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

                                
                                  "Þou trauailest," he seide, "a-boute nouȝt : and þine ȝwyle þou dost spille,
                                
                                  For in ane oþure stude i schal deie : ȝware hit is godes wille;
                                
                                  And þoruȝ tokningue of þis ȝeorde : þou schal wel i-seo
                                
                                  Þare [al. whane]  al þi wille þou miȝt do : þat ich i-martred beo."
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  Forth wende þis luþere man : and þis child also.
                                
                                  huy comen to on oþur stude : þare þe dede was i-do.
                                
                                  Þis maister nam þe ȝeorde : and sette hire on þe grounde :
                                
                                  And heo bi-gan to leui þare : in wel luyte stounde,
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  And a swyþe gret Asch bi-cam sethþe : and ȝeot stant in þulke place,
                                
                                  to schewi þe miȝte of seint kenelm : and ore louerdes grace.
                                
                                  Þes luþere man nam þis child : in þe wode of klent
                                
                                  And ladde him, ase men doth a þeof : to a-fongue is Iuggement,
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  he ladde him into a priue stude : al out of þe weiȝe,
                                
                                  bi-twene [twei] [om.]  hulles heiȝe : into a deop ualeie.
                                
                                  ¶ Þis child þoruȝ þe holi gost : þei þe oþur it nolde him telle,
                                
                                  Wuste wel is luþere þouȝt : þat he him wolde a-quelle;
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  And þo he targede a luyte : þis luþere dede to done,
                                
                                  Þat child seide wel mildeliche : "ȝwy ne dost þou sone?"
                                
                                  he bi-gan Ane saume þat men singuth : in holie churche a-day,
                                
                                  Þat was "te deum laudamus" : are þat he a-doun lay.
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Riȝt ase he scide an holi vers : þat þare-inne was and is,
                                
                                  A-latyn i-write, as alle þe oþure : and þe englisch so is þis
                                
                                  "Þe faire compaygnie of Martyrs : louerd, herieth þe :"
                                
                                  Riȝt ase he hadde þat fers i-seid : as þe boc tellez me,
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  Þe luþere man smot of is heued : onder an hawȝþorn-treo,
                                
                                  Þare ase godes wille was : þat he i-martred scholde beo.
                                
                                  A coluere, ȝwiȝt so eni milk : out of him gan teo
                                
                                  And riȝt euene heo was i-seiȝe : into heouene fleo. [folio 151b] 
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  Onneþe he was seue ȝer old : are he i-martred were—
                                
                                  Alto soth is sweuene was : ase [men] miȝten i-seo þere!
                                
                                  ¶ Þis luþere man þat him a-slovȝ : bi-gan to delue faste
                                
                                  And made ane put, deop i-nouȝ : and þare-inne þis child caste;
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  he burede hit þare faste i-nou : þat he i-founde nere,
                                
                                  And wende hom a-ȝein in is wei : and liet him ligge þere.
                                
                                  To Quendrith, his luþere soster : a-non-riȝt he gan i-wende

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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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