Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Marie aros vp, . and to þe montaines drow [A. R.: Exurgens maria, s. Luc. 1, 39.] 
                                
                                  Into acite of Jude . wiþ grete haste inow.
                                
                                  Heo wende, þo heo þider com, . in to Zakaries house
                                
                                  And faire grette elisabeþ, . Zakaries spouse.
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                                  þo elisabeþ hire herde, . þe child bigan to wawe
                                
                                  And made ioie in hire wombe, . as þing þat was fawe.
                                
                                  Wel ȝong þis holi bern . sein Jon þe babtist
                                
                                  Honurede þat holi maide . and swete ihū crist. [Ms. honureda.] 
                                
                                  þo bi gon elisabeþ . wiþ heiȝ vois to grede,
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                                  Al fol of þe holi gost, . in þis wordes sede: [in st. an, oder es fehlt and.] 
                                
                                  Among alle wymmen . iblessed þow art iwis,
                                
                                  And þe fruit of þi wombe . iblessed also is.
                                
                                  þus made þe aue marie . elisabeþ þe endinge, [of fehlt vor þe.] 
                                
                                  And þe angel, as ȝe herden er, . made þe bigynnynge.
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                                  Whar fore, quaþ elisabeþ, . to me valleþ hit so
                                
                                  þat mi lordes moder . þus comeþ me to?
                                
                                  Ano(n) so þe gretinge of þe . in min eren was ido,
                                
                                  þis child ioie made . in mi wombe lo.
                                
                                  Redi þow art also . þat ileuedest þis,
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                                  Vor alþing worþ ido . þat of god iseid is.
                                
                                  þo seide heo an holi saume, . þat maide marie,
                                
                                  þat me singeþ at vch euesong, . as in prophecie: [Ms. singey.] 
                                
                                  Misoule herieþ muche oure lord, . & migost iwis [A. R.: Magnificat.] 
                                
                                  In god haþ ioie imad . þat min hele is;
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                                  Vor he haþ þe mek hede . biholden of his hine;
                                
                                  þer fore lo me here . redi ate fine
                                
                                  Siggeþ ech maner kuinde, . vor he me haþ muehe ido,
                                
                                  He þat wel miȝti is, . and is name also
                                
                                  Holi he is, & his merci . goþ now al aboute
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                                  Vrom kunrede to kunrede . to hem þat wolleþ him doute.
                                
                                  In armes gret miȝte he dude, . vor al bineþe he brouȝte
                                
                                  And to spradde p(r)oude men . þorw is herte þouȝte; [Ms. poude, aus poure corrigirt, st. proude.]  [is st. here?] 
                                
                                  Miȝti men he haþ . al a doun ido
                                
                                  Of here sege, & mekliche men . iheiȝed he haþ also;

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 84
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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