Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

& clerkes wiþ þe procession, : þe seruice to do. [þe vor procession fehlt in den and. Mss. u. ist zu tilgen.] [wt procession.] Vor him (hi) songe an heie masse : & on god cride uaste, [Nach him fehlt hi im Ms.] [him hi song. hei.] Our lordes flecs & is blod : hi toke him ate laste, [flesch. atte.] & sprende him wiþ holi watur, : & hor orisons sede. [& sperng (!) him wyt. ȝhare.] 125 Wiþ crois & procession : to þe put hi gonne him lede, [putte. him gonne, hi fehlt.] & heieliche songe þe letanye, : & holi water wiþ hem bere, [heilich song. wiþ hem fehlt.] & godes halwe alle bede : þt hi is help were. [alle godes halwe.] þe prior vnlek þe puttes dore, : & among hem echon: [& vor among, nur noch in Ms. Cott., fehlt in d. and. Mss.] [vnlok. hom st. hem.] Beu frere, he sede, her is þe wei : þt (þu) seist þu wolt gon; [Im Ms. fehlt. þu nach þt.] [þt þu seist þt þu.] 130 Ac ȝif þu wolt do bi oure rede, : þu schalt þi þoȝt wende [be.] & in oþer manere þi sunne bete, : as god wole þe grace sende; Vor uewe þer comeþ aȝen of hem : þt her Inne wende biuore, [hom. here.] Ac were uor torment & uor wo : bodi & soule uorlore. [tormens. lif & soule were lore (were doppelt).] Certes, sire, quaþ þis knyȝt, : rede wat þu me rede, 135 Ic nyme þen wei agodes name : to bete myne mysdede; [þen wei ich nime.] Ac, uor his loue þt ous dere abouȝte, : biddeþ uor me echon! Lyf & soule ic him bi take, : & in is name In gon. [in gon lesen auch die and. Mss., nur Laud hat ichulle in gon.] He blessede him, & wende him In, : & bi tok god flesch & bon. [blesseþ. wente.] þe prior him sprende wiþ holi watur, : & lek þe dore anon. [sprengþe. loc.] 140 þis gode knyȝt him wende uorþ, : baldeliche & uaste, bbi an holwe wei vnder erþe, : & vp god is herte caste; He ne sei noþing uor derchede, : ac naþeles noȝt him agaste. [& st. ac. ne a gaste.] So longe, him þoȝte, þt he sei : wel uair liȝt ate laste. [long. feir. atte.] þuderward he wende baldeliche, : so þt he com þer ney. 145 þe uairest feld þt miȝte be : at þe weies ende he isei. [fairost. atte. hende. sey.] þer Inne he wende murie Inouȝ; : amydde þe feld he fond [merie.] þe noblest & uairest halle : þt myȝte be In eny lond. [Ms. noblestc, mit angefangenem aber nicht ausgeschriebenem e.] [þe nobleste & þe fairost.]
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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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