god leue us ovre sunnes here so biete : for is holie wounde,
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Þat we ne þoruen in purgatorie : bi-leue bote luyte stounde.
36 Vita sancti Brendani, Abbatis de Hybernia.
SEint brendan, þe holi man : was here of ovre londe.
Monek he was of harde liue : as ich me under-stonde,
Of fastingue and oþur penaunce i-nov : and Abbot he was þere
Of a þousend Monekes : þat alle under him were.
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hit bi-feol in a day : as ore louerdes wille was,
Þat beryn, [al. barint] an oþur Abbot : to him cam bi cas.
Seint brendan him bi-souȝte anon : him don onder-stonde
Ant tellen him ȝwat he hadde i-seiȝe : a-boute in oþur londe.
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Þis guode man, þo he i-heorde þis : sichingues he made i-nowe
Ant in grete þouȝte bi-gan for-to weope : and fel a-doun i-suowe.
bi-twene his armes seint brendan : þis holie man op nam
& custe him faste, & cride on him : al for-to is wit him cam;
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"Fader," he seide, "par charite : oþur red þov most take;
hidere þou come for ovre solas : and nouȝt suych deol to make.
tel us ȝwat þou hast i-seiȝe : a-boute as þou hast i-wend
In þe .se. of Occean : as ore louerd þe hath i-send."
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Nou is þe .se. [of] Occean : grettest and mest al-so:
heo goth a-boute al þe world : and alle oþere cometh þer-to.
So þat berin, þis olde man : riȝt of is heorte grounde
Al weopinde he hem tolde : ȝwat he hadde i-founde.
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he seide, he [al. ic] hadde a wel guod sone : and Mernok was is name,
"A Monek he was, as we beoth : and man of grete fame;
his heorte him ȝaf for-to wende : in-to a priue stude and stille, [folio 104b]
Þare he miȝte beo al one : to a-serui godes wille.
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So þat bi mine wille he wende : ase ich it telle ov,
to an yle fer in þe se : þat delitable was i-nov,
bi-side þe Montayne of stones : þat is couth wel wide.
Þe Monek likede þare wel : and longue gan þare a-bide,
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And hadde þare under him : Monekes mani on.
Þo ich heorde tellen þat : þuder-ward ich gan gon.
So þat in auision : ore suete louerd him sende,
Þat a-ȝen me, are ich to him come : þre Iorneies he wende.
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