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Rh wicked dragon! Now her father and mother, and all who were about her, or saw her, pitied her lot; and men stood in confusion around her, and all wept and lamented, especially when she herself wept and said, O my brethren and friends, is there no one to deliver me from this murderer? But the daughter of the prince, who had been healed of her leprosy, hearing the voice of the damsel, went up to the roof of her castle and saw her with her hands clasped above her head weeping, and all the groups of those who stood around likewise weeping. Therefore she asked the husband of this demoniac whether the mother of his wife was living. When he had said that both her parents were alive, she said, Call her mother to me. When she saw her come, after being called by him, she said, Is this distracted young woman thy daughter? Yea, O lady, said the sad and weeping woman, she is my daughter. The prince's daughter answered, Hide my secret: for I confess to thee that I was a leper, but now lady Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, hath healed me. But if thou wouldst have thy daughter healed, take her to Bethlehem and seek out Mary, the mother of Jesus, and be sure thy daughter will be healed; and I am sure thou wilt return hither rejoicing with thy daughter in good health. The woman as soon as she heard the saying of the prince's daughter, immediately took her daughter with her, and, proceeding