[IACOB AND IOSEP] [No heading in MS.]
Wolle ȝe nou ihere wordes swiþe gode [folio 1a]
Of one patriarke after Noees flode?
Nellic ȝou nouȝt tellen of þis flodes grame,
Bote of one patriarke, Iacob was his name.
While men loueden meri song, gamen & feire tale;
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Nou hem is wel leuere gon to þe nale,
Vcchen out þe gurdel & rume þe wombe,
Comen erliche þider & sitte þer ful longe.
Þat is þe soule ful loþ, & lef þe licame,
Bote we hit bileuen, hit biþ a luþer game.
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To fullen oure wombe hit is lutel pris,
& seþþe ligge slepe, such hit were a gris.
Þus ferden oure aldren bi Noees dawe,
Of mete & of drinke hi fulden here mawe;
& for ȝiuernesse þei weren riȝt wod;
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For þi sende oure Louerd Noees flod.
Þo hi miȝten drinke þat hi weren fulle,
Hi floten swiþe riued bi dich & bi pulle.
Þer nas in þis world hul non so heiȝ,
Þat tis vnirude flod muchel ne ouersteiȝ.
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Nou ich wole fon on þer ich er let,
& tellen ou of Iacob, so ich ȝou bihet.
Iacob liuede in londe & louede Godes lawe
So dude Ysaac his fader bi his lifdawe.
Iacob liuede in londe, & feire he ladde his lif,
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Sones he wan ten on Lya his wif;
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"Iacob and Iosep; a middle English poem of the thirteenth century, ed. by Arthur S. Napier." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/acb1675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2025.