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

                                
                                  he ne seide no man of is þouȝt : ake bi-lefde heom alle þere.
                                
                                  Þe bischopus þouȝten þo ech-one : þat he was wroth i-nouȝ,
                                
                                  Þare weren fewe bote seint thomas : þat toward him ne drouȝ.
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                                  ¶ On seint Thomas heo criden faste : is þouȝt forte wende,
                                
                                  Oþuer he wolde al þat lond : for þulke one worde schende.
                                
                                  kniȝtes and oþure ofte comen : þat with þe kinge were
                                
                                  And beden seint Thomas ententifliche : þat he þat word for-bere,
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                                  And þat it were him gret folie : þe kinge In wrathþe bringe,
                                
                                  And also destourbi al þat lond : for so luytel þingue.
                                
                                  Seint thomas stod longe in þouȝte. : "leoue breþren," he seide,
                                
                                  "A-ȝen þe kyngus honur I-ne schal : neuere don no dede,
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                                  Ake euerech word ichulle bi-leue : þat a-ȝen is honur is."
                                
                                  Þo weren þis oþure glade i-nouȝ : þo heo i-heorden þis,
                                
                                  And radden him wende to þe kinge : is wrathþe for-to stille.
                                
                                  "Lef me were," quath seint Thomas : "with riȝte to don is wille."
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                                  He wende to þe kinge to Oxenford : and with him þare he fond
                                
                                  grete Eorles and barones also : þe hexte of al þe lond.
                                
                                  Þe king welcomede seint Thomas : ake he ne made him nouȝt fair chere;
                                
                                  bischopes and Eorles he let cleopien : alle þat þere were.
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                                   [Rex.] ¶ "Bev sire," he seide, "ich am king : with riȝte of þis londe;
                                
                                  Customes here weren bi-fore : I-vsed, ich onder-stonde,
                                
                                  And so muche wrechche nam ich nouȝt : þat ich nelle þe lawes holde
                                
                                  Þat ovre Auncestres heolden ȝwyle : ase ore conseil us tolde.
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                                  Þare-fore ichulle þat þulke lawes : i-confermede beoth ech-on
                                
                                  Of mine eorles and mine barones al-so : heo ne with-seggez non.
                                
                                  Þare-fore ich hote ov euerechone : þat ȝe beon þat ilke dai
                                
                                  At mi maner at Clarindone : with-outen ani de-lai,
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                                  For-to confermi þis lawes. : ope peyne þat i schal ou sette,
                                
                                  Ich hote þat ȝe beon þare ech-one— : þat non oþur ne lette."
                                
                                  So departede þe court þo : and euerech to is In drouȝ;
                                
                                  And euere was seint thomas : In care and soruwe i-nouȝ.
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                                   [Clarendon.] ¶ þis bischopes and þe baronie : alle comen to þe daiȝe
                                
                                  to clarindone In wilte-schire : þe kingue for-to paye.
                                
                                  Þo heo comen to þe parlement : þe king axede heom a-non
                                
                                  Ȝweþur heo wolden holde þe lawes : ase heore Auncestres heolden ech-on.

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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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