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18 ever serve thee with a clean heart an mind, and let not this wicked ma prevail with me, nor any other like wickedness come nigh me.' When she had ended her prayers, there arose suddenly a great tempest in the sea so that the ship broke all in pieces and all that were therein perished, save the Lady, as they thought; and she caught a cable and saved herself, and the master caught a board of the ship and saved himself likewise: Nevertheless she knew not of him, nor he of her, for they were driven to divers coasts. The Lady landed in her own empire, near to a rich city, wherein she was honourably received, and the lived so holy a life, that God gave her grace and power to heal lick folk of all manger of diseases: Wherefore there came much people to her, both crooked, 'blind, and lame, and every man through the grace of God, and her good behaviour was healed, wherefore, Her name was known through divers regions. Nevertheless she was not known as the Empress. At the same time the Emperor's brother that had hanged her before by the hair,