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

                                
                                  ¶ Seint Eadmund aftur þulke tyme : studefast was i-novȝ,
                                
                                  To deiȝe raþur for holie churche : þane men duden hire any wovȝ.
                                  Line 546 
                                
                                  he þouȝhte muche on seint Thomas : þat out of londe wende
                                
                                  Þe ȝwyle þe kyng was in mest wrathþe : ȝif he wolde ouȝt amende:
                                
                                  Of him he nam ensaumple : and priueliche i-novȝ
                                
                                  he wende out of Enguelonde : and into Fraunce he drouȝ.
                                  Line 550 
                                
                                  And þouȝhte he was at pounteneye : swiþe faire under-fongue
                                
                                  And isusteyned in his anuy : þat i-laste longue;
                                
                                  ¶ Also steuene of languetone : þat Erchebischop was,
                                
                                  Six ȝer he was at pounteneye : in þat sulue cas.
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                                  Þo [al. so]  þat seint Eadmund under-stod : of is Auncetres i-nowe,
                                
                                  Ȝwane huy weren in contek for holie churche : to pounteneye heom drowe:
                                
                                  Also dude seint Eadmund— : to pounteneye he wende,
                                
                                  For-to a-bide þe stat of holie churche : ȝwane ore louerd it wolde amende.
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                                  honoured he was faire i-nov : of alle þat þare were,
                                
                                  And euere a-bod a-mendement : fram ȝere to ȝere.
                                
                                   [langor.] ¶ Hit bi-fel, ase god wolde : þat seint Eadmund atþe laste
                                
                                  Fielde is bodi heui i-novȝ : and fieblede swiþe faste;
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                                  So longue, þat he was so feble : þat men ne radde him nouȝht beo þere,
                                
                                  Ake for-to soiorni elles-ȝware : þare betere eir to him were.
                                
                                  Þis holie man is leue nam : elles-ȝwodere to wiende;
                                
                                  Þe Monekes mauden so muche deol : þat þar-of nas non ende.
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                                  ¶ "beth stille," quat þis holie man : "for ichulle þoru alle þing
                                
                                  Comen hidere aȝein to eou : a-seint Eadmundes day þe kyng."
                                
                                  Louerd, in swuche siknesse : wuch a word þat was i-seid!
                                
                                  Ake, ȝwane he ne miȝhte bi is liue : forewar[d] he heold heom ded!
                                
                                  Forth he wende with is men : þudere ase guod eir were:
                                
                                  To þe toun of Soysi : and bi-lefde þere.
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                                  ¶ So longue so it was, þare he eode : in grete siknesse i-novȝ,
                                
                                  So longue þat he lay a-doun : and toward þe deþe drovȝ.
                                  Line 574 
                                
                                  So þat he Axede ore louerdes flechs : and it was him i-brouȝht.
                                
                                  he sat and bi-heold it faste i-nouȝ : in gret studie and in þouȝht,
                                
                                  Longue are he seide ani word : and þo spak he wel inliche:

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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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