...unclothed him, and found bishop's clothing above, and the habit of a monk under, and next his flesh a hard hair full of knots, which was his shirt ; and his breech was of the same, and the knots stuck fast within the skin, and all his body full of worms. He suffered great pain, and was thus martyred...

...unclothed him, and found bishop's clothing above, and the habit of a monk under, and next his flesh a hard hair full of knots, which was his shirt ; and his breech was of the same, and the knots stuck fast within the skin, and all his body full of worms. He suffered great pain, and was thus martyred...

...church for the Inomas rjgjjt of au hojy church. And when he was of Canter- , " . . . / . . . ... . . . bury dead they stirred his brain, and after went in...shirt. And his breech was of the same, and the knots slicked fast within the skin, and all his body full of worms ; he suffered great pain. And he was thus...

...done amiss. And anon it was known all about, how that he was martyred, and anon after they took his holy body, and unclothed him, and found bishop's clothing...all his body full of worms; he suffered great pain." It may possibly be objected that such prose is too violent: that it gets its effect by the uninspired...

...churchyard they began to dread and fear that the ground would not have borne them, and were marvelously aghast, but they supposed that the earth would have...hard hair, full of knots, which was his shirt. And he was thus martyred the year of our Lord one thousand one hundred and seventy-one, and was fifty-three...