2. Coment le sauter noustre dame fu primes cuntroue.
[Varianten des Ms. Auchinl:] Ms. Digby 86, fol. 130.
Dasselbe Gedicht findet sich in dem bekannten, etwas jüngern Ms. Auchinl fol. 259 (c. 1410) und ist hieraus edirt in David Laing's A Penniworth of Witte (für den Abbotsf. Club). In Ms. Dig. ist von fol. 131 unten ein Stück schräg abgeschnitten, wodurch mehrere Verse ganz oder theilweise zerstört sind. Das Fehlende ist aus Ms. Auch. ergänzt.
Leuedi swete and milde,
For loue of þine childe
Þat is foul of miȝtte, [Jhesu st. þat is. ful of miȝt.]
Me, þat am to wilde, [so st. to.]
From shome þou me shilde, [Fram schame. schylde.]
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Bi day and eke bi niȝtte! [eke fehlt. niȝt.]
Ich wille biginnen here [Ichil bigennen.]
And tellen þe manere
Nou at þisse stounde [Now in þis.]
Of þi sauter here,
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Mid wel gode chere, [wiþ.]
Ou hit wes .I.-founde. [Hou it was y-founde.]
Send me þine grace [Sende. þi.]
Nou in þisse place, [Now. þis.]
So wel for to done! [wele.]
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Ich nou bidde þi grace, [Y bid þe þi.]
And þerto lif and space. [And fehlt. liif.]
Here nou mine bone! [y-here now mi.]
A riche man was wile, [while.]
Þat nolde none gile; [þat loued no.]
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He louede holi chirche. [loued.]
Bi-sides him a mile [Bisiden.]
On abbey of seint Gile [An abbay. seyn.]
His helderne gonne werche. [eldren. dede st. gonne. wirche.]
God lif þis man ladde. [Gode liif.]
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One sone he hadde, [On.]
Þat gode dedes dede.
Wiþ cloþ and wiþ bedde
His sone faire he sredde [fair. schredde.]
In þat ilke stede. [In þilke.]
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Monk he þere bicom, [Monke þerin he bicam. Hierauf sind 13 Zeilen ausgeschnitten.]
Wiþ abit he þer nom,
Bi his fader wille.
Him louede god and mon —
So feire he bigon,
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Wor euere he wes stille.
His fader him bimenede
Þat he þerinne wende
So ȝong sholde, .I.-wis.
He dede after him sende
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"Þat is nou þat ende",
And made him muchel blis.
A maister hadde his sone
Þat wiþ him wef .I.-come,
