Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  For, forsothe, fulle of goddus grace he is, [folio 270] 
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                                  Þis holy virgyne, y-blessude mot he be!
                                
                                  For full mery is he now in heuene blys
                                
                                  Among þe bryȝt angelus þer so feyre and fre.
                                
                                  And þis worshipfull abbay by hurre ywys
                                
                                  Here-after shalle haue ryȝt gret prosperite,
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                                  And also hit shall haue heyȝe encresse of honestnysse
                                
                                  By þe heyȝe grace of god in trinite."
                                
                                  Bot when þis gret meracle was þus y-donne
                                
                                  And þis childe y-rerote þus from deythe to lyfe,
                                
                                  Þey closedone vp þo þat marbull-stone
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                                  And set hit in þe same plase þere as hit ȝet lythe.
                                
                                  And when Wylfryde & Sexburwe hadden closote þat stone,
                                
                                  Þey paston forth þo vpon hurre way.
                                
                                  Bot þe pilgrymys abydde stille þer euerychone
                                
                                  And þongedone god mekelyche & seynt Awdrey:
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                                  For mony a gret miracle þer was y-donne,
                                
                                  Bothe by nyȝt & also by day,
                                
                                  And mony an holle mon home dude gone
                                
                                  Þe whiche come þedur fulle seke & in fulle feble aray;
                                
                                  For þer nas nomon þat þedur by-hette
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                                  For ony monere heuynasse þat he was Inne,
                                
                                  Þat he his bote þer ne fette,
                                
                                  And gladde & blythe he went home þynne.
                                
                                  Thus was þis abbay encresset y-wys
                                
                                  Þorwe goddus grace & þis blessude virgyn seynt Awdre, —
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                                  And ȝet continuallyche forsothe hit is
                                
                                  Stylle in gret worshippe vnto þis day;
                                
                                  Fulle gret grace & godenesse is ȝet in þat abbay
                                
                                  By-causa of þat blessude virgyn & mayden clene,
                                
                                  And meraclus y-done ȝet þere euery day,
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                                  For to euery nedefulle mon he is gode mene.
                                
                                  By-cause of hurre þat abbay ȝet hit is
                                
                                  In hiȝe encresse and ryȝt gode aray,
                                
                                  And "þe lanterne of Englonde" clepte hit is
                                
                                  Ȝet inne-to þis same day.
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                                  And þer is ȝet þe trenyn cheste
                                
                                  In þe whiche seynt Awdre ys body lay inne,
                                
                                  And also alle hurre clothus bothe most & lest, [lest aus last corr.] 
                                
                                  Fulle clene y-kepte þere with-ouȝt wynne,
                                
                                  And þe ryng of golde is þere ȝet y-wys
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                                  Þe whiche was hurre professhynalle ryng —
                                
                                  For vpone hurre shryne þat ryng ȝet hit is —
                                
                                  A full holy releke & a full preciose thynge.
                                
                                  Þuse relekus ben ȝet ryȝte folle of grace
                                
                                  And ȝeuen hele & grace to mony a mone.

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 303
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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