Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

þe knyȝt wende uorþ sauf Inouȝ, : þt he hadde er dere aboȝt; [wend.] He þonkede uaste ihū crist : þt hi ne siwede him noȝt. [fast. sweþe.] 500 þt water he passede sauf Inouȝ, : & verrere þen wei nom; [passeþ. ferror.] þe contreie him þoȝte murie Inouȝ, : þo he þer on com; [contrei. þer ouer.] þe uerrere þt he wende, : þe more Ioie he sei. [forþer. wente forþ.] So longe þt he sei awal, : swiþe noble & hei; [long. an wal.] So noble work nas neuer isei, : as him þoȝte þer on was; [was. y seie.] 505 A noble ȝat he sei þer on, : þt noblere non nas; [noblore.] þt ȝat scynde swiþe briȝte, : of gold as þei it were, Vol of ȝymmes presious, : þt richere none nere. [precious. non.] Him þoȝte, ar he þuder come, : is wei longe ilaste. [long.] þo he com alute ner, : he stod & bihuld uaste. [biheld.] 510 þe ȝat wende up aȝen him, : & anon myd þe dede [wt st. myd.] þer sprong out aswote smul, : þt wide bigan to sprede, [suete smel.] þt him þoȝte, þei al þe world : swote spices were, [steht im Ms. am Ende der Seite hinter V. 515; seine Stellung vor 514 ist durch a und b bezeichnet. — Nach V. 540 folgen in d. Mss. Eg. Laud (und Bodl.) über 80 Verse, die hier, sowie in Ms. Cott., fehlen; in Ms. Eg. sind es die Verse 540-625, in Ms. Laud 496-584.] [alle. sote spises.] So muche swotnesse ne myȝte ȝeue : as þulke breþ þere. [sotnesse. ȝiue. þilk.] In so gret Ioie him þoȝte he was, : þt, þei he hadde be ibroȝt 515 In al þe wo þt he was on, : hit nolde him greue noȝt. [alle. greuy.] In he bihuld at þis ȝat, : þo he com þer nei: More clernesse ne miȝte be, : him þoȝte, þen he sei. [þan st. þen.] As he wolde þer Inne wende, : aȝen him þer com gon [com som (!).] A procession uair Inouȝ, : of noble men echon, 520 Wiþ crois & wiþ taperes, : wiþ baners swiþe clere, [baneris.] þt folc bi hynde ireuested, : ech bi is Iuere: [wit folc bi hinde resteueþ resteueþ euerich bi his iuere (!).] Biscops somme & erchedekenes, : & monekes & frere, [bischopes some. erchedeknes. monkis.] & ech, him þoȝte, in þe abit : þt hi werede anerþe here. [& euerich. he st. hi.] Mit þe meste Ioie þt miȝte be : þis knyȝt hi gonne auonge, [Miþ. miȝt. afong.] 525
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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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