In þat chirche seruen seint Austin.
Þe kyng hedde gret þenkynge [Quia vero rex viderat sancto complacere ut in suo nomine ecclesia fieret ubicumque mansisset, et timens ne in alio loco quam ubi desiderabat, locum sibi eligeret, in omni loco ubi de nocte cum corpore hospita|batur in honorem ipsius ecclesiam construebat, sicque cum magno gaudio Papiam de|ducitur et in ecclesia s. Petri, quae coelum aureum dicitur, honoriftce collocatur. — — (Folgen jetzt die Miracula:)]
Leste he to Papye him schulde not bringe;
Þerfore, to plese þat seint wiþ his miht,
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Whereuer þe bodi lay al niht
Þer a churche he let buylde,
Wheþur hit were in toun or felde.
Þus wiþ joye ful goodlye
He brouhte þe bodi to Papye.
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And in þe chirche of seint Petre
Worschipfuliche in a fertre
Þe bodi was leid wiþ mylde steuene —
Þat chirche is called "þe guyldene he|uene". — — — [sind 2 Zeilen Raum gelassen für eine Ueberschrift (etwa Miracula).]
A muleward þer was in þat cuntre, [Molendarius quidam in beatum Augustinum specialem devotionem habens cum quandam infirmitatem (quae dicitur phlegma sal|sum) in tibia pateretur, beatum Augustinum devote in sui adjutorium invocabat. Cui per visum s. Augustinus apparuit et tibiam manu palpans integrae restituit sanitati. Qui excitatus se liberatum invenit et Deo et beato Augustino gratias reddidit.]
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Þat hedde a gret enfermete
Vppon his leg for þe none,
Hit was so sor: he miht not gone;
But euere he hedde in feld and toun
In seint Austin deuocioun,
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Þerfore he preyed him deuouteliche
To ben his help certeynliche.
Seint Austin for his deuociun
Apered to him bi a uisioun [Ms. aui|sioun.]
And hondled his leg softe and wel:
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And hit was hol þen eueridel.
Whon he awok, he fond hit so —
A wondur glad mon was he þo,
Almihti God and seint Austin
He þonked þenne wiþ herte fyn.
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A child þer was wiþ wo bigon: [Quidam puer cum vitio lapidis premeretur et de consilio medicorum incidi de|beret, mater pueri, mortis sibi timens periculum, beatum Augustinum devote in sui filii subsidium invocavit, statimque fusa oratione puer lapidem cum urina emisit et plenam sanitatem recepit (1404 Zus.).]
Wiþ þe seeknesse of þe ston;
Leches putte his frendes in witte
Þat he moste nedes beo kitte.
But þe modur hedde gret drede
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Leste þorwh þat cuttynge he schuld be dede;
Þerfore to seint Austin þan
Deuoutliche preyede þat womman,
Wiþ word and wiþ herte mylde,
Þat he schulde helpe and hele hir chylde.
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Anon riht þenne þe chyld, iwis,
A gret stone al out dude pis [Ms. stond st. stone.]
And was al hol of þat seknes,
And þonked God of his goodnes.
IN an hous of religious, [In monasterio, quod Elemosina dici|tur, monachus quidam in vigilia s. Augustini raptus in spiritu vidit nubem (splendi|dam) coelitus delapsam et super nubem Augustinum sedentem pontificalibus insigni|tum, cujus oculi quasi duo solis radii totam illam ecclesiam illuminabant et odor inde nimius exhalabat.]
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Þat men callen Almous,
In þe vigile of seint Austin
A monk was rauissched þerin
In spirit and sauh such a cas:
Þat a cloude from heuene sliden doun was,
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And seint Austin þeron sittyng
In bisschops cloþing, him þhouȝte, wel semyng,
And his tweyn eȝen verreyliche
To twei sonne bemus weren liche,
