Page:The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre.djvu/23

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bliðum andwlitan to apollonio ⁊ cwæð. Đu iunga man. beo bliðe mid us ⁊ gehiht on god. ꝥ þu mote silf to ðam selran becuman.

Mid þi ðe se cyning þas word gecwæð. ða færinga þar eode in ðæs cynges iunge dohtor. ⁊ cyste hyre fæder ⁊ ða ymbsittendan. Đa heo becom to apollonio. Đa gewænde heo ongean to hire fæder ⁊ cwæð. Đu goda cyningc ⁊ min se leofesta fæder: hwæt is þes iunga man. þe ongean ðe on swa wurðlicum setle sit. mid sarlicum ⁊wlitan. nát ic hwet he besorgað. Đa cwæð se cyningc. Leofe[1] dohtor. Þes iunga man is forliden. ⁊ he gecwemde me manna betst on ðam plegan. forðam ic hine gelaðode to ðysum urum gebeorscipe. nát ic hwæt he is ne hwanon he is. ac gif ðu wille witan hwæt he sy. axsa hine. forðam þe gedafenað ꝥ þu wite. Đa eode ꝥ meden to apollonio. ⁊ mid forwandigendre spræce cwæð. Đeah ðu stille[2] sy ⁊ unrót. þeah ic þine æðelborennesse on ðe geseo. nu þonne gif ðe to hefig ne þince, sege me þinne naman. ⁊ gelymp arece me. Đa cwæð apolonius. Gif ðu for neode axsast æfter minum naman.[3] ic secge þe. ic hine forleas on sæ. gif ðu wilt mine æðelborennesse witan. wite ðu ꝥ ic hig forlet on tharsum. Đæt mæden cwæð. Sege me gewislicor. ꝥ ic hit mæge understandan. Apollonius þa soðlice hyre arehte ealle his gelymp. ⁊ æt þare spræcan ende him feollon tearas of ðam eagum.

  1. MS. leofa.
  2. MS. stilli.
  3. MS. namon.