They sought very carefully for the shoe,
but no man was ever able to find it there.
So they returned home with the man that had been healed.
There were healed there, at the holy tomb,
eight sick men, miraculously, by the power of God,
before that he was taken up out of the tomb.
After these signs King Eadgar then
desired that the holy man should be exhumed,
and said to the venerable bishop AEthelwold
that he should translate him with great pomp.
Then bishop AEthelwold, with abbots and monks,
solemnly took up the saint with chanting,
and bore him into the church, St. Peter's house.
There he abideth in honour and worketh miracles.
Then there were healed, by the holy man,
four sick men within three days;
and during five months there were few days
when there were not healed at least three sick persons ;
sometimes five or six, or seven or eight,
ten or twelve, sixteen or eighteen.
Within ten days two hundred men were healed,
and so many within twelve months that no man could count them.
The burial-ground lay filled with crippled folk,
so that people could hardly get into the minster ;
and they were all so miraculously healed
within a few days, that one could not find there
five unsound men out of that great crowd.
In those days there were in the Isle of Wight three women,
two of them had been blind for the space of nine years,
and the third had never seen the sun's light,
