limbs of Antichrist, with lying pretension;
one was in Spain who seduced the people of the country,
and long beguiled them with many delusions,
and said that he was Elias the prophet;
again afterwards he said that he was Christ himself,
and when some bishop, through simplicity,
believed the pretender and prayed to him,
he was on account of that heresy driven from his government.
There was another heretic also in the Eastern part,
who said that he was John the Baptist;
so likewise false prophets shall come before this world's ending
in every land, and shall mar the faith
until Antichrist himself shall come at the last.
XXVIII. Martin came once at the time of midwinter
to a priest's house, and so they made his bed
in the monastery parlour, and a great fire was there lighted.
Then the priests desired to bed him worthily,
and bare much straw for his bedding,
and took no heed of the fire which was on the floor.
Afterward when the holy man came, then he threw all the straw
out of the bedding, because he oftenest lay
upon a hair-cloth on the bare floor.
Thus he shunned the softness of the unaccustomed bedding,
and lay on the floor, even as we have liere said before.
The room was very narrow and logs were lying there;
and at midnight, when men slept fastest,
the fire was kindled with a very sudden burning
and filled the little house with the flame.
Then Martin was aroused by the flame,
and there was no man with him in the house,
and he in the sudden accident seized the door,
and could not unshoot the bolts quickly enough,
and the flame wound fiercely about him
so that his clothes burned on his back,
