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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agatha

Þa com him to earan be Agathes drohtnunge · ⁠007
⁊ smeade hu he mihte  mæden him begitan ·
hét hí þa gefeccan · ⁊ betæhte hí anum fulum ƿife ·
afrodosia gecíged · sceand-lic on þeaƿum ·
Seo hæfde nigon dohtra · nahtlice ⁊ fracode · ⁠011
 heo geond þrittig nihte hire þeaƿas leornode ·
⁊ hire mod aƿende þurh þæra myltestrena forspennincgæ ·
Hƿæt ða affrodosia se fracedosta ƿimman · ⁠014
mid hire nigon dohtrum gedrehte agathen ·
hƿilon olecende · hƿilon egsigende ·
ƿende  heo mihte hire mod aƿendan ·
Þa cƿæð agathes · to þam yfelan teame · ⁠018
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agatha

Ða ⁊ƿyrde agathes · unforht þam deman · ⁠084
Gif ðu mid ƿild-deorum me nu bætan ƿylt · ⁠085
hi beoð sona hand-tame · þurh þæs hælendes naman ·
Gif þu me fyr gearcost · me cymð fær-lice of heofonum · ⁠087
halƿendlic deaƿ · þurh drihtnes ænglas · [. @ Skeat]
Gif ðu me sƿingla behætst · ic hæbbe þone halgan gast · ⁠089
þurh ðone ic forseo ealle þine sƿingla ·
þa [sic @ Skeat] cƿehte se dema his deoflice heafod ·
⁊ hét hí gebringan on anū blindum cƿearterne ·
⁊ hét  heo sceolde hi sylfe beþencan ·
hu heo mihte æt-ƿindan þam ƿælhreoƿum tintregum ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agatha

Þa hét quintianus · hí mid handum slean ⁠069
gelome on  hleor ·  heo hlydan ne sceolde ·
Ða cƿæð agathes eft ða ylcan ƿord · ⁠071
Quintianus cƿæð · þu cyst  ðu gecure ⁠072
þa tintregu to ðroƿigenne · nu þu minne teonan ge-edlecst ·
Þæt [sic @ Skeat] mæden him ⁊ƿyrde · micclum ic ƿundrie ⁠074
þe snoterne mannan · to sƿa micclum dysige gebigedne ·
 ðu sƿylce for godas hæfst · þe ðe sceamað to ge-euenlæcenne ·
Gif hí soða godes (sic) synd · godes ic þe geƿisce · ⁠077
gif þu hí onscunast ƿit cƿeðaþ þonne án ·
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