a coat and a mantle, and when I have that, I demand no more.  It is said for certain that he bare always a sudary in his bosom, with which he wiped the tears that ran from his eyes; for when he remembered the sweet presence of our Lord, for the great love that he had to him he might not forbear weeping.  And also when he remembered that he had renied him, he wept abundantly great plenty of tears, in such wise that he was so accustomed to weep that his face was burned with tears as it seemed, like as Clement saith.  And saith also that in the night when he heard the cock crow he would weep customably.  And after that it is read in Historia Ecclesiastica that, when St. Peter’s wife was led to her passion, he had great joy and called her by her proper name, and said to her:  My wife, remember thee of our Lord.

On a time when St. Peter had sent two of his disciples for to preach the faith of Jesu Christ, and when they had gone twenty days’ journey, one of them died, and that other then returned to St. Peter and told him what had happened, some say that it was St. Marcial that so died, and some say it was St. Maternus, and others say that it was St. Frank.  Then St. Peter gave to him his staff and commanded that he should return to his fellow, and lay it upon him, which he so did, then he which had been forty days dead, anon arose all living.

That time Simon the enchanter was in Jerusalem, and he said he was first truth, and affirmed that who that would believe in him he would make them perpetual.  And he also said that nothing to him was impossible.  It is read in the book of St. Clement that he said that he should be worshipped of all men as God, and that he might do all that he would.  And he said yet more:  When my mother Rachel commanded me that I should go reap corn in the field, and saw the sickle ready to reap with, I commanded the sickle to reap by itself alone, and it reaped ten times more than any other.  And yet he added hereto more, after Jerome, and said:  I am the Word of God, I am the Holy Ghost, I am Almighty, I am all that is of God.  He made serpents of brass to move, and made the images of iron and of stone to laugh, and dogs to sing, and as St. Linus saith, he would dispute with St. Peter and show, at a day assigned, that he was God.  And Peter came to the place where the strife should be, and said to them that were there:  Peace to you brethren that love truth.  To whom Simon said:  We have none need of thy peace, for if peace and concord were made, we should not profit to find the truth, for thieves have peace among them.  And therefore desire no peace but battle, for when two men fight and one is overcome then is it peace.  Then said Peter:  Why dreadest thou to hear of peace?  Of sins grow battles, where is no sin there is peace; in disputing is truth found, and in works righteousness.  Then said Simon:  It is not as thou sayest, but I shall show to thee the power of my dignity, that anon thou shalt adore me;