Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  Owt of þis werld suld he fare.
                                
                                  He thanked god þan inwardly
                                
                                  Of hys grace and hys mercy;
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                                  Þan he called tyll hym hys knawe
                                
                                  And sayd: "lef sone, þow ger me haue
                                
                                  Parchamyn an ynk bath!"
                                
                                  And he broght tyll hym rath.
                                
                                  Þan all hys lyf þare wrate he,
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                                  When he war ded, at þai myght se,
                                
                                  Whas sone he was, and what he hyght;
                                
                                  And all hys lyf he wrate ryght:
                                
                                  In grete pouert in stedys sere
                                
                                  Had he leued foure and thretty ȝere,
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                                  And how he fro hys wyf went
                                
                                  And all þe stede he in lente,
                                
                                  And how he gaf hys gold ryng
                                
                                  Tyll hys wyf at hys partyng.
                                
                                  When he had made all þis wrytt,
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                                  Fast in hys hand he lowked yt.
                                
                                  Wiþ hard seknes þan was he stede
                                
                                  And layd hym doun apon hys bed.
                                
                                  And euen on palme-sononday,
                                
                                  When folk in kyrk bygan to pray:
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                                  A voyce was in þe mynster herde
                                
                                  Þat made all þe folk full ferde:
                                
                                  Þe voyce sayd: "come al to me
                                
                                  Þat suffers payne and pouerte!
                                
                                  For I sall qwyte wiþ-owt fayle
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                                  Ȝoure lang tene and ȝour trayuayll."
                                
                                  Þe fell of knes(!) fell full thrang, [Ms. Þe fell of knes st. þe folk on knes.] 
                                
                                  And clerkys kyrieleyson sang.
                                
                                  Þe voys þan spak eft-sones wiþ cry
                                
                                  And bad þam seke wytterly
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                                  Goddys seruand "þat ys full meke,
                                
                                  For in þis cete lygges he seke."

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 183
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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