Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

Riȝt cler nas þt weder noȝt, : bote riȝt as it were nei eue. To biholde þt noble work, : an stounde he gan bileue; [þe st. þt. a st. an.] 150 þe walles nere noȝt þer on Ihol, : ac þer aboute iwis [dorou st. þer on.] Queynt pylers & arches were, : as monekes cloister is. [quinte. monkis cloistre.] In he wende agodes name, : & sat him al one an hei, [al a lone.] & bihuld aboute in ech hurne : & þis quinte werk isei. [bi helþ. in euerich angle. worc.] As he bihuld al þus aboute, : þer com In at on ende [aten on.] 155 Tuelf men in wite uestimens, : swiþe uair & hende, [white vestimentes.] Hor crounen alle newe iscore. : swiþe uaire hi him grette, [folio 36] [ȝhare. nwe y schore.] & sete hem alle uaire adoun, : & þis knyȝt bi hem sette. [sette ham al fair. bi hom.] þo spak on, as hor prior, : mildeliche & stille: bbeu frere, ihered be god, : þt sendeþ þe such wille, [bi god.] 160 & lete þe þt þou hast bigonne : uor is grace wel ende! [þu.] Beu frere, wen þu wolst þes wei : uor þyne sunnen wende: [wolst ist Imperf., dafür sonst auch wost; vgl.] [whan þu wost þis. þin.] Oþer þu most be studeuast : & in none manere turne þi þoȝt, [in no.] Oþur þu worst lif & soule : a deuelwei i broȝt; Vor, as sone as we beþ henne iwend, : þe deuelen luþer & wicke [i went. deuele.] 165 Wolleþ come anon aboute þe : In þis hous wel þicke, & do þe tormens & wo Inouȝ, : & bihote þe wel more, Ac hi wolleþ bi hote þe Ioie Inouȝ, : ȝif þu wolt leue on hor lore; [wollet. y leue.] & ȝif hi þe þoru eny biheste : mowe þe ouercome, [þe doppelt, wie auch in Ms. Cott.; das erste þe ist zu tilgen.] [ac ȝif.] Siker þu worst lif & soule : adeuelwei Inome; 170 Ac ȝif þu art stable of bileue, : & in ihū crist dest þenche, [þost.] Ne uor heste ne uor wo : fram him nelt blenche, [uor biheste.] þu worst quit of alle þin sunnen : þt þu hast er iwroȝt, [wost. sinne. euer st. er.] & þu schalt ise alle þe Ioien : þt godemen beþ Inne ibroȝt, [ioie.] & þe pyne þt luþermen habbeþ : uor hor mysdede; 175 Ac, in wat wo þu art, : þench on god, ic rede, [in what wo so. þen st. þench.] &, wanne hi þe turmenteþ muche, : cri ihū mylce & ore, [whan.] [dust st. dudest.]
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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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