This is like that which the orthodox pope,
Gregory by name, said in his writing
concerning the holy Lawrence who lieth in the city of Rome,
that men were always wishing to see how he lay,
both good and evil, but God checked them,
so that there died in the looking all at once
seven men together; so the others desisted
from looking at the martyr with human error.
We have heard of many wonders in the popular talk
about the holy Edmund which we will not here
set down in writing; but every one knoweth them.
By this saint is it manifest and by others like him,
that Almighty God can raise man
again, in the day of judgement, incorruptible from the earth,
He who preserveth Edmund whole in his body
until the great day, though he was made of earth.
Worthy is the place for the sake of the venerable saint
that men should venerate it, and well provide it
with God's pure servants, to Christ's service,
because the saint is greater than men may imagine.
The English nation is not deprived of the Lord's saints,
since in English land lie such saints
as this holy king, and the blessed Cuthbert,
and saint Æthelthryth in Ely, and also her sister,
incorrupt in body, for the confirmation of the faith.
There are also many other saints among the English,
