Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  þt I schold wraþþe & couetyse : dryue fro me,
                                
                                  Of þe I wold a wreke : In wraþþe be,
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                                  þat me schold þy reed blood : on grounde se.
                                
                                  þerfore swyþe of my lond : þt þu now fle!
                                
                                  Or wt pyne & wt wo : for doon þu schalt be.
                                
                                  fforþ went þis good mon : in moche sorwȝ & wo,
                                
                                  For he hopid ful wel : to deþe ben I do.
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                                  In þt ilke tyme : þe king nadde eyr none;
                                
                                  þerfore he was sory : & made moche mone.
                                
                                  God hym sente a knaue child, : þt was swyþe feyr,
                                
                                  Josaphat it was I hote, : & scholde ben his eyr.
                                
                                  To þe temple þey went, : his offring for to doon.
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                                  & after astronomyis : þe king leet sende anon,
                                
                                  þat þey schold stodyȝe : in eueryche syde
                                
                                  & telle hym what his sone : on erþe schold be tyde.
                                
                                  Alle þey answerid: : gret lord he schold be,
                                
                                  & agreet mayster swyþe wit al, : ȝif he most I þe.
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                                  þo seyd on, but nouȝt þorw him self : but þorw þe holy gost: [t in gost und wost hat ein Schleifchen, welches e be|deuten könnte, hier aber wol bedeutungslos ist.] 
                                
                                  þis child schal be conquerour : of þing þt þu wost, [t in gost und wost hat ein Schleifchen, welches e be|deuten könnte, hier aber wol bedeutungslos ist.] 
                                
                                  For þing þou louist most(!) : þis child haue chal,
                                
                                  & þer þorwȝ oure hyȝe god̛ honour : he schal doun fal.
                                
                                  þis þing of hym self : ne seyde he no þing,
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                                  But þorw þe holy gost, : þat tauȝt hym þis tokenyng. [Vor tokenyng ist tyding wegpunktirt.] 
                                
                                  þo þis ilke king : was in wraþþe & in care,
                                
                                  For he nyste noþing : how he scholde fare,
                                
                                  Ne he nyste on lyue : wher he myȝt hym do.
                                
                                  A chaumbir ondir erþe : he leet make þo.
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                                  & anon his ȝonge sone : he leet do þer inne,
                                
                                  For he ne schold of crist here : be no maner gyinne.
                                
                                  þe feyreste childrin of þe lond : he leet to hym do,
                                
                                  & bad nomon to hym spek, : of no maner sorw ne wo,
                                
                                  Ne of no þing : þat myȝt do hym care,
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                                  But in alle wyse : make hym mery to fare.
                                
                                  Of ihū crist he for bad : me scholde speke nouȝt,
                                
                                  Lest he in any tyme : tornyd to hym his þouȝt.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 115
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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