ave thy folly, and I shall enhance thee to great honor
and worship. Then began St. George to smile, and said to him: Wherefore
saidst thou not to me thus at the beginning? I am ready to do as thou
sayest. Then was Dacian glad and made to cry over all the town that all
the people should assemble for to see George make sacrifice which so
much had striven there against. Then was the city arrayed and feast
kept throughout all the town, and all came to the temple for to see him.

When St. George was on his knees, and they supposed that he would have
worshipped the idols, he prayed our Lord God of heaven that he would
destroy the temple and the idol in the honor of his name, for to make
the people to be converted. And anon the fire descended from heaven and
burned the temple, and the idols, and their priests, and sith the earth
opened and swallowed all the cinders and ashes that were left. Then
Dacian made him to be brought tofore him, and said to him: What be the
evil deeds that thou hast done, and also great untruth? Then said to him
St. George: Ah, sir, believe it not, but come with me and see how I
shall sacrifice. Then said Dacian to him: I see well thy fraud and thy
barat, thou wilt make the earth to swallow me, like as thou hast the
temple and my gods. Then said St. George: O caitiff, tell me how may thy
gods help thee when they may not help themselves! Then was Dacian so
angry that he said to his wife: I shall die for anger if I may not
surmount and overcome this man. Then said she to him: Evil and cruel
tyrant! ne seest thou not the great virtue of the Christian people? I
said to thee well that thou shouldst not do to them any harm, for their
God fighteth for them, and know thou well that I will become Christian.
Then was Dacian much abashed and said to her: Wilt thou be Christian?
Then he took her by the hair, and did do beat her cruelly. Then demanded
she of St. George: What may I become because I am not christened? Then
answered the blessed George: Doubt thee nothing, fair daughter, for thou
shalt be baptized in thy blood. Then began she to worship our Lord Jesu
Christ, and so she died and went to heaven. On the morn Dacian gave his
sentence that St. George should be drawn through all the city, and
after, his head should be smitten off. Then made he his prayer to our
Lord that all they that desired any boon might get it of our Lord God in
his name, and a voice came from heaven which said that it which he had
desire