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

                                
                                  he bad heom alle deolfulliche : bidden for him one,
                                
                                  And swor he wolde legge a-doun : þe luþere lawene ech-one. [folio 87] 
                                
                                  ¶ So þat he let singe ane masse : are he þannes wende,
                                
                                  In þe honour of seint thomas : þat he is grace him sende.
                                  Line 2350 
                                
                                  Þe ȝwyle men þe masse songe : ase ore louerd ȝaf þat cas,
                                
                                  Þe kyng of Scotlond was i-nome : þat mest is fo was;
                                  Line 2352 
                                
                                  And manie oþere also with him : þat weren is stron[ge] fon;
                                
                                  So þat heo þat weren vn-nome : to him nadden power non.
                                
                                  his folk dude þe bataille : þe ȝwyle þe masse i-laste [MS. staste] ;
                                
                                  Þar-to heo hadden luyte help : and weren wel sore agaste,
                                  Line 2356 
                                
                                  Ake ore louerd for seint thomas loue : his grace wel sone him caste,
                                
                                  So þat heore fon weren some [m MS. sone]  i-nome : and some flouwen wel faste.
                                
                                  So þat þis seli olde king : þat al bi-neþe er was,
                                
                                  Al a-boue was sone i-brouȝt : þoruȝ bone of seint thomas;
                                  Line 2360 
                                
                                  And is sone was al bi-neþe : and so he bi-ȝat wel luyte
                                
                                  For-to weorri aȝein is fader : for is sori pruyte.
                                
                                  bi him men mowen nime ensaumple : to beon to hastiue:
                                
                                  to ȝiuen heore sones op heore lond : þe ȝwyle heo hem-sulue beoth a-liue.
                                  Line 2364 
                                
                                  Þe kingus sone þare-after-ward : prouede vuele i-novȝ,
                                
                                  And wel longe bi-fore þe fadere : toward þe deþe he drouȝ
                                
                                  And fur-pinede in þe menisone : þat is lif him þouȝte long;
                                
                                  he deide sethþe deol-folliche : in gret pine and strong.
                                  Line 2368 
                                
                                  his broþer also, sire Geffrei : þat Erl of brutayne was,
                                
                                  Deide al-so in þe menison : In þulke sulue cas.
                                  Line 2370 
                                
                                  So þat after is fader deþe : þare ne lefde eir non
                                
                                  bote heore ȝongue broþer king Richard : and sethþe þe king Iohan—
                                
                                  Ake sire Geffreies child : with riȝte lawe of londe
                                
                                  Þe heritage scholde habbe i-bore : ase ich me onder-stonde.—
                                
                                   [Mors Militum.] ¶ Þeos luþere kniȝtes alle foure : þat slowen seint thomas
                                
                                  Deiden in stronge deþe i-nouȝ : ase wel riȝt it [MS. it it]  was.
                                  Line 2376 
                                
                                  heo weren echone repentaunt : ne miȝten none men more,
                                
                                  euere heo criden on seint thomas : to ȝiuen heom milce and ore.
                                
                                  Sone after-ward þat he was a-slawe : al heore guod huy lete
                                
                                  And wenden to þe holi lond : heore sunnes for-to bete.
                                  Line 2380 
                                
                                  Ake sire Willame traci ne wende nouȝt : forth with þe oþere þreo,

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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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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1887.
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