Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  þe deuelen seden : as þis men : pyne þu schalt also, [sede. schat st. schalt.] 
                                
                                  bbote þu wolt þi þoȝt wende : & aftur our red do. [wolle.] 
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                                  þo he nolde in none manere, : to gronde hi him caste, [in no.] 
                                
                                  To tormenti him, as þe oþer were, : & to naili him uaste.
                                
                                  Ac he cride to ihū crist anon, : þo him smerte sore:
                                
                                  þer nas non of þe screwen þo : þt myȝte him greuy more. [miȝthe.] 
                                
                                  þo þe screwen ne miȝte noȝt : hor wille habbe þo, [miȝt.] 
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                                  Hi drowe him in to anoþer feld, : uol of wel more wo:
                                
                                  Of men & wemmen he was uol, : up riȝt isprad to gronde,
                                
                                  ffet & honden upriȝt to drawe, : to þe erþe uaste ibounde [honde.] 
                                
                                  Wiþ furi nailes of ire, : ynailed uaste þerto; [nailes fol of ire.] 
                                
                                  Al furi neddren up hem sete, : & crapoudes also:
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                                  Somme of þe neddren hem bi clupte : so uaste al aboute, [som. be clepte.] 
                                
                                  þt hem þoȝte hi scolde to berste, : so uaste hi gorden wiþoute; [Im Ms. nicht deutlich, ob gorden oder gerden.]  [breste. gurþe.] 
                                
                                  Somme seten on oueward hem, : & hor wreche flesch uor gnowe, [som sete anoward. wrecche.] 
                                
                                  & wiþ kene teþ al furi : wombe & breste to drowe; [womb.] 
                                
                                  Somme nome hor scharpe tonge : & þoru þe herte smyte, [some. tong.] 
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                                  Somme bounde, somme stonge, : & somme gnowe & bite. [some bounde & some stong. som.] 
                                
                                  þe crapoudes ek, þt were so foule, : on ouerward þe herte sete, [anoward.] 
                                
                                  & stonge hem þoru out þe herte : wiþ hor wrottes so grete. [stong. þorou ohne out. hore.] 
                                
                                  þe luþer gostes ournen also : aboute hem Inowe, [gestes ourne. & aboute.] 
                                
                                  & wiþ oweles & wiþ scourges : þe wreches al to drowe.
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                                  þe wreche gostes, al uorpyned, : in such torment ibroȝt, [& in suich.] 
                                
                                  Hi ȝolle & cride deoluolliche; : ac al ne halp hem noȝt. [del|folliche. alle ne help.] 
                                
                                  þe deuelen nome þis seli knyȝt, : & wolde him pyny also,
                                
                                  Ac, þo he cride on ihū crist, : hi ne broȝte him noȝt þerto. [ac þo hi (!).] 
                                
                                  ȝut þe deuelen eft him nome : & to þe þridde feld him drowe.
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                                  þer he sei in strong turment : wreche gostes Inowe, [sei ek.] 
                                
                                  I sprad to þe erþe al abrod, : & ismyte þoru out echon [þoro ut.] 
                                
                                  Wiþ as þicke nailes in ech syde, : as þer myȝte stike on, [eche stede. stiki.]

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 161
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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