Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  To leede kyng Edmund ageyn to Bury toun. [lede. Edmond.] 
                                
                                  But by a maner symulacioun [maneer symblacioun.] 
                                
                                  The bysshop granteth, and vnder that gan werche [vndir.] 
                                
                                  Hym to translate in-to Powlys cherche;
                                
                                  Vpon a day took with hym clerkis thre,
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                                  Entreth the cherche off seyn Gregory, [entryth. chirche. seint.] 
                                
                                  In purpos fully, yiff it wolde be, [purpoos.] 
                                
                                  To karye the martir fro thenys preuyly. [Ms. theuys.]  [carye. thens.] 
                                
                                  But whan the bysshop was therto most besy
                                
                                  With the body to Poulis forto gon, [Powlys. goon.] 
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                                  Yt stood as fyx as a gret hill off ston. [It. ffix. hyl. stoon.] 
                                
                                  Multitude ther myhte noon auayle, [myght. avaylle.] 
                                
                                  Al-be they dyde ther fforce and besy peyne; [did.] 
                                
                                  For but in ydel they spente ther trauayle. [Idel. spent.] 
                                
                                  The peple lefte, the bysshop gan dys|deyne:
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                                  Drauht off corde nor off no myhty cheyne [coorde.] 
                                
                                  Halp lyte or nouht — this myracle is no fable — [light st. lyte.] 
                                
                                  For lik a mount it stood ylyche stable. [Ilich.] 
                                
                                  Wher-upon the bysshop gan meruaylle,
                                
                                  Fully diffraudyd off his entencioun. [deffrawdid.] 
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                                  And whan ther power and fforce gan to faylle, [poweer.] 
                                
                                  Ayllewyn kam neer with humble affec|cioun, [cam.] 
                                
                                  Meekly knelyng sayde his orysoun:
                                
                                  The kyng requeryng lowly for Crystes sake [lowely.] 
                                
                                  His owyn contre he sholde nat forsake. [owne cuntre. shulde.] 
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                                  Wyth this praier Ayllewyn aroos, [prayeere.] 
                                
                                  Gan ley to hand: fond no resistence,
                                
                                  Took the chest wher the kyng lay cloos,
                                
                                  Leffte hym up withoute violence. [lefft. withoute ony.] 
                                
                                  The bysshop thanne with dreed and reuerence
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                                  Conueyed hym forth with processioun,
                                
                                  Tyl he was passid the subarbis off the toun. [subarbys.] 
                                
                                  Alle syke ffolk that for helpe souhte [seek.] 
                                
                                  To the martir, lyggyng in maladye,
                                
                                  Were maad hool; myracles euer he wrouhte: [wer. euere.] 
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                                  Who callyd to hym ffond hasty remedye. [whoo.] 
                                
                                  Wher he passith upon ech partye,
                                
                                  Thoruh euery toun and euery smal village, [cam.] 
                                
                                  The peeple kam to conueye his passage;
                                
                                  Broke breggis they gan ageyn renewe, [brooke.] 
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                                  Strowed al the weies with floures fressh and grene, [strowyd. flours.] 
                                
                                  And with clothes off many dyuers hewe [cloothys.] 
                                
                                  They heng ther wallis, maad the pament clene, [made.] 
                                
                                  That noon obstacle was in the weye sene.
                                
                                  To Stapylfforde they took the weye ryht,
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                                  And, as I fynde, he logged ther al nyht,
                                
                                  At the cheff maner off that litil toun, [cheef maneer. litel.] 
                                
                                  Weel receyued with besy attendance. [wel.] 
                                
                                  And he that hadde the domynacioun
                                
                                  Off thilke village, lay in gret penance
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                                  Thoruh old syknesse: but off al greuance,
                                
                                  Wher he so longe afforn lay languysshyng,
                                
                                  Was maad al hool be myracle off this kyng; [by.] 
                                
                                  And whan he was be grace thus recuryd, [by.] 
                                
                                  Ful deuoutly in al his beste wise
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                                  Made his auouh and hertly hath assuryd [avowh.] 
                                
                                  That litil maner hooly to a-mortyse [litel maneer. hool.] 
                                
                                  With the reuenus, as lawe lyst deuyse,
                                
                                  To the cherche, breffly to termyne, [chirche. breeffly.] 
                                
                                  Wher the martir lith hool now in his shryne. [lyth.] 
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                                  By Essex weye whan he was repeyred [repeyered.]

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 437
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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