Altenglische legenden ...

Here bi lefde Jhu longue fram Josep and Marie in one wildernesse and pleide wiht wilde beste, and Josep and Marie weren ful sorie for him and in gret care, laste he hadde i beo fur fare in þat wildernesse. [Mit der Schreibung wiht vgl. forht st. forth 1622 und 1656, und witht 1320.] 

                                    JEsus cam a ȝein to is Moder deore,
                                  
                                    þat him maude ful guod chere,
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                                    And also dude sire Josep,
                                  
                                    Hine vnder feng with Joye gret;
                                  
                                    Huy weren glade and of heorte mild,
                                  
                                    þat huy hadden i founde heore child.
                                  
                                    þo wenden huy forthþ with oute lesing,
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                                    Ne mauden huy no long dwelling.
                                  
                                    Of eiȝhte ȝer was swete Jhu,
                                  
                                    þo he scheoude þis vertu.
                                  
                                    Ase huy wenden in heore weiȝe,
                                  
                                    Leouns fale huy habbuth i seiȝe.
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                                    Men, þat comen in pilegrimage,
                                  
                                    Huy metten heom in grete rage
                                  
                                    And a straungleden heom and also frete,
                                  
                                    ȝwane huy in weiȝe heom gonne i mete.
                                  
                                    Josep of heom gret doute hadde,
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                                    For huy so foule ȝollen and gradde.
                                  
                                    þanne seide Jesu a non riȝht:
                                  
                                    Josep, ne dred þe no wiȝht!
                                  
                                    Jesus al one to heom eode,
                                  
                                    þis bestes heore wrot to him gonne beode
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                                    And ech of heom to him gan go
                                  
                                    And in heore manere hereden him þo.
                                  
                                    Of him huy hadden gret Joye and feste;
                                  
                                    þat he was guod ful wel huy wuste.
                                  
                                    Jesus þis child longue gan duelle
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                                    A mong þeos bestes al at is wille.
                                  
                                    þo was Josep, for soþe i seiȝe,
                                  
                                    For þat child in gret a nuye.

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Title: Altenglische legenden ...
Author: Horstmann, Carl, ed. b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 43
Publication: Paderborn,: F. Schöningh,; 1875.
Subject terms: English poetry; Legends

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