• So reinable and wise she was
• Both of wit and of deed,
• That each man had of the young thing
• Wonder and eke dread.
• She was never seen once wroth
• Nor lying once known,
• Nor dealt amiss with any man,
• But evermore held on.

• She sewed and spun and combed also
• 10Both the wool and the linne:
• Other earthly good had she none
• Her life for to win.
• All work days, all the while
• She worked constantly;
• Each morning, ere the day wore on,
• At her beads she would be.

• From under to mid-overnoon
• At her work she would sit,
• Weaving or spinning or sewing:
• 20Good she was of wit.
• Each evening she was at her beads
• With word and with thought:
• An angel came to her every day
• And from Heaven her meat brought.

• Little else men saw her eat:
• All the work that she made
• Among poor folk she portioned out
• And lived by God's aid.



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• When she of any sick heard tell,
• 30Anon to them she went,
• And comforted and made them whole
• By the grace that God sent.

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(Auchinleck M.S. 12 - 1300)