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

& wepe þat þe teres vrne adoun : þat men hit al-aboute iseȝe. vneþe eni ihurde of him : þat þe betere ne bicom, & meni bileuede al þe wordle : & to religioun nom.— 264 ¶ A dai as þis holi man : in diuinite Desputede, as hit was his wone : of þe trinite, In his chaire he sat longe : er his scolers come; Alutel he bigan to swoudri : as a slep him nome. 268 Þo þoȝte him in his swoudringe : þat a whit coluere com Fram heuene mid oure louerdes flesch : & þe wei to him nom, & þat swete flesch pulte in his mouþ : & siþþe fleȝ vp anheȝ; heuene openede hire aȝen : as þis gode man iseȝ. 272 Þe sauour of oure louerdes flesch : him þoȝte, was in his mouþe, And al þe clergie, him þoȝte, of god : þo he awok, he couþe, Of þe pure stat of crist : & of his mageste As [an] angel him þoȝte he couþe : & of his priueite. 276 ¶ he bigan so deope desputi : of þe trinite, Þat gret wonder me hadde : þurf al þe vniuersite; Þat þe gretteste clerkes þat were : in Oxenforde þo Ne þoȝte þat eni vrþlich man : so furforþ miȝte go 280 Ne wite so moche of godes stat : bote hit [an] angel were; Þer nere none maystres in Oxenford : þat in gret wonder þerof nere. Ac he miȝte of ihesu crist iwite : more þan was in boc, whan he vsede oure louerdes flesch : & in his mouþe toc!— 284 ¶ Ne þoȝte noȝt þis holi man : so moche in his lessoun Þat euere among his þoȝt nas mest : in godes passioun. O tyme he was in grete studie : of his lessoun anyȝt, Þat longe he sat þer-aboute : forte hit was neȝ dailiȝt. 288 Þo hit was toward þe dai : a-napped he was sore, he lynede adoun vpon his boc : þo he nemiȝte studie nomore; So þat he ful aslepe : & vnywar also, & [om. &?] neþoȝte noȝt on þe passioun : as he was iwoned to do. 292 Þe deuel com to him wel sone : noþing to siche he nas. Seint Edmund of him was iwar : in swoudring as he was he wolde him blesci wiþ þe deuel : his riȝt hond he gan forþ drawe : Þe deuel him nom þerbi anon : he nemiȝte him noȝt wawe. 296 Þo nom he forþ his lift hond : to blesci him wiþ also : Þe deuel him nom þerbi faste : þat he nemiȝte noþing do. vpe him he lai as a sak : þat he was al ouercome, he nemiȝte him wawe fot ne hond : his poer him was binome. 300 Ac delyure he hadde al his þoȝt : so þat he þoȝte sone
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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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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,
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