Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Of seknesse & of elde : he heet hem al so
                                
                                  þat þey ne speke, & ȝif any : þt wt hym were I do
                                  Line 90 
                                
                                  Were in syknesse or in sorwȝ, : do a wey þo,
                                
                                  & nym an oþer in his sted, : þat ne ferd nouȝt so:
                                
                                  So þat he were In ioyȝe : þorw alle þing,
                                
                                  & þat he þouȝt nouȝt : on noþing to comyng. [folio 290] 
                                
                                  In þt tyme was wit þe king : amon wel preue, [Dieser Mann heisst im Mhd. Ged. Barachias.] 
                                  Line 95 
                                
                                  þat preuely louid wel ihū crist, : as þe book telleþ me.
                                
                                  Wit þe king on aday : he went on hontyng.
                                
                                  By þe wey þey founde : apore mon gronyng;
                                
                                  Of abest he was hort : in his foot wel sore.
                                
                                  Help he hym be souȝte : & seruise, for godd̛ ore.
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                                  þe king rood forþ his wey, : & no kep ne took,
                                
                                  But louȝ & made game, : & vtterliche hym for sook.
                                
                                  þis oþer alyȝte of his hors : anon in þilke stounde
                                
                                  &, as he myȝt, : bond vp his soor wounde.
                                
                                  þe pore hym be souȝt : seruise pur charyte,
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                                  & seyd: I may par awenture : in some þin helpe þe. — [þin st. þing.] 
                                
                                  þou I þe vndirfong, : I not what þu ca(n)st do. — [Ms. cast st. canst.] 
                                
                                  þe pore mon hym answerid : & þ̛ he seyd hym two:
                                
                                  I am leche of word̛, : & þer of helpe I can;
                                
                                  Ȝif any man Is hort : of word of man,
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                                  þou he be so hurt : þt hym greue sore,
                                
                                  I hym wole hele, : & he do be my lore.
                                
                                  þis knyȝt hym ondirfong, : & told þis for nouȝt,
                                
                                  & sent hym to his hous : & haþ hym to hele brouȝt.
                                
                                  Wit þe king were men þo : ful of enuiȝe,
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                                  þat gonne þis good knyȝt : wel foule be lyȝe.
                                
                                  Of some þing þey seyde sooþ, : as I ȝow telle can:
                                
                                  For þey seyd þat he was : a cristin man;
                                
                                  But wel I woot þey seyde lees : of an oþer þing:
                                
                                  þey seide he was aboute to nym : þe kingdom of þe king,
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                                  & þat he procurid þe baroun̛ of þe lond
                                
                                  ffor to putte out þe king : wt schame & wit schond.
                                
                                  & ȝif þu wolt, þey seyde, : þer of wite þe soþe,
                                
                                  Send after hym to morwȝ : þat he come to þe;

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 116
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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