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38 heaven, and all them that call upon thee, I shall hear them for thy love.' Then the hour of her death approaching, she commanded that she should be borne out of the house that she might behold and look up into heaven, and to lay her on the earth, and to hold the sign of the cross tofore her; and saying these words, she prayed: 'My sweet guest, I beseech thee to keep me, thy poor creature, and like as thou hast vouchsafed to be lodged with me, so I beseech thee to receive me into thine heavenly harbour.' And then she bade that the Passion after Luke should be read tofore her, and when this was said: 'Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum'; she gave up her spirit and died in our Lord. The next day following, that was the Sunday, whiles they said lauds about her body, and did her obsequies, and about the hour of tierce, at Petrogoricke, our Lord appeared to the blessed Frontonius singing mass, which after the epistle slept in his chair, and said to him: 'My well-beloved Frontone, if thou wilt fulfil that thou behighest long sith to my hostess Martha, arise anon and follow me.' Whose commandment he obeyed, and suddenly both came to Tarascona, and singing the office about the body and the other answering, they with their own hands laid the body into the sepulchre. And troth it was that at Petrogoricke, when they had sung in the choir and the deacon should go read the gospel and receive the benediction, they awoke the bishop, demanding the benediction. Then the bishop awoke and said: 'Why have ye awakened me, my brethren? Our Lord Jesu Christ hath led me to his hostess Martha,