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

                                
                                  And so longe, þat tuei cartes miȝte : meten heom wel i-novȝ.
                                
                                  Þe kniȝt þo wel baldeliche : ase a maister forth him drouȝ.
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  Þe feondes stoden bi-neþe þe brugge : and seiȝen him so faste gon,
                                
                                  And for al þe wo þat heo him duden : ne ouer-cam him nouȝt on;
                                
                                  heom þouȝte, it was al for nouȝt : after him to honten more:
                                
                                  grisliche heo gonne forto ȝeolle : ant to crie and wepe suyþe sore,
                                
                                  Þat for þe ȝeollinge þat heo maden : he hadde wel more fere
                                  Line 445 
                                
                                  Þane of al þe pine þat he hadde er : so lodlich was þe bere;
                                
                                  ¶ heore Oules heo nomen and heore hokes : and toward him casten an heiȝ;
                                
                                  Ake þare nas non þat him touchi miȝte : ne no-þing come him neiȝ.
                                
                                  So þat al sauf with alle Ioye : ouer þis watere he him drovȝ,
                                  Line 449 
                                
                                  And þe feondes lefden bi-hinde : with grete soruwe ant sor i-nouȝ—
                                
                                  In helle is heore kuynde heritage : and elles for-soþe it were wovȝ!
                                
                                  heo leten him go ȝwodere he wolde : and ne fondeden him non more,
                                
                                  And heolden heom cleneliche ouer-come : for al heore false lore.
                                
                                  Þis kniȝt wende him forth, sauf i-nouȝ— : þat he hadde erore deore a|bouȝt,
                                  Line 454 
                                
                                  And þonkede ȝeorne Ihesu crist : þat þe feondes ne siweden him nouȝt.
                                
                                  Þat watur he passede sauf inovȝ : and forþere þene wey he nam.
                                
                                  Þe contrie him þouȝte murie i-nouȝ : þare-forth þat he cam;
                                
                                  Þe forþere þat he wende : þe more murevþe he seiȝ.
                                  Line 458 
                                
                                  So [longe] þat he i-saiȝ ane wal : swiþe noble and heiȝ—
                                
                                  So riche weork nas neuere i-seiȝe : ase him [þouȝte] þat þar-on was;
                                
                                  And swyþe fair ȝat þaron he saiȝ : þat neuere swuch i-seiȝe nas;
                                
                                  Þat ȝat schon swyþe briȝte : ase þei it al gold were,
                                  Line 462 
                                
                                  Folle of derewurþe stones i-piȝte : none richere neuere nere.
                                
                                  him þouȝte, are he þudere cam : is wei ful longe laste.
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  Þo he cam forþere a luytel wiȝt : he stod and bi-heold it faste.
                                
                                  Þat [ȝat] [om.]  wende op aȝen him : and a-non-riȝt with þe dede
                                
                                  Þare cam smite out a swote smel : and wide a-boute gan sprede,
                                
                                  Þat him þouȝte, þei al þe world : swote spices were,
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  So muche swotnesse ne miȝte ȝiuen : ase þat suote smul dude þere.
                                
                                  In so gret Ioye him þouȝte he was : þat þei he hadde beo i-brouȝt [folio 102] 
                                
                                  In-to al þe soruwe þat he was er : it ne schulde him habbe i-greued nouȝt.

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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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