Nachträge zu den legenden / [ed. C. Horstmann].

Junius.

Also, Seynt Nichomede, I pray þy good wille; Teche me ȝoure daūnce, Marcellyne and petre, To whom I syng with þis sympul metre.

I cry vn-to ȝow now al on a rowe, In special to (þe), martyr Boneface, with al þi felowes both hyȝe and lowe, That ȝe gete to us repentaūnce and space. Medard and Gildard, now where is ȝour grace? Prayeth for oure synnes with ... And aftur þis lyfe to haue þe secund.

Now, blessid Seynt Barnard(!), for us þ^u pray, with þe good Batylde, þe martyr and preste, That we be cloþed al in ȝoure aray, where as he sitteth at his ryal feste. Kepe ȝoue now, I pray ȝoue, Vite and Modeste, Cyryce and Julytte, kepe us fro þe wulfe, And lyght oure goost eclipsed, Seynt Botulfe.

Prayeth for us, Marcellyan and Marke, wyth Geruase and Prothase, martyrs ylkone. This world now, Seynt Edward, wexyth darke, For oure ynward syght ys al-most a-gone. Lede us, oure first martyr Seynt Albone, Etheldrede of Ely, I pray now helpe me, wyth Seynt John Baptist þe natiuite.

Bryng us mydsomer of heuenly blys, I pray ȝow martyrs both, Paule and John̄, Wher of gladsom myrth we shal not mys, For þat Leo pope endureth al-one. Now, Petre and Paule, I trist ȝow vpon, And Seynt Paule, þi commemoracyon