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Altenglische legenden ...

þt hem were leuer þen al þen world, : þt hi miȝte þt lif lete; [alle.] Somme up on gredires of ire : irosted were also: [some op þe gridels.] 315 Somme, as ges, wiþ spites of ire : þoru out hem ido, Somme lye upard fram þe gronde, : ȝonynde wel uaste, [folio 38] [leie opward fro.] & þe deueles welde led & bras : & in hor mouþ caste. [& fehlt. þe deuelen welleþe.] He ne myȝte þenche nammore pyne, : þen he sei þer. [nomore. þt he ne sei þer.] Him þoȝte he sei monyon : þt he kneu anerþe her. [him þouȝte ek. er st. her.] 320 þe deuelen him caste amydde þis pyne : among þe oþer echon; [þe vor oþer fehlt.] & he cride on Ihū crist, : & deliuerd was anon. ȝut þe deuelen þis seli knyȝt : in to anoþer place drowe. [Ms. Ironne st. iriue in den and. Mss.] þer Inne he sei agrislich weol : wiþ longe spoken Inowe, [long.] þe one side heng toward þe gronde, : þe oþer up an hei, [on. hung.] 325 Aboute it was uol of pykes, : as he þer isei; [þere.] þis hokes & þis pikes were : uaste Ironne also [iriue.] Wiþ wreche gostes al aboute, : þt þer Inne were ido. Al brennyng was þt weol, : & stynkynde of brunston; [brennig. þis wheol. stinging of bremston (!).] þe gostes þt þer on henge : brennynge were echon. [þer Inne.] 330 þis deuelen wende uorþ anon : & hor hokes þer on caste [went fort.] In eiþer side, & turnde aboute : þis sori weol wel uaste, [fol faste.] þt of gostes þt þer on henge : noþing hi ne seie, [hunge. sei.] So uaste hi turnde þt weol aboute, : bote brennynge lye; [tourneþe. hi ne seie bote brennig leie.] Ac deluolliche hi cride & ȝolde, : euerich in is ende. [Ms. ȝolde st. ȝolle.] [ȝolle.] 335 Alas, wi nelle men be awar, : ar hi henne wende, [be war. hen.] Wen hi miȝte her myd alute pyne : bete hor mysdede, [whanne. her fehlt. wt st. myd.] & þer hi scholle so bittere abugge, : alas, þe wrechede? [þere. biter. wreccheþ hede.] þe deuelen nome þis knyȝt : & on þis weol caste, [þis seli . on his (!).] & wiþ þis oþer wreche gostes : turnde him aboute uaste; 340
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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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