Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  And in acracche ileid. . þo was þer in a stounde [Ms. chacche st. cracche.] 
                                
                                  Sodeineliche wiþ þe angel . agret verrede [sodeynlyche wt aungelis þere:a swyþe moche verhede.] 
                                
                                  Of þe companie of heuene, . þat heriede god an sede: [I hered.] 
                                
                                  Mid god in heuene an heiȝ . heiȝenesse and ioie beo do, [an hyȝ . ben I do.] 
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                                  Among men of gode wille . pais on erþe al so! [& among . good.] 
                                
                                  þis is þe vurst gospel . a midwinter niȝt. [is fehlt . ferste godspel.] 
                                
                                  Ac what þis sompninge was, . we moten siggen in siȝt. [A. R.: Ottauean.]  [Ac fehlt . dyscryuyng. we mot segge.] 
                                
                                  þe emperour þat was þo . seide e wolde iwite [folio 33] 
                                
                                  A certein nombre of þe world, . as it is iwrite, [nombres of al þe.] 
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                                  How monie schiren weren in vche lond, . & tounes in vche schire, [chyryn . ech.] 
                                
                                  And how monie men in vche toun; . he was agret sire. [chyre st. sire.] 
                                
                                  To þe prince of vch lond . his messagers he sende: [preyns . londe.] 
                                
                                  þat ech mon þer he was bore . þorw heste of him wende, [echemon . wos I bore. hem.] 
                                
                                  And þa(t) e paiȝede apeni to truage, . & panes þt me him bere, [þa st. þat.]  [And fehlt. he payd . trewage. & þt hy hym þe pans bere.] 
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                                  þt e wuste þer þorw how moni men . in al þe world were. [þat he þer þorwȝ myȝt I wyte.] 
                                
                                  And naþeles ic may it leue . þt he ne dude as wel for þanne [Nach ic fehlt die Negation ne; for vor þanne wol zu tilgen.]  [Ac. ich ne may ht I leue . dede hit as wel þan.] 
                                
                                  Vor þe loue of þe panes, . as to wite þe nombre of vche manne. [for loue . as to y wene. of þe man.] 
                                
                                  And vch peni þat me him sende . was worþ oþer tene [Ms. hin st. him.]  [men . tweyne.] 
                                
                                  Of comune moneie þt was þo, . hauȝte habbe inow to spene. [Ms. hauȝte st. he auȝte.]  [comyn money . speyne.] 
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                                  þe middel kinedom of al þe world . is þe lond of sirie, [syrrie.] 
                                
                                  And al þe lond of Jude þer amidde, . þer he is bane let furst crie, [And al fehlt . he let fyrst his bone.] 
                                
                                  And amidde Jude is Jerlm, . þere furst bigan, [Ms. amiidde; hinter þere fehlt he, oder þere = þer e.]  [þer he.] 
                                
                                  þus in þe middel of al þe world, . to nombri vch man. [as in.] 
                                
                                  Here was þe lond of Jude furst . vnder rome ibrouȝt, [vndyr rome fyrst.] 
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                                  To ȝiue vche ȝer þider truage, . þat dere was seþþe a bouȝt; [truage þuder.]

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 89
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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