and said:  Christopher, come out and bear me over.  Then he awoke and went out, but he found no man.  And when he was again in his house, he heard the same voice and he ran Out and found nobody.  The third time he was called and came thither, and found a child beside the rivage of the river, which prayed him goodly to bear him over the water.  And then Christopher lift up the child on his shoulders, and took his staff, and entered into the river for to pass.  And the water of the river arose and swelled more and more:  and the child was heavy as lead, and alway as he went further the water increased and grew more, and the child more and more waxed heavy, insomuch that Christopher had great anguish and was afeard to be drowned.  And when he was escaped with great pain, and passed the water, and set the child aground, he said to the child:  Child, thou hast put me in great peril; thou weighest almost as I had all the world upon me, I might bear no greater burden.  And the child answered:  Christopher, marvel thee nothing, for thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, but thou hast borne him that created and made all the world, upon thy shoulders.  I am Jesu Christ the king, to whom thou servest in this work.  And because that thou know that I say to be the truth, set thy staff in the earth by thy house, and thou shalt see to-morn that it shall bear flowers and fruit, and anon he vanished from his eyes.  And then Christopher set his staff in the earth, and when he arose on the morn, he found his staff like a palmier bearing flowers, leaves and dates.

And then Christopher went into the city of Lycia, and understood not their language.  Then he prayed our Lord that he might understand them, and so he did.  And as he was in this prayer, the judges supposed that he had been a fool, and left him there.  And then when Christopher understood the language, he covered his visage and went to the place where they martyred Christian men, and comforted them in our Lord.  And then the judges smote him in the face, and Christopher said to them:  If I were not Christian I should avenge mine injury.  And then Christopher pitched his rod in the earth, and prayed to our Lord that for to convert the people it might bear flowers and fruit, and anon it did so.  And then he converted eight thousand men.  And then the king sent two knights for to fetch him to the king, and they found him praying, and durst not tell to him so.  And anon after, the king sent as many more, and they anon set them down for to pray with him.  And when Christopher arose, he said to them:  What seek ye?  And when they saw him in the visage they said to him:  The king hath sent us, that we should lead thee bound unto him.  And Christopher said to them:  If I would, ye should not lead me to him, bound ne unbound.  And they said to him:  If thou wilt go thy way, go quit, where thou wilt.  And we shall say to the king that we have not found thee.  It shall not be so, said he, but I shall go with you.  And then