The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
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The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
Bible. Exodus -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry; Bible. Genesis -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry; Christian poetry, English (Middle)
_ðog [it] was nogt is kinde lond_,
Nevertheless it was not his native land.
1280
_Richere he it leet ðan he it fond_,
richer he left it than he found it.
1290
_On an hil ðor ic sal taunen ðe_,
on a hill where I shall show thee.
1292 _ðat he bed him two_ [to ?], that he commanded him to go to. _two_, an
error for _to_. See l. 3752. 1295-6 They say on that hill's side was made
the temple of Solomon. 1295 _dune-is siðen_ = _dune-is siden_, down's
(hill's) sides. 1299 _buxum o rigt_, rightly obedient. 1301 _sagt_, an
error for _sag_ (saw). See l. 1334.
P. 38. l. 1308
_ðo wurð ðe child witter and war_,
Then became the child wise and wary.
1315-20
Wonderfully art thou in the world come,
Wonderfully shalt thou be hence taken;
Without long suffering and fight (struggle)
God will thee take from world's night,
And of thyself holocaust have,
Thank Him that He would it crave (demand).
1317 _ðhrowing_ = _throe_, suffering, agony.
"_ðrowwinge_ and pine."—(Orm. ii. 174.)
"Vor soð wisdom is don euere soule-hele biuoren flesches hele: and hwon me
ne mei nout boðe holden somed, cheosen er licomes hurt þen þuruh to stronge
vondunges, soule _þrowunge_."—(Ancren Riwle, p. 372.) For true wisdom is
ever to put soul-health before flesh-health, and when one may not hold both
together, to choose rather bodily hurt than, through too strong trials,
soul-agony (death). 1323 Supply _don_ after _wulde_. 1328 _nuge_ = _nog_,
now. 1331 _frigti fagen_ may be either _frigti and fagen_, timid _and_
glad, or else _frigti-fagen_, timidly glad.
1332 _for ysaac bi-leaf un-slagen_, for Isaac remained unslain.
1333 _Bi-aften_, behind, abaft.
"Tacc þær an shep _bafftenn_ þin bacc
and offre itt forr þe wennchell."—(Orm. ii. 156.)
1336 _on ysaac stede_, instead of Isaac.
P. 39. l. 1345
_Sarra was fagen in kindes wune_, Sarah was naturally glad.
_in kindes wune_ = after the manner of kinde (nature); _kindes wune_ =
kind-wise, kin-wise. 1365 _semeð_ is an error for _semes_, burdens, loads,
or for _semed_, burdened, loaded. See l. 1368. _seme_ is properly a load
for a pack-horse.
"An hors is strengur than a mon,
Ac for hit non i-wit ne kon,
Hit berth on rugge grete _semes_,
And draȝth bi-vore grete temes."
—(Owl and Nightingale, ed. Wright, p. 27.)
1372 _min erdne ðu forðe selðhelike_, mine errand do thou perform,
accomplish successfully. _forðe_ = _forðen_. See Orm. l. 1834; Ancren
Riwle, p. 408; Laȝ. l. 31561. 1373 _lene_, grant, still exists in _lend_,
_loan_, etc.
1375
_He bad hise bede on good sel_,
He offered his prayer (in good time) opportunely.
P. 40. l. 1379 _ilc on_ = each one.
1382
_Ne wor nogt so forð ðeuwe numen_,
The custom had not been so forth (up to that time) practised.
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