any lust in me, because I trust in Thee.'
While Chrysanthus was speaking these words to God,
the maidens slept so heavy a sleep
that one could not arouse them except by casting them
out of the bower of the youth who loved chastity.
Outside the bower they ate and kept awake,
and as quickly as they went in they fell asleep.
Then this was soon told to the father,
and he bewept his son as if he were dead.
Then said a certain counsellor, that Chrysanthus had learnt
magic from the Christians, and had overcome therewith
the innocent maidens in the bower thus easily;
and urged the father to find some maiden
educated in arts, who could answer him.
There was a certain maiden, wonderfully skilled,
in the same city, of noble parentage,
called Daria, living in heathenism,
fair in stature and wise in philosophy.
Then straightway Polemius sent his friends
to the maiden Daria, and greatly besought her
that she would entice Chrysanthus from Christ by speech,
and that she should have him for a husband afterward.
Then at last it befell him that she consented to do so,
and thus came to the youth, adorned with gold
and shining gem-stones, suddenly, like a sunbeam,
and comforted him with her fair words.
Then spoke Chrysanthus thus to her with pure mind:
'much hast thou adorned thyself with gold
that thou, with thy beauty, mightest frustrate my will;
but thou mightest have the Saviour for bridegroom
if thou wouldst love Him, and keep thyself chaste
in unspotted virginity, and if thou wouldst be as fair
within, in your mind, as thou art without.'
Daria answered him ' I did it not for wantonness,
that I, thus adorned, came in unto thee;
