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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agnes

Hƿæt ða godes miht mycclū ƿearð gesƿutelod · ⁠144
sƿá  þæs mædenes fex · befeng hi eall abutan ·
sona sƿa þa cƿelleras hire claðas of abrudon ·
⁊  fex hi behelede on ælce healfe gelice ·
Hi tugon ða  mæden to þæra myltestrena huse · ⁠148
ac heo gemette þær sona scinende godes encgel ·
sƿa  nan man ne mihte for ðam mycclum leohte
hire on beseon · oððe hí hreppan ·
for þan þe ðet hus eall sceán · sƿá sƿá sunne on dæg ·
⁊ sƿa hí hí gearnlicor sceaƿodon · sƿá scimodon heora eagon sƿiðor ·
Agnes hí þa astrehte þone ælmihtigan biddende · ⁠153
⁊ god hyre þa asende scinende tunecan
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agnes

Þa ƿearð iulianus · for his ƿælhreoƿnysse ⁠419
sona þæs ofslægæn · þurh scā* marian hæse ·
cristen-dom ƿæs þeonde · ⁊ þa halgan ƿurdon gecydde ·
sƿa  ƿode menn · ƿurdon gehælede ·
on ðam ylcan huse · þe þa halgan onlagon ·
⁊ terrentianes sunu · mid sƿeartum deofle afylled ·
arn to heora byrgenum · egeslice ƿedende ·
⁊ se fæder sona gesohte þa byrigena ·
⁊dette his synne  he ofsloh ða halgan ·
⁊ ƿearð gefullod · ⁊ his suna ƿittig ·
þam hælende to lofe · þe leofað á on ecnysse · Amen.
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Agnes

Hine ƿylcumede se casere · ⁊ cƿæð him to mid blysse · ⁠339
Þa ða þu to þam gefeohte ferdest · þu offrodost þam fulum deoflum · ⁠340
⁊ nu ðu sigefæst come · þu ge-bæde þe to criste ·
⁊ to his apostolum · cyð me hu hit sy ·
Þa aléat gallicanus · to ðam geleaf-fullan casere · ⁠343
⁊ sæde be endebyrdnysse hu he beah to gode ·
Þa scyððiscan þeoda ofslogan ure fela · ⁠345
⁊ ic ƿearð belocen on anre lytlan byrig ·
mid hƿonlicum fultume · ⁊ ƿe feohtan ne dorston ·
ongean ðone ormæstan here · he (sic) hæfde þa burh beseten ·
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