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

                                
                                  So longue, þat huy [werie] weren : and þare-fore stille huy stode.
                                
                                  Þe Aumperour bi-heold heom faste : with ful sorie mode.
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  ¶ Þis holie man, þo him smert sore : lude to grede he gan :
                                
                                  "Ich þonki þe, louerd iesu crist : for ich am cristine man."
                                  Line 42 
                                
                                  "Nimez him," quath þe Aumperour : "and ledez him up on heiȝh!"
                                
                                  huy brouȝhten him up-on an he [Ash. hei]  de-grece : þat muche [al þat]  folk him i-seiȝh,
                                
                                  And duden on him is noble [on the margin.]  robe : þat he werede er
                                
                                  Þe ȝwyle he was so noble knyȝht : and of so gret power.
                                  Line 46 
                                
                                  ¶ Þo he stod al-so quoynteliche : ase men him greþi miȝhte,
                                
                                  "Ypolyt," quath þe Aumperour : "nouþe þou hast þine riȝhte.
                                
                                  bi-þench þe wuch a man þou art : and ȝwuch a knyȝht [a k. om. in Ash.]  þou hast i-beo,
                                
                                  Noble and hende, ase þou ȝuyt schalt : ȝif þou wolt þe bi-seo;
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                                  bi-þench þe of þat þou hast i-haued : of þi noble dignete,
                                
                                  And bi-lef here in ore compaynie : ase þou were er with me!"
                                
                                  ¶ "Sire Aumperour," quath [þis] holie Man : "for nouȝht þou spext so :
                                
                                  For a newe knyȝht ich am bi-come : niewe batayle to do;
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                                  Godes knyȝht of heouene ich am : and al mi wille so is
                                
                                  Þat ich in his batayle be [Ash. were]  : sone i-martred, i-wis."
                                
                                  Þo was þe Aumperour wroth i-novȝh : he cleopede Valerian,
                                
                                  his Iustise, þat was schrewe i-novȝ : and a swiþe luþer man;
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                                  "Nim," he seide, "þis foule þef : and with a strong torment [folio 198] 
                                
                                  bring him of liue, ase þou miȝht : with hard Iuggement;
                                
                                  And wiend furst hom to is þingue : and nim al his guod,
                                
                                  For euerech del ich ȝiue it þe : and his flechs and his blod."
                                  Line 62 
                                
                                  ¶ To þis holie mannes hous : þe Iustise wende a-non,
                                
                                  Al his maynie he fond þare : cristine euerechon;
                                
                                  Ech aftur oþur he liet heom nime : and tormenti sore i-novȝ;
                                
                                  And bi-fore þis holie man : ech aftur oþur drouȝ
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                                  And ech aftur oþur bi-fore his eiȝene : with gret torment he [Ash. me]  slovȝ :
                                
                                  he liet alle heore hauedene smiten of : with schendnesse and wouȝ.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo huy weren bi-fore þis holie man : alle to deþe i-brouȝht,
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                                  And þe Iustise i-saiȝh þat he ne miȝhte : þare-with tuyrne is þouȝht,
                                
                                  wilde coltes and strongue : he liet fette atþe laste
                                
                                  And bi þe fet þisne holie man : to heore tayle he bond faste,
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                                  And liet þe coltes eorne forth. : wel luyte huy wolden a-bide,

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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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