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

                                
                                  Oþur ichulle þe swuch pine do : þat it schal þe rewe sore."
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  "I-ne schal so sone," þat maide seide : "In pine beo i-brouȝt
                                
                                  Þat it nele a-swagi ȝif ich habbe : on ihesu crist mi þouȝt;
                                
                                  Ȝif þou bringest me in ani fuyre : and ich me bi-þenche
                                
                                  On þe pine þat he þolede for me : a-non it wole a-quenche."
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  Þe Duyk let nime þat maide a-non : and In-to þe gayhole lede;
                                
                                  Þat maide was þo also glad : ase þei men hire to feste bede.
                                
                                  In stronge prisone heo was i-do : þar-inne longe heo lay.
                                
                                  Þe Duyk let þare-after-warde : at-fore him þat mayde bringe a day.
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  ¶ "Agace," he seide, "bi-þench þe wel : bi-lef þi fole þouȝt,
                                
                                  Anovre ore [MS. ore ore]  godes þat mowen þe helpe : are þou beo in pine i-brouȝt."
                                
                                  Þat maide seide, "þou spillest þi breth : and þou tellest embe nouȝt.
                                
                                  Ake ich rede þat þou Anouri him : þat deore us hath i-bouȝt,
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  And bi-lef þine false godes : þat power nabbez non,
                                
                                  Þat beoth i-mad of an old stoc : oþur of þe harde ston."
                                
                                  "Neltþou [nou]ȝt [MS. Neltþouȝt] ," seide þe duyk : "þine folie ȝuyt bi-leue,
                                
                                  In stronge pine þov schalt beo i-don : to-day are it beo eue."
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  hokes and witthene he let nime : and faste to hire breoste binde,
                                
                                  And let is tormentores with þe withþene : hire breostene of wynde.
                                
                                  "Þov onwreste bouk," þis Maide seide : to þe duyk quincian,
                                
                                  "Ne hastþov no schame in þine heorte : defouli þus ani man
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  Þat lyme þat þov þi moder of soke : and þe hath forth i-brouȝt?
                                
                                  Do þov þin owene confusion : and ne dred þe riȝt nouȝt."
                                
                                  ¶ gret pine þolede þis clene [may] : are heo weren of i-drawe;
                                
                                  So muche was hire þouȝt on gode : þat it ne greuede hire nouȝt an hawe.
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  Þo heo weren of i-drawe : In-to prisone heo was eft i-do.
                                
                                  Þe Duyk let witie þat prison faste : þat no man ne come hire to
                                
                                  hire woundene to hele with ani-þing : oþur hire pines forto lisse.
                                
                                  Ake ore louerd ne for-ȝat nouȝt hire : þo ne þorte he misse.
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  Ase heo in prisone al one was : an old man þare cam gon,
                                
                                  boxes fulle of Oygneme[n]z : he brouȝte mani on
                                
                                  And seide þat he hire hele wolde. : "þov ne schalt," heo seide;
                                
                                  "I-ne kepe no man bote god : þat me hele and rede."
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  "Ich am," seide þe olde man : "In his name hidere i-wend,

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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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