XXVII.

"Afterward, methought I saw Him taken down of hanging on the cross, and

set in a sepulchre of stone. Thereof had I great pity for, so long as

meseemed I saw Him thus never might I withhold me from weeping. And so

soon as the pity came into my heart, and the tears into my eyes, I had

my sight even as you see. In such a Lord as this ought one to believe,

for He suffered death when He might lightly have avoided it had He so

willed, but He did it to save His people. In this Lord I will that ye

all believe, and so renounce our false gods, for they be devils and

therefore may not aid us nor avail us. And he that will not believe,

him will I make be slain or die a shameful death."

The Lady made her be held up and baptized, and all them that would not

do the same she made be destroyed and banished. This history telleth

us that her name was Salubre. She was good lady and well believed in

God, and so holy life led she thereafter that in a hermitage she died.

Perceval departed from the castle right joyous in his heart of the Lady

and her people that believed in the New Law.

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