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

                                
                                  he comaundede Mamertyn : þat was an oþur Iustise,
                                
                                  Þat he scholde maken clement þe pope : to don heom [al. om.]  sacrefise
                                
                                  Oþur maken him out of londe fleme— : þat he ne lete it nouȝt,
                                
                                  Laste heore lawe and heore godes weren : þoruȝ him to grounde i-brouȝt.
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                                  ¶ Þis Iustise wende þo wiþ [MS. þouȝ]  gret power : And seint clement he nom; [orig. nam] 
                                
                                  And for he nolde don heore godes [h. g. al. om.]  sacrefise : he ȝaf him an oþur dom :
                                
                                  Þat he scholde beon out of londe i-driue : into wildernesse.
                                
                                  Ase a þeof he was i-harlet forth : in wel fyl destresse.
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                                  Þo he into wildernesse cam : to þousende he fond þere
                                
                                  Of cristine Men, þat hadden þer : longue i-woned for fere,
                                
                                  Laste þe Aumperoures men : In torment heom hadden i-brouȝt;
                                
                                  And huy for drede of strongue deþe : weren in feble þouȝt.—
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                                  For manie men bi þulke daie : for drede of þulke þingue
                                
                                  Ase bestes huy leoueden in wildernesse : þo cristinedom bi-gan furst springue.—
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                                  Wel glade weren þis guode men : þo huy seint clement i-seiȝe :
                                
                                  heo ȝeoden a-ȝein him and þonkeden god : weopinde with heore eie.
                                
                                  huy maden seint clement heore Maister þere : pope ase he was. [folio 146b] 
                                
                                  Þare nas non þat in studefast lijf : for him a-mendet ne was.
                                
                                  Water huy nadden neiȝ heom non : bi six Mile wei wel longue,
                                
                                  Al heore drinke huy fetten þare : in weiȝe swiþe stronge.
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                                  Seint clement [bad] ore louerd crist : ȝif hit is wille were,
                                
                                  Þat he holpe is trewe couent : and sende heom watur þere.
                                
                                  he i-saiȝ a lomb stonde and marki : with is riȝt fot ane stude :
                                
                                  he i-saiȝ þat hit ore louerd was : to don þat he hadde i-bede.
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                                  ¶ Seint clement ȝeode and smot in þulke stude : as þat lomb markede er :
                                
                                  Þare sprong a welle fair and guod— : wel gret Ioye was þer.
                                
                                  Þis Miracle was widen i-cud : fif hondret men þare-fore
                                
                                  bi-comen cristine and blesseden þe time : þat seint clement was i-bore.
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                                  Þo ȝede he forþere a-mong þe men : and so fair Miracle wrouȝte,
                                
                                  Swiþe muche folk to guode bi-leue : and to Iesu crist he brouȝte.
                                
                                  Fyf hondred of Maumates : to grounde he brouȝte þere;
                                
                                  And sixti churche and fiftene : in heore studes he liet a-rere.

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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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