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

                                
                                  Þe kniȝtes comen reken In : heore folie for-to do,
                                
                                  And seiden, "ȝware is nouþe þis traitour : and þis false bischop also?"
                                  Line 2068 
                                
                                   [thomas.] ¶ Seint thomas bar þe Croiz on honde : and answerede is fon :
                                
                                  "Ich am here, godus preost : ake traitour nam ich non.
                                
                                  Sechez him þat wole ov fleo : oþur þat drede ovwer þretninge :
                                
                                  Non rediore ne beoth ower swerdes : me to deþe bringue
                                  Line 2072 
                                
                                  Þat min heorte prestore nis : þene deþ for-to take;
                                
                                  For þe riȝtes of holi churche : I-nelle nouȝt det for-sake." [folio 84] 
                                
                                  Þare wende forth on of heom : and is huyre of him drouȝ,
                                
                                  And is mantel a-non after-ward : with gret uilte i-nouȝ.
                                  Line 2076 
                                
                                  Sire Reynaud le fiz ours : pursiwede him anon.
                                
                                  ¶ "Sire Reynaud," quat seint thomas þo : "hov schal þis nouþe gon?
                                
                                  Ofte ich habbe þe guod i-do : and manie oþure mo."
                                
                                  "Þov schalt sone," quath þis oþur : "i-wite hou it go.
                                  Line 2080 
                                
                                  Traitour, þou art ded a-non : non oþur nelle ich do."
                                
                                  "For-soþe," quath þis holi man : "wel prest ich am þer-to,
                                
                                  For þe riȝtes of holi churche : deiȝe ichulle wel fawe,
                                
                                  Ȝif heo miȝte þere-after-ward : in pais beo and in lawe.
                                  Line 2084 
                                
                                  Ak ich ov bidde ȝif ȝe sechez me : in ovre louerdes name,
                                
                                  Þat ȝe ne comen neiȝ non oþur man : harm ne do ne schame;
                                
                                  For non oþur gulti nis : of þat ȝe witez me,
                                
                                  heo buth alle gultlese bote ich one : þar-of sikere ȝe beo;
                                  Line 2088 
                                
                                  And al-so ase heo gultlese beoth : harmles latez heom wende."
                                
                                  Þe guode man sat a-doun a-kneo : þo he sai al þe ende;
                                
                                  Forto a-fonge þene stronge deth : is heued he buyde a-doun,
                                
                                  And softe, ase some i-herden : he seide þis oresoun :
                                  Line 2092 
                                
                                   [Oratio thome.] ¶ "Ore louerd and seinte Marie : and seint Denis al-so
                                
                                  And alle þe avouwes of þis churche : In ȝwas ore ich am i-do,
                                
                                  Ich bi-take mine soule here : and holi churche riȝte."
                                
                                  Ȝeot he bad for holi churche : þo he nadde non oþur miȝte!
                                  Line 2096 
                                
                                  Sire Reynaud le fiz ovrs : mest schrewe of ech-on,
                                
                                  For-to smite þis holi man : is swerd he drouȝ a-non.
                                
                                  ¶ Ake Edward grim, þat was is clerk : in g[ra]unte-brugge i-bore,
                                
                                  his louerd to helpe ȝif he miȝte : his Arm he pulte bi-fore.
                                  Line 2100 
                                
                                  he woundede is Arm swyþe sore : þat blod orn faste a-doun.

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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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