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The South English Legendary

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I.

[[BANNA SANCTORUM.]]

De circumsicione Domini

Eppiphania Domini

De sancto Hillario

De sancto Wolstano

De sancto Fabiano

De sancto Sebastiano

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De sancta Agneta

[De Sancto Vincencio]

De sancto Iuliano confessore

De sancta Brigida

De sancto Blasio

De sancta Agatha

De sancta Scolastica

De sancto Valentino

De sancta Iuliana virgine

De sancto Matthi[e] apostolo

De sancto Oswaldo

De sancto Ceddo

De sancto Grigorio

De sancto Longio

De sancto Patricio

De sancto Edwardo Rege

De sancto Cuberto

De sancto Benedicto

De anunciacione dominica

De septuagesima

De quatragesima

De sancto Pascha

De sancta Maria Egiptiaka

De sancto Alphego

De sancto Gorgio

De sancto Marco

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Letania maior de rogacionibus

De sancto Petro predicatore

De sancto Philippo

De sancto Iacobo

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[De sancto lingno]

[De inuencione Sancte Creucis]

De sancto Quiriaco

De sancto Donstano

De santo Aldelmo

De sancto Agustino

De sancto Barnaba

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[Sein Theofle was a gret man ]

Miraculum [de Puero]

Miraculum [de Milite]

Miraculum [de milite Emmery]

[Miraculum de Milite]

Miraculum [de Milite Anglie]

Miraculum [de Iude]

De sancto Albano

De sancto Iohanne Baptista. [Decollatio]

De sancto Petro apostolo

De conuersione sancti Pauli

De sancto Switthino

De sancto Kenelmo

[Seinte Margarete was []

De sancta Maria Magdalene

De sancta Cristina

De sancto Iacobo

De sancto Cristoforo

De sancta Martha

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II.

Sancti [O]swaldi regis et martiris

De sancto Laurencio martire

De assumptione sancte Marie matris domini nostri Iesu Christi

De sancto Bartholomeo

Sancti Egidii confessoris et abbatis

De exultatione sancte crucis

De sancto Mattheo apostolo et ewangeliste

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De sancto Michaele in monte Gargano

De sancto Michaele in monte Tomba

De sancto Ieronimo

De sancto Dionisio

De festo sancte Luce ewangeliste

De vndecim milia virginum

De sancto Simonis et Iude

[Seint Quintin þe martir ]

[Alle Halewe day we schulle holde ]

[Alle Soulen day an vrþe ]

[Seint Leonard þe confessour ]

[Seint Martin was ibore ]

[Seint Edmund þe confessour ]

[Seint Edmund þe holi king ]

[Seint Clement was ibore ]

[Seinte Katerine of noble cunne ]

[Seint Andreu þapostle ]

[Seyn Nycholas þe holi mon ]

[Seinte Lucie þe holi maide ]

[Seint Thomas þe gode apostle ]

De sancta Anastacia

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De sancto Steffano

De Inuenione sancti Steffani

De sancto Iohanne ewangelista

De sancto Thoma archiepiscopo et cantuariense

[Translacio Sancti Thome martiris]

[Ivdas was a luþer brid ]

[Pylatus was a luþer man ]

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133

Seie wat þi sunne is & wat þou ert & wo was þi vere
[Wy wanne] & ware þou it dust hou ofte & in wuch manere
Þus eiȝte þinges þou most do & wel ȝerne mercy crie
And ȝif ich þe segge reson wy ne sei noȝt þat ich lye
Þine sunne þou most telle nede & wat þou ert also
For more sunne it is ȝif þou ert preost oþer dekne to misdo
And in sunne of lecherie oþer ȝif þou ert hosebonde
Þer uore woso ssel þe ssriue al þis mot vnderstonde
Seie ek wo þi vere was for more sunne it is
To ligge bi a wedded wif þanne bi anoþer iwis

Seie ek wat þe encheson was to do þi folye
For it is wel more sunne to do lecherie
In entente forto do þi voule vleisses mod
Þanne to biȝute a child of þi forme of þi fleiss & þi blod