Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.

                                
                                  Him to take and bringe forþ rihtes.
                                
                                  Whon þei comen to þe watur syde,
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                                  Þei founden him preyinge in þat tyde;
                                
                                  Þei weren aferd him to lette,
                                
                                  But, whon he ros, þei him grette
                                
                                  And seiden: "sire, wite þou parde,
                                
                                  Þe emperour desyreþ to seo þe.
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                                  Go we þerfore to Aurelian!"
                                
                                  And whon þat he was ibrouht þan, [Qui cum venisset et nollet sacrificare, manus ejus et pedes fecit ligari et vectibus ferreis caedi. Cui Savinianus: Adauge tormenta, si potes.] 
                                
                                  For he nolde not do sacrifise
                                
                                  To heore maumetes on heore gyse,
                                
                                  Fot and hond he let him bynde
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                                  And al to-beten bifore and bihynde.
                                
                                  Sauiniam seide þenne anon riht:
                                
                                  "Puyt forþ mo tormens, ȝif þat þou miht!"
                                
                                  Þe emperour comaunded anon þat he [Tunc jussit eum in media civitate ligari super scamnum (72 Zus.) et sup|positis lignis, oleo et igne incendio concremari. Rex autem intuens vidit eum in media flamma stantem pariter et orantem. Stupefactus in suam faciem cecidit et surgens ei dixit:] 
                                
                                  In þe middel of þat citéé
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                                  Schulde beo bounde to a piler,
                                
                                  Þat he mihte feor no ner,
                                
                                  And wode and oyle put to him þan
                                
                                  And fuir, to brenne Sauinian.
                                
                                  Whon þe emperour him sauh in his tur|ment
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                                  Preye to God wiþ good entent,
                                
                                  And þat he was neuer þe wors
                                
                                  For þe fuir, at þat cours
                                
                                  For wonder in þat ilke stounde
                                
                                  He fel doun griuelyng to þe grounde,
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                                  And ros vp wod as eny hare
                                
                                  And seide þeose wordus þare:
                                
                                  "Þou wode best, wiþ þi doyng [Fera mala, non tibi sufficiunt animae quas decepisti, nisi et nos per magicam artem decipere moliaris.] 
                                
                                  Suffiseþ not þi deseyuyng
                                
                                  Of mennes soules, so mote þou þriue,
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                                  But wiþ wicchecraft vs deceyue". [þou fehlt?] 
                                
                                  Sauiniam seide to him þo: [Cui Savinianus: Adhuc multae animae et tu ipse per me sunt domino crediturae (90 Zus.).] 
                                
                                  Ȝit Þorwh me schullen soulus mo
                                
                                  And þou þi self beo tornd to God,
                                
                                  Þauh þou beo nou ful wilde of mod".
                                  Line 90 
                                
                                  Þe emperour comaundede in þat stoun|de: [(Cum autem imperator ex hoc nomen Dei blasphemasset), in crastinum jussit eum ad stipitem ligari et sagittari; sa|gittae autem a dextris et a sinistris in aëre suspendebantur nec aliqua eum laesit.] 
                                
                                  Vppon þe morwe he schulde beo bounde
                                
                                  To a stok and þenne beo schote
                                
                                  Wiþ arwes from hed to fote.
                                
                                  Whon þei schoten, his bodi to peire,
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                                  Þe arwes hengen in þe eire
                                
                                  On his luft syde and his riht arm, [Ms. luft st. left.] 
                                
                                  But he him self hedde non harm.
                                
                                  Þe emperour ful wroþ hym leete, [Altera die imperator ad eum veniens dixit ei: Et ubi est Deus tuus? veniat nunc et de sagittis istis te liberet. Statimque una de illis sagittis (exsiliens) regem in oculo percussit et penitus excaecavit. Unde iratus jussit eum in carcere recipi et in crastino decollari.] 
                                
                                  Anoþur day bad men him schete
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                                  And seide: "wher is þi God? þou [þou aus nou corrig.] 
                                
                                  Let him saue þe from þeos arwes nou".
                                
                                  On of þat same arwes wiþouten lyȝe
                                
                                  Hutte þe emperour in þe eȝe.
                                
                                  And for he hedde lost his eȝe-siht,
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                                  He comaundede him to prisun anon riht,
                                
                                  And he bad also wiþ sorwe
                                
                                  Þei schulde gurde of his hed amorwe.
                                
                                  Sauinian preied God in þat cas [Savinianus autem orans ut ad locum ubi baptizatus fuerat transferre|tur, confractis catenis (et apertis ostiis) per medios milites transiens illuc venit; quod audiens imperator jussit eum illuc insequi et capite truncari (118 Zus.).] 
                                
                                  Þat he moste come to þat plas
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                                  Þer he was cristned for Godus sake:
                                
                                  Anon his veteres al to-brake,
                                
                                  And among þe knihtes euerichon

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Title: Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 94
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1878.
Subject terms: Legends; English poetry; Saints

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