ssolde.
                                
                                  'Louerd,' seide Iosep, 'þi sweuen is eþ to telle,
                                
                                  Oure Louerd wole in þi lond muche prude felle [MS. falle.] .
                                
                                  Ac þou ssalt habbe raþer seue ȝer blisse of alle gode
                                
                                  Þurȝ a swete water ssal comen of Niles flode.
                                  Line 315 
                                
                                  Þou ssalt haue þenne [þenne] MS. þer.]  hunger & hete,
                                
                                  Wone of alle gode, of drinken [The k altered from another letter.]  & of mete.
                                
                                  Þis is þi sweuene, sire king, þench þou þeron,
                                
                                  Bote Crist be þin help, Egipte is al agon.'
                                
                                  Heron þe king þencheþ bi niȝt & bi dai,
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                                  Not he a liue what he do mai.
                                
                                  Heron þe king þencheþ bi dai & bi niȝt,
                                
                                  Me ne couþe of þis þinge reden him no wiȝt.
                                
                                  Þenne spac an old man þat was wis of speche. [Between foll. 6 and 7 a leaf has been cut out.] 
                                
                                  Wenne ich þenche on Abraham, hou he gan þider wende: [folio 7a] 
                                
                                  Muche þo þolede Abraham ssame mid his wiue,
                                  Line 326 
                                
                                  & seþþen atte nende of lond me gan him driue.
                                
                                  & wenne þe riȝtwise man þolede such ssome,
                                
                                  Into Egipte to sende þuncheþ me no gome.
                                
                                  Ofte of þis smal chaf þis breþren brouȝten hom,
                                  Line 330 
                                
                                  & for wone of mete maden muche mon.
                                
                                  Beniamin þe ȝunge bad his moder bred,
                                
                                  & seide he was afingred þat he was neiȝ ded.
                                
                                  Þe moder swor swiþe þat bred nadda non,
                                
                                  Þo wrong he his honden, Iacob þe elde man,
                                  Line 335 
                                
                                  For leuere were Iacob of liue for to ben

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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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