Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  Grantyng hym withoute more taryyng
                                
                                  In pes and quyete to haue pocessioun
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                                  Vnder his lordshepe off al that regioun, [vndir. lordshippe.] 
                                
                                  So he wolde Cristes feyth forsake,
                                
                                  And so tabyde and to ther lawe hym take.
                                
                                  Off whiche sonde Fremund hath despit — [which. despight.] 
                                
                                  Not for the kyngdham to which he hadde ryht, [kyngdome.] 
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                                  But for our feith; withoute more respit
                                
                                  He seide: he wolde aquyte him lik a knyht.
                                
                                  And in the name off hym that hath most myht,
                                
                                  Crist Jhesu, approche he gan toward
                                
                                  The paynym party, displaied his standard.
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                                  To-forn alle other first Fremund dide assaile [Init. othir. did assaylle.] 
                                
                                  (T)he proude Danys, Crist Jhesu was his guyde,
                                
                                  Hew assonder ffersly plate and mayle, [hewh a sondir. maylle.] 
                                
                                  His manly knyhtis ay fyhtyng be his syde; [knyghtes. by.] 
                                
                                  Afforn ther face no paynym myhte a-byde. [myght.] 
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                                  And foure and twenty that day withoute obstacle [XXIIIIti. withoutyn.] 
                                
                                  Slouh fourty thowsand, only be myracle. [thousand. oonly by.] 
                                
                                  To Cristis power no thyng is inpossible, [Crystes poweer.] 
                                
                                  So as him lyst he may the feeld ordeyne:
                                
                                  As Moyses remembryth in the bible,
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                                  Leuitici affermyng in certeyne, [affer|myth it in certeyn.] 
                                
                                  How that an hundryd, to speke in woor|des pleyne, [woordys pleyn.] 
                                
                                  Sholde off ten thowsand, as put is in memorye, [shulde.] 
                                
                                  Be goddis grace haue the victorye; [By.] 
                                
                                  For he allone may his conquest shewe
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                                  Wher as hym lyst off his magnyfycence, [where.] 
                                
                                  With gret noumbre or ryht with a fewe,
                                
                                  Al oon to hym, there is no difference. [ther.] 
                                
                                  And, to conclude breffly in sentence,
                                
                                  Nat fro the erthe by mene off spere or sheeld, [meene.] 
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                                  But he be grace yeueth conquest in the feeld. [by. gevith.] 
                                
                                  Thus this champioun, this knyht most vertuous,
                                
                                  Hooly Fremund, dide the feeld re|cure, [did.] 
                                
                                  (Th)at day on Danys he was victoryous. [Ms. At st. That, durch Nachwirkung der Initiale v. 547; so auch v. 576.]  [That.] 
                                
                                  And afftir that he dide off his armure,
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                                  Kneled doun and dide his besy cure: [knelyd.] 
                                
                                  Thanked god, by full gret auys, [thankyd.] 
                                
                                  And off his conquest to hym he gaff the prys.
                                
                                  Duryng this werre ther was oon Duc Oswy [duk.] 
                                
                                  With kyng Offa, a prynce off gret estat,
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                                  A dyssymylere, which ful traitourly [dyssemelere.] 
                                
                                  Fro Crystes feith was a fals renegat;
                                
                                  Afforn with Ingwar sworn and confederat, [Ynguar.] 
                                
                                  By vndirmynyng, this was his menyng:
                                
                                  Affter Fremund he to be crownyd kyng; [aftir.] 
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                                  Compassyng that hooly man shal deye
                                
                                  And be mordrid by som fals tresoun, [sum.] 
                                
                                  And therupon to fynde a redy weye
                                
                                  His labour was, by som occasioun.
                                
                                  And as seyn Fremund knelyd lowly doun [seynt.] 
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                                  Thankyng the lord for his gracyous speed [of st. for.] 
                                
                                  Affter his victory, Oswy smet off his hed. [aftir. victorye. heed.] 
                                
                                  And sodenly his hooly chast blood [sodeynly. chaast.] 
                                
                                  Ran lyne ryht in-to the visage
                                
                                  Off this tretour, as he be-syde stood, [traytour.] 
                                  Line 570 
                                
                                  Brent hym so sore that he fyl in rage — [in a rage.] 
                                
                                  Lo heer the guerdoun off his mortal out|rage, [loo here.]

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 423
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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