Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.

                                
                                  Ne bilieuez nouȝht opon Mahun,: ne on Teruagaunt, is fere,
                                
                                  For huy beoth boþe deue and doumbe: and huy ne mouwen iseo ne ihere,
                                  Line 205 
                                
                                  Ne huy ne mouwen eov helpe nouȝht: of none kunnes þingue,
                                
                                  Þei men of heom ȝelpen ouȝt,: ne no guod to eu bringue:
                                
                                  For huy bez doumbe and deue,: crokede and eke blinde,
                                
                                  Heore miȝhte is fallen to grounde: biforen and bihinde.
                                
                                  Ake ȝe schulle lieuen on Jesu Crist,: oure heiȝe heouene kyng,
                                  Line 210 
                                
                                  Þat al þis worldes maister is,: withoute ani ending,
                                
                                  For he may don is wille: of euereche cunnes þing
                                
                                  Þat ȝe wilniez with riȝhte: and withouten suneguyng;
                                
                                  He is withoute þe biguynningue: and he is withouten ende,
                                
                                  Withoute fuylþe and sunegyng,: so corteys and so hende
                                  Line 215 
                                
                                  Þat al þing þat man with skile him biddez: he wole him ȝyue and sende, [biddez st. bit.] 
                                
                                  To man þat goth and eke rit,: þat wole to him wende;
                                
                                  He is wuryte of alle þing,: he makede heouene and helle, [Ms. wuryte st. wuyrte.] 
                                
                                  Ne may no kayser ne no kyng: his vertues alle telle;
                                
                                  Þe man þat him seruez wel: ne may him no feond cwelle, [Ms. urspr. dwelle, in cwelle corrig.] 
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  Ake huy þat wullez aȝein him fiȝhte: to grounde he wole heom felle;
                                
                                  He makede day and eke nyȝht,: steorrene and sonne and mone;
                                
                                  Þe man þat trewe is and louez him ariȝt: he wole graunti him is bone,
                                
                                  And þat he biddez him with treouþe: he it grauntez him ful sone,
                                
                                  He helpez boþe king and knyȝht,: þe pouere alle mididone".
                                  Line 225 
                                
                                  A riche prince of sarazins: þudere was icome,
                                
                                  With him is wyf and his mayne: þat with him he hadde inome.
                                
                                  To Maries prechingue: he lustnede ful sone;
                                
                                  For þat heo was so fair a þing,: to hire huy token guod gome.
                                
                                  Þe sarazins onvele: weren fulle of nyþe and hete.
                                  Line 230 
                                
                                  Þo it was time of mele,: huy wenden to heore mete;
                                
                                  Þo huy comen hom vnsele: and þarto weren isete,
                                
                                  Cristes men to delen guod: ful clene huy hadden forȝete.
                                
                                  Þare weren of cristine men: mo þane sixti and tene;
                                
                                  Noman nadde reuþe of heom,: and þat was þare isene:
                                  Line 235 
                                
                                  Huy weren witoute mete and drunch,: in gret hongur and in teone,
                                
                                  Ne huy ne duden no weork ne swunch,: ne noþing men nolde heom lene.
                                
                                  Hit was in one nyȝhte: aftur þe þridde day,
                                
                                  Þat þis riche princes wif: in hire bedde lay:
                                
                                  Þare cam Marie Maudeleyne: and biforen hire heo stod:
                                  Line 240 
                                
                                  "Dame, me þinchez þou art vnhende;: for þou hast muche guod,
                                
                                  Of þe ich habbe gret feorlich: and muche me þinchez wunder
                                
                                  Þat þou last Jesu Cristes folk: þus steorue for hungur;
                                
                                  Bote ȝif þou oþur þi louerd: lissi heore kare,
                                
                                  Wite ȝe midiwisse: sorewe eou schal beon ful ȝare:
                                  Line 245 
                                
                                  Swuch a fierd schal opon eov come: þat schal eov so furfare
                                
                                  And aquellen eou and eouwer folk,: huy nellez eov noþing spare".

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Title: Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 153
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1878.
Subject terms: Legends; English poetry; Saints

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