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

                                
                                  And axeden ȝwat þe speche were : þat with him hadde i-beo.
                                
                                  Þe guode man seide, "ich may eou telle : for ȝe me beoz priue:
                                
                                  It was ore lauedi and seint Anneis : þat þare-inne weren with me,
                                
                                  Of þe Ioye of heouene huy speken : and ofte huy doth so.
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  Seint petre and seint powel : to me comiez ofte al-so."—
                                
                                  Seint Martin at paray [place left vacant, paray on the margin; al. paris]  : mette ane Musel bi cas.
                                
                                  he custe him, and anon aftur-ward : þe Musel al hol was.—
                                
                                  ¶ Men ne seiȝe him neuere wroth : ne liȝe no-þe-mo,
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  And ȝwat-so-euere is Men duden : he wolde euere bi on go.
                                
                                  In wel pouere wede a day : he rod out on ane Asse;
                                
                                  heiȝe Men he mette bi þe weie : þat tolden of him þe lasse.
                                
                                  heore hors weren of him a-drad le : for is pouere cloþes,
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  And ornen a-bach, and felden hem a-doun. : huy weren with him ful wroþe,
                                
                                  huy sturten up and nomen þis holie Man : and beoten him ful sore.
                                
                                  Euere he was stille and ne spak no word : for þi huy beoten him þe more.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo huy him hadden so i-bete : huy bi-lefden [him] atþen ende
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  ligginde þare, and worþen on heore hors : forth heore wei to wende.
                                
                                  Ake heore hors nolden gon of þe stude : for al þat huy don [al. om.]  miȝten,
                                
                                  Ȝuyt huy [ȝuyt huy al. om.]  smiten with ȝeorde and with spore : are þat huy a-liȝhten
                                
                                  And criden merci þis guode Man : þat huy him hadden mis-do.
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  heore hors hem bere forth a-non : þo huy token on so.—
                                
                                  And in an hous þe ȝwile it barnde : he slep wit-oute harm;
                                  Line 194 
                                
                                  his cloþes fur-barnden al-to cole : he ne fielde it no-þing warm.—
                                
                                  ¶ At a gret feste, ase he scholde : þe heiȝe masse singue, [folio 187b] 
                                
                                  To churche he wende with is men : men gunne a-ȝein him ringue.
                                
                                  Ane pouere Man he mette nake : þat no schroud him nadde a-boue,
                                
                                  And bad him sum-þing to helien him with : for ore louerdes loue.
                                
                                  Seint Martyn bad is Ercedekne : þat he him ȝeue sum cloth.
                                  Line 200 
                                
                                  Þe Ercedekne tolde þarof luyte : and nolde, he swor is Oth.
                                
                                  Seint Martin bote anne Cuyrtel : on him-sulf þo nadde:
                                
                                  To þe pouere Manne he hine ȝaf : in an hous þare he him ladde.
                                
                                  ¶ he ne bi-lefde on him no cloth of wolle : bote is Cope al-one.
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  Þe masse ne miȝhte he bi-guynne nouȝht : þat folk made þar-of mone.
                                
                                  "Ȝwy neltþou," seide þe Ercedekne : "þine masse bi-guynne?"

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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.
Subject terms: Christian saints

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