Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  So as he lay with hool herte and entere [entiere.] 
                                
                                  At the sepulchre, knelyng in his prayere:
                                
                                  Vpon a nyht hadde this auysioun:
                                
                                  To haste hym hoom toward his Regioun;
                                
                                  Callid by name, the cronycle makith mynde,
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                                  Thre sondry tymes swynge nyht be nyht. [sundry. shewyng st. swynge.] 
                                
                                  And he dellaied, alwey, as I fynde,
                                
                                  Beyng in doute, thouhte in his inward syht
                                
                                  "What may this been? I conceyue nat a|ryht";
                                
                                  Prayyng god, deuoutly ther knelyng,
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                                  What was his will, to haue ful know|lechyng. [wyl.] 
                                
                                  The thrydde tyme, wheras this pilgrym lay,
                                
                                  Hadde in precept no lengere for-to dwelle,
                                
                                  By goddis aungel, but in al haste that he may [aungil.] 
                                
                                  Haste hym homward, myn auctour doth thus telle, [vs st. thus.] 
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                                  Toward the ryuer that callid is Charwelle:
                                
                                  And on that pleyn, to-forn as is maad mynde,
                                
                                  He sholde off salwh a large tre ther fynde, [shulde. saluh. ther fehlt.] 
                                
                                  Vnder which the hooly seynt was graue, [vndir.] 
                                
                                  Blyssid Fremund, — afforn heer put in mynde; [blyssed. here.] 
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                                  Tolde him toknes which that he sholde haue [Toold. toknys. shulde.] 
                                
                                  At his komyng, the place for-to fynde: [comyng.] 
                                
                                  And oon ther was, which was nat lefft behynde,
                                
                                  Which sholde be shewid to hym the same day [that same.] 
                                
                                  A-myd the place wher as the martir lay:
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                                  A mylk-whit sowhe cloos vnder the greene, [whyte sowe. vndir.] 
                                
                                  Entre nor yssu noon shewed on the pleyn, [entree. Issew. shewyd.] 
                                
                                  With yonge pigges in noumbre ful thret|tene
                                
                                  A ful gret pas komyng him ageyn; [paas.] 
                                
                                  And, for-to putte al thyng in certeyn,
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                                  Withynne a chapel be-side that foil ful blyue [the soyl.] 
                                
                                  He sholde fynde notable preestis fyue.
                                
                                  Alle these toknys rehersyd poynt be poynt
                                
                                  To Ethelbertus breffly in sentence, [breeffly.] 
                                
                                  The angel pullid his ryht arm out off Joynt, [aungil.] 
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                                  For crokid bakward, for his diffidence, [ffer st. for. diffence st. diffidence.] 
                                
                                  And manacid for his necligence
                                
                                  Neuer to been hool, til upon the day [nevir.] 
                                
                                  That he kam thedir wher seyn Fremund lay. [cam. seint.] 
                                
                                  Gretly affraied with his infirmyte —
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                                  Felte in his arm gret peyne and passioun: [arme.] 
                                
                                  Took streiht the weie to Rome the cite,
                                
                                  To this entent, for short conclusioun:
                                
                                  Ther to receyue ful absolucioun [there. resceyve.] 
                                
                                  Be Cristis vyker, what-so-euer falle, [by Crystes vikeer. evir.] 
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                                  Off his offence and his synnes alle.
                                
                                  And to procede and telle forth the caas,
                                
                                  For good expleit touchyng his iourne,
                                
                                  To the pope, as his purpos was, [poope. purpoos.] 
                                
                                  He goth in haste for mor auctorite, [for the moore.] 
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                                  And with a sperit off humylite, [spiryt.] 
                                
                                  Sette a-side al long dilacioun,
                                
                                  Ech thyng commyttyng to his discrecioun [commyttyd.] 
                                
                                  Off these materes remembryd ceryously, [this mateerys.] 
                                
                                  Maad to the pope a declaracioun [made.] 
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                                  Touchyng these myracles in ordre by and by.
                                
                                  Which thyng conceyued, off hih discre|cioun
                                
                                  Bad hym resorte hoom to his regioun, [resoorte.] 
                                
                                  Delyuered hym lettrys notable and special, [lettres.] 
                                
                                  To speede his purpos, testymonyal. [spede.] 
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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 427
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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