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N = AM 238 XX fol
i r 1enw man«, [nckezt hafa sed J)in« faudwr snua san«dhuerfun«e
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hialpadi f au dit?' sin«, s lif i en«, J>egar emmprwren« u ar |3a daudar
feck jarlsso«, dottwr hans ok uard emmprwr ept(e)r ha«-n |
4 (T)emicipus het em« emmprwr j kom em« nettuiss man«, ok
myskuwsamwr huar fyrer |3b af sin«e mickille mys|5kun«semrøe
ha«,« sette j)au laug at huer blindwr man« skylldi hafa af hans
pen«in«j6gum hu«n«drat skillin«ga. Suo kemwr til ein« tima at
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1 enn, i.e. eireg] 'enn.
4 mann, blurred.
6 hundat.
he defoulede her not; in that the sone of the erle mekelle pieasede the
Emperour. “The seeonde peticione, I aske thi tresoure.” The Emperoure
grauntede hym alle his tresoure, for his law that he hade made. The sone
25 toke the tresoure, and dalte it to poore men and riche; wherfore he hade
the wille of the peple. “The thirde peticione is, I aske the eyene of alle hem
that sawe my fadir turne the playse in the disshe.” Anone was made an
inquysicione, who sawe the erle turne the playse in the disshe. One thought,
“Yf I sey ye, I shalle lese bothe myne eyene.” Thus the seeonde saide, and
30 the thirde, and alle other; so that there was not one, that sawe the erle
turne the playse in the disshe. Than saide the sone of the erle to the
Emperoure, “Beholde, my lorde, and yeve a rightfulle dorne.” Than he saide,
“Sithe it is so, that no man knowethe, that saw thi fadir turne the playse
in the disshe, I wille not that he be dede.” And thus the sone savede the
35 fadirs lyfe; and after the Emperours dissease, he weddede his doughtir.
Declaracio. Frendes, this Emperour is the Fadir of Heven; that made this
lawe, that none shulde turne the playse. For the playse we shalle vndirstonde
worldly goodes, that we shalle not turne the blake side, that is, by covetise
and falsehede to gete the goodes...
2. The Drunkards and the Innkeeper
(rendered with exception of the Declaratio in N, f. Ir 4-24)
IV 6 r Teucippus reignede in the citee of Rome, the whiche amonge other vertues
that he hade, he was mercifulle; wherfore of grete mercy he ordeynede a law,
that every biynde man shulde have an hundrede shelynges of his tresoure.
It fille on a tyme, that xxiiij. men come to the citee, for to drynke wyne;