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

                                
                                  For þos men doþ most harme: to þe mene pepil,
                                
                                  Ryȝth þroȝth regratry: rentes ham byggiþ,
                                
                                  Wiþ þat þe pore pepil: schuld put in har wombe.
                                
                                  For tok þei euer trewly: þai tymbrid noȝth so hey,
                                
                                  Ne boȝth noȝth burgages: be ȝe ful certayn.
                                
                                  Ne þai haue no pite on þe pepil: þat parcelmel most byg;
                                
                                  And þoȝth þei tak hem vntydi þyng: no treysoun þei ne holt hit;
                                
                                  And þoȝth þai sil [Sk. fulle]  noȝth ful: þat for law is seled,
                                
                                  He grypiþ þer for a grot: as for grayþ trowþe. [Sk. grete treuthe] 
                                
                                  Many sondry sorowes: in cytees falleþ ofte,
                                
                                  Boþ þroȝth fire and þroȝth flode: and þroȝþ fals pepil,
                                
                                  Þat begiliþ gode men: and greueþ hem wrongly.
                                
                                  Þe woch þat cried on her knees: þat Crist hem avenge
                                
                                  Her on þis erþe: or ellys in hell',
                                
                                  Þat so begiliþ hem of her gode: þat god hem sende [folio 12b] 
                                
                                  Feuer oþer foul euel: oþer fire on her houses,
                                
                                  Moreyn or oþer myschef: and many tymes hit falleþ,
                                
                                  Þat Innocens is herd: In heuen among seyntes
                                
                                  Þat loude cried for hem: to our lorde and to our lady boþ,
                                
                                  Graunt [Sk. To graunten]  to gylours on erþe: grace to amend.
                                
                                  And haue her penans on pur erþe: and noȝth in peyn [Sk. þe pyne]  of hel'.
                                
                                  And þan falleþ þe fire: on fals menus [Ms. men̛]  howses,
                                
                                  And gode mennus for her gylt: gloueþ [Sk. gloweþ]  on fire after.
                                
                                  All þis haue we seen: þat sum tyme þroȝth a brewer
                                
                                  Many burgages haþ be brant: and bodyes þer In,
                                
                                  And þroȝth a candel clemyng [Sk. clomyng] : in a corsed place
                                
                                  Fel adoun and forbrent: forþ al a rew. [Sk. þe rewe] 
                                
                                  For þi meyres þat makeþ fremen: me þynk þat ȝo [Sk. þei]  oȝth
                                
                                  For to sper and aspy: for ony spech of siluer,
                                
                                  What maner mester: or marchondis he vseþ,
                                
                                  Or he wer vndirfong fre: and felew in ȝour rollys.
                                
                                  Hit is noȝth semely for soþe: in cyte and in burgh toun
                                
                                  Þat vsurreris and regraters: for ony kyn ȝiftes
                                
                                  Be franchesed for a fre man: and haue a fals name.
                                
                                  Ac Mede þe maide: þe maire ho besoȝth
                                
                                  Of al such [Ms. suth; ch und th, ct und tt sind oft nicht zu unter|scheiden.]  sillers: siluer to take

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

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