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

                                
                                  Þenne seide Iosep to his breþren anon,
                                
                                  'Þe sweuene þat me mette, ȝit nis hit nouȝt agon.
                                
                                  Ac ase ȝe wolleþ, breþren, þat ich be aliue,
                                  Line 495 
                                
                                  Ȝe ssule fecchen oure fader & maken him ful bliþe,
                                
                                  & oure kun alle & oure nextfolde,
                                
                                  Þat ich mowe in þis lond here lif holde.
                                
                                  For þe hunger haþ ibe two ȝer swiþe strong,
                                
                                  & ȝit hit lasteþ fiue, & þat is al to long.'
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                                  Feire he ssrudde his breþren mid dereworþe cloþ,
                                
                                  His breþren þat rideþ & here men þat goþ.
                                
                                  Of fiss & of flesse, of foules ibake,
                                
                                  He lette senden in cartes to his fader sake,
                                
                                  Cloþes of skarlet & of sabelin,
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                                  Of honi & of corn, of fruit & of win,
                                
                                  Nappes of seluer & ringes of golde,
                                
                                  & alle prudene mest þat hi leden wolde.
                                
                                  Feire fareþ þis ȝunge men bi dai & bi niȝt
                                
                                  To here fader Iacob þat hi comen riȝt.
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                                  & habbeþ to Iacob ibrouȝt al þis þing,
                                
                                  & seggeþ þat Iosep is in Egipte ase heiȝ as a king.
                                
                                  Þo Iacob iherde þat Iosep was aliue,
                                
                                  Nas neuere for his child fader so bliþe. [folio 10b] 
                                
                                  He caste awei his crucche, his mantel he feng,
                                  Line 515 
                                
                                  Feire he platte his her wiþ a selkene streng.
                                
                                  He toc his benetene hat wiþ pal þat was biweued.
                                
                                  'Of sor & of serewe nou ich am bireued,
                                
                                  For nou me þuncheþ þat ich mai flen as an ern
                                
                                  For þe loue of Iosep, mi leueste bern.'
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                                  Iacob rod singinde, such hit were a child,
                                
                                  'For þe loue of Iosep nou ich am ȝung & wild.'
                                
                                  Þo Iosep iherde of his fader come,
                                
                                  Kniȝtes inowe mid him he haþ inome,

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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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