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

                                
                                  A luþur Iustise þare was neiȝh : Ebrom [r. Ebroin]  was is name :
                                
                                  Men tolden him, ase he wende a-boute : of seint legeres fame.
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                                  he liet him wel sone nime : and bi-fore him bringue,
                                
                                  And fondede for-to tuyrne is þouȝt : fram þe heuene kingue.
                                
                                  þo he ne miȝhte þat don nouȝt : he was wroth inouȝ;
                                
                                  Ane luþere man he cleopede sone : þat boþe is eiȝene ouȝt drouȝ.
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                                  ¶ Þo is eiȝene in grete pine : weren i-holede out boþe,
                                
                                  he gan þe more prechi of god. : þare-fore huy weren wroþe.
                                
                                  A wei þer was of scharpe stones : and opward stoden echon :
                                
                                  Þare-oppe þis holie man : barefot huy maden gon,
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                                  huy driuen him barefot and a-blend : ope þis scharpe stones þere.
                                
                                  Þis guode man eode wel baldeliche : ase þei him no-þing nere,
                                
                                  And euere he prechede on Iesu crist— : he ne bi-lefte for no fere.
                                
                                  ¶ For is longue prechingue þe luþere men : wroþest with him were :
                                
                                  huy coruen of is tongue a-non : riȝht bi is þrote a-boue.
                                
                                  Þare schewede ore swete louerd : fair Miracle for is loue :
                                
                                  For þo is tongue was of i-corue : ȝeot he prechede faste
                                
                                  And al-so wel as he dude er. : þo weren þe schrewes a-gaste.
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                                  huy bi-speken to don him more schame : ake huy weren sumdel in doute.
                                
                                  huy [sto]den [unreadable.]  and bi-heolden is heued : and þo [MS. þe?]  i-seiȝen huy þare|a-boute
                                
                                  A ro[un]d croune and swiþe cler— : briȝhtore ne miȝhte non beo,
                                
                                  Þat vnneþe huy miȝhten is holie heued : for þe leome i-seo.
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                                  ¶ Þis luþere Iustise het a-non : þat men smiten of is heued,
                                
                                  Four tormentores he was bi-take : þat it nere nouȝt bi-leued.
                                
                                  huy ladden him with-oute toun : for-[to] don þat dede.
                                
                                  Ase huy comen a-midde þe wei : þis holie man to heom seide :
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                                  "Ȝwat neode is it for-to trauailli : ferrore me to lede? [folio 52b] 
                                
                                  Dothþ anon þat ȝe scholden do : here riȝht, ich eou rede."
                                
                                  Þe þreo quellares of þis word : anon weren in grete drede :
                                
                                  To is fet huy feollen a-kneo : and for-ȝiuenesse him bede.
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                                  Þare-fore was þe feorþe wroth : forth he hupte sone
                                
                                  And smot of þe guode mannes heued : ase he hadde heste to done.
                                
                                  ¶ Sone þare-aftur cam a fuir : ase it of helle were,
                                
                                  And al quik fur-barnde him : and þe deuelene a-wei him bere.

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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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