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      CHAPTER VI.

      1 Mary looks on a woman in whom Satan had taken

       up his abode, and she becomes dispossessed.

       5 Christ kissed by a bride made dumb by sorcerers,

       cures her.

       11 Miraculously cures a gentlewoman in whom Satan

       had taken up his abode.

       16 A leprous girl cured by the water in which he was

       washed, and becomes the servant of Joseph and Mary.

       20 The leprous son of a prince's wife cured in like manner.

       37 Has mother offers large gifts to Mary, and dismisses her.

      THEN they went into another

       city where there was a woman

       possessed with a devil, and in

       whom Satan, that cursed rebel,

       had taken up his abode.

      2 One night, when she went to

       fetch water, she could neither

       endure her clothes on, nor to be

       in any house; but as often as they

       tied her with chains or cords, she

       brake them, and went out into desert

       places, and sometimes standing

       where roads crossed, and in

       church yards, would throw stones

       at men.

      3 When St. Mary saw this

       woman, she pitied her; where

       upon Satan presently left her, and

       fled away in the form of a young

       man, saying, Wo to me, because

       of thee, Mary, and thy son.

      4 So the woman was delivered

       from her torment; but considering

       herself naked, she blushed,

       and avoided seeing any man and

       having put on her clothes, went

       home, and gave an account of her

       case to her father and relations

       who, as they were the best of the

       city, entertained St. Mary and

       Joseph with the greatest respect.

      5 The next morning having

       received a sufficient supply of

       provisions for the road, they went

       from them, and about the evening of

       the day arrived at another town,

       where a marriage was then about

       to be solemnized; but by the arts

       of Satan and the practices of a

       sorcerers, the bride was become

       so dumb, that she could not so

       much as open her mouth.

      6 But when this dumb bride

       saw the Lady St. Mary entering

       into the town, and carrying

       Lord Christ in her arms, she

       stretched out her hands to the

       Lord Christ, and-took him in her

       arms, and closely hugging him,

       very often kissed him, continually

       moving him and, pressing him to

       her body.

      7 Straightway the string of her

       tongue was loosed, and her ears

       were opened, and she began to

       sing praises unto God, who had

       restored her.

      8 So there was great joy among

       the inhabitants of the town that

       night, who thought that God and

       his angels were come down among

       them.

      9 In this place they abode

       three days, meeting with the greatest

       respect and most splendid entertainment.

      10 And being then furnished by

       the people with provisions for the

       road, they departed and went to

       another city, in which they were

       inclined to lodge, because it was a

       famous place.

      11 There was in this city a

       gentlewoman, who, as she went down

       one day to the river to bathe, behold

       cursed Satan leaped upon her in the

       form of a serpent.

      12 And folded himself about her

       belly, and every night lay upon

       her.

      13 This woman seeing the Lady

       St. Mary, and the Lord Christ the

       infant in her bosom, asked the

       Lady St. Mary, that she would

       give her the child to kiss, and

       carry in her arms.

      14 When she had consented,

       and as soon as the woman had

       moved the child, Satan left her,

       and fled away, nor did the woman

       ever afterwards see him.

      15 Hereupon all the neighbors

       praised the Supreme God, and the

       woman reward them with ample,

       beneficence.

      16 On the morrow, the same

       woman brought perfumed water to

       wash the Lord Jesus; and when

       she had washed him, she preserved

       the water.

      17 And there was a girl there,

       whose body was white with a

       leprosy, who being sprinkled with

       this water, and washed, was

       instantly cleansed from her leprosy.

      18 The people therefore said

       Without doubt Joseph and Mary,

       and that boy are Gods, for they do

       not look like mortals.

      19 And when they were making

       ready to go away, the girl, who

       had been troubled with the leprosy,

       came and desired

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