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This was often done and from year to year they came in increasing numbers， not for the sake of Christ but for earthly advantage. They made haste to come， not as envoys any longer but as loyal vassals， on Easter Eve to put themselves at the disposal of the emperor; and it happened that on a certain occasion they came to the number of fifty. The emperor asked them whether they wished to be baptised， and when they had confessed he bade them forthwith be sprinkled with holy water. As linen garments were not ready in sufficient numbers he ordered shirts to be cut up and sewn together into the fashion of wraps. One of these was forthwith clapped upon the shoulders of one of the elder men; and when he had looked all over it for a minute， he conceived fierce anger in his mind， and said to the emperor:“I have gone through this washing business here twenty times already， and I have been dressed in excellent clothes of perfect whiteness; but a sack like this is more fit for clodhoppers than for soldiers. If I were not afraid of my nakedness， for you have taken away my own clothes and have given me no new ones， I would soon leave your wrap and your Christ as well.”
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