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

                                
                                  Marie þat was so sunful [al. þat of hirself ne roȝt]  : heo crep doun to is fiet,
                                
                                  ¶ heo custe is fiet and wusch al-so : with hire wete teres,
                                
                                  And wipede heom aftur-ward : with hire ȝeoluwe heres,
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                                  Out of hire boxe heo nam : Oynement ful guod
                                
                                  And smeorede ore louerdes heued : with ful blisful mod.
                                
                                  ¶ Iudas was þare bi-side and smulde hit : and þare-fore he was neiȝh wod,—
                                
                                  Þat swote smul him culde neiȝh : and gremede is sorie blod,—
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                                  And [al. he]  bad don up þat riche þing : þat heo ore louerd gan with smeore;
                                
                                  To spene it so in wasting : he seide, it was gret lure;
                                
                                  And seide, "it mai beon i-sold ful deore : to bugge with muchel mete,
                                
                                  pouere Men þare-with to freueri : of drunch and of mete." [on the margin, to drinke and to ete] 
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                                  ¶ Þo saide ore louerd to Iudas : "lat þou þis wumman beo!
                                
                                  Ful guod weork it was and is : þat heo wurchez in me;
                                
                                  For ai schulle ȝe pouere with eov habbe : and so ne worth eov me—
                                
                                  Þi toungue moste bien i-schaue : to speche heo is to freo."
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                                  ¶ Symund leprous i-heorde þis : he þouȝhte wel mani-fold
                                
                                  Þat, ȝif þes profete were al-so wys : ase he is fore i-told,
                                
                                  he nolde soffri þis fole wumman : his bodi enes to reppe,
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                                  For no weork þat heo can do [al. do can]  : to-ward him enes steppe.
                                
                                  ¶ Ore louerd wuste is luþere þouȝht : ake þarof stod him non eyȝe:
                                
                                  "Symund, þou þenchest muche for nouȝht. : sum-þing ichulle þe seiȝe."
                                
                                  "Maister, seye," seide symound : "ich it bidde þe!
                                
                                  For þou noldest for no þing [al. C pound]  : segge on-riȝht to me." [folio 191b] 
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                                  ¶ "An vsurer was ȝwilene : þat hadde dettores tweyne,
                                
                                  Þat swyþe longue ȝwyle : dette him scholden beyne:
                                
                                  Þat on him scholde fifti panes : and twenti þar-to, [al. fyf siþe twenti] 
                                
                                  Þat oþur him scholde of dette : fifti panewes al-so. [al. panes : fulle fifty] 
                                
                                  ¶ And noþur of heom nadde : ȝware-of þe dette for-to ȝelde:
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                                  huy ȝolden, þo he it creuede [al. He forȝaf hit hem : (the MSS. are corrupt)]  : ase þe bok us telde.
                                
                                  Ȝweþur of heom tweine : cudde him more loue þo?"
                                
                                  "Maister, he þat [al. þat he]  more ȝaf [forȝaf]  : me þinche, so mote i go."
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                                  ¶ "For soþe, symund leperous : þou hauest i-demed a-riȝht.
                                
                                  For sethþe ich cam into þin hous : þou ne custest me no-wiȝht,
                                
                                  Ne þou ne wusche nouȝt mine fiet : with watur ne with teres
                                
                                  Ne þou ne wypedest heom nouȝht ȝuyt : with cloþe no with heres, [orig, here, s added later.] 
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