Wolle ȝe nou ihere wordes swiþe gode of one patriarke after Noees flode? Nellic ȝou nouȝt tellen of þis flodes grame, bote of one patriarke, Iacob was his name…
Explicit:
… Nou þuncheþ Iacob his lif swiþe swete of Iacob to telle nou ich mot nede lete. Come neuere to þis hous worse tidinge bote alle worssipe mest & Cristes blessinge. Amen. Explicit Iacob & Iosep.
Heuser, W., « Das frühmittelenglische Josephlied (Ms. Bodl. 652) », Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, 17, 1905, p. 83-121 [GB][IA]
Iacob and Iosep: a Middle English poem of the thirteenth century edited by Arthur S. Napier, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1916, xxxii + 41 p. [GB][IA][umich.edu]