Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Josep weddede in þis entente . þis clene maide þere.
                                
                                  Ac for oþer þing oure lord wolde . þat heo wedded were:
                                
                                  þat is moder isclaundred nere . wiþ childe vnwedded were, [Vor wiþ childe fehlt þat heo.]  [folio 30] 
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                                  Ne þat þe deuel it vnder ȝite . þat amaide achild bere;
                                
                                  Vor, ȝif he it wuste, e wolde wite . þat hit were godes sone,
                                
                                  And habbe destourbed al þe dede . of his swete passione;
                                
                                  And oure lord wolde ek þat is moder . were in eche god hod
                                
                                  Of wommon, þat þreo beþ: . þe hexte is maiden hod,
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                                  þat oþer hexte is widue hod, . spoushod is þe þridde:
                                
                                  Alle þe þreo þat maiden hadde, . þat swiþe wel bi tidde:
                                
                                  Heo was maide, wif, and widue; . whose nis non of þe þreo,
                                
                                  Bote heo comen to amendement, . of hiren ne may he nouȝt beo.
                                
                                  Ac naþeles al þer wiþ oute . me may ȝet finde some,
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                                  Ac, ȝif god wole, heo amendeþ hem, . ar heo to deþe come.
                                
                                  Bi eroudes day þe king . aprest was of god lif, [A. R.: Fuit in diebus herodes rex; s. Luc. 1, 5.] 
                                
                                  þat Zakarie was ihote, . and elisabeþ is wif;
                                
                                  Boþe heo weren god inow . and inelde weren igon
                                
                                  And oure lordes heste douteden, . ac child nadden heo non.
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                                  þo scholde vch prest after oþer, . as hit fel in þe lawe,
                                
                                  Vrom saterday to saterday . aboute þe weued drawe
                                
                                  And serue þat weued al þe wike . and al þe wike be clene,
                                
                                  Ne from þe weued come nouȝt, . ne seon is wif nouȝt ene.
                                
                                  So it bifel þat Zakarie, . as it aboute com,
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                                  His prestes wike scholde beo. . holi ensense e nom
                                
                                  And þer wiþ wende into þe temple . and þt weued ensensede aboute;
                                
                                  And þat volk stode in orisons . and in here bedes wiþ oute.
                                
                                  In þe riȝt half of þe weued . an angel þer stod;
                                
                                  Zakarie him bihuld . and dradde in his mod.
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                                  Ne dred þe nouȝt! þe angel sede, . (þ)i bone is herd anon: [Ms. ibone st. þi bone.] 
                                
                                  þiwif schal bere a sone, . þat schal beo cleped Jon;
                                
                                  And þow schalt habbe ioie inow, . whan þow it miȝt iseo,
                                
                                  And þer schulle of his burþtime . manie glade beo;
                                
                                  Bifore oure lord he worþ gret, . he ne schal drinke nouȝt
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                                  Wyn ne sider; ar he beo . of is moder wombe ibrouȝt,
                                
                                  He worþ fol of þe holi gost, . and ate nende
                                
                                  Manie children of isrl . to oure lord wende.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 81
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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