Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  Hys wyf sayd: scho suld neuer mare
                                
                                  Make ioye, bot euer care,
                                
                                  And wiþ Eufemyane dwell
                                
                                  Tyll scho herd of hyr husband spell:
                                
                                  "For oþere man þen Alixis
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                                  Sal I neuer hals ne kys,
                                
                                  For neuer-more in my lyue
                                
                                  Sal oþere man mak me wyfe." —
                                
                                  Turne we now tyl Alixis
                                
                                  Þat left for god þis werldys blys.
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                                  He lyfed in herd fastynge,
                                
                                  In prayers and in wakynge.
                                
                                  Edissa hyght þat ilk cete
                                
                                  Þare he leued in pouerte.
                                
                                  At a kynges ȝate he sate
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                                  And lyued wiþ almus þat he gate.
                                
                                  Apon a day, als he sate þare,
                                
                                  Prayd he god wiþ myld fare
                                
                                  Byfore an ymage of oure lady.
                                
                                  Þe ymage answerd selcouthly:
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                                  "Well, Alixis, moght þou be!
                                
                                  Þi gude prayers payes me."
                                
                                  And ane oþer tyme scho apered than
                                
                                  In þe kyrk tyl an old man. [Nach 164 fehlen deutlich einige Verse.] 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 179
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1881.
Subject terms: Saints -- Legends; English poetry; Legends

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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