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

                                
                                  And habbe here i-walke in onkovþe londe : ȝif ich heom miȝte i-fynde.
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Mi ȝongeste child ich bi-lefte athom : Ich wene þat he beo ded.
                                
                                  Worse ȝwate nadde neuere man : Inot ȝwat is mi red.
                                
                                  And ich am, [overlined.] þare no man me ne knoweth : mid miseise ouer-come;
                                
                                  honguer and chele hath myne leomes : and elde, me bi-nome.
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  Seggez ov-sulf ȝif ȝe euere I-heorden : Ani so deolful cas!
                                
                                  ho is þat ne may i-leue : þat luþur ȝwate it nas?"
                                
                                  ¶ Þo þis þreo breþren hore fader i-knewen : þoruȝ þat he hadde i-sed,
                                
                                  Sturten huy wolden and cussen him. : ake seint petre heom for-bed,
                                
                                  And seide, "ȝif ich bringue bi-fore þe i-hole : þine children and þi wijf,
                                  Line 277 
                                
                                  Woltþov for-hote þine mis-bi-leue : and a-mendi þi lijf
                                
                                  And i-leue þat þing [MS. þing þat] comez ase god wole : and no-þing after ȝwate?"
                                
                                  "Ȝe, sire," seide þis olde man : "Ake þat worth so wel late.
                                
                                  Also ase it neuere ne worth : þat ich i-seo heom alle,
                                
                                  And [al. om.] so ne worth hit neuere þat muche þing : nele bi ȝwate falle."
                                
                                  ¶ "Lo," seide seint petre þo : "þis beoth þine sones þreo,
                                
                                  Þat, for-to bringue þe in godes lawe : plaidiez aȝein þe."
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  Þo þis olde Man i-heorde þis : his limes him bere nolde,
                                
                                  huy nescheden ase doth wex a-ȝein þe fuyre : And ful a-don on þe molde;
                                
                                  he lai al cold with-oute breþe : ase þei he no lyf nadde.
                                
                                  his [sones] him clupten a[n]d custen him : sore huy weopen and gradde;
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  huy beren him a-boute and bleowen on him : ȝif huy him miȝten in stat bringue.
                                
                                  Longue it was are heo miȝten : i-seo of liue : Ani riȝt tokningue.
                                
                                  Þo is stat him was i-come : he axede a-non-riȝt þere
                                
                                  hov huy weren a-liue forth i-brouȝt : so freondlese ase huy were.
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  Euerech tolde in his wise : ore swete louerdes miȝte, [folio 144b] 
                                
                                  Þat he on heom i-schewed hadde : ho-so onder-stode þe riȝte.
                                
                                  Ase huy tolden of heore lijf : euerech in his side,
                                  Line 295 
                                
                                  Þis guode wif orn ase heo were wilde : and swiþe loude heo cride:
                                
                                  "Ȝware is mi louerd? ȝware is mi spouse? : schewez him me a-non!"
                                
                                  huy bi-clupten heom and fullen a-doun : a fote ne miȝten huy gon.

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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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