WestSaxon1175(i)
17 [Note: Misit herodes et tenuit iohannem et uinxit eum in carcerem propter herodiadem. ] Soðlice herodes sende & het iohanne ge-binden on cwarterne. for herodiadiscan his broðer lafe philippus for þan þe he nam hyo.
18 Ða saigde iohannes herode. nis þe alyfeð to hæbbe þines broðer wif.
19 Ða swerde herodias ymbe hine & wolde hine of-slean & hyo ne mihte.
20 Soðlice herodes on-drædde iohanne & wiste þt he wæs riht-wis. & halig. & he heold hine on cwarterne. & he ge-hyrde þt he fela wundre worhte & he lufeljce him ge-hyrde.
21 Ða se daig com herodes ge-berde-tide. he ge-garwede micele feorme his ealdor-mannen. & þam fermestan on galilëë.
22 & þa þa þare herodiadiscen dohter in-eode & tumbede. hit licode herode. & eallen þam þe him mid sæten. Se kyng cwæð þa to þam meigdene. bide me swa hwæt swa þu wille. & ich þe sylle.
23 Ænd he swor hire. Soðes ich þe sylle swa hwæt swa þu me bydst. þah þu wille half mine rice.
24 Þa hye ut eode. hyo cwæð to hire moder. Hwæs bidde ich. Þa cwæð hye. Iohannes heafed þas fulluhteres.
25 Sona þa hye mid efste in to þam kynge geode. hyo bæd & þus cwæð. Ic wille þt þu me rædlice on anen dissce selle johannes heafed.
26 Ða warð se kyng ge-unrot for þan aðe. & for þam þe mid him sæten. Nolde þah hyo unrotan
27 ac sente ænne cwellere & be-bead þt man his heafed on anen dissce brohte. Ænd he hine þa on cwartene be-heafdede.