How she hadde hir in þe laste ȝeere of hir lyfe. Cap. XXXII.

In þe laste ȝeere of hire lyfe she dwellid often in deserte and soli∣tude; and sche cam ageyne neuer-þe-les, þogh hit were ful selden, to [ 10] þe hele of men, or if she were constreynyd of spirite to take mete. No erþely man myghte þat tyme wiþholde hir whanne she desyred to go to deserte. ¶ And whanne she come ageyne, no man hir salutid ne noman durste aske hir any thinge. Atte euene on a tyme sooþly she come home & passed by þe hous-myddes as a spirite on þe erþe, [ 15] & vnneþes hit myghte be disereuid if a spirite passed or a body, whanne hit semyd þat vnneþes she touched the grounde. In so mykel, sooþly, in þe laste ȝeere of hir lyfe þe spirite hadde goten þe beestly body welnye in alle partyes, þat mennes myndes or eyen vnneþes myghte 1. [Ms. hit myghte.] be-holde þe shadowe of hir body wiþ-outen feere and drede [ 20] of spirite. ¶ Forsooþ, þat tyme, whanne sche come hoom, often she dwellid in þe towne of seint Trudous in þe abbey of seint Kateryne.