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

                                
                                  For ase ich in a chaumbre sat : kniȝhtes ich heorde tweiȝe
                                
                                  Tellen of us so þat ichwot : þat it weren ovre sones beiȝe.
                                
                                  Lat of-sechen ȝwuche huy beoth : for soþe, huy beoth of þine.
                                
                                  Beo glad and in alle Ioye : for we habbez ouer-come ore pine."
                                  Line 250 
                                
                                  ¶ Þis kniȝht for Ioye liet sende a-boute : þe messagers neren nouȝt bi-hynde;
                                
                                  he liet seche and crien ouer-al : ȝif men miȝhten anie swuche i-finde.
                                
                                  he fond þat is sones weren : onder him cheuentey[n]s,
                                
                                  Þat he him-sulf made for heore prouwesse : of þe ostes souereins.
                                  Line 254 
                                
                                  Glade huy hadde er i-beo : ake so glade neuere huy nere,
                                
                                  Þo fader and moder and þe sones : to-gadere i-come were;
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  Þat þe fader and þe sones : þe maistrie a-wei bere [v. 256-7 seem spurious.] 
                                
                                  And maistres weren of al þat folk : to ordeinen heom and to lere.
                                
                                  ¶ Louerd, muche is þi miȝhte : and þat þou cuddest þere—
                                
                                  For þat þou i-saued habbe wolt : no-þing ne schal fur-pere.—
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  ¶ Þo þis guode kniȝht and is sones : and heore ost atþen ende
                                
                                  Þe Maistrie hadden of alle heore fon : hamward huy guonne wiende
                                
                                  with gret Ioye and nobleye— : of no man heom ne dradde;
                                  Line 263 
                                
                                  Alle þe hexte men of þe londe : ase prisones with heom huy ladde.
                                
                                  Muche pris þare was of heom : ase huy wenden toward rome.
                                
                                  Ake deolfole tiþingues huy founden þere : þo huy þudere come:
                                  Line 266 
                                
                                  For huy founden hore louerd ded : þene Aumperour traIan,
                                
                                  And an oþer huy founden imad after him : þat hiet Adrian,
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Þat muche schame dude cristine men : ȝware anie weren i-nome.
                                
                                  Gret Ioye he made with þis kniȝhtes : þo huy weren þudere i-come, [folio 169] 
                                
                                  For heore prouwesse, and for heore prisones : þat huy mid heom brouȝhte.
                                
                                  hext prince of þat lond vnder him : sire Eustas makie he þouȝhte;
                                
                                  Bote it were bi is red : no-þing don he nolde,
                                  Line 273 
                                
                                  And ȝwane he wende into anie stude : euere mid him he scholde.
                                
                                  ¶ A dai huy comen bi heore temple : þat heore maumates inne were:
                                
                                  Þe Aumperour liȝhte a-doun : to don þare is preiere.
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Sire Eustas nolde nouȝt þare-inne come : ake bi-lefde þere-with-oute.
                                
                                  Þe Aumperour in wrathþe axede a-non : ȝware-of he hadde doute
                                
                                  And ȝwi he ne a-liȝhte, ase riȝht were : and to is godes a-loute.
                                  Line 279 
                                
                                  "Sire," seide sire Eustas, "it is for nouȝt : þat þou art þare-a-boute;

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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.
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