Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

Al þe Ioie þt ic habbe iseie, : nou it worþ me bynome, [alle. ich abbe.] 575 & to þe wrechede þt is anerþe, : alas, schal ic come. [schal ich nou come.] Al wepynde out ate ȝate : hi broȝte him ate laste; [hat Ms. Laud je einen Vers mehr.] [weping. atte. at laste.] & anon, so he was wiþoute, : þt ȝat hi made uaste. [hat Ms. Laud je einen Vers mehr.] [& fehlt. þer wit oute.] As he com er, wiþ dreri mod : þe wei aȝen he nom. [þen wei.] Ac, wen eny deuel þt pyned him er : aȝen him awer com, 580 As wode screwen (hi) flowen him uaste, : hi ne dorste abide him noȝt. [Im Ms. fehlt hi vor flowen.] [hi flowe.] Atelaste þis knyȝt was : to þe halle ibroȝt, [Im Ms. fehlt :.] [at þe laste.] As þe holi companye : þuderward to him wende. [company.] Adoun he sat softe þer, : uorte our lord him grace sende. [sente.] As he sat & bi huld aboute, : þer come In sone þer 585 Al þis noble companye, : þt aȝen him com er. [compani. come.] Alle hi honourede him uaire : & herede him wel uaste, [wel faire.] & ihū also, godes sone, : þt is bileue so wel ilaste. [laste.] Beu frere, he sede, wen þu hast : so strong penaunce idriue, [he sede auch in Mss. Bodl. u. Eg.; Cott. hat hi, Laud heo sede; hi ist wol richtiger.] [hi sede. such st. so.] Siker be þe þt þyne sunnes clanliche : beþ uorȝiue; [þe auch in Ms. Eg.; die and. Mss. þou.] [siker þu be. þin sinnes. þe beþ.] 590 Loke, wen þu comst to erþe aȝen, : clene lif þt þu lede, [lok. comest.] þt þu neuereft in pyne come : uor sunne ne mysdede; [ne come. ne for mis dede.] þu most do þe henne anon, : uor atom in þyne londe [athom. dyn.] It daweþ cler, & is nei day, : as ic vnderstonde, [dawet clere.] & þe priour wiþ procession : to þe ȝate comeþ sone, [prior.] 595 To loke war þu be icome, : as riȝt is uorto done; [wher.] &, bote he þe fynde þer, : he wole make þe ȝat anon & be siker þt þu ne comest nammore, : & hamward dreri gon. [ne fehlt.] þis knyȝt hi broȝte out of þis halle, : & blessed him echon, [blesseþe] & biteite him god, lif & soule, : uel & flesch & bon. [bi tok.] 600 Vorþ he wende dreriliche, : bote as he moste nede do. [wente.]
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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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