Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
dat noman hem bi weie deren.
ðat bere is led ðis folc is rad 535
he foren a{}buten bi adad.
ful seuene nigt he ðer abiden.
And bi{}meni{n}g for iacob deden.
So longe he hauen ðeðen numen.
To flu{m} iurdon ðat he ben cumen. 540
And ou{er} pharan til ebron.
ðor is ðat liche in biriele don.
And josep in to egipte went.
Wid al is folc ut wið him [s]ent.
[Linenotes:
476. _offe_ MS. || 526. _daiges_ MS. || 544. _ent_ with
a letter, apparently _w_, erased before it.]
++Hise breðere comen hi{m} ðanne to. 545
And gunnen him bi{}seken alle so.
vre fader he seiden or he was dead.
vs he ðis bodewurd seigen bead.
Hure sinne ðu hi{m} for{}giue.
Wið{}ðanne ðat we vnder ðe liuen. 550
Alle he fellen him ðor to fot.
To beðen meðe and bedden oc. |
And he it for{}gaf hem mildelike. [f. 49r
And luuede hem alle kinde{}like.
Osep an hundred ger was hold. ¶¶ 555
And his kin wexen manige{}fold.
He bad sibbe cumen him bi{}foren.
Or he was ut of werlde boren.
It sal q{u}að he ben soð bi{}foren.
ðat god hað ure eldere sworen. 560
He sal gu leden i{n} his hond.
Heðen to ðat hotene lond.
for godes luue get bid ic gu
Lested it ðanne hoteð it nu.
ðat mine bene ne be for{}loren. 565
Wið gu ben mine bones boren.
He it him gatten and wurð he dead.
God do ðe soule seli red.
Hise liche was spice{}like maked
And longe egipte{}like waked. 570
And ðo biried hem bi{}foren.
And siðen late of londe boren.
Hise oðre breðere on and on.
Woren ybiried at ebron.
An her endede to ful in wis. 575
ðe boc ðe is hoten genesis.
ðe moyses ðurg godes red
Wrot for lefful soules ned. |
God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale. [f. 49v
ðe made it ðus on engel tale. 580
And he ðat ðise lettres wrot.
God him helpe weli mot.
And berge is sowle fro sorge ⁊ grot.
Of helle pine cold ⁊ hot.
And alle men ðe it heren welin. 585
God leue hem i{n} his blisse spilen.
Among engeles ⁊ seli men.
Wið{}uten ende in reste ben.
And luue ⁊ pais us bi{}twen.
And god so graunte amen ameN. 590
[Linenotes:
553. _gaf_] _gaff_ in catch-word.]
[[The page break is shown as printed, at the end of line 552.]]
XXIII. KENTISH SERMONS
[[MS description from Notes volume:
“Laud Misc. 471, Bodleian Library; on vellum, 188 × 130 mm.: consists of
two manuscripts bound together.... The second manuscript, of the end of
the thirteenth century, begins at f. 92....”]]
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