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

                                
                                  And are þis guode man it onder-ȝete : i-barnd was þat on ende.
                                
                                  Seint Martyn hiet a-godes name : þat fuyr a-ȝein wiende :
                                
                                  For is heste þat fuyr flevȝ : a-non a-ȝein þe wynde
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  To þe stude þare it cam fram : and ne bi-lefde no-wiȝht bi-hinde,
                                
                                  And dude a-ȝein þe kuynde of fuyre : a-ȝein þe wynde to fle. [folio 186b] 
                                
                                  Þare was i-sene þat fuyr ne miȝhte : a-ȝein is heste be.—
                                
                                  ¶ To is heste he hadde, ase ich seide er : þe kuynde of þe tre,
                                  Line 108 
                                
                                  Ase ȝe mouwen bi a fair miracle : of him nouþe i-seo.
                                
                                  On a dai ase he stod under a treo : to prechi godes lawe,
                                
                                  Þe luþere men þat þare-bi stoden : þouȝhten him bringue of dawe :
                                
                                  huy gunne sawie þat treo a-to : to-ward þis holie Manne,
                                  Line 112 
                                
                                  Þat it scholde ouer-falle him— : for þare nadde he freond nanne.
                                
                                  Þoruȝ noyse of þe crakeȝingue : þe guode man i-heorde
                                
                                  Þat þut treo fel touward him. : a-ȝein wel sone he it cherde;
                                
                                  ¶ he het þat treo a-godes name : opward a-ȝein tuyrne.
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  Þat treo a-ros up-riȝht i-nouȝh : for it nolde is heste werne,
                                
                                  And ouer-ful [MS. ouerfalle]  in þat oþur side : [m]anie [MS. anie]  of is fon.
                                
                                  huy þat leoueden, lieten heom sone : cristni euerech-on.—
                                  Line 119 
                                
                                  Þe worm dude is heste al-so. : for ase he cam bi a wateres brimme,
                                
                                  A lodlich Naddre he i-saiȝh : stifliche aȝein him come swymme.
                                
                                  "Ich hote þe," seide þis holie Man : "þat þov aȝeinward wende,
                                
                                  A[n]t þat þou neuereft here ne come : ne nouȝwere in þis ende."
                                
                                  Þis worm turnede a-ȝen a-non : ase þis holie Man him het,
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  And swam in-to an oþur lond : and þulke contreiȝe fur-let.—
                                
                                  ¶ Foules duden is heste al-so. : for on a time ase he gan gon,
                                
                                  he saiȝh douedoppene fisches cachche : and swolewen heom in a-non.
                                
                                  "Alas!" seide þis guode man : "þis is þe feondes manere :
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  Gultlese [MS. gultlesse]  þingus and vnwarre : to cachchen, ase huy doth here,
                                
                                  And þing þat non harm ne doth : bote wenth in pay[s] to beo;
                                
                                  So farez þe deuel, a-waytez euere : for-to he is preiȝe i-seo."
                                
                                  he het þe foules a-godes name : ech-one þannes teo
                                  Line 132 
                                
                                  And þat huy scholden in-to wildernesse : out of þat watere fleo,
                                
                                  Þat huy neueref[t] þare ne comen : gultlese þingues to take.
                                
                                  Þis foules a-non with þis word : awei huy gonne schake.—
                                
                                  ¶ bestes duden al-so is heste. : for ase he wende a-boute,
                                  Line 136 
                                
                                  Aftur ane hare he saiȝh vrne : grehoundes a gret route;

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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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