But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Þerfor greet ioye was maad in þat citee. But þere was a man in þat citee, whos name was Symount, a witche, þat hadde disseyued þe folc of Samarie, seiynge, þat him silf was sum greet man.