Him right sweetly that, and so it were that He had such virtue and such of the Lord in whom they that hold the New Law believe. And I prayed might I not hold myself but that I wept for pity of Him. Therewithal I believe in Him. At that hour I fell on sleep, and meseemed that I saw with Her, told me that My Lady had lost no whit of her maidenhood for But in anyway it pleased me much that I had seen it. It seemed me meseemed that at His deliverance there was a company of folk the an evil folk beat Him with scourges and rods right cruelly, so that the knight that was arrived here, and that and I did not, sore wroth would "When the Child was born, so passing fair was He and so passing gentle and made full great joy. And methought that an ancient man that was puissance as many said, He would make me see clear, so as that I might like it were the sun shone at right noonday." that they would restore me my sight. It seemed me they made answer awoke and marvelled much whence it should come and what it might be. fairest that were seen ever, and they were like as it had been birds blood ran down thereof. They would have no mercy on Him. Of this they be with me. And when I had heard their voices say that nought XXVI. Child therewithin, and He had about Him a great brightness of light the Child. Well pleased was I the while this thing lasted me. It one of the fairest Ladies in the world, and she was delivered of a a Man bound to a stake, in whom was great sweetness and humility, and and of so sweet semblant that the looks of Him pleased me well; and seemed me that I saw it like as I do you. Thereafter, methought I saw might they avail me as for that I had prayed of them, I remembered me that they had no power so to do, but that I should make be slain the