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

                                
                                  "Ȝif ȝe nellez for mi loue it lete [om. it lete]  : ne for loue of mi wif,
                                
                                  spariez for mi luytel sone : so þat he mouwe habbe is lyf!
                                  Line 374 
                                
                                  For ȝif is moder mouwe ȝuyt : of hire suoweningue awake,
                                
                                  Þanne may mi luytel sone : to hire tete take."
                                
                                  ¶ huy lokeden heom bi-side : and seiȝen an heiȝh hurst
                                
                                  Swiþe feor in þe se [al. In þe se wyde]  : and þe prince it i-saiȝ furst;
                                  Line 378 
                                
                                  him þouȝte þat wel more wisdom : to þe bodie it were
                                
                                  to burien it opon þet heiȝe hurst : þane fisches it eten þere.
                                
                                  ¶ Þo huy comen þudere [al. were þ. ycome]  : huy ne miȝhten make no put:
                                
                                  Þe hurst was al of harde stone : ech faste in oþur i-knut;
                                  Line 382 
                                
                                  huy nomen þe Quiene and hire child : and wounden in a mantel,
                                
                                  And leide opon þe heiȝe hurste : in a grene cantel;
                                
                                  huy leiden þat childes mouth : to þe moder tete—
                                
                                  Þo þe prince þat i-saiȝh : with wepingue is neb he gan wete.
                                  Line 386 
                                
                                  with gret deol þe Quiene and hire Child : þare huy gonne lete [folio 194b] 
                                
                                  Opon þet hurst þat was so heiȝh : and hard and wilde and kete.
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  ¶ Þe prince wep and wende forth : with his schip in þe se;
                                
                                  "Marie Maudeleyne," quath þe prince, "alas : þat euere kneu ich þe!
                                
                                  To don þis pelrimage : ȝwy raddest þou me?
                                
                                  Þov bede þi god a bone : þat mi wif with childe scholde be:
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                                  And nouþe is ded þus sone : boþe hire child and heo!
                                
                                  ¶ Al mi lond and al mi þing : ich habbe i-take þe
                                
                                  To witen and to wardi : ȝwi schal it þanne þus be?
                                
                                  Mi wif and mi ȝungue child : marie, ich bi-take
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  To Ihesu crist, þi owene louerd : þat alle þing of nouȝht gan make,
                                
                                  Þat, ȝif he is so corteys and miȝhtful : ase þou seidest to me,
                                  Line 398 
                                
                                  he saue mi wif and mi child : fur-fare þat ich ne be."
                                
                                  ¶ To his schyp he wende : and so forz in þe se.
                                
                                  God hem to Rome sende : for þudere wolden he.
                                
                                  Seinte petur wuste wel : þat þe prince cam:
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                                  With milde mod and fair compaygnie : a-ȝeines him he nam.
                                
                                  Petur Axede him fram ȝwanne he cam : and ȝwodere he wiende wolde.
                                
                                  "To Rome," he seide, "þen wey ich take [al. nam]  : and speke with þe ischolde;"
                                
                                  he tolde of marie Maudeleyne : hou he to hire cam,

                                  Line 406

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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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