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

                                
                                  Ase þei heo and hire soster : neren nouȝt of one blode :
                                
                                  ¶ Martha nam hire broþur lond : and hire sustres al-so,
                                
                                  And dude heom teolien wel i-nouȝ : ase wys man scholde do;
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  Þare-with heo fedde alle heore men : and cloþede heom al-so,
                                
                                  [&] pouere men and wummen : þat weren neodfole and in wo.
                                
                                  ¶ So fair womman nas þare non : in none kunnes londe,
                                
                                  Ase marie was of bodie [al. lycam]  : and of fote and honde;
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  So more fairore þat heo bi-cam [al. was hir fax]  : þe more of hire was prys, [MS. pryis] 
                                
                                  Þe more fol womman heo wax : and sunful and unwys :
                                
                                  ¶ Hire riȝhte name marie : ouer-al heo les þare-fore,
                                
                                  Sunfole wumman men cleopeden hire [al. gan hire clepy]  : bi-hinde hire and bi-fore.
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  Þo þis wumman hadde i-heord : þat hire name was ilore,
                                
                                  Þat heo was so bi-gyled and bicherd : wo was hire þare-fore;
                                
                                  Þo Men hire cleopeden sunfule : and lieten hire riȝhte name, [folio 191] 
                                
                                  heo wax kareful and dreori of þouȝht [al. drery & carful]  : and gan sore to schame :
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  Þo nolde heo no-more : bi-fore þe riche men come;
                                
                                  In-to hire castel for sorewe [al. sore]  : heo hauez hire i-nome,
                                
                                  For-to ore louerd cam and prechede : ouer al in þat londe.
                                
                                  Martha hire suster ofte bi-fore op-braid [r. apechede?]  : hire schame and hire schonde,
                                
                                  And chidde hire ful ofte : for hire lecherie,
                                  Line 77 
                                
                                  boþe fastinde and eke ful : þat vnneþe he miȝhte it drie.
                                
                                  ¶ A man of þat contreye : þat heiȝhte symond leperous,
                                
                                  Al-so þe bok us tellez : bad ore louerd to is hous,
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  And is deciples tweolue : with him, to þe mete,
                                
                                  For he ne miȝhte nouȝht him-sulf : fram heom alle ete.
                                
                                  ¶ Marie þis i-heorde : and þarof was ful glad;
                                
                                  A smeorieles to greiþi : þar-to he was ful rad;
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  heo wende to symundes hous : þat no man hire ne bad,
                                
                                  To ore louerd Iesu crist. [al. crist Iesus]  : and ful sore heo was of-drad,
                                
                                  ¶ For þat he was so sunful : bi-fore ore louerd to come,
                                
                                  Careful heo was, and sore a-ferd : forto beon i-nome;
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  heo ne dorste ore louerd repie nouȝht [al. om.]  : bi-hinde ne bi-fore,
                                
                                  Ne no Man hire nolde cleopie : and þat hire grefde sore.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo ore louerd was i-sete : in symundes house þere,
                                
                                  And his Apostles to þe mete : þat with him þo were,
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  Ore louerd sat and þouȝhte muche : ake bote luyte he ne eet. [orig. eat]

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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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