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

                                
                                  With ȝwuche gyle huy miȝhten do : þat huy to ende [it] brouȝte.
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                                  ¶ So þat heo hadde to hire conseil : I-nowe atþenende.
                                
                                  For fellere þing nis non ase wumman : ȝware heo wole to vuele wende.
                                
                                  Nadde þis ȝungue king i-beo : in is kynedom vnneþe
                                
                                  Bote þreo ȝer and Eyȝhte dawes : þat he nas i-brouȝt to deþe.
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                                  For a day he wente on hontethþ : with is kniȝhtes bi cas
                                
                                  In a fayr wode in deorsete : þat bi-side waraygne was.
                                
                                  Fair wode þare was þulke tyme : ake nouþe heo is al a-doune,
                                
                                  Bote þornes and þunne boskes : þat stondeth bi-sides þe toune.
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  ¶ Ase þis ȝoungue king wende on hontethþ : a gret wille him cam to
                                
                                   [folio 39b] For-te seo is ȝoungue [MS. ȝonngue]  broþur : and in eche manere he wolde it do.
                                
                                  For he was þere a luyte bi-side : ase is stepmoder was
                                
                                  In a toun þat men clepeden Corf : þat bote þreo Mile þanne it nas.
                                
                                  A strong castel þare is nouþe : ake þe ȝuyt nas non þere.
                                
                                  Þis holie man þouȝte longue : are he at is broþur were;
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                                  Ane fewe men with him he nam : and þuderward he gan ride.
                                
                                  his Men pleiden and Arnden bi þe weie : and spradden a-boute ful wide,
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                                  So þat with heom [r. him]  ne bi-lefde non : al one he was sone;
                                
                                  Ake naþeles forth he wende is wei : ase he þouȝte to done.
                                
                                  Þe court he bi-heold a-fer : þare ase is broþer was:
                                
                                  Þudere he wende wel mildeliche : ake no man with him nas—
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                                  he ne þouȝte to no man bote guod : ne no man he nadde mis-do.
                                
                                  To-war[d] is deþe forthþ he wende : and mildeliche al-so.
                                
                                  Þo is stepmoder þe luþere Quiene : al one i-seiȝ him come,
                                
                                  heo þouȝte to don hire wille of him : ase heo hadde hire red i-nome.
                                
                                  Þe luþere Men heo cleopede sone : þat weren at hire rede,
                                
                                  And bi-speken bi ȝwuche feolonie : to don þis luþere dede.
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                                  ¶ þo þis holie Man was neiȝ i-come : þe Quiene a-ȝein him eode
                                
                                  With fair Meyne and gret honour : and gret loue gan him beode—
                                
                                  þe feste þat heo with him made : no tongue telle ne may—
                                
                                  And swor þat he scholde a-liȝte : and with hire bi-leue alday.
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                                  "Nai certes, dame," seide þis king : "so ne may it nouȝt beo.
                                
                                  Ake lat me speke with mi broþur : for me longueth him to seo.
                                
                                  For er þane ich him habbe i-seiȝe : Ine worþe nouȝt bliþe, i-wis,
                                
                                  Min heorte is so muche opon him : and no wonder it nis."

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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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