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

                                
                                  "Louerdingues," quath seint thomas : "ȝe wuyten wel ech-on
                                
                                  hou wel ich was with þe king : þei ich habbe nouþe manie fon:
                                
                                  Erchebischop he made me— : for-soþe a-ȝein mi wille,
                                
                                  For euere ich dradde for oncunninge : mi soule forto spille.
                                  Line 1028 
                                
                                  ¶ Þo axede ich bifore al þat folk : In ȝwuche manere he me toke
                                
                                  Þe Maistrie of holi churche : to wardi and to loke.
                                
                                  holi churche me was bi-take : In eche manere so freo,
                                
                                  Þat ich were quit of alle oþure courtes— : and ȝeot with riȝte it scholde so beo.
                                  Line 1032 
                                
                                  And ȝwane holi churche is so freo : I-nelle ansuerien þe kingue
                                
                                  Ne non oþur in his court : of none eorþeliche þinge.
                                
                                  For gold ne passez nouȝt so muche : In bounte led, i-wis, [folio 72b] 
                                
                                  Al-so dignete of þe preost : herre þane þe kingus is.
                                  Line 1036 
                                
                                  And is gostliche fader ich am : ȝif he wolde nime ȝeme,
                                
                                  And it nere no lawe þat þe sone : þe fader scholde deme.
                                
                                  Þare-fore i segge at o word : þat I-nelle me no-þing take
                                
                                  to Iuggement of kingus court : ake clanliche it wolle for-sake,
                                  Line 1040 
                                
                                  And take me to holi churche : and to none erþeliche dome:
                                
                                  And Ich bi-cleopie ov here ech-one : to þe court of rome.
                                
                                  Al þe stat of holi churche : and al mi dignite
                                
                                  ¶ Þoruȝ Ihesu crist it beo i-wardet : ȝwan it ne mai oþur beo.
                                  Line 1044 
                                
                                  And ou bischopus ich bi-cleopie : to þe court of rome also,
                                
                                  for ȝe Anourieth more ane erþeliche king : þane ȝe god al-miȝti do.
                                
                                  And so þoruȝ þe riȝte of holi churche : fram þis court ich wende,
                                
                                  to bringe þeos cause of holi churche : bi-fore þe pope to ende."
                                  Line 1048 
                                
                                  Þis holi Man wel mildeliche : out of þis court gan gon.
                                
                                  Þe king, and þat mid him was : wrathþeden heom a-non;
                                
                                  heo criden on þis holi man : and beleweden ech-on
                                
                                  Wit Also [MS. Ahso]  grete noyse : ase anie Men miȝten don;
                                  Line 1052 
                                
                                  heo ne miȝten makie non more cri : þei al þe toun were a-fuyre,
                                
                                  Ase [al. þane]  heo duden opon þis holi man : þat wide men it miȝten i-huyre.
                                
                                  Þis guode man eode softe forth : ase him no-þing ne rouȝte—
                                
                                  for ȝuyt more men schenden Ihesu crist : þo men him to deþe brouȝte.
                                
                                  he werth opon is palefrai : and to is Inne he wende also.
                                
                                  Vnneþe he miȝte with is hondene : þeos þre þingus do:
                                  Line 1058 
                                
                                  blessi þat folk and bere þe croiz : and is bridel wisse.

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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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