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

                                
                                  For-to entri into Answere : þare he ne ouȝte nouȝt to do,
                                  Line 640 
                                
                                  Þat he a-feng þat transcrit : and respit hadde i-bede:
                                
                                  For him þouȝte þat al-holi churche : In þat he misdude;
                                
                                  For holi churche ne scholde : In none stude stonde to dome
                                
                                  Ne Ansuerie kinge ne prince noþur : bote þe pope of rome.
                                  Line 644 
                                
                                  ¶ Þe deol þat thomas makede : no tounge telle ne may.
                                
                                  "Louerd," he seide, "alas, alas : þat ich euere i-saiȝ þis day,
                                
                                  Þat ich þe warde of holi churche : so folliche scholde take,
                                
                                  And so freo ase heo was er : þus þeu sethþe hire make!
                                  Line 648 
                                
                                  heo þat was er so heiȝ and freo : bi mine Auncestres daye,
                                
                                  Þat ich hire scholde bi-neoþe bringe : Allas! and so bi-traie,
                                
                                  for þis Martyrs þat ȝwylene weren : for hire to stronge deþe i-do,
                                
                                  heo is nouþe þev þoruȝ me i-maked! : Allas, ȝwi dude ich so?
                                  Line 652 
                                
                                  luytel wuyrth ich am of holi churche : wardein for-to beo,
                                
                                  And al-so vnwurthþeliche þar-to i-nome— : þat ech man may i-seo:
                                
                                  For ich nam nouȝt, ase riȝt was : fram none ordre i-nome,
                                
                                  Ake fram heiȝe kingus court to holi churche : and þat wolde vuele bi-come.
                                  Line 656 
                                
                                  Of houndes ich was wardeyn : and of hauekes with þe king,
                                
                                  And nov am wardein of soulene i-maked : and þat ne Ioyneth no-þing;
                                
                                  Ich þat for-sok min owene : þe ȝwyle ich was chaunceler,
                                
                                  So manie soulene habbe to loke : allas! ȝwat schal ich her?
                                  Line 660 
                                
                                  Ich drede þat god habbe me fur-sake : hov tok ich on, alas!"
                                
                                  Þe deol þat þis holi man makede : with-outen ende it was:
                                
                                  he wep and siȝte nyȝt and dai : and heold him al for-lore.
                                
                                  Ȝif he miȝte a-soilled beo : to þe pope he wolde þer-fore,
                                  Line 664 
                                
                                  And wende toward Caunterburi. : sone þe kinge men tolde
                                
                                  Þat þe Erchebischop nolde nouȝt : þe newe statuz holde.
                                
                                  Þe king het his baillifs sone : and sende a-boute is sonde,
                                
                                  Þat heo scholden greui seint thomas : ouer-al on is londes.
                                  Line 668 
                                
                                  ¶ Þis baillifs weren preste i-novȝ : and ope is maneres wel faste,
                                
                                  Nomen is bodene and greueden him— : heo wenden þare-with him a-gaste.
                                
                                  Seint thomas let heom al i-worþe : and op-on ore louerd is heorte caste,

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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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