Loth & þo luly-whit his lefly two deȝt{er}, Ay folȝed here face, bifore her boþe yȝen; Bot þe balleful burde, þat neu{er} bode keped, [Headnote: LOT’S WIFE BECOMES A STIFF STONE.] [Sidenote: Lot’s wife looks behind her, and is turned to a stiff stone “as salt as any sea.”] Blusched by-hynden her bak, þat bale forto herkken; 980 Hit watȝ lusty lothes wyf þat ou{er} he[r] lyfte schulder. Ones ho bluschet to þe burȝe, bot bod ho no lenger, Þat ho nas stadde a stiffe ston, a stalworth image Al so salt as ani se & so ho ȝet standeȝ. 984 [Sidenote: Her companions do not miss her till they reach Zoar.] Þay slypped bi & syȝe hir not þat wern hir samen feres, Tyl þay i{n} segor wern sette, & sayned our lorde; Wyth lyȝt loueȝ vplyfte þay loued hy{m} swyþe, Þat so his seruau{n}tes wolde see & saue of such woþe. 988 [Sidenote: By this time all were drowned.] Al watȝ dampped & don, & drowned by þe{n}ne; [Sidenote: The people of Zoar, for dread, rush into the sea and are destroyed.] Þe ledeȝ of þat lyttel tou{n} wern lopen out for drede, I{n}-to þat malscrande mere, marred bylyue, Þat noȝt saued watȝ bot segor þat sat on a lawe, 992 [Sidenote: Only Zoar with three therein (Lot and his daughters) are saved.] Þe þre ledeȝ þer-i{n}, loth & his deȝter; For his make watȝ myst, þat on þe mou{n}t lenged In a stonen statue þat salt sauor habbes, [Sidenote: Lot’s wife is an image of salt for two faults: 1. She served salt before the Lord at supper. 2. She looked behind her.] For two fautes þat þe fol watȝ fou{n}de i{n} mistrauþe; 996 On, ho serued at þe soper salt bifore dryȝtyn & syþen, ho blusched hir bihynde, þaȝ hir forboden were; For on ho standes a ston, & salt for þat oþ{er}, & alle lyst on hir lik þat arn on launde bestes. 1000 [Sidenote: Abraham is up full early on the morn.] Abraham ful erly watȝ vp on þe morne, Þat alle naȝt [so] much niye hade no mon i{n} his hert, Al i{n} longi{n}g for loth leyen i{n} a wache, Þer he lafte hade oure lorde, he is on lofte wo{n}nen; 1004 [Sidenote: He looks towards Sodom, now only a pit filled with pitch, from which rise smoke, ashes and cinders, as from a furnace.] He sende toward sodomas þe syȝt of his yȝen, Þat eu{er} hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest As aparau{n}t to paradis þat plantted þe dryȝtyn, Nov is hit plu{n}ged i{n} a pit like of pich fylled. 1008 [Sidenote: [Fol. 71a.]] Suche a roþu{n} of a reche ros fro þe blake, Askeȝ vpe i{n} þe ayre & vselleȝ þer flowen, As a fornes ful of flot þat vpon fyr boyles, When bryȝt bre{n}nande brondeȝ ar bet þ{er} an-vnder. 1012 Þis watȝ a uengau{n}ce violent þat voyded þise places, Þat fou{n}dered hatȝ so fayr a folk & þe folde sonkken. [Headnote: THE DEAD SEA COVERS THE FIVE CITIES.]