Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  Preysyng of peeple forto sette asyde.
                                
                                  Vnto shipmen savacioun and guyde,
                                
                                  Madist the tempest graciously asswage
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                                  And fro perisshyng dist so for them pro|vide,
                                
                                  From al pereil to fortune ther passage.
                                
                                  Sike and poore thu list also visite,
                                
                                  And alle that wern in tribulacioun.
                                
                                  Of the wydewe, callid Theocrite,
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                                  To hir douhtir thu were sauacioun,
                                
                                  Of oold langoure hir consolacioun;
                                
                                  To al the contre pleynyng for skarsete,
                                
                                  By thy prayer and mediacioun
                                
                                  They did habounde with gracious plente.
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                                  Whan the heremyte Veredemyus
                                
                                  Was ferre absent — thy stoory doth ex|presse —
                                
                                  Thoruh thy meryt notable and vertuous
                                
                                  Thu madyst a penaunt hool from al sik|nesse.
                                
                                  Toward desert thy Journe thu dist dresse;
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                                  With coold watir and herbys rauh and greene
                                
                                  Complet thre yeer — thy stoory berith witnesse —
                                
                                  Laddist thy liff, of colour pale and leene.
                                
                                  God of his grace had vpon the mynde:
                                
                                  Lyst ordeyne, for a restoratyff,
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                                  To thy repaast whit as snowh an hynde
                                
                                  With plentevous mylk, to fostre therby thy liff.
                                
                                  Myd sharpe breerys, thu were contem|platyff,
                                
                                  Thy body peyned with rigerous conty|nence,
                                
                                  Ageyn Sathan of custom was thy striff.
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                                  Dauntyng thy flessh by vertuous ab|stinence,
                                
                                  Thy foode was nouthir on flessh nor fissh,
                                
                                  Sool by thy-silff in a desert place,
                                
                                  Othir deyntees cam noon in thy dissh
                                
                                  But frute and rootis, which thu dist up race —
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                                  Beestys reioisshyng to looke vpon thy face;
                                
                                  Moong sharp busshys keptist thy hermy|tage;
                                
                                  As I toold erst, among by goddys grace
                                
                                  Soowk of an hynde which that was savage.
                                
                                  Thus of custom the hynde kept hyr tyme
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                                  At certeyn houres duryng ful thre yeer:
                                
                                  Wente in pasture, gresyng fro the pryme;
                                
                                  Toward mydday she cam with ful glad cheer,
                                
                                  Of god provided to be thy vitaleer,
                                
                                  With a repaast of(hyr) mylk moost soote; [Ms. thy st. hir.] 
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                                  She was thy cook, she was thy boteleer,
                                
                                  Ageyn the constreynt of hungir to do boote.
                                
                                  This myracle and this vnkouth thyng
                                
                                  Was at Tuskan, to Gascoigne adiacent,
                                
                                  Vpon Burgoyne regnyng ther as kyng,
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                                  As I reede, his name was Fluent,
                                
                                  Which in huntyng set al his entent,
                                
                                  Curteys, gentyl in al his governaunce;
                                
                                  To conclude shortly in sentement,
                                
                                  He was soget to the kyng of Fraunce.
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                                  At Mount-pilerys holdyng his soiour,
                                
                                  As thy stoory, Giles, makyth mynde,
                                
                                  Vpon a day the kyng with gret lobour,
                                
                                  Al his meyne, noon was lefft behynde,
                                
                                  Houndys vncouplyd, to chasen at thyn hynde,
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                                  Royal lymerys, with alauntys huge.
                                
                                  Thy beeste swift lefft hem echoon behynde,
                                
                                  Ran to thy feet for socoure and refuge.
                                
                                  The kyng, the bisshop, thy stoory who list reede,
                                
                                  Of that kyngdam, cam to thy presence:
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                                  Hurt with an arwe sauh thy wounde bleede,
                                
                                  Proferyd amendys and gold for ther offence.
                                
                                  The kyng in wyl thy wrong to recompence,
                                
                                  By the assigned of hool affeccioun
                                
                                  To bylde of monkys in goddis reverence
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                                  A monasterye withynne his regioun:
                                
                                  At thy request the bisshop and the kyng
                                
                                  Condescendid, with a condicioun:
                                
                                  That thu woldist accomplissh ther askyng
                                
                                  To been abbot of that religioun,
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                                  Sett a ground of hih perfeccioun
                                
                                  By good exaunple, take of thy persone,
                                
                                  And of desert leve thy mansioun
                                
                                  For comoun profit, and lyve nat so allone.
                                
                                  At ther prayer with al hvmylite

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 372
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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