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

                                
                                  wel ic wot, ic haue agult : þe louerd seint Nicholas,
                                
                                  Þat ic bynom him þe furste coupe. : louerd, what schal ic do?
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                                  Þerfore ic habbe ilore nou mi child : & þe coupe also.
                                
                                  Seint Nicholas, forȝif hit me : & ynelle noȝt bileue, iwis,
                                
                                  Þat ynelle siche þe : þeȝ me beo bifalle þis!"
                                
                                  ¶ Þis gode man [him] wende forþ : in deol & sori þoȝt;
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                                  Er he to seint Nicholas com : he neturnde aȝe noȝt.
                                
                                  Þo he to þe weued com : þat he hadde wide isoȝt,
                                
                                  Þe coupe he offrede þerto : þat he hadde þider ibroȝt.
                                
                                  þe coupe hipte anon aȝe : he nolde astinte þere,
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                                  Ac hipte into þe flor : wreche as þeȝ hit were.
                                
                                  Þis gode man hire nom vp : & offrede hire eft þere.
                                
                                  Eftsone heo hipte fram þe weued : forþere þan heo dude ere.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo was þis gode man agrise : & þoþere aboute also.
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                                  "Louerd," he seide, "seint Nicholas : ic haue þe moche misdo.
                                
                                  Ich wolde offri þoþer coupe : ac ynemai þerto come :
                                
                                  vnderfong þus, if hit beo þi wille : for þoþer me is bynome.
                                
                                  vnderfong þoþer of mi sone : for þu wost wher he is;
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                                  Let mi sone to þe offri þulke : & let me offri þis."—
                                
                                  For no hope of his sones lyf : þe gode man þis nesede,
                                
                                  Ac for he scholde his soule helpe : & þe whatlokere do what he bede.—
                                
                                  ¶ Mid þis word þer com in : his sone, þat was adronke,
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                                  & bar þe coupe on his hond : þat was mid him asonke;
                                
                                  To þe weued he ȝeode & offrede : to seint Nicholas.
                                
                                  wele, louerd, þe grete ioye : þat of þe miracle was!
                                
                                  Gladliche þe fader & þe sone : here offring vp bere; [folio 182] 
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                                  & wende hom wiþ gret ioye : & leuede þe coupen þere,
                                
                                  & herede moche seint Nicholas : as hi wel auȝte, iwis.—
                                
                                  Meni is þe faire miracle : þat of seint Nicholas is!—
                                
                                  ¶ A gyw was while in a tyme : þat i-hurde meni o tale
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                                  Of þe miracles of seint Nicholas : þat he dude so fale.
                                
                                  So [þat], þeȝ he were a gyw : vpe him his hurte he caste,
                                
                                  & honurede him ynouȝ : & biþoȝte him atte laste :
                                
                                  An ymage priueiliche he makede : of seint Nicholas
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                                  & honurede hit in his hous : þo hit ȝare was.
                                
                                  ¶ In a tyme hit biful : þat he hadde to done
                                
                                  In þe contrai þer-aboute : to come aȝe wel sone.
                                
                                  he nuste wham his god bitake : forte he aȝe come :
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                                  Seint Nicholas ymage he bad : nyme þer-to gode gome.
                                
                                  "Ich þe habbe," he seide, "iloued ynouȝ : do me som god þerfore :

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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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