Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Hi ne miȝte nouȝt alle make . so grisliche a bere;
                                
                                  ȝif his hope & is herte . þe more in ihū nere,
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                                  He hedde wod bicome . and lore is wit for fere.
                                
                                  Heo comen þicke abouten him . & grisliche þere,
                                
                                  ȝellinge and grennynge . mid wel sori chere.
                                
                                  Belami, quaþ on of hem, . þu hast ariȝt ido;
                                
                                  We auȝten wel honure þe alle, . vor to vewe don so;
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                                  Oþer wolleþ abide, . vorte here lif be hem bi nome,
                                
                                  And ȝet hit is aȝen here wille, . ar heo hidere come;
                                
                                  Ac þou comest bi þi self, . & wiþ gode wille al so;
                                
                                  Wel auȝte we þi wille ȝelden, . & gret þonk þe do;
                                
                                  Whan þou hast bodi and soule . bitake vs liue,
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                                  Saunȝ faile we were vnkunde, . bote we it ȝolde bliue;
                                
                                  ȝif þou wolt on erþe . ioie ȝet habbe more,
                                
                                  Vor þu þus to vs art come . al bi þin owe lore,
                                
                                  Sikere vs þt þou wolt . in oure seruise bileue,
                                
                                  And we wolleþ aȝen þe lede, . ar it come eue;
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                                  þow schalt habbe ioie inow, . in halle and in boure,
                                
                                  Vor non nis so murie þer . as þilke þat beþ oure;
                                
                                  Noble mon þow schalt beo, . & men schulen honure þe;
                                
                                  Whan þu art ded and hider comest, . þu schalt fare as wel as we.
                                
                                  þis kniȝt þouȝte in ihū crist, . he nolde change is wille,
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                                  Vor þreting ne vor bi heste, . ac sat him euer stille.
                                
                                  þo he nolde grante nouȝt . þat he wolde to hem wende,
                                
                                  Heo grenneden on him foule, . & fuir heo gonnen tende.
                                
                                  þe kniȝt heo bounden fot and honden, . & in þe fuir him caste;
                                
                                  Wiþ irene hokes & newles . heo to drowen him faste.
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                                  þis kniȝt, þo he seiȝ nede, . loude criede anon:
                                
                                  Ihū, ihū, help me now, . & schilde me vram mine fon!
                                
                                  Anon þo þis was seid, . þe fuir aqueinte ech spronge; [Ms. spronge st. spronke.] 
                                
                                  þe deuelen drowe him na more. . oure lord he gan to þonke,
                                
                                  And þe hardiere he was, . þo he þis iseiȝ,
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                                  And þe lasse þe deuelen dradde, . þt weren him so neiȝ.
                                
                                  Grisliche þe schrewen ȝolle . þat hem failede here miȝte,
                                
                                  Heo vlowen out of þe halle, . & drowe mid hem þe kniȝte.
                                
                                  Heo drowen him aȝen þe grount . boþe fet and honde,
                                
                                  Swiþe fer aboute . into a gret wast londe.
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                                  So blak and derk it was, . þat he noþing ne say
                                
                                  Bote deuelen þat him to drowe, . þt were him þicke & neiȝ(!).

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 184
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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