Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

Siker ous an hond þt þu wolt : on oure seruyce bileue, [sind im Ms. Laud umgestellt] 205 & we wolleþ to þe erþe þe lede aȝen, : al sauf, ar it be eue: [to erde. saf er.] þu schalt habbe þer Ioie Inouȝ, : in halle & ek in boure, Vor none men beþ so murie þer : as þulke þt beþ of oure; [nommen. dere. þilk.] Hei mon & noble þu worst, : & men scholleþ honouri þe; [scholle.] & wen þu art ded & to ous comst, : þe tid as good as we. [comest.] 210 þis knyȝt þoȝte euer on ihū crist, : he nolde chaunge enes is wille, [þe knyt þoute. chonge.] Vor prechinge ne uor uair bi heste, : ac sat him euer stille. [for þreting ne fair.] þo he nolde hem granti noȝt : þt he wolde to hem wende, Hi ȝonede & grennede on him foule, : & astrong fur gonne tende. þis knyȝt hi bounde hond & fot, : & amydde þe fur him caste; [fet. fer caste, him fehlt.] 215 Wiþ irene oweles & wiþ pikes : hi to drowe him wel uaste. [owles.] þis knyȝt, wan he sei is neode, : loude he cride anon: [ȝ in knyȝt übergeschrieben.] [þo st. wan. nede.] Ihū, (Ihū), help me nou, : & schulde me fram myne fon! [Ms. Ihū einmal, so auch Ms. Cott.; die and. Mss. haben Ihū Ihū (oder Ihū crist. Bodl.), wie auch das Versmass fordert; s. V. 574 alas.] [schil þe me fro my fon.] Anon so þt word was ised, : þt fur quente ech spronke; [euerich.] þe deueles ne drowe him namore. : our lord he gan þonke, [þe þeuelin him droue nommore, ne fehlt.] 220 & þe hardiere was Inouȝ, : þo he þis isei, [he st. þe. hardiore.] & þe lasse of þe deuelen dradde, : þt were him so nei. Wel grisliche þe screwen ȝolle, : þo hem failede hor myȝte, [grislich. hore.] & flowe echone out of þis halle, : & drowe wiþ hem þis knyȝte. [flow echon. þrow.] Hi drowe him wel harde aȝen þe gronde : boþe fet & honde, [droue.] 225 Swiþe ver, him þoȝte, & longe, : al in awaste londe. [longe aboute.] So blac & derk was al þt lond, : þt noþing he ne sei [dorc.] bbote þe deuelen þt him drowen, : þt so þicke were him nei. [deuelin. drowe.] Ac asofte wynd þer was, : þt he hurde vnneþe, & so scharp & cold he bleu : þt it broȝte him nei to deþe; [hit blew.] 230 Riȝt cold it wende nei þoruȝ is herte, : & þoru is bodi also, [nei findet sich in keinem Ms. und ist wol aus dem vorigen V. eingedrungen.] [colþe. nei fehlt.]
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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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