Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

Ac he cride on ihū crist, : & deliuerd was anon. [deliuereþ.] þe deuelen stode & þis bihulde : wiþ dreri mod echon. [dredi st. dreri.] ȝut hi nome bitterliche : & verrere him ladde, [Hinter nome fehlt him, welches freilich auch in Ms. Cott. u. Eg. fehlt.] [ferror.] Hi harled him, & grenned ek, : & loude ȝolle & gradde. [hij harleþe. & &, doppelt.] A gret hous he sei biuore him stonde, : long & brod Inou; 345 þe stench & hete, þt þer of com, : him þouȝte al mest him slou. [slow.] He wiþstod, & nolde is stonkes : uor stenche go non ner. [Ms. is stonkes st. is þonkes.] [his þonkes. for stench go no fer.] Vir þu schalt, þe deuelen sede, : þu ne schalt abide her; [Vir ist Compar., (Cott. ver); Bodl. u. Eg. lesen forþ, Laud ferrore.] [ver.] A baþ it is þt þu isucst, : þer Inne þu schalt be [i sikst : &. sch st. schalt.] & baþie wiþ þis oþer hynen; : þu ne schalt noȝt henne fle. [hine. schalt hen ne fle, noȝt fehlt.] 350 þe gostes þt þer Inne were : wel deluolliche cride & loude ȝolle, as he hurde, : aboute in ech side. [i herde. in euer ich.] þis knyȝt wiþ þis foule wiȝtes : in to þis house com. Of tormentes, þt he þer isei, : gret gome he nom; [Das letzte t in torment ist hier mit einem nach unten gehenden Strich versehen, der sich sonst auch an g u. k findet, so bei brennyng v. 330. 334. 407, wonyng 413, preching 212, strong 389, smok 406, stonk 404, bei torment noch 356. 358. 359; der Strich scheint meist e und es zu bezeichnen.] [tormens. gret gome wt alle he nom.] Vor uol of puttes & of diches : þis hous wiþþinne was, [pittes.] 355 Alle hi were uolle of strong tormentes, : empti non þer nas: [al hi. fol.] Of wellynde bras ifuld hi were, : of led & brunston, [hi feld were.] Of eoly & oþer strong tormentes, : bo(i)lynde euerichon. [Ms. bolynde st. boilynde.] [boilinde.] Wreche gostes þer Inne sete, : þe tormentes tilde wel heie: Somme aboute þe heued, : & somme up to þen eie, [Ms. aboute st. aboue, so die and. Mss.] [some al a boue þe hed.] 360 Somme to nese, & somme to mouþ, : & somme to þe swere, [nose. op to þe swere.] & somme up to þe wreche breste, : & abouȝte hor sunne dere, [up fehlt. wel dere.] & somme up to þe nauele, : & somme dounere more, [nauel.]
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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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