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

                                
                                  So þat þov neuer-eft in pine ne come : for sunne ne for mis-dede!
                                
                                  Þov most don þe heonnes a-non : for at hom in þine londe
                                  Line 640 
                                
                                  hit dawez clere and is neiȝ dai : ase ich me onder-stonde,
                                
                                  And þe prior with procession : to þe ȝate comez wel sone
                                
                                  to loki ȝweþur þov beo i-come : ase riȝt is forto done,
                                
                                  And, bote he þe finde þere : he wole maken þat ȝat a-non
                                  Line 644 
                                
                                  And wole beo siker þat þou ne comest non-more : and sori wole a-ȝen gon." [This verse on the margin.] 
                                
                                  Þene kniȝt heo brouȝten out of þe halle : and blesseden him ech-on
                                
                                  And bi-teiȝten god boþe lif and soule : fel and flesch and bon.
                                
                                  Forth he wende wel dreoriliche : bote ase he nede moste it do.
                                  Line 648 
                                
                                  And riȝt ase he cam to þe ȝate : þe prior cam al-so
                                
                                  A-ȝein him with procession : to loke hou it were.
                                
                                  A-non so he hadde þe ȝate on-loke : þene kniȝt heo founden þere.
                                  Line 651 
                                
                                  Þare was Ioye and blisse i-novȝ : þo huy to-gadere come! [folio 104] 
                                
                                  With song and oþur melodie : þane knyȝt þare-out huy nome,
                                
                                  Ant ladden him forth to churche a-non : ant þonkeden god wel faste.
                                
                                  Þis kniȝt bi-fore þe heiȝe auctere : a-knes wel sone him caste,
                                
                                  Ant stableliche in his oresones : fiftene dawes he lay,
                                  Line 656 
                                
                                  And þonkede ore louerd & on him cride : boþe nyȝt and day.
                                
                                  And sethþe on his bare flesch : þe holie croiz he nam
                                
                                  And wende to þe holie lond : ant suyþe holi man bi-cam.
                                
                                  he ne tolde neuere-eft nouȝt of þe world : bote ase he were euere in þouȝte,
                                  Line 660 
                                
                                  Ake wende euere forth wel stilleliche [al. simpleliche]  : as he of no-þing ne rouȝte.
                                
                                  Ofte he tolde of alle þe men : þat in parays were;
                                
                                  As him þouȝte, greiȝe Monekes : mest Ioye hadden þere,
                                
                                  None-manere men in so gret Ioye : ne in so grete honour he ne seiȝ—
                                  Line 664 
                                
                                  hit nis no wonder sikerliche : for þe ordre is noble and heiȝ.—
                                
                                  Novþe ȝe habbez alle i-heord : þoruȝ ore louerdes grace,
                                
                                  hou seint paterik þulke purgatorie : founde in þat place,
                                
                                  For-to warni men a-boute : heore sunnes here to bete.
                                  Line 668 
                                
                                  For þe loue of Iesu crist : and of is moder swete
                                
                                  Alle ower sunnes betez here : as god ov wole grace sende,
                                
                                  Þat ȝe mouwen with-oute pine : to parays hennes 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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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1887.
Subject terms: Christian saints

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