And when they took him, he supposed that it was to lead him to death; nevertheless he went cheerfully: and when he appeared before the Emperor, Constantine arose and saluted him, and said, ‘I would know of thee who are those two gods who appeared to me in the visions of the night?’ And Sylvester replied, ‘They were not gods, but the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Then Constantine desired that he would show him the effigies of these two apostles; and Sylvester sent for two pictures of St. Peter and St. Paul, which were in the possession of certain pious Christians. Constantine, having beheld them, saw that they were the same who had appeared to him in his dream. Then Sylvester baptized him, and he came out of the font cured of his malady.” Gower also, Confessio Amantis , II , tells the story at length:⁠— “And in the while it was begunne A light, as though it were a sunne, Fro heven Into the place come Where that he toke his christendome, And ever amonge the holy tales Lich as they weren fisches scales They fellen from him now and efte, Till that there was nothing belefte Of all this grete maladie.” ↩