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

                                
                                  More bouȝsum and milde he bi-cam : þane euer er [he] was;
                                
                                  luyte pruyte he hadde of is power : ȝwane men him wolden a-loute,
                                
                                  And ȝif it nere for eiȝe of god : leouere him were with-oute.
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                                  So prest he was to alle men : þat on him beden & cride,
                                
                                  And so muche for heom he dude : þat men speken þar-of wide.—
                                
                                  Muche folk In a time : In-to þe se i-wende [folio 112] 
                                
                                  In a schip, to don heore neode : ȝif ore louerd þe grace heom sende.
                                
                                  So þat þere cam a gret tempeste : þat heo wenden alle a-drenche.
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                                  Alle guodnesse heo bi-heiȝten god : þat heo miȝten on bi-þenche.
                                
                                  So þat heo þouȝten, ase heore schip : toward þe grounde was,
                                
                                  On þe guodnesse þat men tolden : of þe bischop Nicholas :
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                                  "Leoue louerd Nicholas" : wel loude alle heo criden,
                                
                                  "Ȝif it is [MS. it]  soth þat we habbez : i-heord tellen of þe wide,
                                
                                  In þis peril saue us nouþe : þat we ne beon a-dreint;
                                
                                  Louerd Nicholas, help us nouþe : are ore schip beo a-seint!"
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                                  Ase heo gradden, þare cam on eorne : on-owarde þe watere bi-side
                                
                                  A bischop in abite swiþe fair. : wel loude on him huy cride.
                                
                                  "Lo me here," quath þis holie man : "ȝe cleopeden me wel faste.
                                
                                  Seggez ȝwat ouwer wille beo : and ȝwarof ȝe beon a-gaste!"
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                                  "Louerd," heo seiden, "Nicholas : ȝif it is þi wille,
                                
                                  Saue us nouþe of þis tempeste : þat we he[re] [MS. he]  ne a-spille"
                                
                                  "Ne habbe ȝe," quath þis holie man : "her-of none drede!"
                                
                                  Þat weder bi-cam þo stille inouȝ : þo he þeos wordes sede.
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                                  heo bi-heolden þo after him— : heo nusten ȝware he was;
                                
                                  And þonkeden muche ore swete louerd : and þene bischop Nicholas.
                                
                                  Þene wei stille and murie : toward þe londe huy nome;
                                
                                  With-oute eche destourbingue : to londe wel glade heo come.
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                                  Alle heo duden heom fort a-non : to þe bischope Nicholas,
                                
                                  Ase to a man þat heo neuere ne seiȝen : ne nusten ȝwuch he was.
                                
                                  Ech of heom bi-heolden him faste : þat to þis guode man com :
                                
                                  Alle heom þouȝte þat it was he : þat þene deth heom bi-nam.
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                                  "Louerd," heo seiden, "i-hered þou beo! : to þe we gradden bliue;
                                
                                  On-ouewarde þe se þo þou come : and brouȝtest us to liue.
                                
                                  I-hered beo þe tyme þat þou most : a-mong men on eorþe beo!
                                
                                  For swuche grace ne hadde neuere eorþelich Man : ase man may on þe i-se."

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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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