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

                                
                                  holi churche he a-bouȝte deore : þat men tellez of wel wide!
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                                  With one haltre ope þe mere : forth rod þis holi man
                                
                                  As þei it were a frere, and let him cleopie : frere cristian; [folio 74] 
                                
                                  For he nolde nouȝt lie : þat cristian he was,
                                
                                  And he was a-drad to beon i-knowe : ȝif man cleopede him thomas.
                                
                                  At one gode mannes house : his In a-niȝt he nam;
                                
                                  At þe bordes ende he sat : Ase vuele it him bi-cam,
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                                  And al with-Inne seten is men : as þei he lowest were.
                                
                                  his oste nam wel gode ȝeme : hov heo heom alle bere.
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                                  he tok kepe of þe holi man : þat sat atþe bordes ende,
                                
                                  hou milde he was a-mong alle : and mest corteis and hende,
                                
                                  And hou hendeliche he delde is mete : heom þat bi-fore him stode,
                                
                                  And hov luytel he .et. him-selue : with wel simple mode;
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                                  his limes al-so he bi-heold : hou faire heo weren and freo,
                                
                                  Þe hondene faire and longe fingres : fairore ne miȝten none beo;
                                
                                  his face was brod and long al-so : his fore-heued large i-novȝ:
                                
                                  And euere mest bi-fore alle oþere : is heorte to him drouȝ.
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                                  ¶ Of þe Erchebischope of Caunterburi : he gan him vnderstonde,
                                
                                  Þat it was couth ouer-al aboute : þat he was i-wend out of londe:
                                
                                  his heorte him bar þat it was he. : In gret studie he was i-brouȝt;
                                
                                  he rounede in is wiues ere : and tolde hire al is þouȝt.
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                                  his wijf after þulke tyme : þat soþe al-so þouȝte:
                                
                                  heo bi-gan to serui þis holi man : and deinteþes to him brouȝte,
                                
                                  Applene. & peoren. and notes also : and fondede in alle manere
                                
                                  A-mong alle þis oþur men : to gladien wel þene frere;
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                                  heo bi-lefde to serui alle þe oþere : and opon him was al hire þouȝt.
                                
                                  Seint thomas it vnder-ȝat : and þare-with ne paide him nouȝt.
                                
                                  So þat he bi-heold a-boute : a-non after soper,
                                
                                  Wel mildeliche he bad is oste : for-to comen him ner
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                                  And to sitte bi him a-doun : for solaz, one stounde.
                                
                                  "A, sire, merci," quad þis oste : "Ichulle sitte on þe grounde,
                                
                                  And sat him a-doun at is fet. : seint thomas him bad arise.
                                
                                  "Certes, sire," quad þis oste : "I-nelle In none wise.
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                                  ¶ Nolde god þat ich bi þe sete! : mi louerd, i-hered þou beo,
                                
                                  Þat In mine house þov scholdest come : and þat ich þane dai miȝte i-seo."

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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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