The preste yede[22] yn whan thys was done, And comaunded hys sone Azone, That shuld go swythe after Ave, Oute of that karolle algate to have; But al to late that wurde was sayde, For on hem alle was the venjeaunce leyd. Azonde wende weyl for to spede Unto the karolle asswythe he yede; Hys syster by the arme he hente, And the arme fro the body wente; Men wundred alle that there wore, And merveyle nowe ye here more; For seythen he had the arme yn hand, The body yode furth karoland, And nother body ne the arme Bled never blode colde ne warme; But was as drye with al the haunche, As of a stok were ryve a braunche. Azone carries his sister's arm to the priest his father, and tells him the consequences of his rash curse. The priest, after much lamentation, buries the arm. The next morning it rises out of the grave; he buries it again, and again it rises. He buries it a third time, when it is cast out of the grave with considerable violence. He then carries it into the church that all might behold it. In the meantime the party continued dancing and singing, without taking any food or sleeping, "only a lepy wynke;" nor were they in the least affected by the weather. Their hair and nails ceased to grow, and their garments were neither soiled nor discoloured; but Sunge that songge that the wo wrozt, "Why stond we, why go we nozt." To see this curious and woful sight, the emperor travels from Rome, and orders his carpenters and other artificers to inclose them in a building; but this could not be done, for what was set up one day fell down on the next, and no covering could be made to protect the sinners till the time of mercy that Christ had appointed arrived; when, at the expiration of the twelvemonth, and in the very same hour in which the priest had pronounced his curse upon them, they were separated, and "in the twynklyng of an eye" ran into the church and fell down in a swoon on the pavement, where they lay three days before they were restored. On their recovery they tell the priest that he will not long survive: For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende, All they ryse that yche tyde, But Ave she lay dede besyde. Her father dies soon afterwards. The emperor causes Ave's arm to be put into a vessel and suspended in the church as an example to the spectators. The rest of the party, although separated, travelled about, but always dancing; and as they had been inseparable before, they were now not permitted to remain together. Four of them went hopping to Rome, their clothes undergoing no change, and their hair and nails not continuing to grow: