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

                                
                                  In þe chapitle of salesburi : ase riȝht is þat ich do."
                                
                                  huy nadden of him non oþur word : þo it alles cam þar-to.
                                
                                  ¶ Þe chapitle at salesburi : i-holde was plener;
                                
                                  Alle þe chanouns of þe ordre : þudere come fer and ner,
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                                  To conseili heom of þis þing. : þe red was sone i-take:
                                
                                  Gladliche at one worde : alle huy stoden þare-ate.
                                
                                  "buth stille!" quath þe guode man : "ȝwat schal þat i-sed? [folio 183b] 
                                
                                  wuyrþe nam ich nouȝt þar-to : nimez an oþur red!"
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                                  ¶ "Certes," quath þe bischop þo : and þe Canones al-so,
                                
                                  "Þov ne miȝht nouȝht beo þare-a-ȝein : þou most it nede do."
                                
                                  Seint Eadmund seide euere nay : and bi-gan to wepe sore.
                                
                                  Þe Chanones wepen with him al-so : and criden cristes ore;
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                                  To is fiet huy fullen a-kneo : and heolden up heore honde
                                
                                  And beden him for þe loue of god : betere him under-stonde
                                
                                  And habbe reuþe of holie churche : and of him-sulf al-so,
                                
                                  And þenche, ȝwane holie churche it wolde : he moste it nede do.
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                                  ¶ Þe bischop also weop on him : and on him cride faste,
                                
                                  And in vertue of obedience : hiet him at þe laste
                                
                                  Þat he ne scholde it nouȝht bi-leue : godes wille to wurche
                                
                                  And beo bouȝsum to al þe lond : and nameliche to holie churche.
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                                  Þo bi-gan þis holie man : to wepe and sike sore;
                                
                                  "Nov god," he seide, "us ȝiue is grace : is milce and eke is ore!
                                
                                  ¶ And ich take god to witnesse : and ore leuedi al-so
                                
                                  Þat, ȝif ich ne wende suneguy dedliche : i-ne scholde it neuere do."
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                                  Þo huy heorden þis word of him : Ioyfole i-nouȝ huy were,
                                
                                  And nomen him up with ioye i-nov : and to þe heiȝe autere him bere,
                                
                                  And 'Te deum laudamus' songuen : swyþe murie and heiȝe;
                                
                                  Euere wep þe holie Man : ase þe chanones i-seiȝe.
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                                  ¶ So þat he cam to caunturburi : and dude ase riȝt was þere,
                                
                                  And Erchebischop was i-maud : is vnþonkes þei it were.
                                
                                  Ne þarf no man þar-of esche : ȝweþur he toke on wel i-nouȝ
                                
                                  And wel wissede holie churche : and to eche guodnesse drouȝ!
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                                  Ȝif is lyf was holi er : wel betere it was þo;
                                
                                  In strong penaunce he was i-novȝ : of fastingue and oþur wo.
                                
                                  he hadde euere of selie bonde-men : pite and deol i-novȝ,
                                
                                  For him þouȝte þat þe heiȝe men : duden hem al day wouȝ.—

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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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