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

                                
                                  Þat þov nelt nemme þine false god : for no luþur betinge?"
                                
                                  "Þov luþere Man," seide Vincent : "ȝeot þou most tormenti more,
                                
                                  I-ne habbe nouȝt ȝeot tormenz i-nouwe : þar-after me longez sore."
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                                  Þo he was i-scourget so : þat men miȝten i-seo ech bon
                                
                                  And euerech Ioynt and senue : þe king gan ner him gon,
                                
                                  "Vincent," he seide, "haue of þi-self : revþe and merci,
                                
                                  Ne lat þov non-more þi fa[i]re bodi : þus defouli!
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                                  bi-lief on ovre godes and torne anon : þi þouȝt and þi mod
                                
                                  And i-schal þe ȝiue ope al mi lond : pouwer gret and guod."
                                
                                  "beo stille," seide seint vincent : "al Atter is þi lore,
                                
                                  beo stille a-non, þou deueles tonge : þou makest me drede sore:
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                                  hit me greueth þat þov feinest þe : more þane al þe pine
                                
                                  And alle þe tormens þat þov me dest : þov and alle þine;
                                
                                  Þat þov bi-leuest þine tormenz so sone : and art bi-neoþe i-brouȝt.
                                
                                  Ȝeot þou most more Ioye : bringen in mi þouȝt."
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                                  "Þov schalt ȝeot," seide þe king : mo tormenz a-fonge."
                                
                                  he let him lede with-oute þe toun : and on a gibet him honge.
                                
                                  Vincent for Ioie bi-gan to eorne : þo he i-heorde þis dom,
                                
                                  Þare nas non þat him miȝte ouer-take : are he to þe gibat com.
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                                  Þo þat he an-hengut was : gret Ioye he made and blisse,
                                
                                  Euere he prechede ase he heng : godes wordes to wisse;
                                
                                  Þe lengore þat he þare heng : þe more Ioie he made.
                                
                                  Þo gradden þe tormentores : "we ne schullen neuere ouer-come þis tade."
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                                  ¶ Atþe laste he nomen him a-doun : and ladden bi-fore þe kinge,
                                
                                  And seiden þat heo ne miȝten him : for noþing to deþe bringe.
                                
                                  "Alas," seide þe king þo : "is ore miȝte us bi-nome?
                                
                                  Ȝware-of seruieth ovre godes : þat þes þeof us schal ouer-come?
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                                  Ledez him with-oute þe toun : a gret fuyr ȝe þare make;
                                
                                  And þat he beo a-midde i-brouȝt : and i-bounde to one stake;
                                
                                  For-brenne he schal euerech lime : ne schal he þus him wer[e]:
                                
                                  And ȝwane he is to douste I-barnd : we beoth i-brouȝt of care."
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                                  Þe tormentores nomen seint Vincent : and duden þe kingus heste.
                                
                                  Þe holi man wende in-to þe fuyr : ase gladliche ase to one feste.
                                
                                  Þo heo wenden þat seint vincent : to douste i-brend were,
                                
                                  heo ornen hom and tolden þe kinge fore : gladdore neuere heo nere.

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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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