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

Murie[re] Instrument neuere nas : þan [MS. þat] his wyngen were! he bihuld seint brendan : wiþ wel faire chere. 192 "Ich hote [þe,]" seide seint brendan : "if þu ert messager, Þat þu sigge me what [þu] ert : & what ȝe doþ her." Þeȝ hit þoȝte aȝe cunde : þis fowel ansuerede anon : "We were," he seide "sum-tyme was : angles in heuene echon. 196 As [r. ac sone so] sone as we were ymaked : oure maister was so prout, Lucefer, for his fairhede : þat he ful sone out, & mid him also meni on : as here dede was; ¶ & we fulle also a-doun : ac for no synne hit nas, 200 for [MS. Ac for] noþing þat we assentede : to his foule vnriȝt, Bote soulement forto schewe : oure louerdes suete [al. suete louerdes] miȝt. Ne we ne beoþ her in pyne non : ac in ioye ynouȝ we beoþ, And somdel oure suete louerdes : miȝte we seoþ. 204 & bi þe vrþe we fleoþ : & bi þe lifte also, As gode angles, & liþere ek : riȝt is for-to do, Þe gode [for]-to do men god : þe liþer liþere makieþ. ¶ & sonedai, þat is dai of rest : such forme we takeþ : [MS. makeþ] 208 Þe forme of suche white foweles : as þu miȝt iseo, [&] honureþ god þat ous makede : her on þis brode treo. Tuelf-monþ hit [is] ipassed nou : þat ȝe gonne out wende, & alle þis six ȝer ȝe schulle fare : er ȝe schulle [al. om.] bringe ȝoure wille to ende; 212 For whan ȝe habbeþ iwend soue ȝer : oure louerd wole ȝou sende [Harl. 2277 folio 44b] A siȝt þat ȝe habbeþ longe isoȝt : anon after þe soue ȝeres ende. Eche ȝer ȝe schulle her mid ous : holde ester-feste, As ȝe nou doþ, forte ȝe come : to þe lond of biheste"— 216 Nou was hit an ester-day : þat al þis was ido. ¶ þe fowel nom his leue of hem : & to his felawes wende þo. Þe foweles, þo hit eue [al. time] was : bigonne here euesong— Muriere song nemiȝte beo : þeȝ god silf were among. 220 Þe monekes wende to bedde & slepe : þo soper was ido; & þo hit was tyme of matyns : hi arise þerto. ¶ Þe foweles sunge ek here matyns : wel riȝt, þo hit was tyme, 223 & of þe sauter seide þe [al. om.] uers : & siþþe also [MS. alto] prime, & vnderne siþþe, & middai : & afterwardes non, & eche tyde songen of þe dai : as cristene men scholde don. Þis monekes were in þe lond : eiȝte wyke also, Forto alþe feste of ester : & of witsonedai were ido. 228 ¶ Þo com atte trinite : þis gode man to hem þer Þat spac wiþ hem in þe lond of scheep : & ladde aboute er :
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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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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,
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