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

                                
                                  Þat simple folk orn a-bouten him : with Ioye i-novȝ and blisse;
                                  Line 1060 
                                
                                  for heo wenden þat he hadde i-beo : atþe court faste i-nome,
                                
                                  heo þonkeden muche Ihesu crist : þat he moste a-mong heom come.
                                
                                  ¶ to is In, at seint Andreues : heo siweden him faste i-novȝ;
                                
                                  Seint thomas alle þe pouere men : with him to þe mete he drovȝ,
                                
                                  And seide, "comiez here forth with me : for mine freond ȝe beoth;
                                
                                  Ine habbe none freond bote eov : ase alle men nouþe i-seoth."
                                  Line 1066 
                                
                                  he let heom Alle fede wel : a gret hous-ful neiȝ;
                                
                                  Þe guode man wel þe gladdore was : þat he heom alle i-seiȝ.
                                  Line 1068 
                                
                                  Ase þis holi man sat at is mete : þei he grete wille þer-to nadde,
                                
                                  Þis word þat ore louerd het : is redare bi-fore him radde:
                                
                                  "Ȝif Men ov pursiwiet In one toune : In-to anoþur toun ȝe fleo."
                                
                                  Þis holi man þouȝte þat bi him-self : þat word miȝte wel soth beo
                                
                                  And þat it godes wille was : In-to An oþur londe gon,
                                
                                  As þe holi godspel seith : a man for-to fleo is fon.
                                  Line 1074 
                                
                                  Þis holi man was þo wel þe hardiore : of londe for-to wende,
                                
                                  Ȝwane he miȝte a-schapie wel : and god wolde þe time sende.
                                  Line 1076 
                                
                                  ¶ Þo it was to-war[d] eue : twei seriaunz þare come,
                                
                                  Sore weopinde, and warneden him : þat he sum red him nome,
                                
                                  For þe kyngus Men hadden i-swore : þoruȝ heste of þe kinge,
                                
                                   [folio 73] Ȝware-so heo him miȝten finde : to stronge deþe him bringe.
                                  Line 1080 
                                
                                  Seint thomas þouȝte an-oþur. : he let maken is bed aȝen niȝt
                                
                                  Op Inþe heie churche : bi-twene twei weuedes riȝt.
                                
                                  Þo alle oþur men weren a-slepe : and no man nas him neiȝ,
                                
                                  he aros up and bi-heold : on þe ymage an heiȝ;
                                  Line 1084 
                                
                                  bi-fore þe auter he feol don a-kne : and on ore louerd bi-gan to crie,
                                
                                  And formest he seide þe seuen salmes : and sethþe þe letanie;
                                
                                  Al wepind ech haluwe he bad : is help for-to beo;
                                
                                  bi-fore ech ymage he op aros : and eft he sat a-doun a-kne.
                                  Line 1088 
                                
                                  Þo he hadde iseid is beden : stilleliche he gan gon,
                                
                                  A luyte bi-fore þe cockes crowe : out of þe churche a-non,
                                
                                  And wende him out-ward of engelonde : þat no man with him nas
                                
                                  bote a frere of Semplingham : þat wel priue to him was.
                                  Line 1092 
                                
                                  Þis guode Man flev al Engelond : for holi churche riȝte;
                                
                                  Of al is wo ne ȝaf he nouȝt : ȝif he it a-mendi miȝte.
                                
                                  ¶ Þe tiþingue cam of þis cas : to þe kingue ful sone.

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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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