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

                                
                                  For I-nelle nouȝt honouri þine false godes. : for in þe sautere it is i-write
                                
                                  Þat alle swuche Deouele beoth : and þat may ech Man i-wite."
                                
                                  ¶ Þo fierde þe Iustise ase he were wod : and made wel sori bere,
                                
                                  And was neihȝ wod for þis Maide seide : þat is godes deuelene were.
                                
                                  he liet fette a bed of bras : brod and heiȝh also,
                                
                                  And dude strepe þis Maide naked : and in þis harde bedde ire do.
                                  Line 58 
                                
                                  ¶ Þis Maide, þo heo naked was : with glad semblaunt in wende;
                                
                                  huy streiȝhten hire a-long and a-croiz : and gret fuyr þare-onder tende,
                                
                                  And casten on grece riue i-nouȝ : þat drof up so gret leiȝe
                                
                                  Þat þis maide þouȝte al a-fuyre : ase huy þat stoden þare i-seiȝe.
                                  Line 62 
                                
                                  Þe tormentores stoden þare-bi-side : with kene oules and strongue
                                
                                  And tur[n]den þat Maide side and oþur : ouer þe fuyre wel longue,
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  Þat heo þoruȝ strencþe of þe grece : ofte al a-fuyre stod. [folio 53b] 
                                
                                  Euere lai þat holie Maide : ase hire nere nouȝt bote guod,
                                
                                  hire heu heo nolde chaungi enes : ne tuyrne hire þouȝt;
                                
                                  Alle men þat þe wonder i-seien : þe enchesun nusten nouȝt.
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  ¶ Cristine men manie : þo huy herden telle
                                
                                  Þat þe Iustise was þudere i-come : with tormenz heom to quelle,
                                
                                  huy ornen out of toune hem for-to huyde : ech in is side, for doute,
                                
                                  And leiȝen in puttes and in olde diches : ȝeont al þe contreie a|boute.
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  An holi man þare hudde him so : þat men cleopeden capras,
                                
                                  Þat in þe north-side of þe toun : in one olde roche he was.
                                
                                  ¶ He lai and darede out of is hole : ase he dorste for doute,
                                
                                  And i-saiȝ al þe torment of seinte Fey : ase he [biheold aboute, [om. (so Ash.)] ]
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  hou men rosteden hire with fuyr and grece : and to-drowen hire al-so—
                                
                                  For it was a luyte þare-bi-side : þat þis dede was i-do.
                                
                                  Ase þis fuyr bi-gan to brenne : þis holie man i-seiȝ,
                                
                                  A coluere þare cam, so ȝwijt so milk : fram heouene fleo on heiȝ,
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  ¶ A croune of guold heo bar a-doun : þat schinde swiþe briȝhte,
                                
                                  Briȝhtore þane þe sonne leom. : oppe þe maidenes heued [Ash. maide heo]  aliȝhte
                                
                                  And sette þe croune on hire heued : with þe winguen heo bleu faste
                                
                                  Aȝein þat fuyr, ase him þouȝte : þat it ne miȝhte nouȝt i-laste—
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  Fram-ward þat Maide heo bleu it euere : þat it ne cam hire no-þing neiȝh,

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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.
Subject terms: Christian saints

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