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

                                
                                  Þer ros a gret sediciun
                                
                                  Tofore þat ilke elecciun.
                                
                                  Ambrose þenne wiþ gret res [illuc Ambr. causa sedandae seditionis perrexit.] 
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                                  Tok þider þe wey, to make al pes.
                                
                                  As sone as he þenne comen was
                                
                                  Þider as þe pepul was gedred in plas, [Et statim vox infantis insonuit, dicens Ambrosium episcopum (engl. directe Rede),] 
                                
                                  A vois anon of an innocent
                                
                                  Was herd of alle, verement!:
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                                  "I put ȝou alle in sad hope,
                                
                                  Ambrose schal ben oure bisschope."
                                
                                  Þei sented alle to þat vois, [sented = assented.]  [cujus voci omnes unanimiter consenserunt, Ambrosium episcopum acclamantes (engl. dir.).] 
                                
                                  "Ambrose", þei crieden wiþ gret noys,
                                
                                  "To vr bisschop we wol haue;
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                                  Þat he assente, onliche we craue".
                                
                                  Whon þat he þus vndurstod, [Quo ille cognito, ut eos a se terroribus removeret, ecclesiam exiens (129 ist Ausfüllsel) tribu|nal conscendit et contra consuetudinem suam tormenta personis adhiberi jussit (135-140 erklär. Zusatz).] 
                                
                                  Wiþ fere he wolde ha torned heore mod,
                                
                                  And ȝit he dude anoþur þing:
                                
                                  To þe juges seete he wente hiȝing
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                                  And aȝeynes his olde wone
                                
                                  Sum men tofore him dude he come,
                                
                                  Als he sat for juggement,
                                
                                  And hem comaunded to turment—
                                
                                  For þe pepul schulde wel se
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                                  Þat he hedde ben ful of cruwelte.
                                
                                  Þis holy mon caste þat,
                                
                                  For he disired non such stat,
                                
                                  And for þei schulde ha lost heor hope
                                
                                  Him haue had to heore bisschope.—
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                                  But þe peple for al his gyse [Quod cum faceret, populus nihilominus acclamabat: Pecca|tum tuum super nos.] 
                                
                                  Cried on him vppon þis wyse:
                                
                                  "Let beo þi fare, mak hit not þus!
                                
                                  Þi sunne þer of falle hit on vs."
                                
                                  Þen was he stourbled in þouȝt and eȝe [Tunc ille turbatus domum rediit et philosophiam profi|teri voluit. Quod ut ne faceret, revocatus est.] 
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                                  And wente him hamward in gret hyȝe;
                                
                                  He wolde to philosophye him (ha) pro|fessed. [im Ms. fehlt ha oder haue.] 
                                
                                  But he was called aȝeyn and cessed.
                                
                                  And for he nolde bisschop haue ben, [Publicas mulieres publice ad se ingredi fecit, ut, his visis, ab ejus electione populum revocaret.] 
                                
                                  He made þe moste comun wommen
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                                  Openliche come to his in,
                                
                                  Þat bisschopriche for he nolde wyn,
                                
                                  And, þauȝ he dude not bote good,
                                
                                  He wolde haue mad þe peple wood,
                                
                                  Anoþur mon forte haue chose
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                                  And of him laft heore purpose.
                                
                                  Þe peple euere and ay in on [Sed cum nec sic proficeret, sed semper populum peccatum suum super nos acclamare videret,] 
                                
                                  On him þei criede euerichon
                                
                                  Þat þei wolde bere al þe synne,
                                
                                  Þat bisschophede so he wolde winne.
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                                  He sauȝ þat he þus miht not spede: [fugam media nocte concepit; cumque Ticinum se pergere putaret, mane ad portam civitatis Mediolanensis, quae Romana dicitur, invenitur.] 
                                
                                  Þe nexte niht wiþoute nede
                                
                                  He stal awey and wolde haue gon
                                
                                  To þe toun of Ticinun anon.
                                
                                  Þiderward, þe soþe to say,
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                                  He wende he hedde holden þe way.
                                
                                  Whon hit was day, he loked aboute:
                                
                                  Þen sauȝ he wher he stod þer oute:
                                
                                  At on of þe ȝatus of Melan,
                                
                                  Þat is called þe ȝate Roman. [Qui inventus cum custodiretur a populo, missa relatio est ad clementissimum imperatorem Valentinianum.] 
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                                  Þenne men sone him fonde
                                
                                  At þe ȝate, þer he dude stonde.
                                
                                  Þei him kepte and word sent
                                
                                  To þe emperour Valentinian, verrement,
                                
                                  Hou þei to bisschop him hedde ichose,
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                                  Preyeden him assente to heor purpose.
                                
                                  Þe emperour þenne ful joyful was [Qui summo gaudio accepit, quod judices a se directi ad sacerdotium peterentur.] 
                                
                                  Þat him schulde falle so feir a caas
                                
                                  Þat a juge, þat he hedde isent

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Title: Sammlung altenglischer legenden, grösstentheils zum ersten male hrsg. von C. Horstmann.
Author: Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.
Canvas: Page 10
Publication: Heilbronn,: Gebr. Henninger,; 1878.
Subject terms: Legends; English poetry; Saints

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