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You must come up, my lord;—you must see it with your own eyes;—the Princess's body is working miracles.

You lie!

I do not lie, my lord! I am no believer in this foreign doctrine; but what I have seen I cannot doubt.

What have you seen?

The whole town is in a frenzy. They are bearing the sick and crippled to the Princess's bier; the priests let them touch it, and they go away healed.

And this you yourself have seen?

Yes, my lord; I saw an epileptic woman go forth from the church healed, praising the Galileans' God.

Ah, Maximus, Maximus!

Hark, how the Christians exult;—some fresh miracle must have happened.