And Under That Church, In Going Down By
Twenty-Two Degrees, Lieth Joachim, Our Lady's Father, In A Fair
Tomb Of Stone; And There Beside Lay Some-Time Saint Anne, His Wife;
But Saint Helen Let Translate Her To Constantinople.
And in that
church is a well, in manner of a cistern, that is clept PROBATICA
PISCINA, that hath five entries.
Into that well angels were wont
to come from heaven and bathe them within. And what man, that
first bathed him after the moving of the water, was made whole of
what manner of sickness that he had. And there our Lord healed a
man of the palsy that lay thirty-eight year, and our Lord said to
him, TOLLE GRABATUM TUUM ET AMBULA, that is to say, 'Take thy bed
and go.' And there beside was Pilate's house.
And fast by is King Herod's house, that let slay the innocents.
This Herod was over-much cursed and cruel. For first he let slay
his wife that he loved right well; and for the passing love that he
had to her when he saw her dead, he fell in a rage and out of his
wit a great while; and sithen he came again to his wit. And after
he let slay his two sons that he had of that wife. And after that
he let slay another of his wives, and a son that he had with her.
And after that he let slay his own mother; and he would have slain
his brother also, but he died suddenly.
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