philosophers and with his friends; and as they spake together of this matter, Paul came in, and the gates shut, and stood tofore Caesar and said:  Caesar, here is tofore thee Paul the knight of the king perdurable, and not vanquished.  Now believe then certainly that I am not dead but alive, but thou, caitiff, thou shalt die of an evil death, because thou hast slain the servants of God.  And when he had said thus he vanished away.  And Nero, what for dread and what for anger, he was nigh out of his wit, and wist not what to do.  Then by the counsel of his friends he unbound Patroclus and Barnabas and let them go where they would.

And the other knights, Longinus, master of the knights, and Accestus, came on the morn to the sepulchre of Paul, and there they found two men praying, that were Luke and Titus, and between them was Paul.  And when Luke and Titus saw them they were abashed and began to flee, and anon Paul vanished away, and the knights cried after them and said:  We come not to grieve you, but know ye for truth that we come for to be baptized of you, like as Paul hath said whom we saw now praying with you.  When they heard that they returned and baptized them with great joy.  The head of St. Paul was cast in a valley, and for the multitude of other heads of men that were slain and thrown there, it could not be known which it was.

THE LIFE OF ST. CHRISTOPHER

Christopher tofore his baptism was named Reprobus, but afterward he was named Christopher, which is as much to say as bearing Christ.  Christopher was of the lineage of the Canaanites, and he was of a right great stature, and had a terrible and fearful cheer and countenance.  And he was twelve cubits of length, and as it is read in some histories that, when he served and dwelled with the king of Canaan, it came in his mind that he would seek the greatest prince that was in the world, and him would he serve and obey.  And so far he went that he came to a right great king, of whom the renomee generally was that he was the greatest of the world.  And when the king saw him, he received him into his service, and made him to dwell in his court.  Upon a time a minstrel sang tofore him a song in which he named oft the devil, and the king, which was a Christian man, when he heard him name the devil, made anon the sign of the cross in his visage.  And when Christopher saw that, he had great marvel what sign it was, and wherefore the king made it, and he demanded of him.  And because the king would not say, he said:  If thou tell me not, I shall no longer dwell with thee, and then the king told to him, saying:  Alway when I hear the devil named, I fear that he should have power over me, and I garnish me with this sign that he grieve not ne annoy me.  Then Christopher said to him:  Doubtest thou the devil that he hurt thee not?  Then is the devil more mighty and greater than thou art.  I am then deceived of my hope and purpose, for I had supposed I had found the most mighty and the most greatest Lord of the world, but I commend thee to God, for I will go seek him for to be my Lord, and I his servant.  And then departed from this king, and hasted him for to seek the devil.