and admonished by this vertuous Lady and a Frere Minor, he was con∣uerted and very deuoutly confessed his sinnes, and then was admitted into the hospital, where being, the Religious man sayd to S. Elizabeth: Sith you haue receaued the blind man, and haue giuen him to eat, you must also if you please, restore him his sight. The S. as one full of hu∣mility, answeared: Father that which you require is a worck of impor∣tance, and such as none but God can doe, as he alone that illuminateth the blinde: but sith it hath pleased his infinite bounty so mercifully to graunt him the light of grace, I shalbe glad that he voutchsafe him that of his eyes. And therfore Father, obtaine you of his diuine maiesty the light of one eye, and I wil endeauour to pray for the other. And so both of them with great confidence and feruour falling to their prayers, the sight of one eye was restored to the blind, and a litle after, the other. Wherin God shewed the difference of the meritts of the intercessors, in that the sight restored to the second eye, was very much clearer, purer, and sharper then the other.
The sainct one day entring secretly into the hospitall with two ser∣uants to visit the sick, she found att the dore a paralytique lying on the ground, who was also deafe and dumble. She hauing compassion of this poore creature, asked him with a low voice what he ayled. The sick man that could not yeare her, moued his head and mouth as one dumbe; and making signes with his handes, the seruant of God with feruour of the holy Ghost sayd vnto him: I command thee in the name of our Lord IESVS CHRIST, to tell me where is thy griefe: att which worde the paralytique arose on his feet and sayd: I haue bin for many yeares both dumbe and lame as you see, and this is the griefe I had. This sainct vtterly amazed att such a miracle, speedily retourned whence she came, to auoyd the notice and obseruation of the world.
As she went an other time to visitt the sick, it happened that she saw one so much decayed, as by reason of his extreme weaknes he could not eat. The S. prayed him to tell her what he desired to eat. The sick creature sighing answeared her, that he could willingly eat of some fresh-water fish: the vertuous Princesse, assuring him to procure it for him, left him much comforted, and presently sent a seruant of the hospitall to gett such fish for the sick man. But retourning he aduertised her that the riuer being frozen, there was no meane to haue any. Which this compassionate mother of the poore vnderstanding, hauing confi∣dence in God, and being well instructed by the holy Ghost, tooke a bason in her hand, and went incontinently to a fountaine close by the hospitall, wherinto hauing dipped her bason she drew it out full of water and fish, which with great pleasure she boiled, and gaue to the sick party that was halfe dead, who did eat with such appetite,