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

                                
                                  Forȝif me þulke luþere sunne : i-nelle don as neuereft more."
                                
                                  "Ov, beau frere," quath þe schrewe : "strong is þe mis-dede.
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                                  Þov ne miȝht me neuere paye wel : bote þov do ase ich rede :
                                
                                  Þe menbre þov most keruen of : ȝware-withþ þou i-sunegut hast;
                                
                                  Þe sunne ichulle for-ȝiue þe þanne : ȝwanne he is fram þe i-cast;
                                
                                  Ak next me þou scholdest in Ioye beo : in þe blisse of heouene a-boue,
                                
                                  Ȝif þou woldest beon a martyr : and þi-seolf martri for mi loue."
                                
                                  ¶ "A, louerd seint Ieme," quath þis man : "þov haue merci of me,
                                
                                  Ichulle, mine sunnes to bete, mi-sulf martri : and forto payȝe þe."
                                
                                  Þis wrechche Man carf of is membres : and a-wei fram him caste. [folio 38] 
                                
                                  And sethþe þoruȝ þe false þeues rede : him-self he a-slovȝ atþe laste.
                                
                                  Ful redi was þe schrewe þer : þe soule he nam a-non
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                                  And wel glad þare-with in his manere : to-ward helle he gan gon.
                                
                                  Ne fur-ȝat nouȝt seint Ieme is pilegrim : for þat cas þat him gan bi|tide :
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                                  A-ȝein þe deuel he cam a-doun : and bad þane schrewe a-bide,
                                
                                  And seide, "þou berst more þane þin owe. : þat i schal kuyþe þe.
                                
                                  Ȝwi hast þou mine pilegrim bi-traid? : gret schame þou dest me."
                                
                                  "Ȝe, al for nauȝt," quath þe schrewe : "þou art hidere i-come :
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                                  In his sunne him-sulf he a-slouȝ : and þare-with ich him habbe i|nome.
                                
                                  Ne may no man in dedlich sunne : in-to heuene wende.
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                                  Ase wel þou miȝht gon hom a-ȝein : he is min with-outen enden."
                                
                                  ¶ "Bel amy," quath seint Ieme : "þou bi-traidest him with fals|hede
                                  Line 354 
                                
                                  And with tricherie þou to him come. : lat him gon, ich rede!"
                                
                                  "Ich habbe leue," quath þe schrewe : "to bi-gyli and bi-traye al-so
                                
                                  Mid eche quointise þat ich mai. : ȝwi wolde he aftur me do?"
                                
                                  Þis strif i-laste bi-twene hem longue. : ake þo seint Ieme ne miȝhte
                                
                                  habbe þe soule ne with-inne him come : with no resun ne riȝhte,
                                
                                  "Þou schalt," he seide, "come with me : to an herre Iustise,
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Þat þe schal cuyþe þi tricherie : of ȝwam þe schal a-grise."
                                
                                  Bi-fore ore leuedi swete and milde : þane schrewe he gan lede;
                                
                                  he ȝal and quakede deolfulliche : þo he i-seiȝ hire, for drede.
                                
                                  ¶ "Þov luþere þing," ore leuedi seide : "ȝwi fondeste in alle wise
                                  Line 364 
                                
                                  To bi-nime us and bi-traiȝe men : þat beth in ovre seruise?

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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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