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

                                
                                  And wende and siwede seint Barthelmeuȝ : and prechede with him wel faste,
                                
                                  And bi-cam swiþe holi man : and was bischop at þe laste.
                                
                                  ¶ Ane broþer, herre kyng þane he was : he hadde, of grete pruyte,
                                
                                  Astriages was is name : þare-bi-side a luyte.
                                  Line 206 
                                
                                  Þe tyþingue of seint Barthelmeuȝ : wel sone to him cam,
                                
                                  Al-hou he hadde þene king is broþer : i-turned to cristinedam :
                                
                                  A þousend men wel j-Armede : After him he sende
                                
                                  For-to enqueri in-to al þat lond : ȝwoder-ward he wende.
                                  Line 210 
                                
                                  huy wenden and souȝten him ful stuyrneliche : and þo he was i-founde,
                                
                                  bi-fore heore kingue Astriages : huy brouȝten him, faste i-bounde,
                                
                                  And swiþe ofte he was with heom i-pult : þat he feol a-doun to grounde. [v. 213 al. om.] 
                                
                                  ¶ "Bel ami," seide Astriages þe king : "hou hauest þou on i-take?
                                
                                  hast þou mine broþur with tricherie : i-maked mi godes for-sake,
                                
                                  bi þe fei þat i schal to mahun : ichulle serui þe al-so
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                                  And make þe bi-leue þine false god : oþur to strongue deþe þe do.
                                
                                  And ȝeot, þeof, more schame opon oþur : ase ich i-heore [ich iheore al. om.]  bi mannes sawe,
                                
                                  Þov hast ore godes elles-ȝware : defoulet and al-to-drawe."
                                
                                  ¶ "Sire king," quath seint Barthelmeuȝ : "þou ne seist nouȝt as þe hiende,
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                                  Þat i scholde with tricherie : þine broþeres heorte wiende;
                                
                                  with no tricherie ne wende ich him : ake with sothþenesse and with riȝte,
                                
                                  Ich brouȝte him out of mis-bi-leue : to him þat [hath] [om.]  alle miȝte,
                                
                                  Fram þe godes þat beoth al-so miȝte-lese : ase is þat dede treo
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                                  Þat ich liet al-to-drawe. : and ȝif þou wolt þe soþe i-seo,
                                
                                  bring me to þine oþur god : and ȝif ich mai don swuch dede, [folio 160] 
                                
                                  I-lief wel þat he is miȝteles : and for-sak þou him, ich rede.
                                
                                  And with þulke god þat ich on bi-lieue : ȝif þou miȝt so on take,
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                                  Ich rede þat þou a-cordi þe : and þine owene god for-sake; [al. Ich þe bihote truliche : þat ich him wole forsake.] 
                                
                                  And ȝif þat ich mai þoru strencþe of mi louerd : þinne god ouer-come,
                                
                                  For-sak þe wrechches ase huy beoth wuyrþe : for heore miȝte heom is bi-nome."

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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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