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

                                
                                  At þe commuyn conseil a day : seint Gregori a-ros sone,
                                
                                  And bad þe pope and is cardinales : graunti him ane bone,
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                                  Þat huy him senden in-to engelond : to prechie cristinedom.
                                
                                  Þo [al. om.]  þe pope mid is cardinales : gret conseil þar-of nam;
                                
                                  Nolden huy him graunti nouȝt. : ake euere he bad so faste,
                                
                                  Þat huy dorsten werne none lengore : and graunteden atþe laste.
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                                  Seint Gregori was þo glad i-nouȝ! : he nolde a-bide non lengore more,
                                
                                  Þo wende he toward engelonde : to prechie godes lore.
                                
                                  A-non so he was fram rome i-wend : defaute of him men hadde;
                                
                                  Þat folk cam to þe pope al day [om. al day]  : and echone on him huy gradde,
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                                  Ase he to seint peteres munstre i-wende : þo in ane daiȝe,
                                
                                  "Þou þencst," huy seiden, "with þi conseil : al rome to bi-traiȝe;
                                
                                  he þat halt op þe conseile of Rome : heonnes þou hast i-send;
                                
                                  bote þou him of-sende sone : al rome worth i-schend."
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                                  Þe pope hadde gret loue eiȝe : of þat þe folk him seide. [A v. om.] 
                                
                                  he nas nouȝwer neiȝ atþe se : are he him of-sende. [folio 154] 
                                
                                  With wel dreorie chere þo : þis holie man aȝen wende.—
                                
                                  Ase god it wolde, þare-aftur-ward : sone it dude bi-falle
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                                  Þat þe pope wende out of þe world : so we schullen alle.
                                
                                  Þe cardinales and þe bischopes : and al þat conseil of rome,
                                
                                  Ane pope to cheose afturward : alle to-gadere huy come.
                                
                                  huy hieten þat ech man þat of þe conseile was : eche daiȝe faste scholde
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                                  And in heore bedes beon niȝt and day : ȝif ore louerd heom sende wolde
                                
                                  Ani tokningue a-mong heom : ȝif ani of heom wuyrþe were
                                
                                  In rome pope for-to beo : cristine men wel to lere.
                                
                                  Þo huy hadden in heore oresones i-beon : þreo daies and þreo niȝt,
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                                  In þe huyrne of one chapele : huy seiȝen swyþe gret liȝt,
                                
                                  Þat stod ase þei hit a piler were : into heouene up-riȝt—
                                
                                  huy ne i-seiȝen neuer er no þing : so cler ne so briȝt.
                                
                                  Þo huy comen to þe place : onder þe liȝte huy founde
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                                  Þane holie man, seint Gregori : plat i-falle to grounde;
                                
                                  For werinesse of is oresones : he lai al [al. as]  in suoddringue.
                                
                                  Þat folk bi-gan to herien god : and loude huy guonne si[n]gue;
                                
                                  huy nomen þesne holie man : and maden him pope a-non.

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