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

                                  
                                    To heie Men a-boute in þe londe : wel sone he gan siende,
                                  
                                    And to wilfin þe guode bischop : þat was bischop þo,
                                  
                                    Þat huy scholden with gret honour : to schafteburie go
                                    Line 208 
                                  
                                    And his broþur in schrine bringue : ase riȝth was forto done.
                                  
                                    ¶ Þe Bischop with þis oþur Men : to schafteburi comen sone.
                                  
                                    With swiþe fair procession : to is toumbe huy wende.
                                  
                                    A swiþe fair Miracle a-mong heom alle : ore louerd for him þere sende :
                                  
                                    For a-non so huy openeden þat lid : of is swete toumbe þere,
                                  
                                    Þare cam a-doun þoruȝ al þe churche : ase þei it a mist were,
                                    Line 214 
                                  
                                    A-mong al þe prece þat þere was : þat huy i-seien alle with eiȝe,
                                  
                                    Fleuȝ [al. flen]  a-mon[g] heom al-so a myst— : so swote þing neuere huy er ne seiȝe.
                                  
                                    ¶ So swote was þe smul and guod : þat alle þat þere were
                                  
                                    For muruþe þouȝten þat huy stoden : in parays and nouȝt þere.
                                    Line 218 
                                  
                                    Þis holi bodi up huy nomen : with gret honour and pruyte,
                                  
                                    And leiden it in a wel fair schrine : þare ase it lijth ȝuyte.
                                    Line 220 
                                  
                                    In þis manere he was i-schrined : in þe on an twentiþe ȝere
                                  
                                    Þat þe heiȝe men him brouȝten fro waram : and bureden him furst þere;
                                  
                                    A þousend ȝer it was and on : after þulke stounde
                                  
                                    Þat ore louerd was on eorþe i-bore : and a-liȝhte for us to grounde.
                                  
                                    ¶ His broþur, þe king Aþeldred : guod man was i-nouȝ;
                                  
                                    Edward was is sone i-hote : þat to alle guodnesse drouȝ, [folio 41b] 
                                    Line 226 
                                  
                                    Þat king was sethþe aftur him : and heiȝ halewe in heouene is,
                                  
                                    I-cleoped seint Edward aftur is vncle : at West-Munstre he lijth, i-wis.
                                  
                                    ¶ Op-on Miȝhel-masse fourtene-nyȝht : his day fallez in þe ȝere,
                                  
                                    And a-midde þe Monþe of luyde [18 March]  : seint Edwardes dai þere. [= þe ere] 
                                  
                                    Nov god for þe loue of heom boþe : þet swete kingues were,
                                  
                                    To þe Ioye of heouene þat huy beoth inne : with heom us bringue þere.

18 Franceys. [This life is based on the Vita s. Fr. by S. Bonaventura, in Act. SS. Boll. Oct. 4, p. 742 ff.]

                                    
                                      SEint Fraunceys, þe frere Menour : þat guod man was i-novȝ,
                                    
                                      Marchaunt he was in his ȝonghede : and to eche treuwenesse drovȝ.
                                    
                                      his Marchaundise he maude a [al. al]  day : in þe cite of Asise;

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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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