Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Tel hym: þis world, : as þe þinkeþ, is nouȝt,
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                                  þerfore to holy lyf : þu wolt torne þy þouȝt,
                                
                                  &, for þu leuist on ihū crist, : monk þu wolt be come:
                                
                                  So þu myȝt his wille : knoue al & some;
                                
                                  Wel þou wost, leue syre, : ȝif he rad þer to,
                                
                                  þat þe þing is al sooþ : þt we þe tel to.
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                                  þo þe king hadde al do : þt þey gonne hym rede,
                                
                                  þe knyȝt fel to þe king̛ feet; : sore weping he sede:
                                
                                  Ihū críst of heuin, þonkid moot þu be,
                                
                                  þat hast my lord soch reed I sent, : as he here telleþ me.
                                
                                  I wis, he seyde, leue syre, : triste me ne may
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                                  To þis false world : þt chaungeþ ech day:
                                
                                  Nou ȝe seþ þe wedir is hoot & now cold, [fehlt: nach der ersten Halbzeile, wie v. 121. 289. 295. 477. 480. 513.] 
                                
                                  Now aman in his ȝouþe is : & now he is old,
                                
                                  Now aman is ryche : & now in pouert I sete, [pouert st. pouerte auch v. 164 und 166, aber pouerte v. 162.] 
                                
                                  Nou aman is in gret chele : & nou brenneþ for hete,
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                                  Now me is in gret wele : & now me is in wo;
                                
                                  þis world is vnstedfast, : ffor al þing faryþ so; [nach is ist vs wegpunktirt.] 
                                
                                  þerfore me þinkeþ I wis : it is þe beste reed,
                                
                                  þat þu folwe þy þouȝt : þat þu me hast I seed.
                                
                                  þe king answerid: : I wene wel þat þu do,
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                                  Worse þu woldist do by me, : ȝif þu myȝtist come þer two.
                                
                                  Hom he wente to his hous, : & be þouȝt anon
                                
                                  þt þe king in wraþþe : tok his word̛ echon,
                                
                                  & þouȝt he scholde be harmyd : þorw þt ilke speche,
                                
                                  But he were holpe of hym : þt was of word̛ leche.
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                                  To hym he gan segge : þe wraþþe of þe king,
                                
                                  & how his oune word̛ : were þe be ginnyng.
                                
                                  Wete it wel, quaþ þis oþer, : þe king haþ ondirstonde
                                
                                  þt þu art aboute : to dryue hym out of londe;
                                
                                  Arys vp to morwe erlich, : & kot about þin ere,
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                                  & alle þy cloþ̛ chaunge : & cloþe þe in here!
                                
                                  Go erliche to þe king : in þe morwȝ tyde!
                                
                                  Whanne þou comyst to his bed, : stonde a whyle be syde,
                                
                                  & aske hym wel fayre : wher he redy be,

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 117
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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