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Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a monke in Ceustus ordur, and he was [MS repeats, was.] a leche & ran̛ þurgℏ þe cuntre ilk day, þat vnnethis he wolde be att hame at his abbay on̛ hy dayes. So it happend̛ opon̛ a night, in þe solempnyte of our̛ Ladie, as he stude at matyns
syngand̛ emangis his felos, he saw our Ladie Saynt [Marie] com̛ in-to þe where, & broght a boyste fuƚƚ of lectuarie; & sho putt þerof in-to evur-ilk monk mouthe with a spone. And when̛ sho come att hym̛ sho said̛; "þou mysters not of my lectuarie, for þou erte a leche & takis þine awn̛ comfurtℏ at þe fuƚƚ": & so he had̛ none. And fro þine furtℏ, bod if he had bene compellid̛, he wold̛ neuer oute of his abbay, nor he had neuer after dayntie of bodelie medcyn̛. So þe next ffeste of our Ladie sho come agayn̛, & did vnto þe monkis as sho did̛ before; and when̛ sho come att þis monk̘, sho said̛ vnto hym̛; "Becauce þou hase had mor̛ comfurtℏ of me þan̛ þou had of þi lechecrafte or [MS. of of.] of þi medcyns, þerfor̛ I saƚƚ giff þe of my medcyns." And when̛ he had tastid̛ þeroff, onone he feld̛ suche a swetnes, þat euer fro thens furtℏ he was so stable in his ordur þat he refusid̛ aƚƚ maner of oþer þing.