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

                                
                                  Þo þis child was bet in elde : and of to and twenti ȝer,
                                
                                  his moder wende out of þis liue : þat so muchel him louede her.
                                
                                  Þis child wolde lengore gon to scole : ake is fader him nolde finde—
                                
                                  For þat child þat is modur for-leost : is help is muche bi-hinde.
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                                  Þis child þoruȝ is fader heste : ase man þat oþur red not,
                                
                                  Seruede A borgeys of þe toun : and his a-countes wrot.
                                
                                  So longe þat he cam to court : and was in guod offiz
                                
                                  With þe erchebischop of Kaunterburi : sire tebaud, guod and wis.
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                                  He seruede him so hendeliche : þat In a luytel stounde
                                
                                  he makede him his conseiller : so studefast he him founde;
                                
                                  his ercedekne he makede him sethþe : and dude al bi is rede.
                                
                                  Swyþe wel bi-gan þis Ercedekne : holi churche bi-lede,
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                                  And stifliche heold op hire riȝte— : þat alle Men i-seie,
                                
                                  An þar-of nolde he þolien no wrong : þei he scholde þare-fore deie.
                                
                                  Wel ofte he wende to rome : for holi churche al-so—
                                
                                  Swuche prelatus al-to fewe : beoth nouþe In office i-do!
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                                  ¶ So þat henri king of Engelonde : after sire steuene þe blays—
                                
                                  Duyk of Normandie— : y-maked was al In pays.
                                
                                  Þis king henri þe ȝongue : þo he to londe cam,
                                
                                  louede muche wel to do : and guode Men to him nam,
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                                  And fondede to habben guod conseil : and wis bi al is miȝte,
                                
                                  For-to holden riche and pouere : euerech man to riȝte.
                                
                                  Of þe Ercedekne Thomas : Men tolden him sone i-nouȝ,
                                
                                  hov he was stable Man and wis : and to alle guodnesse drouȝ:
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                                  Þoruȝ þe Erchebischopes graunt : he makede him chaunceler—
                                
                                  For euere Man mot him a-bouwie : þat hauez mest pouwer.
                                
                                  Þo þis holi Man was i-torned : fram þe office of holi churche
                                
                                  To a gret office of þe world : þare-after he moste wurche:
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                                  Al-to nobleie of þe worlde : his continaunce he brouȝte—
                                
                                  Of swuche porture neuere Man i-holde nas— : þei oþur were is þouȝte.
                                
                                  With more nobleie he rod i-nouȝ : þane he was i-wonet to do:
                                
                                  his loreins weren al of seluer : stirapes and spores al-so;
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                                  pley he siwede of hauekus : and of houndes I-nouȝ;
                                
                                  And ase men þouȝten, In euereche point : to alle pruyte he drouȝ.
                                
                                  bote In is heorte it was an-oþur : hov-so he him bere;
                                
                                  And euere he was chaste þoruȝ alle þing : hov-so it euere 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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