Altenglische legenden ...

Here comen giwes to Josepe and to Marie and seide þat Jhc was a strangled and i ȝete with þe leouns for soþe.

                                    ÞO Jesu dwelde longue þore, [þore, ebenso im Reim 429. 905.] 
                                  
                                    Josep it gan rewe sore:
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                                    Departi he wende sikerliche
                                  
                                    Fram þe childe þat he louede muche.
                                  
                                    Gret folk of þat contreie
                                  
                                    þis child a mong þis bestes i seiȝe;
                                  
                                    Huy wenden þat Jhc were to drawe, [folio 19] 
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                                    And to Josepe huy seiden þat sawe,
                                  
                                    With þe liouns þare huy eoden,
                                  
                                    For ofte siþes gret harm huy duden;
                                  
                                    And þare fore Josep was in fere,
                                  
                                    Laste þat child a straungled were.
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                                    Jesus wuste wel Josepes þouȝt,
                                  
                                    Ake Josep nuste his riȝht nouȝt,
                                  
                                    Ne deuisen it al clerliche
                                  
                                    þat he wolde schewen riȝht openeliche.
                                  
                                    Muche folk þare was i go,
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                                    þat hadden bi fore itold so
                                  
                                    To Josep þat he was i spild
                                  
                                    Jesus þat suete i blessede child,
                                  
                                    And þat huy it seiȝen for soþe,
                                  
                                    Hov þe liones with wilde toþe
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                                    A stranglede hit puyr egreliche,
                                  
                                    And seiden so aperteliche
                                  
                                    þat it was for is sunne
                                  
                                    þat Jhus was a strangled þanne,
                                  
                                    And witht riȝhte þoleden destourbaunce
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                                    Josep for is wicke suffraunce.
                                  
                                    þo huy hadden þus i seid
                                  
                                    To Josepe with gret espleit,
                                  
                                    Ase wel þe more ase þe lasse,
                                  
                                    Josep nadde þar of no blisse,

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 44
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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