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

                                
                                  ¶ Þe Marie Maudeleine : heo saiȝh þat folk a-rise,
                                
                                  Riche and pouere, knyȝht and sweyn : to don þat sacrefise:
                                  Line 200 
                                
                                  heo was a-nuyd and of-drad : þat hire bi-gan to grise;
                                
                                  To speken of god heo was ful rad : and so dude on hire wise.
                                  Line 202 
                                
                                  ¶ Op heo stod with wordes bolde : with briȝht neb and glade chere,
                                
                                  And seide, "herkniez to me, ȝunge and elde : þat wullez beon cristes: [rhyme om.; al. þat in þis place ben here] 
                                
                                  Ne bi-lieuez nouȝht opon Mahun : ne on teruagaunt, is fere,
                                
                                  For huy beoth boþe deue and doumbe : and huy ne mouwen i-seo n i-here, [folio 192b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Ne huy ne mouwen eov helpe nouȝht : of none kunnes þingue
                                
                                  Þei men of heom ȝelpen ouȝt : ne no guod to eu bringue:
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  For huy bez doumbe and deue : crokede and eke blinde,
                                
                                  heore miȝhte is fallen to grounde : bi-foren and bi-hinde.
                                
                                  ¶ Ake ȝe schulle lieuen on iesu crist : oure heiȝe heouene kyng,
                                
                                  Þat al þis worldes maister is : with-oute ani ending:
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  For he may don is wille [al. He ou wole dyȝt (of om.)]  : of euereche cunnes þing
                                
                                  Þat ȝe wilniez with riȝhte : and with-outen suneguyng;
                                
                                  ¶ He is with-oute þe bi-guynningue : and he is with-outen ende,
                                
                                  with-oute fuylþe and sunegyng : so corteys and so hende
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  Þat al þing þat man with skile him biddez : he wole him ȝyue and sende,
                                
                                  To Man þat goth and eke rit : þat wole to him wende;
                                
                                  ¶ He is wuryte [r. wuyrte]  of alle þing : he makede heouene and helle,
                                
                                  Ne may no kayser ne no kyng : his vertues alle telle;
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  Þe man þat him seruez wel : ne may him no feond cwelle, [orig. dwelle] 
                                
                                  Ake huy þat wullez a-ȝein him fiȝhte : to grounde he wole heom felle;
                                  Line 222 
                                
                                  ¶ He makede day and eke nyȝht : steorrene and sonne and Mone;
                                
                                  Þe man þat trewe is and louez him ariȝt : he wole graunti him is bone
                                
                                  And þat he biddez him with treouþe : he it grauntez him ful sone,
                                
                                  he helpez boþe king and knyȝht : þe pouere alle mididone."
                                  Line 226 
                                
                                  ¶ A riche prince of sarazins : þudere was i-come,
                                
                                  with him is wyf and his mayne : þat with him he hadde i-nome:
                                
                                  To Maries prechingue : he lustnede ful sone;
                                
                                  For þat heo was so fair a þing : to hire huy token guod gome.
                                  Line 230 
                                
                                  ¶ Þe sarazins onvele : weren fulle of nyþe and hete,

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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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