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

                                
                                  hotinde out, with grete siwte : and þis trewe men beie he nam
                                
                                  And seide huy hadden is coppe i-stole : and in heore scrippe i-bounde.
                                
                                  Þat folk þis i-liefde a-non : þo huy þe coppe founde.
                                
                                  ¶ Þis pilegrimes, þei huy treowe weren : to dome weren i-brouȝt.
                                
                                  Eche manere þeofþe huy fur-soken : ake þat folk ne liefde heom nouȝt,
                                
                                  For huy weren i-nome hond habbinde : þe court lokede a-non
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Þat huy heore dom with heom beren : and hanguy scholde þat on.
                                
                                  ¶ "Alas, alas," þe fader seide : "ȝweþur i schulle novþe hongue
                                
                                  And are ich habbe seint Ieme i-souȝt : þis file dethþ a-fongue?"
                                
                                  "Nai certes," quath is sone : "þat nolde ich graunti þe,
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  For to beo louerd of al þe world : þat þov deidest bi-fore me.
                                
                                  hanguy ichulle for us boþe : þene deth i-nelle nouȝt for-sake,
                                
                                  And al-so wis ase we gultlese beoth : mine soule ich god bi-take."
                                
                                  "A, mi leoue sone," quath þe fader : "so ne schal it nouȝt beo;
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Scholdest þou deiȝe and ich libbe : i-nelle neuere þane day i-seo.
                                
                                  Swuch a child touward as þou art : i-loked it were wroþe,
                                
                                  Þat þov scholdest hanguy and ich libbe! : ichulle hangy for us boþe."
                                
                                  "A, fader, fader," quath þe sone : "be stille, ich bidde þe,
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  For I nelle neuere þane day a-bide : þat þou schulle hongue bi-fore me;
                                
                                  ¶ Ake go þane wey for us boþe : and ichulle hangy for us beye,
                                
                                  And bide seint Ieme þat he me graunti : sum part of þine weye."
                                
                                  Bi-twene þe fader and þe sone : þe striuingue laste longue—
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  Þat ech man hadde deol þerof— : ȝweþur scholde þene dethþ a-fongue.
                                
                                  So þat it ful atþenende : þei it were with wrongue,
                                
                                  Þat þe sone for heom beiȝe : gulteles was an-hongue.
                                
                                  ¶ Alas, alas, þe deolfole cas : to heore so muche falshede!
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  Wel ȝeorne boþe fader and sone : seint Ieme help huy bede.
                                
                                  Welle louerd, þe deol of þe fader— : grettore neuere non nas,
                                
                                  Þo he isaiȝ is sone an-hongue : and for he gulteles was!
                                
                                  he bi-teyȝte is soule Iesu crist : þo þare nas non oþur won,
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  And is wei with sorewe i-nov : to seint Iemes he gan gon.
                                
                                  Also wel for is sone ase for him : seint Ieme he bad faste;
                                
                                  And wende, þo he hadde al ido : hamward at þe laste.
                                
                                  Are he come þare is sone was : him þouȝte swyþe longue,
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Ȝif he miȝhte finde oþur i-seo : ani lime of him hongue— [folio 37b] 
                                
                                  For þe lawe was þere þat euerech man : þat an-hangued were

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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.
Subject terms: Christian saints

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