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

                                
                                  Þus Mani Man hath his purgatorie : þare he is sunne wrouȝhte.
                                
                                  So may parauentur dame Aldith : þat nath non oþur blis
                                
                                  bote athom in hire halle clene : þere ase hire Moker is,
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                                  Þat, þei heo bidde hire beden at churche : hire þouȝht is athom more;
                                
                                  parauenture heo schal it bete þare : and a-bugge hire loue ful sore!—
                                
                                  Men habbuz here heore purgatorie : manie for swuche þingue,
                                
                                  And manie to warni some men : to helpe heom þarof to bringue.
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                                  Mani man his purgatorie : in wature hath al-so :
                                
                                  Þarof ichulle one ensaumple segge : of þat ȝwilene was ido.—
                                
                                  ¶ Seint Tebaud þe bischop hadde : in his fot ane hote goute,
                                
                                  Þat poudagre icleopeod is— : he hadde þere-offe gret doute.
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                                  Ase his fischares wenden a-fischez : in heruest al-a-boute,
                                
                                  In heor net huy nomen ane clompe of .Is [MS. ys?] . : huy weren þare-with wel proute :
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                                  For þat ys þat was so cold : i-leid to heore louerdes fote
                                
                                  hit [MS. þat]  wolde aswagi þe hote goute : and bringue him sum bote.
                                
                                  Þis bischop tebaut was wel glad. : þat ys huy leiden oft
                                
                                  to is fot, and eche time : it made him liþe and softe.
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                                  Þat ys was euere hol and sound : it ne malt for none hete.
                                
                                  Seint tebaut þouȝhte þare-of wonder : for no-þing he nolde it lete.
                                
                                  A luyte cri him þouȝhte a day : in þat ys he heorde þere.
                                
                                  he coniourede hit a-godes name : to segge him ȝwat it were.
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                                  "Ich am," quath þis oþur, "a seli gost : and in þis ys ich am her
                                
                                  In mi purgatorie, forte ich beo : of mine sunnes scker.
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                                  Ake ȝif þou woldest for godesloue : þritti masses singue
                                
                                  For me, ich wot þat þu miȝhtest : of þis pine me bringue."
                                
                                  Þe bischop grauntede him wel sone : and bi-gan a-non a-morewe
                                
                                  Þe Massene for þis selie gost : to bringuen it out of soruwe,
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                                  And ech day song so aftur oþur. : þe deuel hadde þerto gret onde
                                
                                  Þe ȝuyt þat gost scholde of pine come— : his wrench he gan fonde.
                                
                                  For ase þe bischop þene tenþe day : bi-gan is masse to singue,
                                
                                  Al þe toun þe feondes hadde : i-brouȝt on a fiȝhtyngue.
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                                  Þe guode man bi-lefde is masse a-non : and orn a-mong heom faste,
                                
                                  And harmles þoruȝh godes grace : a-passede [al. paisede]  heom atþe laste.
                                
                                  Ase he bi-gan a-morewe is masse : a gret cri þare cam al-a-boute
                                
                                  Þat þe toun bi-seged was : with gret ferd al with-oute, [folio 177] 
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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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