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

                                
                                  Þo cam [orig. com]  þare-In a fuyri Arewe : at a fenestre a-non,
                                
                                  Ase þei heo fram heouene come : and þe taperes tende ech-on, [folio 106] 
                                
                                  And flevȝ out a-ȝein ase heo cam In : bi þulke fenestre þere.
                                
                                  Þe taperes barnden longue Inov : and no-þe lasse huy nere.
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  "Louerd crist," quath seint brendan : "Ich wondri In mi þouȝt
                                
                                  houȝ þis taperes bernez þus : and ne waniez nouȝt."
                                
                                  "Ne hastþou," quath þe Abbod : "In þe olde lawe i-founde
                                
                                  hov Moyses say A þorn berne : fram þe toppe to þe grounde,
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  Þe More þat þe þorn barnde : þe grenore þe leues were?
                                
                                  Ne wenestþou nouȝt þat ore louerd beo : ase miȝti here as þere?"—
                                
                                  Þeos Monekes weren to-gadere : for-to Midewynter was al i-do,
                                
                                  For-to after twelfte-day : are huy departeden a-to.
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  Anon to seint hyllaries day : seint Brendan forth i-wende
                                
                                  With is Monekus in þe se : þoruȝ grace þat god heom sende.
                                
                                  huy floten op and doun in soruwe I-novȝ : þe se heom caste heiȝe;
                                
                                  Fram þulke tyme forto in leinte : no lond huy ne i-seiȝe.
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  So þat a-boute palme-sonenday : heo bi-heolden a-boute faste :
                                
                                  heom þouȝte heo i-seiȝen swiþe fer : ase a cloude ate laste.
                                
                                  Þis Monekes hadden wonder þar-of : ȝwat þe cloude were.
                                
                                  "beoth stille," seide seint brendan : "ȝe habbez i-beon þere :
                                  Line 356 
                                
                                  Þare is ore procuratour : þat muche guod us hath i-do
                                
                                  In [þe] foulene parays : and In þe lond of schep al-so."
                                
                                  So þat heore schip ate laste : to þat yle drouȝ—
                                
                                  A-schereþores-day huy comen þudere : in gret trauaile inouȝ.
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Þis procuratour heom cam aȝein : and welcomede heom a-non,
                                
                                  Ant custe seint brendanes fet : and þe Monekes echon;
                                
                                  And sette heom sethþe to þe soper : for þe day it wolde so,
                                
                                  And sethþe he wuchs hore fet alle : þe maunde for-to do.
                                  Line 364 
                                
                                  huy heolden þare heore maunde— : and þare heo gounnen bi-leue
                                
                                  A-gode friday al þe longue day : for-to an ester eue.
                                
                                  An ester eue heore procuratour : bad heom heore schip take
                                
                                  And heore resurrection : opon þe fisches rugge make,
                                  Line 368 
                                
                                  And aftur heore resurrection : he bad heom euene teo
                                
                                  to þe foulene parays : ase heo hadden er i-beo.
                                
                                  Þis holie men wenden forth : and ore louerdes grace nome,
                                
                                  Þat [al. so þat]  to þis grete fischse : þulke daye huy come,

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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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