Eight Middle High German
versions
of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843.
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389
]: and the oddness of their notions as to the line of his images' life that pleasd the God and Father of men, is always in|structive, specially when set beside many of the popular ideas on this and like subjects now.
If folk would but stop attributing to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd con|sider an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
Dr Horstmann,--who edited the Laud 108 Life in Herrig's Archiv, vol. iii. p. 102-10, 1873*. [I believe that he has since edited the Vernon, Trinity and Laud-463 texts. ]--says that the sources of the Alexius legend are the 'Vita metrica, auctore Marbodo, primum archidiacono Andegavensi, deinde Redonensi episcopo (? 1123)', printed in the Acta Sanctorum, Boll. 17. Juli, p. 254-256; and another 'Vita, auctore anonymo', ib. p. 251-254. To the last, the Laud 108 version is nearly related, often even in words.
Eight Middle High German versions of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843. The following Early English lives do not belong to the great Collection of long-line "Saints' Lives" in the Harleian, Vernon, and other MSS, from which I printed a selec|tion*. [And mistakingly printed 'ic' as Midland or Northern 'ic', instead of the Southern 'ich'. ] for the Philological Society in 1863 for its Transactions, of 1858. This Collection will be edited in a separate volume some day for the E. E. Text Society, by Dr Horstmann, after he has edited for us all the Extra Legends not in the Collection or in the Vernon Gospel-stories. ]
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THE LEGEND OR LIFE OF ST. ALEXIUS.
FROM SIX MANUSCRIPTS.
[Laud MS. 622, leaf 21, back. ]
(1)
ALle ? at willen here in ryme
Hou gode Men in olde tyme
Loueden god almi? th, 3
? at weren riche of grete valoure,
Kynges sones and Emperoure,
Of bodies stronge & li?
Dr Horstmann,--who edited the Laud 108 Life in Herrig's Archiv, vol. iii. p. 102-10, 1873*. [I believe that he has since edited the Vernon, Trinity and Laud-463 texts. ]--says that the sources of the Alexius legend are the 'Vita metrica, auctore Marbodo, primum archidiacono Andegavensi, deinde Redonensi episcopo (? 1123)', printed in the Acta Sanctorum, Boll. 17. Juli, p. 254-256; and another 'Vita, auctore anonymo', ib. p. 251-254. To the last, the Laud 108 version is nearly related, often even in words.
Eight Middle High German versions of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843. The following Early English lives do not belong to the great Collection of long-line "Saints' Lives" in the Harleian, Vernon, and other MSS, from which I printed a selec|tion*. [And mistakingly printed 'ic' as Midland or Northern 'ic', instead of the Southern 'ich'. ] for the Philological Society in 1863 for its Transactions, of 1858. This Collection will be edited in a separate volume some day for the E. E. Text Society, by Dr Horstmann, after he has edited for us all the Extra Legends not in the Collection or in the Vernon Gospel-stories. ]
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THE LEGEND OR LIFE OF ST. ALEXIUS.
FROM SIX MANUSCRIPTS.
[Laud MS. 622, leaf 21, back. ]
(1)
ALle ? at willen here in ryme
Hou gode Men in olde tyme
Loueden god almi? th, 3
? at weren riche of grete valoure,
Kynges sones and Emperoure,
Of bodies stronge & li?
