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

                                
                                  An oþer sinne beginneþ to wake,
                                
                                  Whan mannes catel doþ aslake
                                
                                  And steleþ goed his pouert to hide,
                                
                                  Þer he is fallen in pride.
                                
                                  Or if it is a pore man
                                
                                  Þat no mester ne can,
                                
                                  Or is feble and may not swinke
                                
                                  To winne him noþer mete ne drinke,
                                
                                  Or is not strong mon to gete
                                
                                  And wondeþ [Ms. wondeþ deutl.]  for pride to gete his mete
                                
                                  And liueþ wiþ theft and mycherie —
                                
                                  Pride is in his companye,
                                
                                  Þoruh þe fendes quointyse.
                                
                                  Nou is theft and coueitise
                                
                                  And pride, þe thre, mette infere,
                                
                                  Of þe ferþe nou shol ȝe here.
                                
                                  If a man haue not mete ryf,
                                
                                  Bot simpeliche to holde his lyf,
                                
                                  And is pilt in a wille
                                
                                  To stele his body forto fille,
                                
                                  Þer he falleþ in glotonie.
                                
                                  Nou beon foure in companye:
                                
                                  Theofte, coueitise, pride þerto [folio 159b] 
                                
                                  And glotonie, a shrewe also.
                                
                                  Þe fifte shrewe þer is it
                                
                                  And ful neigh his felawe sit.
                                
                                  A man þat may swete and swinke
                                
                                  And winne clothes, mete and drinke
                                
                                  And steleþ to liue in esy lif,
                                
                                  Be it man, mayde or wif,
                                
                                  Forsoþe in sleuthe he is founde
                                
                                  And in þe fifte sinne ybounde.
                                
                                  Ȝet þer is þe sixte shrewe,
                                
                                  Þer of taken ȝeme ful fewe.
                                
                                  Whan a man becomeþ a theof,
                                
                                  He doþ god an oþer gref.
                                
                                  He supposeþ: þe feond is
                                
                                  More of poer, þan god is,

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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 202
Publication: Bonn,: P. Hanstein,; 1904.

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