Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  His gostly trauaile for-to spille in veyn. [travaylle.] 
                                
                                  Gruchchyng nor feyntise was neuer in Fremund seyn, [grucchyng.] 
                                
                                  But lyk a champioun in erthe sent from heuene
                                
                                  That slouh the serpent with his hedis seuene. [heedys.] 
                                
                                  His cloth hool conserued by myracle [conservyd.] 
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                                  Duryng seuene yeer fressh as the firste day— [first.] 
                                
                                  What god wil saue ther may be non ob|stacle,
                                
                                  Nor geyn his wil ther may no-man sey nay:
                                
                                  Thus hooly Fremund parfit at al assay,
                                
                                  For in desert lyk Cristes owen knyht, [de|seert. owne.] 
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                                  Ay off oon corage perseuereth day and nyht.— [of o. perseueryth.] 
                                
                                  And whil that he doth in desert soiourne [deseert.] 
                                
                                  In abstynence and contemplacioun,
                                
                                  To kyng Offa my style I wil retourne
                                
                                  And of purpos make a digressioun.
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                                  For in that tyme, the book makith men|cioun,
                                
                                  Yngwar and Vbba with Danys aryuyng
                                
                                  Slouh seynt Edmund, martir, maide, and kyng: [Edmond.] 
                                
                                  Afforn rehersid his lyff, his passioun,
                                
                                  For Cristes feith how he shadde his blood
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                                  By meek suffrance and humble affeccioun, [meeke sufferaunce.] 
                                
                                  Bounde to a tre meekly whan he stood, [tree.] 
                                
                                  Shet with arwis off Tirantis fell and wood, [arwes.] 
                                
                                  With many a wounde, hedid and dis|membryd, [heffdyd.] 
                                
                                  As in this book is heer-toforn remembryd.
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                                  Hys brother-in-lawe for verray in|potence [brothir. of st. for.] 
                                
                                  Off crokid age, sorweful in his entent
                                
                                  That he was feble to make resistence,
                                
                                  Whos lusty yeeris were wastid and yspent: [wer.] 
                                
                                  His counsail took, his massagerys hath sent [counseyl.] 
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                                  To seeke Fremund, bothe nyh and ferre,
                                
                                  Ageyn the Danys to make a mortall werre: [ist ausgelassen.] 
                                
                                  Too and twenty massageris notable [two. ful notable.] 
                                
                                  Off preuyd men, men off discrecioun,
                                
                                  Swich as kyng Offa knew weel that were able [wel. wer.] 
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                                  To seke and serche thoruh al this regioun [seche. al his.] 
                                
                                  And alle strange yles abouten enuyroun [aboutyn.] 
                                
                                  And smale prouynces enclosed with the se, [enclosyd.] 
                                
                                  To fynde a place wher Fremund sholde be. [wheer. shulde.] 
                                
                                  Bvt at the laste, only by goddis grace [but.] 
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                                  And off his merciful dyuyne prouydence,
                                
                                  They were conueied and brouht vnto the place [wer.] 
                                
                                  Where as they fond off Fremund the pre|sence; [wheer.]  [Wyl was poweer and extorcioun.] 
                                
                                  In lowly wise dyde hym reuerence, [did.] 
                                
                                  Vnknowe to hym, but in fulpleyn language
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                                  They meekly tolde theffect off ther mes|sage: [toold. massage.] 
                                
                                  And benyngnely, ther massage to a|bregge, [benignely.] 
                                
                                  Afforn declaryd his ffadrys benysoun,
                                
                                  And affter that they gan in ordre allegge [aftir. legge.] 
                                
                                  The Rewmys myscheff, the desolacioun, [Reemys. myscheef.] 
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                                  Off paynymes the grete oppressioun, [paynymys.] 
                                
                                  Crystene lawe lowe put vndir foote;
                                
                                  Fremund requeryng to socoure and do boote;
                                
                                  With wepyng eyen also they hym tolde [eeyen.] 
                                
                                  Off Cristis lawe fynal destruccioun, [Crystes.] 
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                                  Maidnes rauesshid, men slayn that were olde, [maydenys ravysshed. wer.] 
                                
                                  Cherchis robbid, dispoiled and bordoun, [despoylled. boore doun.] 
                                
                                  Menstris desolat, reuersid up so doun,
                                
                                  Al religioun and clerkly disciplyne [Schwager Edmund's ist Offa, vgl. v. 174.]

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 421
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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