Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Ȝif þu sey þt ston, : he þe wold greue; [þe übergeschrieben.] 
                                
                                  ffor, þey my ston in some kind : be boþe good & ryche,
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                                  In an oþer kind he harmyþ, : I segge þe trewelyche: [Ms. segegge.] 
                                
                                  He þat seþ my stoon : in clene lyf moot be,
                                
                                  & clene yȝen & gode haue, : or, I segge þe,
                                
                                  He hym wole make blind anon, : or don hym harm more;
                                
                                  & me þinkeþ to soþe : þt þyn yȝen beþ sore.
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                                  Wel, quaþ þis child̛ mayster, : seþþe it so is,
                                
                                  In clene lyf am I nouȝt, : I know it wel I wis,
                                
                                  & myn yȝen beþ sore, : wel I woot, al so,
                                
                                  þer fore I nele þy ston se, : lest he me harm do;
                                
                                  To my lord I wille go : & do þe hym come to;
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                                  þan myȝtow þy fayre ston : schewe ryȝt so.
                                
                                  þo he com to Iosaphat, : þe child fayre hym grette,
                                
                                  & vppon þe bench : fayre he hym sette.
                                
                                  Of o þing, quaþ barlam, : syre, þou has wel wrouȝt:
                                
                                  þat to þing þat semyþ feyr : þu ȝeuist þy wille nouȝt.
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                                  ffor a ryche king was sumtyme, : þt rood in his chare [folio 292] 
                                
                                  Nobeliche about, : boþe her & þare.
                                
                                  Pore men he mette aday : by þe wey gon.
                                
                                  þou he were ryche king, : to hem he leep anon,
                                
                                  þow þey were pore : & loþlich on to se.
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                                  þe king to hem wel myldelich : sat adoun a kne,
                                
                                  & dede hem wel gret honour. : þe men þt wt hem were
                                
                                  þer of hadde wondur : & speke to gedir þere:
                                
                                  þat soche a king as he was ne scholde nouȝt do so;
                                
                                  But þer was non of hem : þt dorst ondirneme hym þo.
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                                  To his broþer þey told : afterward þis þing,
                                
                                  & þe broþir askid seþþe, : why he did so, þe king.
                                
                                  þe king answerid: to morwe : come hedir erliche to me,
                                
                                  & I wille of þis þing : þe soþe telle þe.
                                
                                  þis king hadde a wondir wone to hy & to lowe:
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                                  Whan aman damnyd be, : þe king wolde blowe
                                
                                  At his ȝate, þt were dampnyd, : atrompe; þt fel þer two,
                                
                                  To schewe þt he were tretour, : & dampnyd al so.
                                
                                  þe king anon on euin : his troumpour haþ sent

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 121
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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