3
And when Paul had gaddered a boundle of stickes and put them into the fyre ther came a viper out of the heet and lept on his honde.
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When the men of the contre sawe the worme hange on his honde they sayde amonge the selves: this man must nedes be a mortherer. Whome (though he have escaped the see) yet vengeaunce suffreth not to lyve.
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But he shouke of the vermen into the fyre and felt no harme.
6
Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had loked a greate whyle and sawe no harme come to him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God.
7
In the same quarters the chefe man of the yle whose name was Publius had a lordshippe: the same receaved vs and lodged vs thre dayes courteously.
8
And it fortuned that the father of Publius laye sicke of a fiever and of a bluddy flixe. To who Paul entred in and prayde and layde his hondes on him and healed him.
9
When this was done other also which had diseases in the yle came and were healed.
10
And they dyd vs gret honoure. And when we departed they laded vs with thinges necessary.
11
After thre monethes we departed in a ship of Alexandry which had wyntred in the yle whose badge was Castor and Pollux.
12
And whe we came to Cyracusa we taryed there .iii. dayes.
13
And from thence we set a compasse and came to Regium. And after one daye the south wynde blewe and we came the next daye to Putiolus: