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

                                
                                  To ȝer and more, of þat corn : þat heo gonne þare lede.—
                                
                                  ¶ In an oþur tyme þis guode bischop : bi a fair treo com :
                                
                                  he fond þare men þat duden þing : a-ȝein heore cristine-dom :
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                                  heo stoden þare, ase heo ofte duden : and maden heore sacrefise
                                
                                  to þe deuel onder þis treo : þat men [superscribed.]  miȝten þar-of a-grise.
                                
                                  Seint Nicholas heom tornede echone : gode men for-to be,
                                
                                  And dude heom for-sake þe feondes lore : and hewe a-doun þat treo.
                                
                                  Þe deuel after þulke tyme : to him hadde gret onde :
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                                  For-to a-batien is pouwer : in alle manere he gan fonde.—
                                
                                  pilegrimes weren in þe se : to seint Nicholas for-to wende,
                                
                                  For þe guodnesse þat huy of him herden : ȝif god heom wolde þe grace sende.
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                                  In fourme of a fair womman : þe deuel cam heom to
                                
                                  And seide, "louerdingues, wel is eou : þat ȝe mouwen ouwer wille do
                                
                                  For-to seche þis holie man : þat so milsful is and hende!
                                
                                  Leouere ich hadde þane ani-þing : miȝte ich with ou wende :
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                                  For ich ne wilni no-þing so muche : ase þane holie man to seo.
                                
                                  A luyte þing ȝe moten for me don : ȝwane it ne may oþur beo :
                                
                                  Nimeth here þis guode oygnement : þat deorewurþe is with-alle,
                                
                                  And ȝwane ȝe into is churche comiet : smeorieth in eche walle,
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                                  For-to wurthschipien þane guode man : þat is of so gret pouste;
                                
                                  And ȝwane ich ne mai to him come : doth þat In þe muynde of me!"
                                
                                  Þis pilegrimes with glade heorte : þis oynement to heom nome,
                                
                                  to smerien with þis holie churche : ȝwane heo þudere come.
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                                  Ase he wenden forth in þe se : sone it dude bi-falle
                                
                                  Þat þare cam to heom a schip : with faire men with-alle;
                                
                                  A bischop þare was a-mong heom : swiþe fair man and hende.
                                
                                  he grette heom faire and axede a-non : ȝwodere heo þouȝten wende.
                                
                                  heo seiden þat heo wolden : ȝif it godes wille were, [folio 113] 
                                
                                  to þe churche of Mirree : for-to Anouri seint Nicholas þere.
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                                  "Ȝwat was þe womman," þe bischop seide : "þat ȝwile er eou cam to,
                                
                                  And ȝwat was it þat heo eou bi-teiȝte? : ȝwat schulle ȝe þare-with do?"
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                                  "Sire, it is an oynement" : þeos pilegrimes seden,
                                
                                  "Þe guode womman ȝeorne us bad : to þe holie churche it lede
                                
                                  And þare-with in muynde of hire : ȝwane it were þudere i-brouȝt,

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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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