Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Bi fore þe princes þat þer were,
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                                  With faire wordes huy guonne him lere.
                                
                                  þo speken þis maistres gret:
                                
                                  Josep, þou art mis bi hed;
                                
                                  Tac us to lere þinne sone,
                                
                                  And he schal lete is vuele wone;
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                                  His Maister schal beo Zacharie,
                                
                                  þat him schal techen of clergie;
                                
                                  Al ore lawe he hauez ouer herd, [Ms. ore doppelt.] 
                                
                                  Of him he may beo wel i lered.
                                
                                  Josep bad Jhm ful ȝeorne
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                                  þat he scholde of heom leorne,
                                
                                  Ake ase ich wene he nolde go
                                
                                  Anne fot with heom þo.
                                
                                  þanne spac on a rebous:
                                
                                  Josep, þi sone is Merueilous;
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                                  He hauez don us more lore
                                
                                  þane euere us dude ani bi fore:
                                
                                  A giv he haueth a slawe i wis
                                
                                  þat was i holde of gret pris;
                                
                                  To his freont make þi gre,
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                                  Oþur þou worst i flem of þis contre;
                                
                                  For ȝif ȝe duellez here ouȝt longer, [Ms. long' d. i. longer.] 
                                
                                  He wole don us muche wrong.
                                
                                  Ake ȝif he wolde drawe him þare fro,
                                
                                  It were guod to bidde him so.
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                                  Josep preide Marie suete
                                
                                  þat Jhc wolde is noise lete,
                                
                                  And Marie a non hire sone bad.
                                
                                  Moder, he seide, ich am glad
                                
                                  þine hestes forto do.
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                                  Jhc to þe dede giv gan go,
                                
                                  þane giv hente bi þenere,
                                
                                  Fram deth to liue he gan him a rere.
                                
                                  Aris up, he seide, þou cheitif!
                                
                                  þe giv a ros and hadde lif.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 17
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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