Then, some time later, after the child was eighteen months of age, the two women said to the mother, “Lady, we must leave this place; it seems to us that we have been here long enough.”

And she answered, “As soon as you are gone they will bring me to trial. ”

“We can do no more, and we can’t stay here forever.”

She wept and cried out for mercy: for God’s sake, could they not bear to stay awhile longer?

They went off to a window while the mother held her child in her arms and sat and wept very bitterly and said, “Dear son, I will be put to death because of you, and I haven’t deserved it; no one knows the truth, yet I am not believed, so I will have to die.”

She spoke these words to her son and said that it was a great shame that God had allowed him to be born.

And while she wept and wailed to Our Lord, the child looked at her and said with a smile, “Never will you die for what has happened to you because of me.”

When the mother heard him, her heart nearly stopped beating, and she became frightened. Her arms went limp and she dropped him; he fell to the floor and screamed.

Vulgate Merlin