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

                                
                                  heo quakeden and chyuereden faste : in grete pine and stronge, [folio 100b] 
                                
                                  Ase ho-so seith a-bidet þare heore time : heore deth for-to a-fonge.
                                
                                  "lo," seide on of þe feondes : "þov nost nouȝt ȝwat istis;
                                
                                  bote þov torne þi þouȝt sone : þou schalt i-wite, i-wis."
                                
                                  Ne hadde he bote þis word i-seid : þat þare ne cam a wind blowe
                                
                                  And drof alle þis wrechche gostes : into þe deope watur ful lowe;
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  ¶ Þe Norþerne wynd drof heom a-doun : al mid one blaste,
                                
                                  And alle þe gostes, and þene kniȝt : a-midde þe watere hem caste.
                                
                                  More pine ne miȝte non beo : of stronge chele ne of stunche
                                
                                  Þane þis gostes þarinne hadden : þare ne miȝte non at-blenche.
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  Þo þe kniȝt þe stronge pine : of þis water i-felde,
                                
                                  he gan to crie on Ihesu crist : þat faillede him ful selde:
                                
                                  A-non-riȝt with-oute lette : op of þis watere man him [al. he (man om.)]  drovȝ.
                                
                                  Ake þis wrechche gostes lefden þere : with sorewe and wo i-novȝ.
                                
                                  For in þat water, þat was so cold : and so foule stonk also,
                                  Line 349 
                                
                                  Þis gostes swymden op and doun : in muche sorewe and wo;
                                
                                  Þe feondes ornen opon þe watere : so men doth on þe londe,
                                
                                  And ȝwane ani wolde coueri [al. cleueri]  op : with fote oþur with honde,
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  heo pulten him a-doun a-ȝen : þat þare ne a-scapede non;
                                
                                  Þare was wo and sorewe i-nouȝ : a-mong heom euerechon.
                                
                                  ¶ Þis feondes wenden forth a-non : and þe seli kniȝt eft nome,
                                
                                  And drowen him into a sori stude : þare neuer er heo ne come.
                                  Line 356 
                                
                                  heo comen and stoden ouer a put : wyd it was and deop i-novȝ;
                                
                                  A brenninde smoke, þat foule stonk : op of þe putte drovȝ,
                                
                                  Þat onneþe þe knyȝt miȝte stonde : for sori stunch þare-neiȝ.
                                
                                  Wrechche gostes in þis put : in þat sori smoke he seiȝ
                                  Line 360 
                                
                                  Fleo op and doun al brenninde : ase speldene doth of fuyre,
                                
                                  And in-to þe putte eft fullen a-doun : þo heo ne miȝten no leng duyre.
                                
                                  him þouȝte he was al ouer-come : for þe stunche þat þar-op of drovȝ;
                                
                                  Þare-bi him þouȝte þat in þe grounde : was soruwe and deol i-novȝ.
                                
                                  "Ȝwy stanst þov so?" þe fendes seiden : "þinchþ þe þarof wonder,
                                
                                  Of þis swete smoke þat here bloweth : and ȝwat put beo þare-onder?
                                
                                   [Puteum Inferni.] ¶ In þis put is ovre woneingue : for þe put of helle it is;
                                
                                  And, for þov us hast i-serued wel : here þov schalt wonie, i-wis,
                                  Line 368 
                                
                                  For alle þat us seruieth wel : hidere heo schullen wende;
                                
                                  And, ȝif þov comest here-in with us : þov worst here with-outen ende.

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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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