Altenglische legenden.

                                
                                  Als þe boke for-soth vs says,
                                
                                  Þat holy body for-to seke
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                                  Þat þe voys befor of speke.
                                
                                  Eufemyan spered at hys meyne,
                                
                                  In hys hous if any myght be
                                
                                  Þat was so wele wiþ Jhesu
                                
                                  Als þe voys sayd, of vertu.
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                                  And þai answerd and sayd nay,
                                
                                  Þat non swylk knew þai,
                                
                                  Nowther comand ne gangand
                                
                                  Nor in hys palays non wonnand.
                                
                                  Als Eufemyan stod sperand,
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                                  So come þat ilke knaw rymand [Ms. rymand.] 
                                
                                  Þat serued Alixis,
                                
                                  Þat than was went tyll heuen blys.
                                
                                  "Syr, he sayd, þat may wele be
                                
                                  Þat þis ilk man ys he
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                                  To ȝeme þat ȝe bytaght me,
                                
                                  Þat ȝe gaf mete par charyte.
                                
                                  I haf hym sene grete penance (do) [do fehlt.] 
                                
                                  And led hys lyf in mykell vn-ro:
                                
                                  I trow ryght wele þat yt ys he,
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                                  For he was holy, af thoght me. [Ms. al st as.] 
                                
                                  Full lang has he seknes dryed
                                
                                  And þis day at morne he dyed."
                                
                                  When Eufemyan had hard þis tythands, [Ms. tythands st. tythande.] 
                                
                                  Moght he no langer styll stand
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                                  Bot als a man þat war wode
                                
                                  Tyll Alixis bed he ȝede,
                                
                                  And sayd: "þou man, par charite
                                
                                  Of þi grace þou tell me —
                                
                                  For I hald me noght worthy
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                                  For-to touch thy body:
                                
                                  Say me for luf of saynt Jame
                                
                                  Wethen þou come, wat ys þi name?"
                                
                                  Þus he called wonder oft
                                
                                  Wiþ hegh wordys and wiþ soft.
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                                  Bot worde of hym gatte he nane,
                                
                                  For he was ded als a stane.
                                
                                  And when Eufemyan well thoght
                                
                                  Þat Alixis answerd noght,
                                
                                  Nere he come and dyd oway
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                                  Þe pouer cloþes þat on hym lay,

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Title: Altenglische legenden.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 185
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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