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

                                
                                  Þe preost aros opon a day: and wende neor þe stude:
                                
                                  He wolde iwite ȝwat he isaiȝh,: and þarefore he it dude;
                                
                                  To þulke stude he cam so neiȝh: al bote a stones caste:
                                
                                  Þo bigonne hise þeon to schrinke: and to croki swiþe faste;
                                
                                  Adrad he was, and turnde aȝein,: and so he moste nede;
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                                  Ne knev he nouȝt þe Maudeleyne: ne hire guode dedes.
                                
                                  Eftsone he ȝeode him þudeward:: is fiet bigonne folde, [Ms. þudeward st. þuderward.] 
                                
                                  His heorte and his inneward: him gonnen al to colde;
                                
                                  He þouȝhte it was sum derne þing: oþur som holi priuete,
                                
                                  Icomen fram þe heuene king,: þat he ne scholde it nouȝht iseo.
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                                  He sat adoun opon is kneon: and bad ore louerd þere
                                
                                  Þat he moste iwite and seon: ȝwat þat feorlich were;
                                
                                  He gradde on eornest and on game:: "þou best in þine celle,
                                
                                  Ich halsni þe a godes name: of þi stat þat þou me telle!"
                                
                                  Heo bigan to tellen: wordes him aȝein:
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                                  "I segge it þe for soþe,: ich am Marie Maudeleyn
                                
                                  Þat to þe kingue of heoue: of mine sunnes ich me schrof, [Ms. heone.] 
                                
                                  And foule deuelene seouene: out of me he drof.
                                
                                  Ich habbe iwoned nouþe here: fulle þritti ȝer,
                                
                                  Ake i ne saiȝh neuere noman þus neiȝh: bote þe nouþe her.
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                                  Of no þing þat ani man: of þe eorþe euere biswonk,
                                
                                  I ne et, sethþe ich hidere cam,: no mete, ne no drunch ne dronk; [ne übergeschr.] 
                                
                                  Godes aungles euerech day: habbe me here inome
                                
                                  An ibore me alnewey,: ȝwane ischolde come, [an st. and.] 
                                
                                  An heiȝh to heouene lofte,: euere ȝwane i ete scholde, [Ms. it st. i.] 
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                                  And hidere aȝein wel softe,: ȝwane ich mi sulf wolde.
                                
                                  Ich halsni þe a godes name: þat þou wende to Marcilie,
                                
                                  And with mine freond withoute blame: loke wel þat þou spilie:
                                
                                  Þou gret wel Martha, mi soster, ofte,: and mi broþer Lazarus,
                                
                                  And also gret ofte swiþe wel: þene bischop Maximus,
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                                  And seie hem wel ichulle comen: a sonenday at eue,
                                
                                  With heom for to wonie: and euere with heom bileue —
                                
                                  For ischal to paradis: newene fram heom fare,
                                
                                  Ake mi bodi, for soþe iwis,: bileue schal with heom þare;
                                
                                  Seiȝe heom þat huy kepen me: aftur þe midniȝhte, [Ms. mid riȝhte.] 
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                                  For þare ich hopie for to beo: þoru godes swete miȝhte".
                                
                                  Þis holie preost him wende forth: and dude hire herinde anon [herinde mit unorg. h.] 
                                
                                  To þe bischop Maximus,: ase heo bad him don.
                                
                                  Þe holie bischop Maximus: was glad of þat sonde,
                                
                                  And for þat tiþingue he þonkede god: and to him heold up is honde.
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                                  Hire soster and hire broþer: weren þarof wel fayn:
                                
                                  "Nou comez oure maister sone,: þe Marie Maudeleyn".
                                
                                  Of þisilke tyþingues: huy weren swiþe glad
                                
                                  Þat huy hadden iheord,: ake some weren of-drad

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Title: Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 161
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1878.
Subject terms: Legends; English poetry; Saints

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