Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  & bad hym þt he schold : his foly for lete.
                                
                                  Leue sone, he seyde, : lo myn hed is hor;
                                
                                  þt þu me hast gramyd : þin hert auȝt be sor;
                                
                                  Woldistou leue þy folyȝe : & do after me,
                                
                                  Boþe vs myȝt on lyue : þe beter þanne be;
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                                  þou wost wel þt þy be leue : auȝt be ryȝt nouȝt,
                                
                                  For who þer on be leuiþ, : to deþe he is sone brouȝt;
                                
                                  & ech sone to his fadir auȝt buxum be;
                                
                                  þerfore let be þy pride, : & be buxvm to me!
                                
                                  Loue me, & I wolle þe (do) : as ryȝt is to done, [hinter þe fehlt do.] 
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                                  & but þu wolt, an oþer þing : I wil do wel sone.
                                
                                  Josaphat hym answerde: : tyme to loue it is,
                                
                                  & tyme is to hate, : þt wot ech man I wis;
                                
                                  Of werre þer is tyme, : & of pes also;
                                
                                  & þt falliþ to tyme : ech mon auȝte to do;
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                                  Schame it were, ȝif aman : schold fro god wende
                                
                                  To a deuil of helle, : þt wold his soule schende;
                                
                                  For god seyþ hym self: : fadir & modir he is,
                                
                                  Who so fro hym tornyþ, : I wis, he doþ amys.
                                
                                  þo answerde þe fadir: : nowȝ I þe soþe se,
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                                  þat þu nelt in no wise : worche after me,
                                
                                  Wole we go I fere : doun in to þe toun,
                                
                                  & þer we mowe here afayr : disputacioun
                                
                                  Of barlam, þy mayster : In game & in plawe,
                                
                                  þat schal despute wit clerk̛ : þt beþ of þe lawe;
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                                  Amessager al so : fram me schal out wende,
                                
                                  By whom I wole clerk̛ : of oure lawe of sende;
                                
                                  & þer þey scholle despute : fulle dayis þre.
                                
                                  Ȝif barlam þorwȝ his queintys : mowe mayster be,
                                
                                  I wole my self & my lond : torne þan to þe; [sind im Ms. umgestellt.] 
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                                  & ȝif barlam be ouer come, : torne þu þan to me. [sind im Ms. umgestellt.] 
                                
                                  fforþ went þis good child : wit his fadir þo.
                                
                                  & þo þey come to þe stede : þer þe ded schold be do,
                                
                                  þe child seyde to nacor: : a(r)tow barlam? [Ms. atow st. artow.] 
                                
                                  Ȝe I wis, quaþ þis oþer, : þu wost wel I it am.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 139
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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