Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

Vor heo þat weren vnder þe emperour . paynimes were echon, [were er . paens.] And heo of Jude alle giwes, . here kuinde nas not on. [was nauȝt.] þe time was neiȝ þat oure ledi . child scholde bere þo: [ny . leuedye.] þer fore iosep hire nam wiþ him . and vrom hire nolde go. [ioseph.] 550 Anasse and oxe wiþ him he ladde, . & þulke boþe he nam: [an asse & an oxe he hadde: wit hym boþe he nom.] þe oxe þat emiȝte sulle, . ȝif neode to him cam To spense and to truage; . þe asse he tok al so, [spence & to his trewage.] þat is wif miȝte ride, . ȝif febelnesse com hire to. [whan febel|nesse her com to.] In gret feblesse he wende forþ, . iosep þis hosbonde, [wend.] 555 Vor charge of is wif & for elde, . to ward is owne londe. [is owe.] In a saterday at eue . heo comen to bedlemes on ende. [an eue.] So weri heo weren, and late hit was, . heo ne miȝten in wende, [þat hy.] And eke vor pres of þe volk . þat to truage was ikome, [ek. folke . trewe.] And al þe innes of þe toun . ifuld were and inome. [And fehlt. alle . I fulled.] 560 Anold hows þer stod al for lete . ate tounes ende, þat men duden yn here bestes, . whan heo wolden to toune wende; [men cyden In : toun.] Diuersorie hit was icleped; . amidde þe weie it was, [Ms. A mersorie st. diuersorie.] [dyversorie, wol richtige Lesart.] Side walles hit hedde to, . ac non helewou(!)þer nas: [ist unten a. R. hinzugesetzt.] [syde wallis þer wer to . hole wowe.] Hit was opene at eiþer ende, . to gon yn al þat wolde. [open . þt þer.] 565 Vor þre þing hit furst arered was, . þat hous of such folde: [it was furst arerede : an hous of soche bolde.] þat men miȝte þe hali day . þer inne pleiȝe and wende [þan holy day . þer in.] And sitte vor idelnesse . and driue þe day to ende, [sit & pleyd . þan day.] And þat men miȝte þer inne go, . whanne it luþer weder were, [And fehlt. whan . leþer.] And þat pore men þer inne leiȝe . þat wiþ outen yn were. [wt inne.] 570 þis was to akinges burþtime . awonder yn inome. [berþetyme.] Glad was ȝet oure ledi . heo miȝte þer inne come. [ȝit . þat ȝhe.] Oure ledi seide: þat time it was, . þat þe child were ibore. [an oure vp þe tyme hit was : þat oure lord was I bore.]
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Altenglische legenden ...
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Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
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Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,
1875.
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English poetry
Legends

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