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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.

& cortesliche serueþe hom : quinte man as he were. 140 ac euer whan he from hom turneþe : þe teres ourne of his eie; ac fair semblant he made y-nou : euer whan hi him seie. ¶ þis kniȝtes þoȝte wonþer gret : þat a such heiward of so quinte seruise was : as he were eny stuard. 144 þe lengor þat hi him bihulde : þe bet hom þoȝte [hi] him kneue— for whan man is fol of mete & drinke : hit [MS. his] soteleþ [Ashm. so teleþ] in his hwe. "þis man," sede þe on to þe oþer : "ilich is placidas, loke we where he haue þe wounde : þat on his hed was, 148 þat he hente in þe bataile? : for ȝif he haþ þilke wounde In þilke stude, siker we beþ : þat we him haueþ i-founde." þo hi founde þis soþe tokne : in gret ioie hi were ibroȝt, hi sede, "þu art placidas : þat we longe haueþ isoȝt. 152 ¶ þe emperour sente after þe : to him þu schalt come, for his fon haueþ moche of his lond : for þe faute [r. defaute] of þe y-nome." sein eustas made gret daunger : & naþeles ate nende to þe emperour of rome, his lord : wit hom he gan wende. 156 glad tiþing com to þe emperour : þo he him isay! he let him greidi in fair atir : as noble kniȝt & hei, he let ȝarki his ost also : mony kniȝt & sueyn, & made eustas, as he was er : of hom alle cheuenteyn. 160 ¶ hi wente & worreþe op hor fon : to grounde fer & ner; hi þat er al maistres were : nadde do no poer. more prouesse ne miȝte be : þan was of þis kniȝte, for he was of bodi strong : & moche couþe of fiȝte, 164 & he hadde wit him godes grace : be dai & by nyȝte; þer-fore non heden man : aȝen him stonde ne miȝte. þo þe king hor fo vnþer-ȝet : þat his poer noding nas, & þat he ne miȝte worre holde : aȝen sein eustas, 168 ¶ he flei hom in-to his owe lond : vnneþe wit þe liue. seint eustas wit his gode route : after sueþe bliue; of his men he let ek mony nyme : & slou ek of hom riue, he let sle al oþer nyme : oþer out of londe hom driue. 172 ȝut he suor he wolde awreke be : of þe gret schonde þat hi hadde his lord y-worreþ : in his owe londe. ¶ gret maister he wex anon— : what, whare was þo his horn? he ne ȝede noȝt in þe feld afote : to wite man [r. mannes] corn! 176 a maister heiward he was on : wit such men to fiȝte, to porswy in-to his owe lond : a king of so gret miȝte! he let ordeine wel his ost : & parti hit a-þre,] 179
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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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