Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden.

Eet off an Appyl off flesshly fals plesance: Which thre figures Edmund by gret auys [Edmond. greet avys.] Bar in his baner for a remembrance. [baneer.] Lyk a wys kyng peeplys to gouerne, Ay vnto reson he gaff the souereynte: 10 Figur off Adam wysly to dyscerne, [figure.] Toppresse in Eua sensualite; [To oppresse. sensuallyte.] A lamb off gold hyh vpon a tre, [tree.] An heuenly signe, a tokne off most vertu, [tookne. moost.] To declare how that humylite 15 Aboue alle vertues pleseth most Jhesu. [plesith moost.] Off Adamys synne was wasshe away the rust [Adam is. a wey.] Be vertu only off this lambys blood, [oonly.] The serpentys venym, and al flesshly lust, [al fehlt.] Sathan outraied, ageyn man most wood, [moost.] 20 Tyme whan this lamb was offred on the rood [offryd.] For our redempcioun: to which hauyng reward This hooly martir, this blyssyd kyng so good, [blyssed.] Bar this lamb hiest a-loffte in his standard. [hyest.] The feeld off Gowlys was tokne off his suffrance [suffraunce (so meist — aunce).] 25 Whan cruel Danys were with hym at werre; [wer.] And for a signe off Royal suffisance, That no vices neuer maad hym erre, [nevir made.] The feeld powdryd with many heuenly sterre And halff Cressantis off gold, ful bryht and cleer. [cressauntys.] 30 And wher that euere he iourneyde, nyh or ferre, [wheer. Journyed.] Ay in the feeld with hym was this baneer: Which be influence off our lord Jhesu, [by.] As it hath be preued offte in deede, [previd.] This hooly standard, hath power and vertu [poweer.] 35 To stanche fyres and stoppe flawmys rede, [staunche.] By myracle: and, who that kan take heede, [can.] God grantyd it hym for a prerogatyff, [it fehlt.] Be-cause al heete off lust and flesshlyheede [hete.] Were queynt in hym duryng al his lyff. [wer.] 40 This vertuous baner shal kepen and conserue [baneer. kypyn.] This lond from enmyes, daunte ther cruel pryde; [froom. daunte the pryde.] Off syxte Herry the noblesse to preserue, [Off fourte Edward.] It shal be born in werrys be his syde; Tencresse his vertues, Edmund shal been his guyde, [Tencrese. Edmond. be.] 45 By processe tenhaunce his Royal lyne:
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Altenglische legenden.
Author
Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
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Page 377
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Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,
1881.
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Saints -- Legends
English poetry
Legends

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