Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  How he sŭld for mans syns be sold [þat st. how. sin. salde.] 
                                
                                  And suffer paynes ful monyfolde [manifalde.] 
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                                  And dy on þe cros, right als þou tels, [right fehlt. telles.] 
                                
                                  For hele of mans sauls, & for n(o)ght els, [man sawl. for fehlt.] 
                                
                                  And on þe thrid day ful right vprise — [third (T. thrid). ful fehlt.] 
                                
                                  Þir wurdes he tolde vs on þis wise. [wordes said he on.] 
                                
                                  Þarfore I tell þe in þis stede
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                                  Þat with his will he sufferd dede". [85—6) fehlen.] 
                                
                                  Egeas þan thoght grete dispite, [despite.] 
                                
                                  And to saint Andrew said he tite: [& unto him þus said.] 
                                
                                  "Þou haues lerid of a symple skole,
                                
                                  Þi preching proues þi-self a fole:
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                                  For — whethir it war his will or none —
                                
                                  Þou grauntes þat he on cros was done [89—92) fehlen.] 
                                
                                  And hangid he was, als I said are.
                                
                                  And þarfore leue þat lurdans lare [93—94) Bot if þou leue þat lurdans lare, þat hanged was als I said are.] 
                                
                                  And vnto my goddes offrand make, [ofrand.] 
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                                  Or els I sall for þi god sake [I sall alsone for.] 
                                
                                  Ger hang þe right on swilk a tre
                                
                                  Als þou sais suld so honorde be — [honord.] 
                                
                                  For fouler dede may no-man haue;
                                
                                  Þarfore on þe I vouche it saue". [99—100) fehlen.] 
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                                  Saint Andrew þan with-outen ire
                                
                                  Said: "sertis, þat es my moste desire, [sertes.] 
                                
                                  I wold be wurthi for his sake [wald. worthi.] 
                                
                                  Opon a cros my dede to take; [þe st. a. mi ded.] 
                                
                                  Þarto euer sal I redi be, [And þarto. euer fehlt.] 
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                                  For any payn þou may do me". [paynes,] 
                                
                                  Egeas þan with grete enuy [full of (T. off) enuy.] 
                                
                                  Sent efter al his turmentry [al fehlt.] 
                                
                                  And bad þam smertly þam omang [& bad þai suld sone þam o.] 
                                
                                  Ordan a cros, him forto hang, [ordaine.] 
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                                  And fest þarto both hend and fete, [bath.] 
                                
                                  Þat none of þam with oþer mete; [& þat none suld with.] 
                                
                                  "Festes him with none nayles, I rede,
                                
                                  To ger him hastili be so dede, [so fehlt. ded.] 
                                
                                  Bot bindes him to with rapes strang, [bandes st. rapes.] 
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                                  So þat he may be pyned lang!"
                                
                                  To do his biding, war þai bayne: [prest st. bayne.] 
                                
                                  A cros þai made with al þaire maine, [fehlen.] 
                                
                                  And handes on him þan fast þai fest — [and fehlt. ful sone st. þan fast.] 
                                
                                  To do him payne þai war ful prest — [fehlen.] 
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                                  Þai led him thurgh þat cete [& st. þai.] 
                                
                                  To þe stede whore (he) suld hanget be. [till st. to. whare he. hanged.] 
                                
                                  And al þe folk þat dweld þare obout, [And all þe folk þan þare obout.] 
                                
                                  Gedird togyder in ful grete rout [gederd togeder. ful fehlt. rowt.] 
                                
                                  And al þus said þai þam omang:
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                                  "Allas, þis wirking es al wrang. [all.] 
                                
                                  What has þis rightwis man done ill,
                                
                                  Þat ȝe on þis wise will him spill?
                                
                                  Þis nobill man þat neuer did mis, [nobil (T. nobill).] 
                                
                                  Ful sakles suffers he all þis,
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                                  Ful sakles bese done on rode [bese he.] 
                                
                                  And sakles sall men spill his blode; [sall be spilt.] 
                                
                                  For he has euer bene blith & glad
                                
                                  To mend al men þat mister had". [133—4) fehlen.] 
                                
                                  Saint Andrew þan þe puple praid [pople.] 
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                                  And al þus vnto þam he sayd: [all (T. al).] 
                                
                                  "Wendis ogayn, all I ȝow pray, [wen|des.] 
                                
                                  And lettes me noght of ioy þis day: [lettes noght my ioy.] 
                                
                                  Desturbes noght now mi passioun! [now fehlt. passioune.] 
                                
                                  For vnto blis it makes me boun". [boune.] 
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                                  And sone when saint Andrew bihelde
                                
                                  Þe cros bifor him in þe felde, [on st. in.] 
                                
                                  Vnto god made he his prayere,
                                
                                  And vnto þe cros on þis manere [to st. vnto.] 
                                
                                  He cried and sayd with ful high voice: [On hegh he said with full hegh uoyce.] 
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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 5
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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