But she steadfastly adhered to God her Lord, as related above; and the Lord took away her pain, so that she said to the lords: “Ask me, and I shall answer you: for I no longer feel the least pain in my flesh, as I did before.”
Lords. “Will you not yet confess?”
Elizabeth. “No, my lords.”
They then applied the screws to her shins, one on each.”
She said: “O my lords, do not put me to shame; for never a man touched my bare body.”
“The Procurator General said: “Miss Elizabeth, we shall not treat you dishonorably.”
She then fainted away. They said to one another: “Perhaps she is dead.”
But waking up, she said: “I live, and am not dead.”
They then took off all the screws, and plied her with entreaties.
Elizabeth. “Why do you thus entreat me? this is the way to do with children.”