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

                                
                                  Þe swete holie Maudeleyne : in cristes wurthschipe,
                                  Line 338 
                                
                                  For heo was þe kingue of heouene : leof and deore and queme,
                                
                                  And bi-token hire ech-del : to witien and to ȝeme.
                                
                                  ¶ huy nomen with heom into heore schip : bred i-novȝ and wyn,
                                
                                  Venesun of heort and hynd : and of wilde swyn, [folio 194] 
                                
                                  huy nomen with heom in heore schip : al þat hem was leof,
                                  Line 343 
                                
                                  Gies and hennes, crannes and swannes : and porc, motoun and beof;
                                
                                  For huy scholden passi : þe grickische se,
                                
                                  And for þat huy nusten hou longue : huy scholden þare-inne be.
                                  Line 346 
                                
                                  ¶ huy drowen op seil and ore : and schipeden a-non-riȝht,
                                
                                  Alle, þe lasse and þe more : Eorl, baroun and knyȝht.
                                
                                  huy nadden bote seue nyȝht : i-seiled in þat flod,
                                
                                  Þat huy neren sore of-dradde : þe se wax stuyrne and wod;
                                  Line 350 
                                
                                  Þe se bi-gan to flowen : and þe wawes forto a-rise:
                                
                                  Some bi-gonne to swounen : and heore heortene sore a-grise;
                                
                                  ¶ Þe se bi-gan to ebbi [al. route]  : and þe wynd ful stuyrne to blowe.
                                
                                  Ase þe Quiene on hire bedde lay [al. And þe q. for doute:]  : hire token ful strongue þrowes,
                                
                                  heo swounede ful i-lomeliche [al. ylome]  : and harde pinede þare-fore,
                                
                                  So for-to þat hire ȝoungue sone : were of hure i-bore.
                                  Line 356 
                                
                                  Þo þat child i-bore was : þe Moder bi-gan to deye,
                                
                                  Þat folk gradde "allas allas" : and weopen with heore eye.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo þe leuedi was ded : aftur þat þet child was i-bore,
                                
                                  huy ne miȝhten it bi-leue : to [al. þer was wiþ hem non oþer red : but]  make deol þare-fore.
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Þat child wolde souke : and it nuste ȝwam,
                                
                                  Þare nas no milk a-boute : ne no mielch wumman.
                                
                                  ¶ "Allas," quath þe prince : "þat ich euere was i-bore!
                                
                                  Wo is me for þis ȝunge child : and for mi Quien þat ich habbe i-lore,
                                
                                  And nouþe it mot nede deye : for souke ne hath i[t] non,
                                
                                  Ne i-not in none halue [al. Wote ic neuer sikerly]  : ȝwat me is best to don."
                                  Line 366 
                                
                                  ¶ Þe schipmen hieten with stuyrne mod : þat men ne schulden nouȝht spare
                                
                                  Þe dede Quien to casten in þat flod : oþur elles huy mosten fur-fare:
                                
                                  "Þe ȝwyle þat bodi is here with us : þe stormes beoth so kete,
                                
                                  To quellen us huy þenchez : and þat huy nellez lete."
                                  Line 370 
                                
                                  ¶ huy nomen up þad [r. þat]  dede bodi : in-to þe se for-to caste.
                                
                                  "Abidez ȝuyte and herkniez me!" : þe prince gradde faste;

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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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