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

                                
                                  Ȝif þat huy riȝht guode beoz— : huy ne habbuth none neode mid-alle
                                
                                  to none erþeliche guodnesse : þat heom miȝhte þare bi-falle;
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  For in þe Ioye of heouene huy buth : ase huy weren bi-fore.
                                
                                  Ake naþeles þat men for heom doth : ne worth nouȝht for-lore :
                                
                                  For it schal him-sulf helpe muche : þat þulke guodnesse deth,
                                
                                  And alle cristine soulene also : þat in purgatorie beoth.
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  ¶ Þreo-manere men þare buth riȝht guode : þat to heouene wiendez a-non
                                
                                  Ȝwane huy out of þis worlde farez. : ȝung child is þat on
                                
                                  Þat deide aftur is cristinedom : are hit dude to quede;
                                
                                  And Martyrs þat for godes loue : in strong torment weren dede;
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Þe þridde manere so but clene men : þat are þat huy heonnes wende,
                                
                                  Alle heore sunnes betten here : ase ore louerd heom grace sende.
                                
                                  Þis þreo-manere men ne mouwen nouȝht : in purgatorie bi-leue,
                                
                                  Ake smitez þoru-out quiclokur : þane þe leyte doth an eue;
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  huy ne mouwen nouȝht bi-leue þare : for er heo wenden heonne,
                                
                                  Clene huy weren of alle sunne : and ne habbut noþing [MS. noþint]  to brenne.
                                
                                  For ase wode and col fedez : þat fuyr þat here is,
                                
                                  Al-so sunne fet þat fuyr : in purgatorie, i-wis;
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  And ȝwan þe sunne is i-brend a-wey : þe soule to heuene geth,
                                
                                  Ake wel sone þoruȝ he flieth : þat in clannesse þolede deth.
                                
                                  Also doth [þe] [om.; H þulke]  þreo-manere Men : of ȝwan ich eou er seide :
                                
                                  For heouene openez aȝenes heom : so sone ase heo beoth dede.—
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  And þat it beo soth of alle þreo : ensaumple ȝe mouwen i-seo.
                                
                                  Þat aȝein children i-baptizede : heouene i-opened beo :
                                
                                  For ore louerd was nyne-and-twenti ȝer : and twelf daywes old
                                
                                  Are he i-baptized were : ase þe bok us hath i-told :
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  Of al þat tyme non eorþelich Man : ne miȝhte enes i-wite
                                
                                  Þat heouene openede ouȝwere aboue : þat we findez i-write;
                                
                                  bote þo he was i-baptized : of þe holie Man seint Iohan, [folio 178b] 
                                
                                  A-boue his heued with gret liȝht : heouene openede a-non.
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  Ȝwat bi-tocknede þulke openingue : þat þo was and er nouȝht,
                                
                                  bote þat þoru [overlined.]  cristindom : Man was to heouene i-brouȝt,
                                
                                  And þat heouene-dore was faste i-mad : for-to cristindom were,
                                
                                  And þat a-ȝein þe furste cristindom : heouene openede þere;
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  And þat heouene-dore i-opened is : to cristine Men al-so,

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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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