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

                                
                                  Seint thomas wende þudere a-ȝen : þo he þe time i-sai.
                                  Line 778 
                                
                                  Þe king [sat] an hei in is sce : and a-coupede him wel faste.
                                
                                  "Þov were," he seide, "mi chaunceler— : ake al-to longe it laste,
                                
                                  Ich þe lende þo fif hondred pound : and þov ne ȝolde me nouȝt on:
                                
                                  Sete me þar-of ane schorte day : for þov schalt heom ȝelde ech-on."
                                
                                   [Thomas.] ¶ "Sire, sire," quath seint thomas : "god sende us bet þin ore!
                                
                                  I-ne wende neuere of þulke panes : i-heore a-countes more.
                                  Line 784 
                                
                                  For ich hadde þulke tyme : betere grace to ovȝ
                                
                                  Þane ich habbe nouþe : and þat me þingchez wouȝ;
                                
                                  guode grace ich hadde to þe : þou me louedest i-nouȝ þo,
                                
                                  Þulke panes þo þov me ȝeue : and woldest ȝet wel mo.
                                  Line 788 
                                
                                  Sire, þar-of ich am suyþe wel a-knowe : þat ich heom a-feng of þe:
                                
                                  Of þine ȝifte with guode heorte : for-soþe þov ȝeue hem me,
                                
                                  And so heiȝ man ase þov art : it miȝte wel beo stille
                                
                                  to Axi þing þat þov ȝeue er : with þine so guode wille."
                                  Line 792 
                                
                                  Þe king him axede ȝif ani man : þulke ȝifte i-saiȝ,
                                
                                  And ȝweþur he miȝte prouen þe ȝifte. : Seint thomas seide nayȝ.
                                
                                   [Rex.] ¶ "Nov, louerdingus," quath þe king : "alle ȝe i-heorez þis,
                                
                                  Þat of þat tresor þat he is a-knowe : þat ich him tok i-wis,
                                  Line 796 
                                
                                  Þe ȝifte ne mai he proui nouȝt : Ase alle ȝe mowen i-seo.
                                
                                  Iugement ich axi of þis court : hou it þare-of schal beo."
                                
                                  Þe court him lokede : ase he was : a-knowe of þat þing,
                                
                                  And ne miȝte nouȝt þe ȝifte preoui : to ȝelden ech ferþing.
                                  Line 800 
                                
                                  Þe king him het þe panewes ȝelde : oþur sikernesse him make,
                                
                                  Oþur is Marschales scholden swiþe anon : is bodi to prisone take.
                                
                                  Þis holi man of is bischopriche : hadde wel luytel guod,
                                
                                  Ake al helples a-mong is fon : with-oute conseille he stod.
                                  Line 804 
                                
                                  Þe Marchales i-redie weren : to prisone him lede a-non;
                                
                                  heo heten him don heom sikernesse : oþur he scholde with hem gon.
                                
                                  Þis holi man nuste non oþur red : bote soffri al heore wouȝ.
                                
                                  ¶ Some guode men þat þare weren : hadden of him reuþe i-nouȝ:
                                  Line 808 
                                
                                  Fif kniȝtes nomen hem to rede : and wenden to þe kingue
                                
                                  And token an hond for seint thomas : of alle þulke þinge, [folio 70] 
                                
                                  euerech of an hondret pound : for þis seli man to paie.
                                
                                  Þo was þis guode Man quit I-nov : ase at þulke daie.
                                  Line 812 
                                
                                  ¶ A-Moruwe, þene saturdai : to court eft-sone he wende,

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Title: 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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