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

                                
                                  Þe Marie heo mauden wardein: of heom and of heore schipe,
                                
                                  Þe swete holie Maudeleyne,: in Cristes wurthschipe,
                                
                                  For heo was þe kingue of heouene: leof and deore and queme,
                                
                                  And bitoken hire ech-del: to witien and to ȝeme.
                                
                                  Huy nomen with heom into heore schip: bred inovȝ and wyn,
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  Venesun of heort and hynd: and of wilde swyn,
                                
                                  Huy nomen with heom in heore schip: al þat hem was leof,
                                
                                  Gies and hennes, crannes and swannes,: and porc, motoun and beof;
                                
                                  For huy scholden passi: þe grickische se,
                                
                                  And for þat huy nusten hou longue: huy scholden þare-inne be.
                                  Line 345 
                                
                                  Huy drowen op seil and ore: and schipeden anon riȝht,
                                
                                  Alle, þe lasse and þe more,: eorl, baroun and knyȝht.
                                
                                  Huy nadden bote seue nyȝht: iseiled in þat flod,
                                
                                  Þat huy neren sore of-dradde:: þe se wax stuyrne and wod.
                                
                                  Þe se bigan to flowen,: and þe wawes forto arise:
                                  Line 350 
                                
                                  Some bigonne to swounen,: and heore heortene sore agrise.
                                
                                  Þe se bigan to ebbi,: and þe wynd ful stuyrne to blowe.
                                
                                  Ase þe quiene on hire bedde lay,: hire token ful strongue þrowes,
                                
                                  Heo swounede ful ilomeliche: and harde pinede þarefore,
                                
                                  So forto þat hire ȝoungue sone: were of hure ibore.
                                  Line 355 
                                
                                  Þo þat child ibore was,: þe moder bigan to deye.
                                
                                  Þat folk gradde allas allas,: and weopen with heore eye.
                                
                                  Þo þe leuedi was ded,: aftur þat þet child was ibore,
                                
                                  Huy ne miȝhten it bileue: to make deol þare fore.
                                
                                  Þat child wolde souke,: and it nuste ȝwam,
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Þare nas no milk aboute,: ne no mielch wumman.
                                
                                  "Allas", quath þe prince,: "þat ich euere was ibore!
                                
                                  Wo is me for þis ȝunge child,: and for mi quien þat ich habbe ilore!
                                
                                  And nouþe it mot nede deye,: for souke ne hath i(t) non, [Ms. i non st. it non.] 
                                
                                  Ne i not in none halue: ȝwat me is best to don".
                                  Line 365 
                                
                                  Þe schipmen hieten with stuyrne mod: þat men ne schulden nouȝht spare
                                
                                  Þe dede quien to casten in þat flod,: oþur elles huy mosten furfare
                                
                                  "Þe ȝwyle þat bodi is here with us,: þe stormes beoth so kete,
                                
                                  To quellen us huy þenchez,: and þat huy nellez lete".
                                
                                  Huy nomen up þad dede bodi,: in to þe se forto caste. [þad st. þat.] 
                                  Line 370 
                                
                                  "Abidez ȝuyte and herkniez me!": þe prince gradde faste,
                                
                                  "Ȝif ȝe nellez for mi loue it lete,: ne for loue of mi wif,
                                
                                  Spariez for mi luytel sone,: so þat he mouwe habbe is lyf:
                                
                                  For ȝif is moder mouwe ȝuyt: of hire suoweningue awake,
                                
                                  Þanne may mi luytel sone: to hire tete take".
                                  Line 375 
                                
                                  Huy lokeden heom biside: and seiȝen an heiȝh hurst
                                
                                  Swiþe feor in þe se,: and þe prince it isaiȝ furst.
                                
                                  Him þouȝte þat wel more wisdom: to þe bodie it were
                                
                                  To burien it opon þet heiȝe hurst,: þane fisches it eten þere.
                                
                                  Þo huy comen þudere,: huy ne miȝhten make no put:
                                  Line 380 
                                
                                  Þe hurst was al of harde stone,: ech faste in oþur iknut.

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Title: Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 156
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1878.
Subject terms: Legends; English poetry; Saints

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