For the yere of oure lord five honderd & +xv+ / our lord ſuffred his people moche to be tormentyd by the cruelte of the paynyms / And Coſdroe[33] Kynge of the Perceens ſubdued to his empyre all the Royaumes of the world / And he cam into Iheruſalem and was aferd and a dred of the ſepulcre of our lord & retorned / but he bare with hym the parte of the hooly Croſſe / that ſaynte Helene had left ther. And then he wold be worſhiped of alle the peple / as a god / & dyd do make a tour of gold and of ſylver wherein precious ſtones ſhone / and made therein the ymages of the ſonne and of the mone and of the ſterres / and made that by ſubtyle conduytes water to be hydde / and to come doune in the maner of rayne / And in the laſte ſtage he made horſes to draw charyotes round aboute lyke as they had mevyd the toure / and made it to ſeme as it had thondred / and delyvered his Royaume to his ſone. And thus this curſyd man abode in this Temple / and dyd doo ſette the croſſe of our lord by hym and commaunded that he ſhold be callyd god of alle the peple / And as it is redde in libro de mitrali[H] officio the ſaid Coſdroe reſydent in his trone as a fader / ſette the tree of the Croſſe on his ryght ſyde in ſtede of the ſonne / and a cock in the lyft ſyde in ſtede of the hooly ghooſt / & commaunded / that he ſhold be called fader /. And then Heracle[I] themperour aſſembled a grete hooſt / and cam for to fyght wyth the ſonne of Coſdroe by the ryver of danubie / & thenne hit pleaſyd to eyther prynce / that eche of them ſhold fyght one ageynſte that other upon the brydge / & he that ſhold vaynquyſſhe & overcome his adverſarye ſholde be prynce of thempyre withoute hurtyng eyther of bothe hoſtes / & ſo hit was ordeyned & ſworn / & that who ſomever ſhold helpe his prynce ſhold have forthwith his legges & armes cut of / & to be plonged / & caſt in to the Ryver. [Sidenote: 34 _Throne, or ſeat; French, ſiège._] [Sidenote: 35 _Astoniſhed._] [Sidenote: 36 _Shoen—shoes._] [Sidenote: 37 _Beſprinkled._] [Sidenote: 38 _Invited._] [Sidenote: 39 _Pacified, appeaſed._] [Sidenote: 40 _Ampullæ, bottles or flaſks._] [Sidenote: 41 _Conſecrated._]