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

For ich am his apostle— : to þe he me hath i-send Þine woundene forto hele : þat þov hast for him stronge. In þe Ioye of heuene : þine mede þou schalt afonge." 76 Þe woundes he gan smeorie : heo weren hole in one stounde. Þat Maide nuste ȝware he [MS. heo] bi-cam : þo he hadde i-held hire wounde. Þe Duyk let þat maide bi-fore him bringe : þene feorþe day, he seide, "hastþov ȝeot i-chaunget þi þouȝt?" : þat mayde seide "nay. Þi word," heo seide, "ne doth non oþur : ȝwane þov spext þus to me, bote fuylez swiþe foule þe eyr : þat it deth inne fleo. 82 he is wod þat stok oþur ston : wole to helpe calle, [folio 95b] And nouȝt to god of heuene : þat hath i-heled mine wounden alle." 84 "Darstþou ȝeot," seide þe Duyk : "of þine false gode more telle? Beo þov so wod to nemmen him more : in stronge deþe Man schal þe quelle." "Onwreste bouk," þat Maide seide : "I-nelle it lete nouȝt, Þe ȝwyle þat ich libbe may : to nemen him with worde oþur with þouȝt." 88 Þe Duyk het men hire for-brenne : a gret fuyr he let make. Þo heo [hire] wolden þar-inne do : þe eorþe bi-gan to quake, ¶ Ase wide ase þe cite was : and felde a-doun þe dom-halle; Twei men þat hire Iuggeden to deþe : a-slawe weren with þe walle. Þat folk of þe cite was a-drad. : to þe duyke heo seiden: "Þis Mayde is guod, and we beth for hire : In grete perile and in drede. 94 gret pine þov hast [hire] i-don : þou ne schal so non-more." Þo þe Duyk i-herde þis : a-drad he was wel sore; 96 Þat Mayde he let to prisone lede : and he him-seolf a-scapede a-wey bi one posterne stilleliche : þat no man him ne seyȝ. Þo þat mayde into prisone cam : a-doun heo sat a-kneo, "Louerd," he seide, "fram mani pine : þou hast i-saued me, 100 fram fuyr and fram woundes stronge : þou me hast i-brouȝt, And fram mi child-hod þou me hast i-wust : þat ine mis-bi-lefde nouȝt: Lat me, louerd, to reste wende : for here me þinchez long, Tyme it is to endi mi lijf : mine soule þov onder-fong." 104 Mid þusse worde bi-fore al þat folk : heo bi-gan to deiȝe. Þare was mani a sori man : and mani a wepinde eiȝe.
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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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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,
1887.
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