by Almighty God, for Swithhun's merits,
and he then went home whole on his feet,
who before was borne on a bier to church.
Then afterwards he went very quickly to Winchester,
and told the venerable bishop AEthelwold
how he had been healed through the holy Swithhun;
and Landferth, the foreigner, set it down in Latin.
Now is it to be known, that we should not at all trust
too much to dreams, because they are not all from God;
some dreams are in truth from God,
even as we read in books, and some are from the devil
for some deceit, [seeking] how he may pervert the soul,
but his phantasms cannot harm good men,
if they cross themselves, and commend themselves to God.
Those dreams are pleasant which come from God,
and those are fearful which come from the devil;
and God Himself forbade us to follow dreams,
lest the devil have power to bewitch us.
A certain man in "Winchester was angry with his serf
for some carelessness, and put him in fetters;
he sat there a long time in the hated bonds
until he stole out, hopping by help of his staff,
and sought Saint Swithhun with lamentation.
The bolt at once shot out of the fetter,
and the serf rose up, freed by the saint.
A certain man was bound about the head
for his heavy guilt; he came to the saint,
and his sore head-bond soon burst asunder as he prayed.
We cannot write, nor recount in words,
all the miracles that the holy man Swithhun
