Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Altenglische legenden ...

þt him were leuere þen al þen world, : þt þe pyne were ido. [leuer þan alle þe worle.] þus colde hi drowe him, as him þoȝte, : riȝt uorþ est iwis, As þe sonne arist in somer, : wen þe day lengost is. þo hi come þuder, as him þoȝte, : riȝt to þe wordles ende, [þuder nur noch in Ms. Cott.; Ms. Bodl. hat þere.] 235 Hi turnde hem bi abrod ualeie, : & sou(þ)ward gonne wende, [Ms. souward st. souþward.] [turneþe him. faleie. sout ward.] Toward þe stude as þe sonne : at mydwynter deþ arise, [folio 37] þt wo was þe knyȝt uor drawe : & ipyned on alle wise. [þis st. þe. an st. on.] þo þoȝte him þt he hurde uer, : bi uore him as it were, Swiþe deluol cri & wop, : & swiþe reuuol bere; 240 Euer þe ner þt hi come, : þe reuloker was þt cri. So longe hi drowe him, as him þoȝte : þt hi were riȝt þer bi. [Statt as haben die and. Mss. þat.] [long.] þo come hi in to awilde feld; : non more ne myȝte be, [l in feld ist übergeschrieben.] [so st. þo. a vor wilde fehlt. miȝt.] So longe he was in euerich side, : þt me ne myȝte non ende ise. [long. eueri. miȝt.] Of men & wemmen þt feld was : fol in ech syde, [Ms. fold mit wegpunktirtem d.] [wimmen. eueri side.] 245 þe wombe naked toward þe gronde : abrod isprad wel wide, þe fet & honden al abrod : to þe erþe uaste ibounde [hond.] Wiþ nailes of ire, al a fure, : ismyte þoru out þe gronde. [Auch Ms. Cott. liest þoro ut þe grounde; die and. Mss. richtiger þorw to þe grounde, Laud þoruȝ heom to grounde.] þis wreche gostes, al uor pyned : wiþ ire & wiþ fure, [pineþe.] So deoluol cri & bere made, : þt deol it was to hure; [delfol.] 250 Hi criede mercy deoluoliche, : ac me nolde hem non do; [cride.] Vor anguise h(i) gnowe þe colde erþe : & hor tonge also. [Ms. h st. hi.] [anguische. knoue (!). herde. tong.] þe deuelen orne al aboute, : & pulte hem to gronde, [ourne. : & op on hom to grounde.] & wiþ kene oweles hem to drowe : wiþ mony adeope wounde. [& fehlt. dep.] Alas, wi ne beþ we her iwar : our sunnes her to bete, [be we er. here to.] 255 Ar we come to purgatorie : & wiþ þe luþer gostes Imete? [gestes mete (ohne I).] Vor in purgatorie þe screwen beþ : as wel as in helle, & worþeþ uorte dai of dome, : telle wat me telle. [forte þe.]
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Altenglische legenden ...
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Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
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Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,
1875.
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English poetry
Legends

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