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

                                
                                  Nomen heom to rede manie : to maken þat bodi a-bide,
                                
                                  And sworen þat huy it wolden habbe : and noman ne scholde it heom bi-reue,
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                                  For in þe schire þare it i-founde was : huy seiden, it scholde bi-leue.
                                
                                  bi þe watere of pireford : þis two schirene hem mette,
                                
                                  And conteckeden for þis holie bodi : and faste to-gadere sette.
                                
                                  So þat huy nomen ane fourme of pays : to don bi [al. vp]  godes grace,
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                                  Ȝif god heom wolde is wille sch[e]wen : are huy wenden fram þat place.
                                
                                  Feor huy weren i-trauailed and sore : so þat heom luste slepe ech-on:
                                
                                  huy maden ane fourme þat huy scholden alle : ligge slepe a-non,
                                
                                  And ȝweþur of þis twei schires : miȝten sonore a-wake
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                                  huy scholden sauf i-novȝ wenden forth : and þat bodi with hem [MS. him]  take.
                                
                                  ¶ Stille huy leiȝen slepe faste : þis schirene boþe-to,
                                
                                  And resten heom of hore werienesse— : for ore louerd it wolde so.
                                
                                  [So] þat huy of gloucestre-schire : a-woken sone ech-on
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                                  At one tyme alle, ase god it wolde : and of wyricestre-schire nouȝt on.
                                
                                  In pais huy wenden forth heore wey : and þis bodi with heom toke.
                                
                                  Wel fif mile wei huy weren i-wende : are þe oþere a-woke.
                                  Line 315 
                                
                                  Þis oþere i-seiȝen heom bi-gylede : anon so huy bi-gounne a-wake:
                                
                                  And siweden þis oþere swiþe faste : ake huy ne miȝten heom nouȝt of-take.—
                                
                                  Þis men toward wy[n]checombe : þat holie bodi huy bere.
                                
                                  Are heo miȝten it þudere bringue : swyþe werie huy were.
                                
                                  So þat huy comen into one wode : a luyte bi este þe toune,
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                                  And resten heom, þo huy weren so neiȝ : op-on ane heiȝe doune.
                                
                                  A-þurst huy weren for werienesse : so þat it nas non ende.
                                
                                  huy beden ore louerd for seint kenelmes loue : þat he scholde heom drinke sende. [folio 153] 
                                
                                  A fair welle þare sprong op : an heiȝ op-on þe doune—
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                                  Þat ȝuyt is þare, cler and cold : half a mile fram toune;
                                
                                  heo is nouþe wel faire i-heoled : with freo ston, ase riȝt is,
                                
                                  I-redi ech man to drinken of : þat cometh þare-forth, i-wis.
                                
                                  ¶ Þe Monekes of Wynchecombe : arerd habbez þare-bi-side
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                                  A fair chapele of seint kenelm : þat men sechez ful wide.—
                                
                                  Quendrith, þe luþere womman : at wynchecumbe þo was;

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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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