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

                                
                                  With Irene nailles al fuyrie : i-smite þoruȝ heom to grounde.
                                
                                  Þis wrechche gostes weren [al. om.]  so i-pinede : with Irene and with fuyre.
                                
                                  So deolful cri heo maden þare : þat gret deol it was to huyre;
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                                  heo criden merci deolfulliche : Ake no merci men nolde heom do;
                                
                                  For Anguische þe eorþe heo freten : and hore tongene gnowen al-so.
                                
                                  Þe deoulene ornen opon hem : and treden heom to þe grounde,
                                
                                  And with Ovles swiþe kene : maden heom mani a wounde.—
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                                  Allas, ȝwy nellez men beon i-war : and heore sunnes here bete,
                                
                                  Are heo comen to purgatorie : and with þe luþere gostes mete!
                                
                                  For ase wel beth þe schrewes in purgatorie : and ouer-al, ase in helle,
                                
                                  And schullen for-to þe daiȝe of dome come : telle ȝwat men telle.—
                                
                                  Þe feondes seiden, "riȝt ase [þis] men beoth i-pinede : þov schalt beo also,
                                
                                  bote þov wolle þi þouȝt wende : and after ovre rede do."
                                
                                  ¶ And þo he nolde in none manere : to grounde harde heo him caste
                                
                                  And tormenteden him ase þe oþere weren : and to þe eorþe naileden him faste.
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                                  Ake he criede a-non to ihesu crist : þo him smert so sore:
                                
                                  Þare nas non of þe schrewes þo : þat miȝten serui him so more.
                                
                                   [Tertia pena.] Þo þe schrewes i-seiȝen þat heo ne miȝten : heore wille habben þo,
                                
                                  heo drowen him into an oþur felde : wel ful of more wo.
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                                  Of Men and wummen it was ful : op-riȝt i-sprad to grounde,
                                
                                  Fet and hondene a-to i-drawe : and to þe eorþe faste i-bounde,
                                
                                  With glowinde biendes al of Ire : i-nailede heo weren þer-to;
                                
                                  Al fuyrie naddrene ope heom seten : and foule crapoudes al-so.
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                                  Some of þe naddrene bi-clupten heom : so faste al a-boute
                                
                                  Þat heom þouȝte heo scholden to-berste : so streite heo gurden heom with-oute;
                                
                                  Some seten ope heom : and heore flesch al-to-gnowe
                                
                                  And with kene tieth al fuyrie : wombe and breoste to-drowe,
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                                  Some with hore scharpe tounges : þoruȝ þe heorte sore heom smite;
                                
                                  Some heo gnowen, and some heo stounge : and some with scharpe tieth heom bite.
                                
                                  Þe Crapoudes al-so, þat weren so foule : op-on heore breostene sete
                                
                                  And stoungen heom þoruȝ heore heortene : with heore foule wrottes grete.

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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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