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

                                
                                  stunch and hete þat þarof cam : him þouȝte al-mest [him] a-slouȝ.
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  he with-stod, and nolde, is þonkes : for stunche gon non ner;
                                
                                  "Ferrore þov schalt," þe fendes seiden : "þou ne schalt nouȝt a-bide her;
                                
                                  A bath it is þat þov isijcst : and þar-inne þov schalt beo
                                  Line 303 
                                
                                  And baþi with oþere þat þare beoth : ne schalt þov nouȝt so fleo."
                                
                                  Þe gostes þat þare-inne weren : wel deolfulliche cride
                                
                                  And ȝollen loude, ase he i-heorde : a-boute in eche side.
                                
                                  Þis kniȝt with þis foule wiȝtes : Into þe grete house cam.
                                
                                  Of tormens þat he þare isaiȝ : gret gome with-alle he nam.
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  ful of puttes and of diches : þat hous with-inne it was;
                                
                                  More seoruwe ne more stunch : neuere i-seiȝe nas:
                                
                                  heo weren folle of stronge tormens : boillinde euer-ech-on
                                
                                  Of wallinde led, and i-fulde heo weren : of piche and brumston.
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  Wrechche gostus þare-inne seten : þe torment tilde wel heiȝe:
                                
                                  Some a-boue þe heued : and some riȝt to þe Eyȝe,
                                
                                  Some to þe nose, and some to þe mouth : and some op to þe swere
                                
                                  And some to heore breostene : and a-bouȝten heore sunnes ful deore,
                                
                                  And some to heore nauele : and some neþerrore more,
                                  Line 317 
                                
                                  And some stoden op to heore knen : and criden and weopen sore,
                                
                                  And some stoden In with boþe fet : and some with þat on;
                                
                                  Deolfolliche heo weopen and criden : and ȝollen euerechon.
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  ¶ "Nov þov i-sixt," queþen þe feondes : "ȝwoder-In þov schalt gon,
                                
                                  bote þov wolle an-oþur speke : and to us tuyrne a-non."
                                
                                  heo nomen and casten him In a putte. : on Iesus a-non he cride:
                                
                                  Op he cam a-non a-ȝen : and no lengore he ne moste þare a-bide.
                                  Line 324 
                                
                                   [[Octaua pena.]] heo nomen him in grete wrathþe : and harleden him ferrere more,
                                
                                  And brouȝten him opon a swyþe gret hul : ful of sorewe and sore.
                                
                                  he stod and bi-heold a-boute : þo he cam þare-op an heiȝ;
                                
                                  him wondrede of þe manie gostes : þat he þare i-seiȝ.
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  Alle þe pinene [al. þat alle]  þat he hadde er i-seiȝe : þare-aȝen nouȝt nere:
                                
                                  I-cluiȝte heo seten ope heore ton : and quakeden revliche for fere.
                                
                                  In þe south-half of þe hul : a deop water þare was and louȝ,
                                
                                  Þat foule stonk, and caldore was : þane ani ys oþur snovȝ.
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  A norþerne wind faste blevȝ : þat him þouȝte is flesch to-rende;
                                
                                  Euere þare seten gostes : and a-ȝein þe winde heom wende,

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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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