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þis messagers þoȝte scorn of him ; as gernigs wollþ wylde
⁊ ȝeue him hoker ansuere ; for he þoȝte hem pore ⁊ mylde
Here schip into þe see wende ; in gret tempest anon
So þat hi were vpe þe peroynte ; forte drenche echon
¶ Gret wreche is þis [con]aþ?? on of hem as we mowe vnderstonde
We misansuerede þe gode man ; þat spac wiþ ous alonde
For he is holi man ⁊ god ; ⁊ grete cangeornis we beoþ
Bidde we him anon forȝeuenisse ; þe while we him iseoþ
¶ Hi ?de anon to seint Aldelm ; in god entente ynouȝ
þe tempest was stille anon ; here schip to londe drouȝ
Abot þat ine clipeþ þe bible ; þat is of aierþ lawe
Be oþe of þe olde ⁊ of þe nue ; sein Aldelm hibere falke
Nomore hi nolde misansuerie him ; hem þoȝte ynouȝ er
þe bible is ȝut at malinesbury ; ⁊ euerest haþ ibeo þer
¶ Seint Aldelm was bischop sippe ; þreo ȝer before his deþe
⁊ þe bischop briȝt wold ; perto him brouȝte vneþe
Ac Albot at malmesbury ; napeles he was
⁊ let him sippe burie þer ; þo þat he ded was
¶So þat þe bischop of wircetre ; seint Edwyne þo com
Al yn??e?d toward Rome ; ⁊ þane wey perforþ nom
⁊ seint Aldelm at malmesbury ; faire an vrþe brouȝte
And sippe wende forþ to Rome ; ⁊ deore þane wey abouȝte
At þo seint Aldelm bischop was ; he amansede alle þo
þat þe bons of malmesbury ; mid vnriȝt dude wo
To bynyme hem eni priuilege ; þat he hem wan at Rome
Ich rede þat King ⁊ bischop ; þerof take gome
Non bidde we ȝurne seint Aldelm ; oure erand bere so
þat we mote to þe ioye come ; þat he was on ido Amen .