Altenglische legenden ...

                                
                                  Eft heo nomen him bitterliche : and ferrore ȝuyt him ladde, [A. R.: septima pena.] 
                                
                                  And harleden him forth wel revfulliche, : and loude ȝollen and gradde.
                                
                                  Bi fore him he saiȝ an hous stonde, : long and brod i novȝ;
                                
                                  Stunch and hete, þat þarof cam, : him þouȝte al mest a slouȝ. [Vor a slouȝ fehlt him.] 
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                                  He with stod, and nolde is þonkes : for stunche gon non ner.
                                
                                  Ferrore þov schalt, þe fendes seiden, : þou ne schalt nouȝt a bide her;
                                
                                  A bath it is þat þov isijcst, : and þarinne þov schalt beo
                                
                                  And baþi with oþere þat þare beoth; : ne schalt þov nouȝt so fleo.
                                
                                  þe gostes þat þare inne weren : wel deolfulliche cride
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                                  And ȝollen loude, ase he i heorde, : a boute in eche side.
                                
                                  þis kniȝt with þis foule wiȝtes : Into þe grete house cam.
                                
                                  Of tormens, þat he þare isaiȝ, : gret gome with alle he nam.
                                
                                  Ful of puttes and of diches : þat hous with inne it was;
                                
                                  More seoruwe ne more stunch : neuere i seiȝe nas:
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                                  Heo weren folle of stronge tormens, : boillinde euer ech on,
                                
                                  Of wallinde led, and i fulde heo weren : of piche and brumston.
                                
                                  Wrechche gostus þare inne seten, : þe torment tilde wel heiȝe:
                                
                                  Some a boue þe heued, : and some riȝt to þe Eyȝe,
                                
                                  Some to þe nose, and some to þe mouth, : and some op to þe swere,
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                                  And some to heore breostene, : and a bouȝten heore sunnes ful deore,
                                
                                  And some to heore nauele, : and some neþerrore more,
                                
                                  And some stoden op to heore knen, : and criden and weopen sore,
                                
                                  And some stoden In with boþe fet, : and some with þat on;
                                
                                  Deolfolliche heo weopen and criden : and ȝollen euerechon. [n in and überschr.] 
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                                  Nov þov i sixt, queþen þe feondes, : ȝwoder In þov schalt gon,
                                
                                  Bote þov wolle an oþur speke : and to us tuyrne a non.
                                
                                  Heo nomen and casten him In a putte; : on Jesus a non he cride,
                                
                                  Op he cam a non a ȝen, : and no lengore he ne moste þare a bide.
                                
                                  Heo nomen him in grete wrathþe : and harleden him ferrere more,
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                                  And brouȝten him opon a swyþe gret hul, : ful of sorewe and sore.
                                
                                  He stod and bi heold a boute, : þo he cam þare op an heiȝ;
                                
                                  Him wondrede of þe manie gostes : þat he þare iseiȝ.
                                
                                  Alle þe pinene þat he hadde er i seiȝe : þare aȝen nouȝt nere;
                                
                                  I cluiȝte heo seten ope heore ton, : and quakeden revliche for fere.
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                                  In þe south half of þe hul : a deop water þare was and louȝ,
                                
                                  þat foule stonk and caldore was : þane ani ys oþur snovȝ;
                                
                                  A norþerne wind faste blevȝ, : þat him þouȝte is flesch to rende.
                                
                                  Euere þare seten gostes : and aȝein þe winde heom wende,
                                
                                  Heo quakeden and chyuereden faste : in grete pine and stronge,
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                                  Ase ho so seith a bidet þare heore time, : heore deth for to a fonge.
                                
                                  Lo, seide on of þe feondes, : þov nost nouȝt ȝwat is tis; [istis st. is þis.] 
                                
                                  Bote þov torne þi þouȝt sone, : þou schalt i wite i wis.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 193
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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