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28 down at his feet, and required of him pardon. Then the apostle said to him: 'God hath given to you much great grace when he hath showed to you his secrets; now believe in Jesu Christ and be ye baptized, to the end that thou be prince in the realm perdurable.' And then the brother of the king said: 'I have seen the palace that thou hast do make to my brother, and I am come for to buy it.' And the apostle said to him: 'If it be the will of thy brother it shall be done.' And the king said: 'Sith it pleaseth God, this shall be mine, and the apostle shall make to thee another; and if peradventure he may not, this same shall be common to thee and to me.' And the apostle answered and said: 'Many palaces be there in heaven which be made ready sith the beginning of the world, that be bought by price of the faith and by alms of your riches, which may well go tofore you to these palaces but they may not follow you.'

And after this, at the end of a month, the apostle made to assemble all them of the province, and when they were assembled he commanded that the feeble and sick should be set apart by themselves. Then he prayed for them, and they that were well enseigned and taught said Amen. And forthwith came a clear light from heaven which descended upon them, and smote down all the people and the apostle to the earth; and they supposed they had been smitten with thunder, and so lay by the space of half an hour. After, the apostle rose and said: 'Arise ye up, for my lord is come as thunder, and hath healed us;' and anon they arose all whole and glorified God