Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

þt me ne scholde fynde an empti place : in al þt bodi so lute, [ampti. þe bodi so lite.] þt me myȝte uor þicke nailes : an vyngres ende pute. [putte.] 290 A smart ek wynd to oþer wo : on hem bleu so uaste, [ek hinter wynd zu versetzen.] [wynd ek.] þt hem þoȝte hi uorbarnde : þoru out at eche blaste. [for brende.] þe deuelen ornen al so aboute : fram ech to oþer Inowe, [ourne.] & hor wreche flesch to oþer wo : wiþ oweles to drowe. þis wreche gostes, so uorpyned, : in such turment ibroȝt, [for pineþe & in suich.] 295 Reuliche cride as hi myȝte, : ac vnneþe me hurde hem ouȝt, [reulich. herde hom nouȝt(!).] Vor hi were so clene ouercome, : þt hi myȝte vnneþe Brynge eny uois, bote as aman : up þe poynt of deþe: [bring.] Al in þe þrote hi cride hasewe, : as hor strengþe hem were bynome [aswe.] Myd þe muche pyne, as no wonder : þei hi were ouercome. [wt moche, þe fehlt; as nas no.] 300 þe deuelen nome þis seli knyȝt : & to gronde him caste, [sek st. seli.] & swore, bote he turnde is þoȝt, : among hem to naili uaste. [Nach naili fehlt him, so auch in Ms. Bodl. u. Cott.] [suore. a mong ham wold naili faste (!).] Ac he cride on Ihū crist, : & nempnede is holi name, [nemde.] & þe deuelen nadde no pouwer : to do him þo more schame. [poer.] Hi nome him þo & drowe him ȝut : to þe uerþe felde, [þo fehlt.] 305 Vol of brunston, al brennynge, : hei sprong þe spelde. [Ms. Vor (so auch Ms. Cott.) st. vol.] [for. brenning. heie.] Ech maner pyne þt myȝte be : in þulke felde he sei: [þilk feld.] Somme wiþ iren raketeien, : al furi, honge an hei, [some. raketeie. heng.] Somme bi armes, & somme bi fet, : & bi þe swere monyon, An honge were in stronge fure : & pich & brunston; [an wol st. and, oder & fehlt. & vor pich st. of (in Ms. Cott. Eg. Laud, ful of Bodl.).] [an hong. strong fure of pich & of.] 310 Somme honge bi stronge oweles, : iput in eiþer eie, [som heng. strong.] þoru þe þrote somme, : & somme þoru eiþer ere wel heie, [Ms. eie st. ere (Ms. Cott. u. Laud.); eie scheint bereits in der Originalhandschrift gestanden zu haben, daher die Umgehungen in Ms.Eg.u.Bodl.—: nach dem 2. somme zu versetzen.] [som & som; : erst nach d. 2. som. ere st. eie.] Somme þoru hor derne lymes, : & somme þoru hor tete,
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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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