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

                                
                                  his desciples wenden stilleliche : þoruȝ ore louerdes grace
                                
                                  And bureden þis holie bodi : in a wel fair place:
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                                  Bi-twe[ne] Abel and Elysee : þat prophetes ȝwilene were,
                                
                                  Stille was is holie bodi : wel longue i-bured þere.
                                
                                  ¶ Þis false quene þat heued wuste : þat men ne founden it nouȝt,
                                
                                  laste it were in ani time : to þis bodie i-brouȝt
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                                  And a rise fram deþe to liue : and bi-come at þe laste
                                
                                  A prophete ase he was er— : þere-fore heo wuste it faste.
                                
                                  A day ase heo bi-heold þat heued : inwardliche in þe face,
                                
                                  heo feol a-doun ded a-non : as it was ore louerdes grace.
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                                  Þulke wreche to hire cam : þat deth hire a-doun caste—
                                
                                  Me þinchez heo ne ouȝte nouȝt bi-liȝhe : hire schreuhede atþe laste;
                                
                                  Ne þat luþere best, hire douȝter, noþer. : for ase heo ȝeode a dai
                                
                                  And pleide upon .yse. in hire game : ase mani a man it [r. i-]  sai,
                                
                                  Þat .ys. to-brak vnder hire : and heo a-dronk a-non
                                
                                  And in þe deueles name (!) : boþe flechs and bon.
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                                  Þis hadde moder and eke Douȝter : to heore Mede atþen ende,
                                
                                  And also schal ech luþur man : ȝwanne vre louerd it wole him siende.
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                                  ¶ Þat heued was sethþe wel priueliche : to Ierusalem i-brouȝt
                                
                                  And i-bured stilleliche : þat Men ne founden it nouȝt.
                                
                                  Of þis holi bodi, þare it lay : manie Miracles come,
                                
                                  Grete and faire, nyȝht and day : ase þat folk i-saiȝ i-lome.
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                                  A luþer Aumperour þere was þo : þe luþere Iulian,
                                
                                  Þa[t] reneyede ore louerdes lawe : and was swyþe vuel Man.
                                
                                  Þo Men tolden him of þis Miracles : In grete wrathþe and onde
                                
                                  he liet nimen þis holie bones : and to-sprede into al þe londe
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                                  And casten heom a-boute ech fram oþur : þat no man þare-neiȝ ne come
                                
                                  Ne ne founden [r. founde]  heom to fette is bote : ase men duden er i-lome.
                                
                                  Ake ȝut for al is felonie : ne bi-lefde ore louerd nouȝt [folio 33b] 
                                
                                  Þat manie sike men þat comen þare-neiȝ : to hele weren i-brouȝt.
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                                  ¶ Þo was þis luþere Iulian : wroþere þane he was er.
                                
                                  Ase is bones weren er to-[s]prad : his men he sende þer
                                
                                  And liet heom fette aȝein wel clene : and with-oute þe toun a-non
                                
                                  he liet heom sette on strongue fuyre : and fur-berne echon,

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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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