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The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.

Þat huy ne beren with heom gol[d] ne seluer : ȝwane huy wenden ouer lond, Ne baggue, ne tweie curtles noþur : ne schon, goinde with ouer lond [Ashm. ne staf in hor hond] — ¶ In þis manere ore louerd hiet : his Apostles gon. Þo seint Fraunceis i-heorde þis : he dude of is schon, 146 And porueiȝede þat frere Menours : barefot scholden gon, With-oute bagge, with-oute staf : with-oute ani þing to spene— 148 Bote ech frere Menour do al-so : he ne halt nouȝt is ordre, ich wene. In stude of is gurdel al-so : with rope he him bond— In þis manere frere Menours : scholden go ouer lond. ¶ Seint Fraunceis bi-þouȝte þus : to don þis holie dede 152 And made þe ordre of frere Menours : al ase þe godspel sede. ¶ Bernard, þat was a guod scholer : formest to him cam And þe ordre of frere menours : of him formest he nam. he axede at him hov he scholde best : þe world clanliche for-sake. To seint Nicholas churche huy wenden : ane masse-bok huy gonne take. Þe bok was i-closed faste to : seint Fraunceis hine gan vndo, 158 Al on-mundliche he on-dude þe bok : and þe furste þat he cam to Þat was a godspel þat seith : "ȝif þou wolt parfijt beo, 160 Sul al þi guod and ȝif pouere men : and sethþe siwe me!" ¶ Al vn-Mundlingue he cam eft-sone : to a godspel þat seide : Þat man ne scholde seluer ne gold : bi þe weie lede. Þe þridde tyme al on-Mundlingue : þe masse-bok he wende : 164 Þo cam he opon þis godspel : ase ore louerd him grace sende : "ho-so wole come after me : him-sulf he schal for-sake And is owene rode bere : and þene wei after me so take." ¶ "Þov i-fuxt here," quath seint Fraunceis : "hou ore louerd in a stounde 168 Sent us grace ope ȝwuche þingue : we schullen þis ordre founde : Opon þeos þreo god-spelles, þov fuxt : þat we habbeth furst i-founde We schullen foundi al ore ordre : and opon þis strongue grounde." Opon þis [MS. þis þis] þreo godspelles he maude [maudre] is ordre : and is riule [Ryvle on the margin.] for|sothþ— And þe frere Menor brekez is ordre : þat þare-aȝein ouȝt dothþ. ¶ Fre Gyles was þo þe ferste— : þat guod scoler hadde i-beo,
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The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,
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