Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Allas, sone, quaþ þe king, : who haþ do me þis sorwe?
                                
                                  But I þt haue foluid þy wil : on euin & on morwe?
                                
                                  Nas neuer king þt myȝt : his sone do
                                
                                  More þan I haue do to þe, : & þu seruist me so!
                                
                                  þerfore, I se, þou art : aȝen myn heed aryse; [se aus so corrigirt.] 
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                                  Wel auȝt here afterward : oþer men by me agryse
                                
                                  ffor to do his sone honour, : as I haue do þe,
                                
                                  Lest he aryse aȝen hym, : as þu art a ȝen me.
                                
                                  Wel seyde þe clerk̛, : þt tolde me fore
                                
                                  In þe tym þt þu wer : of þy modir bore:
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                                  Vn buxum, þey seyde, : þu scholdist be al þy lyf,
                                
                                  & aȝen alle oure god̛ : wt þy myȝt strif.
                                
                                  þerfore I segge: : but þu do after me,
                                
                                  Euer more her after : þy foman I wole be;
                                
                                  þer was neuer fomon to oþer : þt dede so moche wo,
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                                  As I wole her after : wit my myȝt þe do.
                                
                                  Josaphat answerid: : ȝif þu art fadir myn,
                                
                                  ȝif I torne to gode : it is manschipe þin;
                                
                                  But ech fadir for his sone : ouȝt glad be,
                                
                                  Whan þe sone to gode tornyd, : I wis, so þinkeþ me;
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                                  & I þe segge for soþe: : ȝif þe ruiþ my gode,
                                
                                  I ne hold þe nouȝt my fadir, : but I hold þe wode;
                                
                                  þerfore I þe segge, : & wite it to soþe:
                                
                                  ȝif þu me greuist her after, : I nele nauȝt come to þe,
                                
                                  But, as þu were an addre : þu woldist me stinge, [fehlt wol & in der 2. Hlbz., oder þu st. þt.] 
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                                  I wole þe fle, but þu þe chast : of þis ilke þinge;
                                
                                  Ne I nele neuere more : fadir clepe þe;
                                
                                  þerfore do what þy wille is, : & tak no kep of me!
                                
                                  þan wente þe king, : þo (he) herde þis, [vor herde fehlt he.] 
                                
                                  What for sorw & for wraþ, : ny wood I wis.
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                                  To arachis, his gode frend, : he told al þis þing;
                                
                                  & he wit fayre word̛ : þ̛ seyde to þe king:
                                
                                  For I wene me schal : childrin wt fayr speche
                                
                                  Beter chastise, þan me schal : wit beting & wt wreke . . . . . [fehlt ein Verspaar.] 
                                
                                  þo on morwe be king com, : & kyste his sone swete,

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 138
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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