Die Kildare-gedichte; die ältesten mittelenglischen denkmäler in anglo-irischer überlieferung von Dr. W. Heuser ...

                                
                                  God ȝeue vs grace forto rise!
                                
                                  If man is hol wiþ outen hārm
                                
                                  And liþ in his bed wārm
                                
                                  And here to þe messe ringe
                                
                                  Or knille to þe sakeringe
                                
                                  And liþ stille and nile not rise —
                                
                                  Þan he is slouȝ in godes seruise.
                                
                                  Or man þat al þe wike long
                                
                                  Wirkeþ mete and hyre to fong,
                                
                                  Bot he peyne him on sonenday,
                                
                                  Also forþ as he may,
                                
                                  As erly to go to chirche,
                                
                                  As þat day he goþ to wirche,
                                
                                  And thankeþ him þat al haþ sent,
                                
                                  Forsoþe in sleuth he is hent.
                                
                                  Or if a man serue an oþer,
                                
                                  A fremde man or his brother,
                                
                                  In any maner of swink
                                
                                  For hyre, mete or for drink,
                                
                                  Beo he lewed, beo he clerk,
                                
                                  If he ouȝt forsleuthe his werk,
                                
                                  Þat ȝeueþ him mete and seruise —
                                
                                  Of þat sleuthe he mot arise,
                                
                                  If þat he wile treuly winne
                                
                                  Mete and hyre wiþ out sinne;
                                
                                  Who so wile god queme,
                                
                                  Of such sleuthe he mot him ȝeme.
                                
                                  And an oþer sleuthe þer is
                                
                                  Þat eileþ man ywis.
                                
                                  In lentone, whan men sholde beo shriuen
                                
                                  And in clene lyf liuen,
                                
                                  Þer beoþ many men and fele
                                
                                  Þat tenden to worldes wele,
                                
                                  Þat here oþere neodes beo do
                                
                                  And seye þat men mot tende þer to,
                                
                                  Out of sinne to beon ybound —
                                
                                  Forsoþe in sleuthe þei beo founde.
                                
                                  God þat wolde fro deþ arise
                                
                                  Ȝeue us grace fro sleuþ to rise!
                                
                                  Also whan a man is shriue

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Title: Die Kildare-gedichte; die ältesten mittelenglischen denkmäler in anglo-irischer überlieferung von Dr. W. Heuser ...
Author: Heuser, Wilhelm
Canvas: Page 196
Publication: Bonn,: P. Hanstein,; 1904.

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