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

                                
                                  Þo he to þe place cam : a-doun he sat a-kneo:
                                
                                  "Louerd," he [MS. heo]  seide, "ȝif it is soth : þat þou man and god beo
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  And þat þou of Marie were i-bore : siend us þine grace,
                                
                                  Som tokningue, þat we finde mowe · þe rode in þis place."
                                
                                  A-non so Iudas þis bone hadde : to ore louerd i-bede,
                                
                                  Þe hul bi-gan to quakien : and out of one stude
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  A smoke þare cam and wende an heiȝ : and muche place fulde—
                                
                                  Swottore þing nas neuere non : þane þat smoke [MS. smake]  smulde.
                                
                                  þo Iudas þis i-seiȝ : loude he gan to crie :
                                
                                  "Iesus is on Almiȝti god : i-bore he was of þe maydene Marie!
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  he is wod þat ani oþur bi-leuez : ase ich habbe mani a day.
                                
                                  Taken ichulle cristin-dom : ich for-sake here þe giwene lay."
                                
                                  he liet him cristni hasteliche : and þo he icristned was,
                                
                                  He liet him nenne Quiriac : þat erore hiet Iudas.
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  Þo nomen huy spade and schouele : and ner þe place wende
                                
                                  And bi-gonne forto deluen deope : þare ase þe smoke out kende.
                                
                                  So þat huy founden roden þreo : þo huy hadden i-dolue longue:
                                
                                  Þe rode þat god was on ido : and þat þe tweie þeoues weren on an|honge
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  bi-side ore louerd, him for-to schiende. : þo nusten huy of þe þreo
                                
                                  Þo holie croyz þat huy souȝten : ȝwich it miȝte beo.
                                
                                  Naþeles huy nomen alle þreo : and toward toune heom bere
                                
                                  To Dame Heleyne, þe guode Quene : with wel glade chere.
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                                  bi þe weye ase huy comen : men gonne a-ȝein heom bringue
                                
                                  A ded ȝong man ope one bere : toward bureȝingue.
                                  Line 82 
                                
                                  Quiriac nam þat o rode : and efft-sone þat oþur,
                                
                                  And leide op-on þat dede man : ake he ne a-ros for noþur.
                                
                                  Þe þridde huy leide op-on him : and he a-ros wel bliue
                                
                                  And þonkede ȝeorne godes sone : þat fram deþe him brouȝte to liue.
                                
                                  Þo cam þe deouel ȝeollinde forth : loude he gan to grede:
                                
                                  "Alas, nouþe [is] mi power idon : eueref[t] more," he sede;
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                                  "Iesus, Iesus, ȝwat, þenxt þou : al folk to þe lede?
                                
                                  Þou hauest here men to warde i-ȝiue : þing þat ich mest drede, [folio 24] 
                                
                                  Þoruȝ ȝwan ich was furst ouer-come : ake nouþe ich am al at grounde.
                                
                                  Alas þulke soruwe : þat heo euere was i-founde!
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  For i-ne habbe power non so gret : on eorþe a-mong manne,

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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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