Cumque vidisset Albanum, mox ira succensus nimia quod se ille ultro pro hospite quem susceperat militibus offerre ac discrimini dare praesumpsisset, ad simulacra daemonum quibus adsistebat eum iussit pertrahi: Quia rebellem, inquiens, ac sacrilegum celare quam militibus reddere maluisti, ut contemptor divum meritam blasphemiae suae poenam lueret, quaecumque illi debebantur supplicia tu solvere habes, si a cultu nostrae religionis discedere tentas.
And when he had seen Alban, forthwith being all chafed with anger, for that he feared not voluntarily to offer himself unto the soldiers and come in peril of his life for the guest whom he had harboured, he commanded him to be dragged before the idols of devils before whom he was stood: And for so much, quoth he, as thou hadst rather to conceal the rebel and traitor to our gods than deliver him up unto the soldiers, that he might sustain due punishment for his blasphemous despising of the gods; look, what pains he should have suffered, the same shalt thou suffer, if thou assay to forsake the rites of our religion.
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