Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Jhus ful of guod espleit
                                
                                  To þe giwes hath þus i seid:
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                                  ȝware þe children miȝhten be
                                
                                  þat weren of þat contre:
                                
                                  þat weren mine pleiing fere.
                                
                                  Huy gounne þus segge, heom to skere: [Ms. scere mit überschriebenem k, ohne dass jedoch c aus|gestrichen ist.] 
                                
                                  We ne wusten nouȝt ȝare gret stounde
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                                  Hou ne ȝware huy miȝhten be founde;
                                
                                  And wite þou it wel þare fore
                                
                                  Huy it schullen a bugge sore.
                                
                                  Alle þe giwes more and lasse
                                
                                  Hadden heore children with oute misse
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                                  In heore Ouene i pult and i do,
                                
                                  For heo ne scholden be i seiȝe noȝwer go
                                
                                  With Jesu, ase huy i wonede were,
                                
                                  Forto pleiȝe here ne þere.
                                
                                  Of him huy seiden euere þat worste
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                                  Niȝht and day, ase huy dorste.
                                
                                  Jesus wuste heore foule wille þere,
                                
                                  And ȝware þe children i hudde were.
                                
                                  Nouȝt for þan for loue he heom bad
                                
                                  þat he were to heom i lad,
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                                  And seide he wolde gon in weiȝe
                                
                                  Loueliche and with heom pleiȝe.
                                
                                  þe giwes bigonne þo to swere
                                
                                  And seiden huy nusten ȝware huy were.
                                
                                  Jesus him sulue is i gon
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                                  To þat Ouene him sulf al on.
                                
                                  Ate giwes he axede skeot
                                
                                  ȝwat were in þat ouene i put.
                                
                                  þe giwes gounne to make sware
                                
                                  And seiden þat alle swyn it ware.
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                                  Jhesus to hem seide þo:
                                
                                  And hit swin beon euere mo.
                                
                                  And ech of heom also swiþe

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 35
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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