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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.

I-ne rechche a-liue ho it wite : cristine ich am, i-wis. 281 Of swuch a prince ase þou art, gret deol is : þat so schal bi-leue a-mis." ¶ "Ov!" seide þe Aumperour : "hast þou þus i-seid? habbe ich þus i-loued þe : and þou me hast bi-treid? 284 Ȝif þou louest þin owene stat : torne þi þouȝt, ich rede, Oþur þou schalt segge þat þou ne dudest : neuere so luþer dede." "Certes, sire, for nouȝt it is" : þis guode kniȝht a-ȝein seide, "holde ichulle þat ich habbe i-take : I-ne bi-leue it for no drede." wod-wroth was þe Aumperour : he liet him binde faste And leden hom to is paleis : and among leones him caste, 290 Þat huy scholden for-swolewen euerech lime : of þis guode kniȝhte. huy a-lutten to him and lickeden him— : þare was godes miȝhte! ¶ þo is sones and is wif : herof heorden telle Þat þe Aumperour heore louerd nome : him for-to a-quelle, 294 huy comen eorne with gret eyr : and axeden ȝware he were, And seiden huy wolden for godes [MS. guodes] loue : mid him deiȝe þere. [v. 300 is to follow here.] he schok is heued and criede loude : and ter him bi is here; he liet makie ane tonne of bras : for-to berne heom þare-inne. 298 Wel wusten þis guode kniȝhtes : ȝwat huy scholden þare-with iwinne. ¶ Þo was þe luþere Aumperour : wroþere þane he was bi-fore. [r. ere] Sire Eustas sat a-doun a-kneo : and seide, "nouþe, louerd, þin ore! Graunte us to þe Ioye of heouene : comen aftur þis sore, 302 And þat ore þouȝt studefast beo : and treowe euere-more. [v. 303 added.] Graunte us þat alle guode men : þat us habbuth in muynde And of us bi-sechez help to þe : þat huy it moten finde, Þat huy of peril beon i-brouȝt : and of alle oþure vuele al-so, 306 Þat þou, ȝif it is þi wille : into þe Ioye of heouene heom do. we foure þat muche of ore lif : i-liued habbeth in wo, Graunte us one stude to ore martyrdom : and to ore burijngue al-so, Þat we in one stude forto domes-day : to-gadere resten mote, 310 Þat þe sike of bodie and of soule : at us habben bote." ¶ Þo cam þare a uoyz, and seide : "Eustas, glad þou beo, 312 Al þat þou i-bede hast : god hath i-graunted þe." [folio 169b] Þis tormentores nomen þis guode kniȝht : and is sones and is wif, And duden heom in ane tonne of bras : to leten þare heore lijf; Gret fuyr huy þare-aboute maden : bi-neoþe and a-boue: 316
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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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