bote heo nuste nouȝt hire broþer so neiȝ : ne no-wiȝt of þat cas.
In seint peteres churche heo sat : bi-side þe Abbeie-ȝate,
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In a soler inþe est-side : and lokede out þare-ate.
heo i-saiȝ al þis grete folk come : a-doneward of þe doune heiȝe
Toward wynchecumbe : a-luyte fram suyd-leiȝe.
heo Axede ȝwat men it weren : and ȝwat huy þouȝten þere.
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Men seiden þat huy to churche wolden : and þat huy hire broþer bere.
Þo was þis Quiene sori i-novȝ! : in grete deole and fere
hire sauter heo nam on honde : ase þei heo witles were.
Of þe sauter þe laste saume : bi-fore þe Euesongus, i-wis,
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of corsingue and [al. om.] of luþere men : and of mansingue i-maked heo is:
"Deus laudem" [heo] is i-cleoped. : þis saume þe Quiene radde,
For-to a-corsi hire broþur bodi : and alle þat him þudere ladde.
Þo heo cam to þe Ninteoþe vers : ase þe mansingue endez, i-wis,
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Þat "hoc opus eorum" : a-latin i-cleoped it is,
Þat seit þat [al. what] men it beo scholden : þat duden [al. afongeþ] þat ilke dede:
Opon hire owene heued it cam : ase heo þat vers gan rede:
For riȝt ase heo þat vers radde : out-borsten boþe hire eiȝe
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And fullen a-doun op-on hire sauter : ase manie men i-seiȝe. [al. 2 vv. more.]
Þe sauter is ȝuyt at wynchecombe : and ho-so come wole þare-to,
Aperteliche man may þare i-se : ȝware þe dede was i-do.— [al. 2 vv. more.]
Þis holie bodi was forth i-bore : with gret honour ate fine,
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And in þe Abbeie, þare he lijth ȝuyt : i-don in wel noble schrine.
Þis luþere Quiene deide sethþe : in schrewedenesse i-nouȝ;
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Þat bodi, ase a corsede wrechche : into ane diche man it drovȝ,
Into þe fouleste þat was þare a-boute : and þare-inne man it slong—
bote hire endingue sunful [al. scenfol] were : me þinchez elles it hadde i-beo wrong!
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Nov god for þe loue of seint kenelm : is swete grace vs [MS. it] sende,
Þat we moten to þulke Ioie : þare he is inne,i-wiende. AmeN.
50 Vita sancti Gregorij.
SEint Gregori þe confessour : in Ciscile was i-bore.
In holienesse he ladde is lijf : þat is soule nere for-lore.
gret clerk he was and guod prechour. : in Cycile he liet a-rere
