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 great pain now, in beating my face with the blowing of the wind; and these two ox-tongues that hang here above me I gave them sometime to two priests to pray for me, them I bought with mine own money, and therefore they ease me because the fishes of the sea gnaw on them and spare me; and this stone that I sit on lay sometime in a desolate place where it eased no man, and I took it thence and laid it in a foul way where it did much ease to them that went by that way, and therefore it easeth me now; for every good deed shall be rewarded and every evil deed shall be punished.' And the Sunday, against even, there came a great multitude of fiends, blasting and roaring, and bade S. Brandon go thence that they might have their servant Judas, 'for we dare not come into the presence of our master but if we bring him to hell with us.' And then said S. Brandon: 'I let not you to do your master's commandment, but by the power of our Lord Jesu Christ I charge you to leave him this night till to-morrow.' They said: 'How darest thou help him that so sold his master for thirty pence to the Jews, and caused him also to die the most shameful death upon the cross?' And then S. Brandon charged the fiends by his passion that they should not noy him that night. And then the fiends went their way roaring and crying towards hell to their master the great devil; and then Judas thanked S. Brandon so ruthfully, that it was pity to see; and on the morn the fiends came with a horrible noise, saying that they had that night suffered great pain because they brought not Judas and said that he should suffer double pain the six