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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Chrysanthus and his Wife Daria

Þa ƿoldon ða hæðenan habban hi to bysmore ·⁠257
⁊ nyston  se [o] leo læg inne mid hire ·
eode þa heora an into þam mædene ·
ac seo leo hine gelæhte · ⁊ alede hine adune
⁊ beseah to darian sƿylce heo axian ƿolde ·
hu he [o] ƿolde be him þa he ge-ƿyld læg ·
Daria þa cƿ̅ · to þam deore þus ·⁠263
Ic þe halsige þurh crist  þu þam cnihte ne derige ·⁠264
ác læt hine butan ege hlystan minre spræce ·
Þa forlét seo leo þone ungeleaffullan cniht ·⁠266
⁊ forstód him þa duru  he darian gespræce ·
⁊  nan oþer man ne mihte in to him ·
Daria þa cƿ̅ to þam ofdræddan men ·⁠269
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Chrysanthus and his Wife Daria

Ic bidde þe drihten  þu dó þæs næddran⁠063
 hí ealle slapon on minre gesihðe nu ·
 hí aƿræccan ne magon mid heora ƿodlican ple|gan
ænige galnysse on me for-ðan-þe ic truƿige on þe ·
Mid-þam-þe crisantus clypode þas ƿord to gode ·⁠067
þa slepon þa mædene sƿa sƿarū slape ·
 man hi aƿreccan ne mihte butan man hi aƿurpe
ut of þæs cnihtes bure þe ða clænnysse lufode ·
Ƿið-utan þā bure hí æton ⁊ ƿacodon ·⁠071
⁊ sƿa hraðe sƿa hí in-eodon hí ƿurdon on slæpe ·
Þis ƿearð þa gesǽd sona þā fæder ·⁠073
⁊ he beƿeop þone sunu sƿilce he dead ƿære ·
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Ælfric Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Passion of Chrysanthus and his Wife Daria

He het beheafdian siððan þa hund-seofontig cempan⁠227
butan heora hƿilc ƿolde aƿegan his geleafan ·
ac hí ealle efston anrædlice to slæge ·
⁊ claudies tƿegen suna cƿædon  hí ƿæron
on criste gefullode · ⁊ under-fón ƿoldon deað ·
mid þam cempum · for cristes geleafan ·
Hi ƿurdon þa ofslagene samod for criste ·⁠233
⁊ hilaria se eadiga [sic @ Skeat] eac ƿearð gelæht
to þam martyr-dome · fram þam manfullan ·
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