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

                                  
                                    A wolf cam also þuder-ward : is mete for-to fette,
                                  
                                    And wolde of þat bodi nime. : þe Rauon a-ȝein him sette,
                                  
                                    he flev and smot with bile and fot : þat þe wolf atþen ende
                                  
                                    blodi was and ouercome : aȝen hamward he gan wende.
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                                    Þe Rauon wuste þis bodi longe : Iwemmed nouȝt it nas.
                                  
                                    Þo þe king it onder-ȝat : þat þe bodi i-hol was,
                                  
                                    hom he let it fette aȝen : and seide, "ȝwat may beo ovre red,
                                  
                                    þat we ne mouwen him ouer-come : noþer quik ne ded?
                                    Line 152 
                                  
                                    Ȝif we ne mouwen quik ne ded : ouer-come him a-londe
                                  
                                    For no [MS. ne]  quoyntise þat we mouwen do : a-watere we wollez fonde."
                                  
                                    he let it lede fer into þe se : and bonde þarto mani a ston,
                                  
                                    And casten it out of a schip. : it bi-gan to sinke a-non.
                                    Line 156 
                                  
                                    þo þe Mariners i-seien þis : glade heo weren and bliþe;
                                  
                                    For-to telle þe kinge fore : heo hiȝeden hom wel bliue.
                                  
                                    heo ne miȝten so sone to londe come : þat heo ne founden a-londe
                                  
                                    Þis holi Man wel faire ligge : a-bouen þe se-sonde.
                                    Line 160 
                                  
                                    Sore a-gremed and a-schamed : hom huy gonne wende;
                                  
                                    Þe kinge heo tolden al heore cas : fram þe furste to þe ende.
                                  
                                    "Alas, alas," þe king seide : "þe schame and þe schonde!
                                  
                                    We ne mowe him neuere ouer-come : quik ne ded, a-watere ne a-londe.
                                  
                                    ¶ Do we him out of ovre þouȝt : we ne mouwen us neuere a-wreke;
                                  
                                    Ich drede þat he mi bane worþe : I-here ich more of him speke." [folio 93] 
                                  
                                    A-niȝt In slepe seint Vincent cam : to A womman þare-bi-side
                                  
                                    And tolde hire ȝware is bodi lai : and bad hire nouȝt to longe a-bide
                                  
                                    Ake þat heo it scholde burie sone : for him longuede after reste.
                                  
                                    Þis guode womman it onderstod : þo heo a-wok, with þe beste:
                                  
                                    heo wende and souȝte þis holi bodi : and fond it swiþe sone;
                                  
                                    heo dude it burie with gret honour : ase riȝt was for-to done.
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                                    Þus seint vincent þe holie man : in Spayne endede is lif
                                  
                                    And wende to þe blisse of heuene : after þis pines and strif.
                                  
                                    Men nusten neuere martyr non : þat hadde more torment
                                  
                                    Ne þat with som pine ouer-come nas : bote þe gode man seint vincent.

31 Vita sancti Pauli.

SEint powel was a luþer Man : are he i-couerted were. Alle þe cristine Men of þe lond : hadden of him gret fere,

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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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