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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14746 ***
+
+[Transcriber's note:
+The original text has no page numbers; instead, the first few leaves
+of each 16-page signature are marked. This information is shown
+between paired double lines: || A iij.||. Other page breaks have
+been marked with double lines ||
+
+A few apparent typographic errors were corrected and are listed at
+the end of the text. Other possible errors are also noted but were
+left unchanged. All other spelling and punctuation are as in
+the original.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                   A dialoge
+              or communication of
+             two persons, deuysyd
+           and set forthe in the la-
+            tê tonge, by the noble
+              and famose clarke.
+             _Desiderius Erasmus_
+               intituled ye pyl-
+                  gremage of
+                   pure de-
+                     uoty-
+                      on.
+
+             Newly trãslatyd into
+                   Englishe.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+|| [+] ij.||
+
+To the reder.
+
+Amongest the writinges of all men, dearly belouyd
+reder, not onely of the diuersyte of tongues, but also
+the noble drawghts of so artificyall paynted figures,
+whiche haue so lyuely expressed to ye quycke ymage, the
+nature, ordre, & proporcyon of all states, as
+concernynge the gouernaunce of a Christen comêwealthe,
+that ther is (as I suppose) no parte of the scripture,
+which is not so enpowndyde, furnysshed, and set forthe,
+but that euery Christen man, therby may lerne his dewty
+to god, hys prynce, and hys nebure, and so consequently
+passe thourough the strayte pathe of the whiche
+scripture doth testyfye vpõ, very fewe can fynde ye
+entrye, wherby thorough faythe in the redêptyon of the
+worlde thorowe ye bloode of Christe the sone of god, to
+rayne || with the father and the holy goste eternally,
+accordynge to the promyse of Christe, sayinge. In my
+fathers hawse ther be many placys to dwell in, we wyll
+come to hym and make a mansyon place with hym and I
+haue and shall open thy name vnto them, that the same
+loue with the whiche thou louydest me, may be in theym,
+and I in thê, and thys is the kyngdome of god so often
+mouyd to vs in holy scripture, whiche all faythfull
+shall possesse and inheret for euermore: where as ye
+vnfaythfull, vnryghtswye, and synner shall not entre in
+to the kyngdome of god, bycause, of chaûgynge the glory
+of gode immortall in to the ymage of a corruptyble man,
+and therfore to incentiously he hathe suffrede them to
+wandre in theyr clowdes of ygnoraunce, preferrynge the
+lyes and corrupte || [+] iij.|| iudgmentes of man the
+veryte and the truthe of god, rather seruynge the
+creature then the creator, amongest all the parties of
+the whiche (as was spoken at the begynnyng) thys alwaye
+not alonely in the newe law, but also in the olde
+Testament was as a thynge moost abhomynable and
+displesant in the sight of gode prohybyte and forbyden:
+but our nature whiche hath in hym, the dampnable
+repugnaûce of synne agaynst the omnypotêt power of
+gode, lest euyn frome owre fyrst father Adam, is so
+enclyned to vyces, amongest the whiche it hath not
+gyuen the least parte to thys desperate synne of
+ydolatrye, agaynst the immaculate, and fearefull
+commandement of god. Thou shalt haue no straunge Gods
+in my syght, that it is sore to be dreadde the same
+iudgement to be gyuyn || vpon vs that was gyuen vpon
+the cytye of Ninyue to be absorped of the yerthe in to
+the yre and vengeannce of gode, whiche hathe ben the
+cause that so many wryters bothe of late dayes, and
+many yeres passede, haue euyn to deathe, resisted thes
+dampnable bolsterers of ydolatrye, gyuen theyr selues
+to the crosse in example of reformacyon to theyr
+bretherne, bothe in wrytinge and cownsell, exhortynge
+the flocke of Christe frome soche prophane doctryne,
+amongest whome the noble and famouse clerke _Desiderius
+Erasmus_ hath setforthe to the quycke ymage, before
+mennys eyes, the supersticyouse worshype and false
+honor gyuyn to bones, heddes, iawes, armes, stockes,
+stones, shyrtes, smokes, cotes, cappes, hattes, shoes,
+mytres, slyppers, sadles, rynges, bedes, gyrdles,
+bolles, || [+] iiij.|| belles, bokes, gloues, ropes,
+taperes, candelles, bootes, sporres, (my breath was
+almost past me) with many other soche dampnable
+allusyones of the deuylle to use theme as goddes
+contrary to the immaculate scripture of gode, morouer
+he notethe as it were of arrogancye the pryuate
+iudgment of certayne that of theyr owne brayne wolde
+cast out ymages of the temple, with out a comen consent
+and authoryte, some there be that alway seke halowes,
+and go vpon pylgramages vnder a pretense of holynes,
+whervpon thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes be now
+inuented, morouer they that haue ben at Hierusalem be
+called knightes of the sepulcre, and call one an other
+bretherne, and vpon palme-sondaye they play the foles
+sadely, drawynge after them an asse in a || rope, when
+they be not moche distante frome the woden asse that
+they drawe. The same do they conterfayte that haue ben
+at saynt Iames in Compostella. But they be more
+pernycyouse, that set forthe vncertayn relyques, for
+certayne, and attrybute more to them than they oughte
+to haue, and prostytute or sett theym forthe for
+fylthye lukre. But now whan they perceyue, that this
+theyr dãpnable *Corbane [*A tresure boxe of ye Iewes.]
+dothe decay, and that theyr most to be lamented blyndnes
+and longe accustomed errours shuld be redressed, they, all
+fayre bothe of god and man set asyde, rebelle and
+make insurrectyones contrary to the ordynaunce of gode,
+agaynst theyr kynge and liege lorde, prouokynge and
+allurynge the symple comynaitye to theyre dampnable
+ypocrysye and conspyracy, myndyng || [+] v.|| and goynge
+about to preuente our most soueraigne lordes iudgment,
+not yet gyuê vpon theyr Sodomiticall actes, and most
+horryble ypocrysy. But the worde of the lorde whiche
+they so tyrannously go aboute to suppresse with all the
+fauerours therof shall ouercome & destroy all soch most
+to be abhorred & deceyuable inuegelers & dysturbers of
+ye symple people to soch detestable treason. And that
+it may so do to the terryble example of thes and a11
+other rebelles and most dysloyal subiectes, and to ye
+greate comforthe & cõsolacyõ of his gracys faythfull
+and true comens. I requyre him which brethethe where he
+willithe and raygnethe eternall gode to graût vnto our
+seyde most dradde soueraygne lorde whose maiesty as it
+euydently appereth onely applieth his diligence to the
+aduaunsynge || & lettynge forthe of the most holsome
+documenth and teachyng of almyghty god, to the redres
+of long accustome euylls and damnable sectes, to the
+supportacion and mayntenaunce of godly and alowable
+ceremonyes, to the suppressynge and most to be desired
+abolishyng of the deuelishe and detestable vsurped
+aucthoryties, dampnable errours and prophane abuses
+brought in by that myghty Golyas, that obdurated
+Phareo, that proude Nembroth (whome god amêde) the
+byshope of Rome, to graunte (I say) vnto hys hyghnes,
+suche hys godly ayde and assistence, that hys grace
+with hys moost honorable counsell (agaynst whome this
+arrogant conspyracy is nowe moued and begonne) may
+ouercome and debelle the stud traytres as in tymes
+paste hys maiestye hath prudently || do other, that haue
+hertofore attempted to perpetrate and brynge to passe
+like sedicyous mishief, and so to establishe the hartes
+of hys gracys true subiectes that they may wyllyngly
+and according to theyr dueties, obey and fulfyll hys
+most lawfull and godly ordened lawes and commaundements
+wherby they shall not onely do the thyng agreable to
+goddes wylle and teachynges, in that he willeth euery
+soule to be subiected to the hygher power and obedyent
+to theyr prynce, but also (to theyr greate laude and
+prayse) shall shewe them selfe to be redy and
+confirmable to do theyr dueties in aydyng hys excellent
+hyghnes to the reformacyon of all pernicious abuses &
+chiefly of detestable ydolatrye, whiche is so muche
+prohibited in holy scripture and most displeasant to
+god, || for whiche intent and purpose the sayd most
+noble and famous clarke _Desiderius Erasmus_, compiled &
+made this dialoge in Laten, as it foloweth herafter
+nowe lately translated into our mother the Englishhe
+tonge. Auoyd therfore, most deare readere, all abuses
+whereby any inconuenyence may growe, other to the
+hynderaunce of godes worde, to the displeasure of thy
+prynce, (whome thou arte so straytly commaunded to
+obaye, or to the domage of a publike weale, whiche
+aboue all vices is noted most to be abhorred, not
+alonely of the most holy wryteres and expownderes of
+scripture, but also of prophane gentylles, whiche neuer
+perceyuyd other thinge than nature enclyned theyr
+hartes vnto, and so consequently to obtayne the
+fruytion of the godhode thorowe the faythe that was
+||    spoken of at the begynnynge to the
+         whiche the lorde Iesus Chri-
+           ste brynge vs all with a
+              perfaycte quyetnes,
+                   So be it.
+                       +
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+|| A.||
+
+        A pylgremage, for pure deuocyõ.
+
+_Menedemus._ [*Signifieth to forsake.] What new thynge
+ys it, that I se? doo I nat see _Ogygyus_ my neybur,
+whom no mã could espie of all thes sex monthes before?
+yt was a sayng that he was deed, It is euen he, except
+that I be ferre deceyuyd. I wyll go to hym, & byd hym
+good morow. Good morow Ogygyus.[*was faynyd of an old
+kynge of Thebanes.] Good morow to you Menedemus.
+_Mene._ I pray you frome what contray do you come to vs
+ayen so saffe. For here was a great comunicacyõ that
+you dyd sayle streght to hell. _Ogy._ No, thankyd be
+god, I haue faryd as well syns I went hens, as euer I
+dyd in all my lyffe. _Me._ Well, a man may well
+perceyue that all soche rumours be but vanytye. But I
+pray you what araye is this that you be in, me thynke
+that you be clothyd with cokle schelles, and be || ladê
+on euery syde with bruches of lead and tynne. And you
+be pretely garnyshyd with wrethes of strawe & your arme
+is full of *snakes egges.[*Signifyeth bedes. Malsyngam
+ys callyd parathalassia by cause it is ny to ye see.]
+_Ogy._ I haue bene on pylgremage at saynt Iames in
+Compostella, & at my retourne I dyd more relygyously
+vysyte our lady of Walsyngã in England, a very holy
+pylgremage, but I dyd rather vysyte her. For I was ther
+before within this thre yere. _Me._ I trowe, it was but
+for your pleasure. _Ogy._ Nay, it was for pure
+deuocyon. _Me._ I suppose you learnyd that relygyõ of
+the Grecyanes. _Ogy._ My mother in law dyd make a vowe
+that if her dougther shuld be delyueryd of a man chyld
+alyue, than that I shuld go to saynt Iames on
+pylgremage, and ther to salute and thãke hym. _Me._ Dyd
+you salute saynt Iames alonly in your name, and your
+mothers. _Ogy._ No, in the name of all owre house.
+_Me._ || A ij.|| Verely I thynke that your howshold as
+well shold haue prosperd, in case you had not salutyd
+hym at all. But I pray you what answer dyd he make to
+your salutacyon. _Ogy._ Nothynge at all. But whã I dyd
+offre, me tought he dyd lawghe vpon me, and becke at me
+with hedde, & dyd reche to me this cokleshell. _Me._
+Wherfore dothe he gyue rather suche schelles, than
+other thynges. _Ogygy._ For the see, whiche is nye vnto
+hym dothe mynystre plenty of suche. _Me._ O holy saynt
+Iames, that bothe is a mydwyffe to women with chyld,
+and also dothe helpe his pylgrymes. But I pray you what
+new kynd of makyng vowes is that that whan a mã is ydle
+he shall put the burden apon an other mannes bakke? In
+case that you doo bynd youre selffe with a vowe, that
+yf ye matter chaunche happyly whiche you haue in hande,
+that I for you || shall fast twyse in on weke, do you
+beleue that I can fulfyl youre vow? _Ogy._ No, I doo
+not beleue it if that you dyd vowe it in youre awne
+name. It is but a sport with yow to mokke sayntes. But
+this was my mother in law, I must nedys obey her, you
+know womenes affectyones, & I must obaye heres. _Me._
+If that you had not perfourmyd your vowe, what iopertye
+had you be in? _Ogy._ I graunt, he could not haue had
+an accyon ayenst me in ye law, but he myght from
+hensforthe be deafe to my vowes, orels pryuyly send
+some calamytye or wretchednes amongste my housholde,
+yow know well enuffe the maneres of great men. _Me._
+Tell me now what that same honest mã saynt Iames dothe,
+and howe he farythe. _Ogy._ Moche colder thã he was
+wontyd to do. _Me._ What is the cause of it? His age?
+_Ogy._ Oh you scoffer, yow || A iij.|| know wel enoghe
+that sayntes wax nat olde. But this new learnynge,
+whiche runnythe all the world ouer now a dayes, dothe
+cause hym to be vysytyd moche lesse than he was wontyd
+to be, for if any doo come thay salute him alonly, but
+they offre lytle or nothinge, and say that theyr monaye
+may bettre be disposyd amongste pore people. _Me._ O a
+wykyd comunicacyon. _Ogy._ Ye & so great an Apostle
+whiche was wõtyd to stand all in precyous stones &
+gold, now stãdythe all of wodde hauynge before hym
+skaresly a wax candle. _Me._ If it be trew that I here,
+it is great ioperdy lest that same chance to all the
+rest of the sayntes. _Ogy._ I thynk it wel, for ther is
+an epistle abrode whiche our lady dyd wryte apon the
+same matter. _Me._ What lady? _Ogy._ *She that hathe
+her name of a stone.[*Our ladi of stone in Raurachia
+whiche is a certayne cuntre.] _Me._ I trawe it is in
+Raurachia. _Ogy._ That same || is it. _Me._ yow tell me
+of a stony lady, But to whome dyd she wryte? _Ogy._ The
+epistle dothe playnely shew his name. _Me._ By whome
+was it sent? _Ogy._ No dowbt but by an angell, whiche
+dyd lay the wrytynges apõ the aultre, wherof he
+prechythe to whome it was sent. And lest there shuld be
+any suspectyõ of crafty cõuayance in you, you shall se
+the epistle wryten with his owne hande. _Me._ Do you
+know so well the hand of thangell whiche is secretary
+to our lady? _Ogy._ Yee why nat? _Me._ By what argumêt?
+_Ogy._ I haue redde that *Epithaphe [*Is a scripture
+wryten on a graue.] of Bede which was grauyd of the
+angell: and the letteres agre in all thynges. I haue
+redde also ye obligacyõ whiche was sent to saynt Gyles
+as dothe aper. Dothe not thes argumentes proue that
+mater to be good enoghe. _Me._ May a man loke apon
+them? _Ogy._ ye and if you wyll swere to kepe it ||
+A iiij.|| preuy. _Me._ Oh you shall speake to a stone.
+_Ogy._ Ther be stones now a dayes of that name very
+slawnderous, that wyll hyde nothynge. _Me._ you shall
+speake to a domme man, & yow trust nat a stone. _Ogy._
+Apon ye condycyon I wyll tell it, loke that you here
+with bothe youre eyares. _Me._ So I doo.
+
+[The epistle of our Lady.]
+
+_Ogy._ Mary the mother of Iesu to *Glaucoplutus
+[*Glaucoplutus desirus of ryches.] sêdythe gretynge.
+Insomoche as you folowe Luther, you nobly perswade,
+that it is but in vayne to call apõ sayntes, do ye well
+know for that to be grettly in my fauore. For vntyll
+thys day I haue almost be slayne with the importunate
+prayers of men. Of me alone they askyd althynges, as
+who shuld say my sone were alway a babe, because he is
+so faynyd and payntyd apõ my breste, that yet he wold
+be at my commaundemêt and durst nat denye my petycyon,
+dredynge that if he denye my petycyon, || that I shuld
+denye hym my teate whan he is a thurst: and very oft
+thay requyre that of me, whiche a shamfast yongman dare
+scantly aske of a Bawde, yee they be suche thynges as I
+am ashamyd to put in wrytynge. Now comythe ye
+marchauntman and he redy to sayle into Spayne for a
+vantage, dothe cõmytte hys wyues honesty to me. Than
+commythe thet lytle preaty Nunne and she castythe away
+her vayle redy to runne away, she leuythe with me the
+good name of her vyrgynytye, whiche shortly she
+entendythe to take monay for. Than cryeth the wykyd
+soudyer purposyd to robbe & saythe, blessyd lady send
+me a good praye. Now cõmythe the vnthryfty dyasser and
+cryethe, send me good chance Lady & thow shalt haue
+parte of my wynnynges: and if the dyasse runne ayenst
+hym, he blasphemes, and cursythe me, bycause || I wyll
+nat fauor his noghtynes. Now cryeth she that sellythe
+her selffe for fylthye lukre & saythe, swete lady send
+me some costomers, & if I denye it, they exclame ayenst
+me & say, thou arte not the mother of marcy. Moreouer
+the vowes of some women be no lesse wykyd thã folishe.
+The mayd cryeth & saythe, O swet Mary send me a fayre
+and riche husbond. The maryed womã saythe send me
+goodly chylderen. Now laborythe the woman with chyld,
+and cryeth dere lady dylyuer me of my bondes. Than
+cõmythe ye olde wyffe, and saythe flowre of all women
+send me to lyue longe withowt coghe and drynes. Now
+crepythe the the dotynge old man & saythe, lady send me
+for to wax yonge ayê. Thã cõmythe forth the phylosopher
+and cryethe send me some argumêtis that be îsoluble.
+The great prest cryeth send me a fat benefyce. Thã ||
+saythe the bysshope kepe well my churche. Thã cryethe
+ye hye Iustyce shew me thy sone or I passe out of this
+worlde. Thã saythe ye Cowrtyer send me trwe confession
+at the howre of my deathe. The husbondman saythe send
+vs temperate wether. The mylke wyffe cryethe owt
+blessyd lady saue our catell. Now if I denye anythynge
+by & by I am crwell. If I cõmytte it to my sone, I here
+them say, he wyll what so euer you wyll. Shall I than
+alone bothe a woman and a mayd helpe maryneres,
+sawdyeres, marchantmen, dyasseres, maryed mê, women
+with chyld, iudges, kynges, and husbondmen? ye and this
+that I haue sayd is the least parte of my payne. But I
+am nat now so moche trobled with soche busynes, for
+that I wold hartely thanke you, but that this
+commodytye dothe brynge a greater discõmodytye with
+hym. I || haue now more ease, but lesse honor &
+profett. Before this tyme I was callyd quene of heuen,
+lady of the world, but now any man wyll skarsly say aue
+Maria or hayle Mary. Before I was clothyd with precyous
+stones and gold, and had my chaunges, and dayly ther
+was offeryd gold and precyous stones, now I am skarsly
+coueryd with halffe a gowne and that is all beeyten
+with mysse. My yerly rentes be now so smalle that I am
+skarsly able to fynde my pore quere kepar to light a
+wax cãdle before me. Yet all this myght be sufferyd,
+but you be abowt to pluke away greater thynges, you be
+abowt (as they say) that what so euer any saynte hathe
+in any place, to take hyt frome the churches, but take
+hede what you doo. For ther is no saynte without a way
+to reuêge his wronge. If you cast saynt Petre forthe of
+the churche, he may serue || you of the same sauce, and
+shite vp heuyngates ayenst you. ye saynt Paule hathe
+his sworde. Barthylmew is nat withowt his great knyffe.
+Saynt Wyllyam is harnysyd vnder his monkes cloke, nat
+withowt a greate speare. What canst thou doo ayenst
+saynt George whiche is bothe a knyght & all armyd with
+hys longe spere and his fearfull sword? Nor saynt
+Antony is nat withowt hys weapenes for he hathe holy
+fyre with hym. Ye the rest of the sayntes haue theyr
+weapones or myschefues, whiche they send apon whome
+they liste. But as for me thou canst not cast owt,
+except thou cast owt my sone, whiche I hold in myne
+armes. I wyll nat be seperat frome hym, other thou
+shalt cast hym owt with me or els thou shalt let vs
+bothe be, except that you wold haue a temple withowt a
+Christe. These be the thynges that I wold || yow shall
+know ymagyne you therfore what shal be your answer. For
+this thinge pleasythe me very well. Frome oure stony
+churche the calendes of Auguste, the yere frome my
+sonnes passyon a M. CCCCC. xiiij. I stony lady
+subscrybyd thys with myne owne hande. _Me._ Trewly that
+was a soro and fearfull epistle, I suppose that
+Glaucoplutus wyll beware frõ hêsforthe. _Ogy._ Ye & if
+he be wyse. _Me._ Wherfore dyd nat that good saynt
+Iames wryte to that man of the same mater. _Ogy._ I can
+nat tell, except it be bycause he is so ferre of, and
+now a dayes men be moche searchyd for suche maters, &
+in theyr iornaye theyr lettres takê frome them. _Me._
+I pray you, what god dyd send you into Englõd? _Ogy._
+I saw the wynd maruelouse prosperouse thyderward, and
+I had almoste promysyd this to that blessyd lady of
+Walsyngã that I wold seke || her within .ij. yere,
+_Me._ What wold you axe of her. _Ogy._ No new thyngs at
+all, but suche as be comen, as to kepe saffe and sownd
+my housholde, to encreasse my goodes, and in thys world
+to haue a lõge and mery liffe, and whã I dye
+euerlastynge lyffe in another worlde. _Me._ May nat owr
+lady grante the same at home with vs? She hathe at
+Antwarpe a moche more lordly temple thã at Walsyngame.
+_Ogy._ I denye nat but it may be so, but in dyuers
+places she grantes dyuers thynges, wether it be her
+pleasur so to do, or bycause she is so gentle, that as
+cõcernynge this purpose, she wyll gyue her selfe to our
+affectyões. _Me._ I haue harde oft of saynt Iames, but
+I pray you describe to me the kyngdome of Walsyngam.
+_Ogy._ Verely I shall tell you as shortly as I canne.
+Yt is the most holy name in all England, and you may
+fynde some in || that yle, that suppose thayr substãce
+shal nat prospayre except they vysyte her with thayr
+offerynge euery yere ones as thay be able to gyue.
+_Me._ Wher dothe she dwell? _Ogy._ At the vttermost
+parte of all England betwyxt the Northe and the Weste,
+nat vary ferre from the see, skarsly iii myles, the
+towne is almost susteynyd by the resort of pylgrymes.
+The college is of Canões, but thay be suche as hathe
+thayr name of the Laten tonge and be called Seculares,
+a kynd betwyxte monkes & Chanones. _Me._ What you tell
+me of *Amphybyanes, [*Amphybyanes be thynges doutfull.]
+suche as ye mõstre *Fyber is.[*Fyber is a beste of ye
+see & ye land.] _Ogy._ No thay be rather suche as the
+*Cocatrice. [*A Cocatrice wil kyll a man with a loke,]
+But withowt dissimulation, I shall put you owt of this
+dowte in thre wordes. To them that thay hate, thay be
+Chanones, and to them that thay loue thay be Monkes
+_Menede._ Yet yowe doo nat open thys redle. _Ogy._ ||
+I shall paynte it before youre eyes, if the bysshope of
+Rome doo shot hys thonderbowlt amõgst all monkes, thay
+wyll than be chanones, & nat monkes, but and if he wold
+suffre all monkes to take wyues, thã wyll they be
+monkes, _Me._ O new partakeres, I wold to god they wold
+take away my wyffe. _Ogy._ But to come to our purpose,
+the college hathe skarsly any other *emolumêtes
+[*Rêttes.] but of the liberalite of our lady. For the
+great offeryngs be kepyd stylle, but if ther be any
+litle some of monaye offerid that goith to the comens
+of the company, & the mayster whome thay call pryoure.
+_Me._ Be thay of a vertuous lyffe? _Ogy._ Nat to be
+dispraysyd, thay be more vertuous thã ryche of thayr
+yerely renttes. The temple ys goodly & goregious, but
+oure Lady dwellythe nat in it, but that was purchasyd
+for the honor of her sone. She hathe her owne temple,
+|| B.|| that she may be of the ryght hand of her sone.
+_Me._ Apon the right hãd. Whiche way dothe her sonne
+loke than? _Ogy._ It is well remembryd. Whan he lokythe
+to the West, his mother is apõ his right hand, but whã
+he turnythe hym to the Este she is apon the lefte hand.
+But yet she dwellythe nat in that churche, for it is
+nat yet buyldyd all vpe, and the wynde runnythe thorow
+euery parte with open wyndowes & dowres, and also nat
+ferre of is the Occiane seye father of all wyndes.
+_Me._ what doo yow tell me wher dothe she dwell thã?
+_Ogy._ In ye same churche whiche I told you was nat all
+fynyshyd, ther is a lytle chapell seelyd ouer with
+wodde, on ether syde a lytle dore wher ye pylgrymes go
+thorow, ther is lytle light, but of ye taperes, with a
+fragrant smell. _Me._ All these be mete for religyon.
+_Ogy._ Ye Menedemus if you loke within you || wyll say
+that it is a seate mete for sayntes, all thynges be so
+bright in gold, syluer, and precyous stones. _Me._ You
+almost moue me to go thyther also. _Ogy._ It shalnat
+repente you of your iornay. _Me._ Spryngithe ther no
+holy oyle? _Ogy._ I trowe you dote, that spryngythe nat
+but owt of the sepulchres of sayntes, as saynt Andrew,
+& saynt Katerê, owr lady was nat beried. _Me._ I graût
+I sayd amysse, but tell on your tale. _Ogy._ So moche
+more as thay persayue youre deuocyõ, so moche larger
+reliques wyl thay shew to you. _Me._ Ye and peraduêture
+that thay may haue larger offerynges, as is sayd that,
+many lytle offerynges makythe a heuy boxe. _Ogygy._ Her
+chaplens be alway at hand. _Me._ Be thay of ye
+Chanones? _Ogy._ No, thay be nat permyttyd to be with
+her, lest that peraduenture by occasyon of that
+religyon, thay shuld be plukkyd || B ij.|| frome thayr
+owne religyõ, and whylst thay kepe that virgyne, thay
+regard very lytle thayr awne virgynyte, alonly in that
+inner chapell whiche is our ladyes preuy chãbre, ther
+standithe a certayne Chanõ at the autre. _Me._ For what
+purpose? _Ogy._ To receyue and kepe, that whiche is
+offeryd. _Me._ dothe any man gyue ayenst hys wyll.
+_Ogy._ No, but many men hathe suche a gentle
+shamfastnes, that thay wyll gyue some thynge to hym
+that standythe by, other thay wyll offre more largely,
+whiche thay wold nat doo perauêture if that he were
+absent, that standithe there. _Me._ You tell me of
+mannes affectiones, whiche I my selffe prouyd very
+ofte. _Ogy._ Ye trewly there be some so gyuê to our
+blessyd lady, that whan thay apere to put vpe thayr
+handes to offre, with a pure cõusyance, thay stayl that
+whiche other men hathe gyuen. _Me._ Than || lett no man
+be there, wyll nat oure Lady shote her thonderbowlte at
+suche. _Ogy._ Wherfor shuld our lady rather doo so,
+than God hymselffe, whom thay be nat affrayd to pluke
+owt hys robes, & breake ye churche walles therfore.
+_Mene._ I am in a great doubt whether I shuld, rather
+maruayle apon thayre wykyd boldnes, or Goddys great
+gêtlenes and longe sufferynge. _Ogy._ Apõ the Northe
+parte ther is a certayne gaate, but lest that you
+should make a lye, it is nat of the churche, but of the
+pale that compassithe a bowte the churche yarde, and
+that hathe a lytle wykyt, suche as be in great mennes
+gaates, that who so euer wyll entre, must fyrst putin
+hys legge, nat withowt some ioperdie, and than bowe
+downe hys hedde. _Me._ It is ioperdie to goo thorow
+suche a dore, to a mannes enemye. _Ogy._ So it is, the
+sexten dyd tell me that || B iij.|| ther was ones a
+knyght whiche fleeynge hys enemye, than aprochynge, dyd
+ride thorow ye wykyte, and than the wretche dispayrynge
+in hym selffe, apon a soden motion, dyd commend
+hymselffe to ye blessyd virgyne, whiche was than at
+hand. But now commythe the myrakle. By and by that
+knyght was all in the churche yarde, and hys aduersary
+was ragynge at the dore wowte. _Me._ And dyd he tell
+you so maruylous a myrakle for a trewthe? _Ogy._ No
+dowte. _Me._ But I suppose that he could nat so
+lyghtely doo that to you so a great a philosopher.
+_Ogy._ He dyd shewe to me in that same wykytte in a
+plate of coper, the ymage of the knyght fastenyd with
+nayles and with the same garmentes that the Englishmen
+were wontyd to wayre at that tyme, as you may see in
+that olde pictures, whiche wyl nat lye, Barbours had ||
+but lytle lyuynge at that tyme: and dieres & websteres
+gotte but litle monay. _Me._ Why so? _Ogy._ For he had
+a berd like a goote, and his cote had neuer a plyte,
+& it was so litle, that with strayte gyrdynge it mayd
+hys body to apere lesse than it was. Ther was another
+plate, that was in quantyte and fourme like to a
+cheste. _Me._ Well now it is nat to be doubtyd apõ.
+_Ogy._ Under ye wykyte ther was a grate of yrne, that
+no man cã passe theryn but a footemã, for it is nat
+conuenyent that any horsse shuld tread after apon ye
+place, whiche the knyght dyd cõsecrate to owr lady.
+_Me._ Nat withowt a good cause. _Ogy._ Frome that parte
+toward the Este, there is a litle chapell, full of
+maruayles and thyther I wête, ther was I receyuyd of
+another of our ladyes chaplenes, ther we knelyd downe,
+to make our litle prayeres. By & by, he broght forthe
+|| B iiij.|| the ioynte of a mannes fynger, the
+greatyste of thre, which I kyssyd, & askyd whose
+relyques thay were, he dyd say that thay were saynt
+Petres. What thapostle sayd I. Ye sayd he. Than I dyd
+better beholde the ioynte, whiche for hys greatenes
+myght well haue be a Gyãtes ioynte, rather than a
+mannes. Than sayd I, saynt Peter must nedys be a great
+man of stature. But at that word, ther was one of the
+gentlemê that stode by, that could not forbere
+lawghynge, for the which I was very sory. For if he had
+holden hys pease, we had sene all the relyques, yet we
+metely well pleasyd mayster Sextê, with gyuynge hym
+.ij. or .iij. grotes. Before that chapell there was a
+litle howsse, which he sayd ones in wynter tyme whan
+that there was litle rowme to couer the reliques, that
+it was sodenly broght & sett in that place. Under that
+house || there was a couple of pittes, bothe fulle of
+water to the brynkys, and thay say that ye sprynge of
+thos pittes is dedicate to our lady, that water is very
+colde, and medycynable for the hede ake and that
+hartburnynge. _Me._ If that cold water wyll hele the
+paynes in the hede and stomake, than wyll oyle put owte
+fyre from hensforthe. _Ogy._ It is a myrakle that I
+tell, good syr, or els what maruayle shuld it be, that
+cowld water shuld slake thurste? _Me._ This may well be
+one parte of your tale. _Ogy._ Thay say that the
+fowntayne dyd sodenly sprynge owte of the erthe at the
+commaundement of our lady, & I dilygently examenynge
+althynges, dyd aske hym how many yeres it was sythe
+that howsse was so sodenly broght thyther. Many yeres
+agone saythe he. Yet, sayde I, the wallys doo nat apere
+so old. He dyd nat denay it. No mor thes woden
+|| B v.|| pyleres. He cowld nat denay but that they
+were sette there nat longe agoo, and also the mater dyd
+playnly testyfye ye same. Afterward, sayd I, thys roffe
+which is all of rede dothe apere nat to be very olde,
+& he granted also, thes greete bemes which lye
+ouerthwerte, and these rafteres that hold vpe that
+howsse were nat sett longe agone. He affyrmyd my
+saynge. Well sayd I seynge that no parte of the housse
+is lefte but all is new, how can yow say that this was
+the house whiche was broght hyther so longe agoo. _Me._
+I pray you how dyd the howskeper, auoyde hymselffe
+frome your argumêt. _Ogy._ By & by he dyd shew to vs
+the mater by the skyne of a bayre whiche had hangyd be
+the rafteres a longe season, and dyd almost moke the
+symplenes of owre wyttes that could nat perceyue so
+manyfeste an argumête we beynge || perswadyd by this
+argument, askid pardon of our ignorance, and callid
+into our communycacyon the heuêly mylke of our lady.
+_Me._ O how like to the sone is the mother, for he hath
+left to vs so moche blood here in erthe, & she so moche
+mylke, that a man wyl skarysly beleue a woman to haue
+so moche mylke of one chylde, in case the chyld shuld
+sukke none at all. _Ogy._ Thay saye the same of the
+holy crosse, whiche is shewyd in so many places bothe
+openly, and pryuately, that if ye fragmentes were
+gathered apon one heape, they wold apere to be a iuste
+fraghte for a shipe, and yet Christe dyd bere all his
+crosse hymselffe. _Me._ But do nat you maruayll at
+this? _Ogy._ It may welbe a strãge thynge, but no
+maruayle, seynge that the lord whiche dothe encreasse
+this at hys pleasure, is almyghty. _Me._ It is very
+gently expownded, but I am || afrayd, that many of thes
+be faynyd for lukre. _Ogy._ I suppose that God wold nat
+suffre hymselffe to be deludyd of suche a fasshion.
+_Mene._ Yis, haue nat you sene that whã bothe the
+mother, the sone, the father, and the holy ghoste hathe
+be robbyd of thes sacrilegyous theues, that thay
+woldnat ones moue, or styre nother with bekke or crakke
+wherby thay myght fray away the theues. So great is the
+gentles of God. _Ogy._ So it is, but here out me tale.
+This mylke is kepyd apon the hye aultre, and in the
+myddys ther is Christe, with his mother apon hys ryght
+hand, for her honor sake, the mylke dothe represente
+the mother. _Me._ It may be sene than? _Ogy._ It is
+closyd in crystalle. _Me._ It is moyste thã? _Ogy._
+What tell you me of moystenes, whã it was mylkyd more
+than a thowsand and fyue hunthrithe yere agone, it is
+so congelyd, that a mã wold || saye that it were chalke
+temperyd with the whyte of a egge. _Me._ Ye, but do
+thay sette it forthe bare? _Ogy._ No, lest so holy
+mylke shuld be defowlyd with the kyssynge of men. _Me._
+You say well. For I suppose that ther be many that
+kysse it, whiche be nother clene mouthyd, nor yet be
+pure virgynes. _Ogy._ Whan ye sexten sawe vs, he dyd
+runne to the aultre, & put apon hym his surplese, & his
+stole about his nekke, knelyd downe relygyously, and
+worshipyd it, and streghtforthe dyd offre the mylke to
+vs to kysse. And at the ende of the aultre we knelyd
+downe deuoutly, & the fyrste of all we salutyd Christe,
+& than after we callyd apon our lady with thys prayer,
+whiche we had mayd redy for the same purpose. O mother
+& mayde, whiche dyd gyue sukke with thy virgynes teates
+the lorde of heuen and yerthe, thy sone Iesus Christe,
+we beynge puryfyed || thorowe hys precyous blode, do
+desyre that we may attayne, and come to that blessyd
+infancye of thy colombynes meknes, whiche is immaculate
+without malice, frawde, or diseyte, and with all
+affectyon of harte dothe couett and stody for the
+heuenly mylke of the euangelicall doctryne, to go
+forthe and encrease with it into a perfaycte man, into
+the mesure of the plentefulnes of Christe, of whose
+cõpany thou haste the fruycyon, togyther with the
+father, & the holy ghost for euermore, so be it. _Me._
+Uerely thys is a holy prayer. But what dyd she?
+_Ogygy._ Thay bothe bekkyd at vs, excepte my eyes
+waggyd, and me thoght that the mylke daunsyd. In the
+meanseson the sexten came to vs, withowt any wordes,
+but he held out a table suche as the Germanes vse to
+gather tolle apon bridges. _Me._ By my trothe I haue
+cursyd veryofte suche || crauynge boxes, whan I dyd
+ryde thorowe Germany. _Ogy._ We dyd gyue hym certayne
+monay whiche he offeryd to our lady. Thã I axyd by a
+certayne yonge man, yt was well learnyd, whiche dyd
+expownde and tell vs the saynge of ye Sextê, hys name
+(as fere as I remembre) was Robert alderisse, by what
+tokenes or argumêtes he dyd know that it was the mylke
+of owr lady. And that I very fayne, & for a good
+purpose desyred to knowe, that I myght stope the
+mowthes of certayne newfanglyd felowes, that be wotyd
+to haue suche holy relyques in derysyon and mokage.
+Fyrst of all the Sexten with a froward cowntenãce wold
+nat tell, but I desyryd the yong man to moue hym more
+instantly, but somwhat more gently he so courtesly
+behauyd hymselffe, that and he had prayd owr lady
+herselffe || after that fashion, she wold nat haue be
+dysplesyd therwith. And thã this mystycall chapleyn, as
+and if he had be inspyryd with ye holy ghoste, castynge
+at vs a frounynge loke, as & if he wold haue shote at
+vs ye horryble thonderbolte of the greate curse, what
+nede you (saythe he) to moue suche questyones, whan yow
+see before your eyes so autentycall & old a table. And
+we were afrayd lest that he wold haue cast vs out of
+the churche for heretykes, but that oure monay dyd
+tempte hys greate furye. _Mene._ What dyd you in the
+meaneseason? _Ogygyus._ What suppose you? We were
+amasyd as and if a man had stryke vs with a clube, or
+we had be slayne with a thonderclape, and we very lowly
+axid pardon of oure folishe boldenes, and gote vs frome
+thens. For so must we entreate holy thynges. || Frome
+thens we went in to ye howse where owre lady dwellithe,
+and whan we came there, we sawe another Sexten whiche
+was but a noues, he lokyd famylarly as and if he had
+knowê vs, and whã we came a litle further in, we sawe
+another, that lokyd moch after suche a fashion, at the
+last came the thyrd. _Me._ Perauenture thay desyryd to
+descrybe you. _Ogy._ But I suspecte another mater.
+_Mene._ What was it? _Ogygy._ There was a certayne
+theffe that had stole almost all owr ladyes frontlet,
+and I supposyd that they had me in suspycyon thereof.
+And therfore whan I was within the chapell I mayd my
+prayers to our lady after thys fashiõ. Oh cheffe of all
+women Mary the mayd, most happy mother, moste pure
+virgyne, we vnclene, and synners, doo vysyte the pure &
+holy, and after our abylytye we haue offeryd vnto the,
+we pray thy that thy || C.|| sone may grante this to
+vs, that we may folow thy holy lyffe, and that we may
+deserue thorow the grace of the holy ghoste,
+spirytually to cõceyue the lord Iesus Christ, & after
+that conceptyon neuer to be separat from hym, Amen.
+This done I kyssyd the aultre, and layd downe certayne
+grotes for myne offerynge and went my waye. _Me._ What
+dyde our lady now, dyd nat she make one sygne, that you
+myght know that she had hard youre prayeres. _Ogy._ The
+lyght (as I told you before) was but litle, and she
+stode at the ryght ende of the aultre in the derke
+corner, at the last the communicatyõ of the fyrst
+Sexten had so discoregyd me, that I durst not ones loke
+vpe with myne eyes. _Me._ This pylgremage came but to
+smale effecte. _Ogy.._ Yes, it had a very good & mery
+ende. _Me._ You haue causyd me to take harte of grasse,
+for (as Homere || saythe) my harte was almost in my
+hose. _Ogy._ Whan dynar was done, we returnyd to ye
+temple. _Me._ Durste you goo & be susspecte of felonye?
+_Ogy._ Perauenture so, but I had nat my selffe in
+suspiciõ, a gyltles mynde puttythe away feare. I was
+very desyrous to see that table whiche the holy Sexten
+dyd open to vs. At the last we fownde it, but it was
+hãgyd so hye that very fewe could rede it. My eyes be
+of that fashion, that I can nother be callyd *Linceus,
+[*Linceus ys a beaste so quike eyed that it wyll see
+thorow any wall] nother purre blynd. And therefore I
+instantly desyryd Alldryge to rede it, whose redynge I
+folowyd with myne owne eyes, because I wold skarsly
+truste hym in suche a mater. _Me._ Well, now all
+doubtes be discussyd. _Ogy._ I was ashamyd that I
+doubtyd so moche, ye mater was so playne set forthe
+before oure eyes, bothe the name, the place, the thynge
+it selffe as it was || C ij.|| done, to be breffe,
+there was nothynge lefte owte. There was a mane whos
+name was Wylyam whiche was borne in Parise, a man very
+deuoute in many thyngs but pryncypally excedynge
+relygyous in searchynge for the relyques of all sayntes
+thorowowt all the world. He after that he had vysytyd
+many places, contrayes, and regyones, at the laste
+came to Cõstantynenople. For Wylhelmes brother was
+there byshope, whiche dyd make hym pry to a certayne
+mayde, whiche had professyd chastyte, that hadde parte
+of oure ladyes mylke, which were an excedynge precyous
+relyque, if that other with prayer, or monaye, or by
+any crafte it myghte be gotte. For all the reliques
+that he hadde gotte before were but tryfles to so holy
+mylke. Wyllyam wold not rest there tyll that he had
+gotte halffe of that holy mylke, but whan he had ||
+it, he thoghte that he was richer than Croeseus. _Me._
+Why nat, but was it nat withowt any goodhope? _Ogy._ He
+went thã streght home, but in hys iornay he fell seke.
+_Me._ Iesu there is nothynge in thys worlde that is
+other permanent, or alwayes in good state. _Ogy._ But
+whan he sawe & perceyuyd that he was in greate ioperdye
+of his lyffe, he callyd to him a frenchman, whiche was
+a very trusty companyon to hym in hys iornay. And
+commaundyd all to auoyd the place, and make sylence, &
+pryuyly dyd betake to hym thys mylke, apon this
+condycyõ, that if it chãcyd to come home saffe & sownde
+he wuld offre that precyous tresure to our ladyes
+aultre in Paryse, whiche standythe in the myddys of the
+ryuere Sequana, whiche dothe apere to separat hymselffe
+to honor and obaye our blessyd lady. But to make short
+tale. Wylyam is deade, & || C iij.|| buryed, the
+Frenchman mayd hym redy to departe apon hys iornay,
+& sodêly fell seke also. And he in great dyspayre of
+amendynge, dyd commyth ye mylke to an Englishmã, but
+nat withowt great instance, and moche prayer he dyd
+that whiche he was mouyd to doo. Than dyed he. And ye
+other dyd take the mylke, and put it apon an aultre of
+ye same place the Chanones beynge present, whiche were
+yt as we call Regulares. Thay be yet in the abbaye of
+saynt Genofeffe. But ye Englishmã obtaynyd the halffe
+of that mylke, & caryed it to Walsyngã in England, the
+holy ghost put suche in hys mynde. _Me._ By my trothe
+this is a godly tale. _Ogy._ But lest there shuld be
+any doubte of this mater, ye Byshopes whiche dyd grante
+pardon to it thayre names be wryten there, as thay came
+to vysyte it, nat withowt thayre offerynges, and thay
+haue || gyuen to it remyssyon, as moche as thay had to
+gyue by thayre authorite. _Me._ How moche is that?
+_Ogy._ Fowrty dayes. _Mene._ Yee is there dayes in
+hell. _Ogy._ Trewly ther is tyme. Ye but whan thay haue
+grãtyd all thayre stynte, thay haue no more to grante.
+_Ogy._ That is nat so for whan one parte is gone
+another dothe encrease, and it chansythe dyuersly euyn
+as the tonne of Canaidus. For that althoghe it be
+incontynently fyllyd, yet it is alway emptye: and if
+thou be takynge owt of it, yet there is neuer the lesse
+in the barell. _Me._ If thay grãte to an hunderithe
+thowsand mê fowrty dayes of pardone, wuld euery man
+haue elyke? _Ogy._ No doubte of that. _Me._ And if any
+haue forty byfore dynar, may he axe other forty at
+after souper, is there any thynge left than to gyue
+him? _Ogy._ Ye, & if thou aske it ten tymes in one
+howre. _Me._ I wold || C iiij.|| to God that I had
+suche a pardon bagge, I wold aske but .iij. grotes, and
+if thay wold flowe so faste. _Ogy._ Ye but you desyre
+to be to ryche, if that you myght for wyshynge, but I
+wyl turne to my tale, but there was some good holy man
+whiche dyd gyue this argumente of holynes to that
+mylke, and sayd that our Ladyes mylke whiche is in many
+other places, is precyous & to be worshipyd but thys is
+moche more precyous, & to be honoryd, bycause the other
+was shauen of stones, but this is the same that came
+out of the virgynes brest. _Me._ How kno you that?
+_Ogy._ The mayd of Cõstantynople, which dyd gyue it,
+dyd saye so. _Me._ Perauenture saynt Barnard dyd gyue
+it to her. _Ogy._ So I suppose. For whã he was an old
+man, yet he was so happy that he sukkyd of ye same
+mylke, that Iesus hymselffe sukkyd apon. _Me._ But I
+maruayle why he was || rather callyd a hony sukker than
+a mylke sukker. But how is it callyd oure ladyes mylke
+that came neuer owt of her breste? _Ogy._ Yes it came
+owt at her breste, but perauenture it light apon the
+stone that he whiche sukkyd knelyd apon, and ther was
+receyuyd, and so is encreasyd, & by ye wyll of god is
+so multyplyed. _Me._ It is wel sayd. _Ogy._ Whan we had
+sene all thys, whyle that we were walkynge vpe & downe,
+if that any thynge of valure were offeryd, so that
+anybody were present to see thaym ye Sextens mayd great
+haste for feare of crafty cõuayêce, lokynge apõ thaym
+as thay wold eate thaym. Thay poynte at hym with there
+fynger, thay runne, thay goo, thay come, thay bekke one
+to an other, as tho thay wold speake to thaym that
+stand by if thay durste haue be bold. _Mene._ Were you
+afrayd of nothynge there? _Ogy._ Yis I dyd loke
+|| C v.|| apõ hym, lawghynge as who shold saye I wold
+moue him to speake to me, at laste he cam to me, and
+axid me what was my name, I told him. He axid me if yt
+were nat I that dyd hange vpe there a table of my vowe
+writen in Hebrew, within .ij. yere before. I confessid
+that it was ye same. _Me._ Cã you wryte hebrewe?
+_Ogygy._ No but all that thay cãnat vnderstond, thay
+suppose to be Hebrewe. And than (I suppose he was send
+for) came the posterior pryor. _Me._ What name of
+worshipe is that? Haue thay nat an abbate? _Ogy._ No
+_Me._ Why so? _Ogy._ For thay cannat speake Hebrew.
+_Me._ Haue thay nat a Bishope? _Ogy._ No. _Me._ What is
+ye cause? _Ogy._ For oure lady is nat as yet so ryche,
+that she is able to bye a crosse, & a mytre, whiche be
+so deare, _Me._ Yet at least haue thay nat a
+presedente? _Ogy._ No veryly. What lettythe thaym?
+_Ogy._ That is a name || of dygnyte and nat of relygyõ.
+And also for that cause suche abbayes of Chanones, doo
+nat receyue the name of an abbate, thay doo call thaym
+maysters? _Me._ Ye, but I neuer hard tell of pryor
+posterior before. _Ogy._ Dyd you neuer learne youre
+grãmere before. _Me._ Yis I know prior posterior amõgst
+the fygures. _Ogy._ That same is it. It is he that is
+nexte to the prioure, for there priour is posterior.
+_Me._ You speake apon the supprioure. _Ogy._ That same
+dyd entertayne me very gently, he told me what greate
+labure had be abowt ye readynge of thos verses, & how
+many dyd rubbe thayr spectakles abowt thaym. As oft as
+any old ancyent doctor other of deuynyte or of the
+lawe, resorted thyder, by and by he was broght to that
+table, some sayd that thay were lettres of Arabia, some
+sayd thay were faynyd lettres. Well || at the last came
+one that redde the tytle, it was wryten in laten with
+greate Romayne lettres, ye Greke was wryten with
+capytale lettres of Greke, whiche at the fyrst syght do
+apere to be capytale latê lettres, at thayr desyer I
+dyd expownde ye verses in laten, trãslatynge thaym word
+for word. But whã thay wold haue gyuyn me for my
+labour, I refusyd it, seynge that ther was nothynge so
+hard that I wold not doo for our blessyd ladyes sake,
+ye thogh she wold commaûd me to bere this table to
+Hierusalê. _Me._ What nede you to be her caryoure,
+seynge that she hathe so many angelles bothe at her
+hedde and at her fette. _Ogy._ Than he pullid owt of
+hys purse a pece of wodde, that was cutt owte of the
+blokke that our ladye lenyd apon. I perceyuyd by and by
+thorow the smell of it, that it was a holy thynge. Than
+whan I sawe so || greate a relyque, putt of my cappe,
+and fel down flatte, & very deuoutly kyssyd it .iij. or
+.iiii tymes, poppyd it in my pursse. _Me._ I pray you
+may a man see it? _Ogy._ I gyue you good leue. But if
+you be nat fastynge, or if you accompanyed with yowre
+wyffe the nyght before, I conceyle you nat to loke apon
+it. _Me._ O blessed arte thou that euer thou gotte this
+relyque. _Ogy._ I may tell you in cowncell, I wold nat
+gyue thys litle pece for all ye gold that Tagus hathe,
+I wyll sett it in gold, but so that it shall apere
+thorow a crystall stone. And than the Supprioure whã he
+sawe that I dyd take the relyque so honorably, he
+thoght it shuld nat be lost, in case he shuld shew me
+greater mysteries, he dyd aske me whether I hadde euer
+sene our ladyes secretes, but at that word I was
+astonyed, yet I durst nat be so so bold as to demande
+what thos || secretes were. For in so holy thynges to
+speake a mysse is no small danger. I sayd that I dyd
+neuer se thaym but I sayd that I wold be very glade to
+see thaym. But now I was broght in, and as I had be
+inspired with the holy ghost, than thay lyghted a
+couple of taperes, & set forthe a litle ymage, nat
+couryously wroght, nor yet very gorgeous, but of a
+meruelous virtue. _Me._ That litle body hathe smale
+powre to worke myrakles. I saw saynt Christopher at
+Parise, nat a carte lode, but as moche as a greate
+hylle, yet he neuer dyd myrakles as farre as euer I
+herd telle. _Ogy._ At our ladyes fette there is a
+precyous stone, whos name as it is nother in Greke nor
+Laten. The Frenchemã gaue it the name of a tode,
+bycause it is so like, that no man (althoghe he be
+conynge) can set it forthe more lyuely. But so moche
+greater is || the myrakle, that the stone is litle, the
+fourme of the tode dothe nat apere, but it shynythe as
+it were enclosyd within that precyous stone. _Me._
+Perauenture they ymagyne ye symylytude of a tode to
+be there, euyn as we suppose whan we cutte ye fearne
+stalke there to be an egle, and euyn as chyldren
+(whiche they see nat indede) in ye clowdes, thynke they
+see dragones spyttynge fyre, & hylles flammynge with
+fyre, & armyd mê encownterynge. _Ogy._ No, I wold you
+shuld know it, there is no lyuynge tode that more
+euydêtly dothe expresse hymselffe than it dyd there
+playnly apere. _Me._ Hetherto I haue sufferyd thy lyes,
+but now get the another that wyll beleue the, thy tale
+of a tode. _Ogy._ No maruayle Menedemus thogh you be so
+disposyd, for all the world cannot make me to beleue
+yt, not & all doctoures of dyuynyte wold swere || it
+were trewe. But that I sawe it with myne eyes, ye with
+thes same eyes, dyd I proue it. But in ye meanseson me
+thynke you regard naturall phylosophye but litle. _Me._
+why so, because I wyll nat beleue ye asses flye? _Ogy._
+An do you nat se, how nature the worker of all thynges,
+dothe so excell in expressynge ye fourme bewty, &
+coloure of thaym maruylously in other thynges, but
+pryncypaly in precyous stones? moreouer she hathe gyuen
+to ye same stones wonderouse vertu and strêkthe that is
+almost incredyble, but that experience dothe otherwyse
+testyfye. Tell me, do you beleue that a Adamand stone
+wold drawe vnto him stele withowt any towchynge therof,
+and also to be separate frome him ayen of hys owne
+accorde, excepte that yow had sene it with yowre eyes.
+_Me._ No verely, nat and if .x. Arystoteles wold
+perswade me || to the contrarye. _Ogy._ Therfore
+bycause you shuld nat say thys were a lye, in case you
+here any thynge, whiche you haue not sene prouyd. In a
+stone callyd Ceraunia we see ye fashon of lightnynge,
+in the stone Pyropo wyldfyre, Chelazia dothe expresse
+bothe the coldnes and the fourme of hayle, and thoghe
+thou cast in to the hote fyre, an Emrode, wyll
+expresse the clere water of the seye. Carcinas dothe
+counterfayte ye shape of a crabfishe. Echites of the
+serpente vyper. But to what purpose shuld I entreat, or
+inuestygate the nature of suche thynges whiche be
+innumerable, whã there is no parte of nature nor in the
+elementes, nother in any lyuynge creature, other in
+planetes, or herbes ye nature euyn as it were all of
+pleasure hathe not expressyd in precyous stones? Doo
+yow maruayle thã that in thys stone at owre ladies
+fote, || D.|| is the fourme and fashon of a tode. _Me._
+I maruayle that nature shuld haue so moche lesure, so
+to counterfayt the nature of althynges. _Ogy._ It was
+but to exercyse, or occupye the curyosytye of mannes
+wytte, and so at the lest wyse to kepe vs frome
+ydlenes, and yet as thoghe we had nothynge to passe ye
+tyme with all, we be in a maner made apon foles, apon
+dyesse, and crafty iogeleres. _Me._ You saye very
+truthe. _Ogy._ There be many men of no smale grauytye,
+that wyll say thys kynd of stones, if that you put it
+in vynagre, it wyll swyme, thoge you wold thruste it
+downe with violence. _Me._ Wherfore do thay sette a
+tode byfore our lady? _Ogy._ Bycause she hathe
+ouercome, trode vnderfote, abolyshyd all maner of
+vnclennes, poysõ, pryde, couytousnes, and all wordly
+affectyones that raygne in man. _Me._ Woo be to vs,
+that hathe so many todes in owre hartes. || _Ogygy._
+We shal be purgyd frome thaym all, if we dylygêtly
+worshipe owre lady. _Me._ How wold she be worshipyd.
+_Ogy._ The most acceptable honor, that thou canste doo
+to her is to folowe her lyuynge. _Me._ You haue told
+all at ones. But this is hard to brynge to pass. _Ogy._
+You saye truthe, but it is an excellente thynge. _Me._
+But go to, and tell on as you begane. _Ogy._ After thys
+to come to owre purpose, the Supprioure shewyed to me
+ymages of gold and syluer, and sayd, thes be pure gold,
+and thes be syluer and gyltyd, he told the pryce of
+euery one of thaym, and the patrone. Whan I wonderyd,
+reioycynge of so maruelous ryches, as was abowt our
+lady, than saythe the Sextê bycause I percayue, that
+you be so vertuously affecte, I suppose it greate
+wronge, to hyde any thynge frome you, but now you shall
+see the pryuytyes || D ij.|| of our lady, and than he
+pullyd owt of the aultre a whole world of maruayles, if
+I shuld tell you of all, a whole daye wold nat suffyse,
+& so thys pylgremage chansyd to me most happy. I was
+fyllyd euyn full withe goodly syghts, and I brynge also
+with me this wonderous relyque, whiche was a tokê gyuen
+to me frõe our lady. _Me._ Haue you nat it prouyd, what
+valewre your woden relyque is on? _Ogy._ Yis, that I
+haue, in a certayne Inne within thys thre dayes, ther I
+fownde a certayne man that was bestraght of hys wytte,
+whiche shuld haue be bownde, but thys woden relyque was
+put vnder hys nekke pryuyly, wherapon he gad a sadde
+and sownd sleape, but in the mornynge he was hole and
+sownde as euer he was before. _Me._ It was nat the
+phrenysy, but the dronkê dropsye, sleape ys wontyd to
+be a good medicyne for ye dysease. || _Ogy._ Whã you be
+dysposyd to skoffe Menedemus, yt ys best that you gette
+a nother maner of gestynge stokke than thys, for I tell
+you it is nother good nor holsome, to bowrde so with
+sayntes. For thys same mã dyd say, that a woman dyd
+apere to hym, in hys sleape, after a maruelouse
+fashion, which shold gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon.
+_Mene._ I suppose it was *Elleborû. [*Elleborum wyll
+restore a man to hys senses that hathe lost thê.]
+_Ogy._ That is vncertayne, but I kno well ye mã was
+well broght into hys mynde ayen. _Me._ Dyd you other
+come or goo by Sante Thomas of Cantorbury that good
+archebishope. _Ogy._ What els/there ys no pylgremage
+more holy. _Me._ I wold fayne here of yt, and I shold
+nat trouble you. _Ogy._ I pray you here, & take good
+hedd. Kente ys callyd that parte of England, that
+buttythe apon Fraûce and Flanders, the cheffe cytye
+there of ys Cantorburye, in yt there be ij. || D iij.||
+Abbayes, bothe of thaym be of Saynte Benedycts ordre,
+but that which ys callyd Saynte Augustyns dothe apere
+to be the oldre, that whiche ys callyd now Saynte
+Thomas dothe apere to haue be the Archebyshope of
+Cantorburys see, where as he was wontyd to lyue with a
+sorte of monkes electe for hymselffe, as Byshopes now
+adayes be wontyd to haue thayr howses nye vnto the
+churche, but aparte frome other canons howses. In tymes
+paste bothe Byshopes & Chanones were wontyde to be
+monkes, as may be playnly prouyd by many argumentes.
+The churche which ys dedycate to Saynte Thomas, dothe
+streche vpe apon heght so gorgeously, that it wyll moue
+pylgrymes to deuocion a ferre of, and also withe hys
+bryghtnes and shynynge he dothe lyght hys neybures,
+& the old place whiche was wontyd to be most holy, ||
+now in respecte of it, is but a darke hole and a lytle
+cotage. There be a couple of great hye toures, which
+doo seme to salute strangeres aferre of, and thay dow
+fyll all the contray abowt bothe farre and nere, with
+the sownde of great belles, in the fronte of the
+temple, whiche is apõ the southe syde, there stand
+grauen in a stone thre armyd men, whiche with thayr
+cruell handes dyd sleye the most holy saynte Thomas,
+and there is wryten thayr surnames Tracy, Breton, and
+Beryston. _Me._ I pray you wharfore doo thay suffer
+thos wykyd knyghtes be so had in honoure. _Ogy._ Euyn
+suche honor is gyuen to thaym as was gyuê to Iudas,
+Pylate, and Caiphas, & to the compauy of the wykyd
+sowdyeres, as you may se payntyd in the tables that be
+sett before aultres. Thayr surnames be putto lest any
+man hereafter shuld vsurpe any || D iiij.|| cause of
+thayr prayse. Thay be payntyd byfore mennes eyes,
+bycause that no cowrtyer after thys shuld laye violêt
+handes other apõ Byshopes, or the churche goodes. For
+thes thre of this garde strayght apon that wykyd acte,
+wente starke madde, nor thay had neuer had thayr mynde
+ayen, but that thay prayd to blessyd saynt Thomas.
+_Me._ O blessyd pacyence of suche martyres. _Ogy._ At
+our entre in, lord what a pryncely place dyd apere vnto
+vs, where as euery mã that wyll may goo in. _Me._ Is
+there no maruayle to be sene. _Ogy._ Nothynge but the
+greate wydnes of the place, and a sorte of bokes,
+that be bownde to pyleres wherein is the gospell of
+Nicodemus, and I cannat tell whos sepulkre. _Me._ What
+than? _Ogy._ Thay do so dylygêtle watche lest any mã
+shulde entre in to the quere of yron, that thay wyll
+skarsly suffre a man || to loke apon it, whiche is
+betwyxte the greate churche & the hye quere (as thay
+calle it) a man that wyll go thyther must clyme vp many
+stayres byfore, vndre the whiche there is a certayne
+wykyt with a barre that openythe the dore apon the
+northe syde. There standythe forthe a certayne aultre
+whiche is dedycate to our lady, it is but a lytle one,
+and I suppose set there for no other purpose, but to be
+a olde monumêt or sygne, that in thos dayes there was
+no greate superfluyte. There thay saye that thys
+blessyd martyr sayd his last good nyght to our lady,
+whã he shuld departe hensse. In ye aultre is the poynte
+of the sword that styryd abowt the braynes of thys
+blessyd martyr. And there lye his braynes shed apon the
+yerthe, whereby you may well knowe yt he was nere
+deade. But the holly ruste of thys grat I deuoutly
+kyssed for loue of ye || D v.|| blessyd martyr. From
+thens we wêt vndre the crowdes, whiche is nat withowt
+hys chaplaynes, & there we sawe the brayne panne of
+that holy martyr whiche was thraste quyte thorow, all
+the other was coueryd with syluer, the ouerparte of the
+brayne panne was bare to be kyssyd, and there with all
+is seth forthe a certayn leden table hauynge grauyd in
+hym a tytle of saynte Thomas of Acrese. There hange
+also the sherte of heyre, & hys gyrdle with hys heren
+breches where with that noble champyõ chastnyd hys
+body, thay be horryble to loke apon, and greatly
+reproue oure delycate gorgeousnes. _Me._ Ye perauêture
+so thay do the mõkes slotefulnes. _Ogy._ As for that
+mater I cãnat affyrme nor yet denye, nor yet it is no
+poynte of my charge. _Me._ Ye saye truthe. _Ogy._ Frome
+thens we returnyd in to the quere, & apon || ye northe
+syde be ye relyques shewyd, a wonderouse thynge to se,
+what a sort of bones be broght forthe, skulles, iawes,
+thethe, handes, fyngres, hole armes, whã we had
+worshipyd thaym all, we kyssyd thaym, that I thoght we
+shuld neuer haue mayd an ende, but that my pylgremage
+felow whiche was an vnmete companyon for suche a
+busynes, prayd thaym to make an end of sethynge forthe
+thayre relyques. _Me._ What felowe was that? _Ogy._
+He was an Englyshma callyd Gratiane colte a man bothe
+vertuouse and well learnyd, but he had lesse affectyon
+toward pylgremages than I wold that he shuld haue.
+_Me._ One of Wyclyffes scoleres I warrante you? _Ogy._
+I thynke nat, althoghe he had redde hys bokes, how he
+came by thaym I cannat tell. _Me._ He dysplesyd mayster
+Sextê greuosly. _Ogy._ Thã was there broght forthe ||
+an arme whiche had yet the redde fleshe apon it, he
+abhorryd to kysse it, a man myght se by hys countenance
+that he was nothynge well pleasyd, & than by and by
+mayster Sexten put vp hys relyques. But than we lokyd
+apõ the table whiche was apõ the aultre, and all hys
+gorgeousnes, aftrewarde thos thyngs that were hydde
+vnder the aultre. ther was nothynge but riches
+excedynge, a man wold accompte both Midas and Cresus
+beggers in respecte of thos riches that ther was sett
+abrode. _Me._ Was ther no more kyssynge thê? _Ogy._ No,
+but an other affection and desyre came apõ me. _Me._
+What was that? _Ogy._ I syghed that I had no suche
+relyques at home. _Me._ Oh a wycked desyre & an euyl
+thought _Ogy._ I graunt, and therefore I axyd,
+forgyfnes of saynt Thomas before I remouyd one fote, to
+departe out of the church. After || thes thus we were
+brought in to ye reuestry, o good lorde what a goodly
+syght was ther of vestmêtes of veluet & clothe of
+golde, what a some of candlestykes of gold? We sawe
+ther saynt Thomas crosse staffe, ther was seê also a
+rede ouerlayed with syluer, it was but of a smalle
+wyght, vnwrought, nor no longer then wold retch vnto a
+mans mydgle. _Me._ Was ther no crosse? _Ogy._ I sawe
+none at all, ther was shewed vs a robe of sylke treuly,
+but sowed with cowrse threde, garnysshyd with nother
+gold nor stone. Ther was also a napkyn full of swette
+blody, wher with saynt Thomas wypyd bothe hys nose and
+hys face, these thynges as monumêtes of auncyent
+sobernes we kyssed gladely. _Me._ Be not these thynges
+showed to euery body? _Ogy._ No for sothe good syr.
+_Me._ How happened it that you were in so good
+credens, that no || secret thynges were hyd frome you?
+_Ogy._ I was well acquyntede with the reuerende father
+Gwylyame warham the archbyshope. He wrote .ij. or .iij.
+wordes in my fauour. _Me._ I here of many that he is a
+mã of syngler humanite. _Ogy._ But rather thou woldest
+call hym humanite it selfe if thou dydest well know
+hym. For ther is in hym soche lernynge, so vertuouse
+lyffe, soche purenes of maneres, that a mã cowld wyshe
+no gyfte of a parfayte Byshope in him, that he hathe
+nat. Frome thens afterward we were ladde to greater
+thynges. For behynde the hyghe aultre, we ascêdyd as it
+were in to a nother new churche, ther was shewed vs in
+a chapell the face of the blessed man ouergylted and
+with many precyous stones goodly garnysshed. A soden
+chaunse here had almost marred the matter and put vs
+out of conceyte. _Me._ I tary || to knowe what euyl
+chaunse yow wyll speke of. _Ogy._ Here my companyõ
+Gratiã gote hym lytle fauoure, for he, after we had mad
+an ende of praynge, inquyred of hym that sate by the
+hede, herke, he seyd, good father, is it true that I
+here, that saynt Thomas whyl he it lyued was mercyfull
+toward ye poer people? That is very true saythe he, and
+he begã to tell greatly of his liberalyte and
+compassyon that he shewede to the poer and nedy. Then
+sayd Gratiã: I thynke that affection and good mynd in
+him not to be chaungyde, but that it is now moche
+better. Unto this graunted ye keper of the hede, agayn
+sayd he, then in as moche as thys holy man was so
+gratyouse vnto ye poer, whan he was yet poer, & he hym
+selfe had nede of monay for ye necessarys of hys body,
+thynke ye nat that he wold be contêt, now that he is so
+ryche, and also nedethe || nothynge, that if a poer
+womã hauynge at home chylderne lakynge mete and drynke,
+or els doughters beynge in danger to lose ther
+virginite, for defaute of ther substaunce to mary them
+with, or hauynge her husbande sore syke, and destitute
+of all helpe, in case she askyd lycens, & pryuyly stole
+away a small porcyon of so greate riches, to sukkre her
+howshold, as and if the shold haue it of one that wold
+other leane, or gyue it to herre? And whan he wold nat
+answere that kepyd the golden hedde, Gracyane, as he is
+som what hasty, I, saythe he, doo suppose playnly, that
+this holy man wold be gladde, yf that she, now beynge
+deade, myght sustayne the necestiye of pore people. But
+there mayster parson begone to frowne, & byte hys
+lyppe, with hys holowe eyes lyke to *Gorgone [*A mõster
+that hathe snakes for heares apon her hedde.] ye
+monstre to luke apõ vs. I doo not dowbte he wold haue
+|| cast vs out of the temple, and spytte apõ vs,
+but that he dyd knowe that we were comendyd of the
+archebsyhope. But I dyd somwhat myttygate the manes
+ire, with my fayre wordes, saynge that Gratiane dyd nat
+speake as he thoghte, but that he gestyd as he was
+wontyd to doo, and stoppyd hys mouthe with a fewe pens.
+_Mene._ Treuly I do greatly alow your goodly fashion,
+but oftentymes ernestly I cõsyder, by what meaynes they
+may be acõpted without faute & blame, that bestow so
+moche substance in buyldyng churchys, in garnysshynge,
+and enrychynge them without all mesure. I thynke as
+touchyng the holy vestmentes, & the syluer plate of the
+temple ther ought to be gyuyn, to the solempne seruys,
+hys dygnyte and comlynes, I wyll also that the buyldyng
+of the churche shall haue hys maiesty decent and
+|| E.|| conuenyent. But to what purpose seruyth so many
+holy water pottes, so many cãdlestyckes, so many ymages
+of gold. What nede there so many payre of organes (as
+thay call them) so costely & chargeable? For one payre
+can not serue vs: what profyteth ye musicall criynge
+out in the temples that is so derely bought and payed
+for, whan in the meaneseson our brothers and systers
+the lyuely temples of Christe liynge by the walles/dye
+for hungre & colde. _Ogy._ Ther is no vertuouse or wyse
+man, that wold nat desyre a meane to be hadde in thes
+thynges. But in as moche as thys euyl is growen and
+spronge vp of superstityon beyond mesure, yet may it
+better be sufferde, specially when we consyder on the
+other syde the euyll conscience and behauyor of them
+that robb the churches of what so euer iuellys ther may
+be so founde, thes || ryches were gyuen in a maner
+great men, & of pryncys, the whiche they wold haue
+bestowede vpon a worse vse, that is to say other at the
+dyce or in the warres. And if a man take any thynge
+from thense. Fyrst of all it is taken sacrylege, then
+they hold ther handes that were accustomed to gyfe,
+besyde that morouer they be allured & mouyde to
+robbynge & vaynynge. Therfore thes mene be rather the
+kepers of thys treasures thê lordes. And to speake a
+worde for all, me thynket it is a better syght to
+beholde a temple rychely adourned, as ther be some with
+bare wolles, fylthy and euyl fauorde, more mete for
+stables to put horses then churches for Chrysten
+people. _Me._ Yet we rede that Byshopes in tymes paste
+were praysede and cõmended bycause they solde the holy
+vesseles of theyr churches, and with that money helped
+and releued the || E ij.|| nedy and poure people.
+_Ogy._ Thay be praysede also now in our tyme, but thay
+be praysed onely, to folow ther doynge (I suppose) thay
+may not, nor be any thynge dysposede. _Me._ I
+interrupte and lett yowr cõmunycatyon. I loke now for
+the cõclusyon of ye tale. _Ogy._ Gyffe audyence, I wyll
+make an ende shortly. In the meane seson comyth forthe
+he that is the cheffe of them all. _Me._ Who is he? the
+abbot of the place? _Ogy._ He werythe a mytre, he may
+spend so moche as an abbot, he wãted nothynge but ye
+name, and he is called prior for this cause
+tharchebyshope is takê in the abbotes sted. For in old
+tyme who so euer was archbyshope of ye dyocese, the
+same was also a monke. _Me._ In good faythe I wold be
+content to be namyde a Camelle, if I myght spende
+yerely the rentes and reuennes of an abbot. _Ogy._ Me
+semede he was a || man bothe vertuous and wyse, and not
+vnlearnede Duns diuinite. He opened the shryne to vs in
+whiche ye holle body of the holy mã, thay say, dothe
+rest and remayne. _Me._ Dydste thou see hys bones.
+_Ogy._ That is not conuenient, nor we cowld not come to
+it, except we sett vp laders, but a shryne of wod
+couerede a shryne of gold, when that is drawne vp with
+cordes, thã apperith treasure and riches inestimable.
+_Me._ What do I here? the vilest part and worst was
+golde, all thynges dyd shyne, florishe, and as it were
+with lyghtnynge appered with precyouse stones and those
+many and of great multitude: some were greater than a
+gowse egge. Dyuerse of ye monks stode ther aboute with
+greate reuerence, the couer takyn a way, all we kneled
+downe and worshyped. The pryor with a whyte rodde
+showed vs euery stone, addynge therto the || E iij.||
+frenche name, the value, & the autor of the gyfte, for
+the cheffe stonys were sent thyther by great prynces.
+_Me._ He ought to be a man of an excedyng witt &
+memory. _Ogy._ You gesse well, how beit exercyse & vse
+helpeth moche, for euyn the same he dothe oftentymes.
+He brought vs agayne in to the crowdes. Our lady hathe
+ther an habitacyon, but somwhat darke, closed rownde
+aboute with double yren grats. _Me._ What feared she?
+_Ogy._ Nothinge I trow, except theues. For I saw neuer
+any thing more laden with riches synse I was borne of
+my mother. _Me._ You show vnto me blinde ryches.
+_Ogy._ Whê they brought vs candells we saw a sight
+passynge ye ryches of any kynge. _Me._ Dothe it excede
+our lady of walsyngã? _Ogy._ To loke vpõ this, is
+richer, the secret tresure she knoweth her selfe, but
+this is not shewede, but to great || men, or to
+specyall frendes. At the last we were brought agayne in
+to the reuettry, there was taken out a cofer couered
+with blacke lether, it was sett downe apon the table,
+it was sett open, by and by euery body kneled downe and
+worshipyd. _Me._ What was in it? _Ogy._ Certayne torne
+ragges of lynnen clothe, many hauynge yet remaynynge in
+them the token of the fylthe of the holy mannes nose.
+With these (as they say) saynt Thomas dyd wype a way
+the swett of hys face or hys neke, ye fylthe of hys
+nose, or other lyke fylthynes with whiche mannes body
+dothe abownde. Then my companyon Gratian, yet ones
+agayn, got hym but smalle fauour. Unto hym an Englyshe
+man and of famylyare acquayntenance and besyde that,
+a man of no smalle authorite, the Prior gaff gentylly
+one of the lynnê ragges, thynkynge to haue gyuen
+|| E iiij.|| a gyfte very acceptable & pleasaunt, But
+Gratian there with lyttle plea sede and content, not
+with out an euydent synge of dyspleasure, toke one of
+them betwene hys fyngers, and dysdaynyngly layd it down
+agayne, made a mocke and a mow at it, after
+the maner of puppettes, for thys was hys maner, if any
+thing lykede hym not, that he thought worthy to be
+despysede. Wher at I was bothe ashamed and wonderously
+afrayed. Not withstondynge the Prior as he is a man not
+at all dull wytted, dyd dyssemble the matter, & after
+he had caused vs drinke a cuppe of wyne, gentylly he
+let vs departe. When we came agayne to London. _Me._
+What shuld ye do at Londo: seynge ye were not farre
+from the see cost, to seale in to yowr cuntre? _Ogy._
+It is true. But that see cost I refused and gladely dyd
+fle from it, as from a place that is || noted and more
+euyl spoken of it, for robbyng, stelynge, and vntrue
+dealynge, then is of dangerouse ioperdy in the see, be
+that hyll Malea wher many shyppes be drowned & vtterly
+destroyed for euer. I wyll tell the what I dyd se the
+last passage, at my commynge ouer. We were many caryed
+in a bote frome Calys shore to go to the shyppe.
+Amongest vs all was a pour yõge mã of Fraûce, and
+barely appayrelled. Of hym he demauuded halfe a grote.
+For so moche thay dow take and exacte of euery one for
+so smalle a way rowynge. He allegede pouerty, then for
+ther pastyme thay searched hym, plucked of his shoes,
+and betwene the shoo and the soule, thay fownde .x. or
+.xij. grotes, thay toke thê from hym laughyng at the
+mater: mockinge and scornyng the poer & myserable
+Frenchman. _Me._ What dyd ye fellow than? _Ogy._ What
+thyng dyd || E v.|| he? He wept. _Me._ Whether dyd they
+thys by any authoryte? _Ogy._ Suerly by the same
+authoryte that thay steyle and pycke straungers males
+and bowgettes, by the whiche they take a way mennes
+pursys, if they se tyme and place conuenyent. _Me._
+I meruayll that they dare be so bold to doo soch a
+dede, so many lokynge vpon them. _Ogy._ They be so
+accustomed, that they thynk it well done. Many that
+were in the shyp lokede owt and sawe it also, in the
+bote were dyuerse Englyshe marchauntes, whiche grudged
+agaynst it, but all in vayne. The botemê as it had ben
+a tryflyng mater reiosed and were glade that they had
+so taken and handelyd the myserable Frenchman. _Me._
+I wold play and sporte with these see theues, & hange
+them vpon the gallowes. _Ogy._ Yet of such both the
+shores swarme full. Here tell me, I pray the. What ||
+wyll great mê do, whê theues take vpõ them to
+enterpryse soch masterys. Therfore, herafter I had
+leuer go fourty myllys aboute, thê to go that way,
+thoffe it be moche shorter. Morouer euyn as ye goynge
+downe to hell, is easy and leyght, but ye cõmynge frome
+thens of greate dyffyculty, so to take shyppynge of
+this syde the see, is not very easy, and the landynge
+very hard & dangeroufe. Ther was at London dyuerse
+maryners of Antwerpe, with them I purposed to take the
+see. _Me._ Hathe that cûtre so holy maryners? _Ogy._
+As an ape is euer an ape, I graûte, so is a maryner
+euer a maryner: yet if thou compare them vnto these,
+ye lyfe by robbynge, and pyllynge and pollynge, they
+be angelles. _Me._ I will remembre thy saynge, if at
+any tyme I be dysposed to go and se Englãde. But come
+agayne in to ye waye, frome whens I broght the
+|| E vi.|| owt. _Ogy._ Then as we whent toward London not
+farre from Canterbury, we came in to a great hollow and
+strayt way, morouer bowyng so downe, with hyllys of
+eyther syde, that a man can not escape, nor it cannot
+be auoyed, but he must nedes ryde that way. Upõ the
+lefte hand of the way, ther is an almes howse for olde
+people, frome them runnyth on owt, as sone as they here
+a horseman commynge, he casteth holy water vpon hym,
+and anone he offereth hym the ouerlether of a shoo
+bownde abowte with an yerne whope, wherin is a glasse
+lyke a precyouse stone, they that kysse it gyf a pece
+of monay. _Me._ In soche a way I had leuer haue an almes
+howse of olde folkes, then a company of stronge theues.
+_Ogy._ Gratian rode vpon my lefte hande nerer the almes
+howse, he caste holy water vpon hym, he toke it in
+worthe so so, || when the shoo was proferred hym, he
+asked what he ment by it, saythe he, it is saynt Thomas
+shoo. There at he turned and was very angry, & turned
+toward me: what (saythe he) meane these bestes, that
+wold haue vs kysse ye shoes of euery good man? Why doo
+they not lyke wyse gyue vs to kysse the spottel, &
+other fylthe & dyrt of the body? I was sory for the old
+mã, & gaue hym a pece of money to cõforthe hym with
+all. _Me._ In myn opynyõ Gratian was not all together
+angry with owt a good cause. If shoes and slyppers were
+kept for a tokê of sobre lyuynge, I wold not be moch
+dyscontent ther with, but me thynks it is a shame full
+fashyon for shoes, slyppers, and breches to be offered
+to kysse to any man. If some wold do it by there owne
+fre wyll, of a certene affectyõ of holynes, I thynke
+they were whorthy of pardon. _Ogy._ It were || better
+not to thes thynges, if I may say as I thynke, yet owt
+of thes thynges that cannat forthwith be amended, it is
+my maner if ther be any goodnes thereyn, to take it
+out, and apply it to the best. In ye meanseson that
+contemplacyõ and light delited my mynde, that a good mã
+is lykened to a shepe, an euyll man to a benemouse
+best. The serpent after she is dede, cã stynge no more,
+not withstondyng with her euyll sauour and poyson she
+infecteth and corruptyth other. The shepe as lõge as
+she is a lyue norryseth with her mylke, clothet with
+her wolle, makyth riche with her lambes, when she is
+deade she gyueth vs good and profytable lether, and all
+her body is good meat. Euen so, cruell men, gyuen all
+to the world, so longe as they lyue be vnprofitable to
+all mê, when they be deade, what with ryngyng of
+bellys, and pompyouse || funeralles they greue them
+that be on lyue, and often tymes vexe ther successours
+with new exactyones. Good men of the other syde at all
+assais be profytable to all men, and hurtfull to noo
+man. As thys holy man, whyle he was yet alyue, by hys
+good example, hys doctryne, his goodly exhortatyons
+prouokyd vs to vertuouse lyuynge, he dyd cõfort the
+cõforthlesse, he helped ye poure, ye and now that he is
+deade, he is in a maner more profytable. He hathe
+buylded thys costly & gorgeouse churche, he hath caused
+greate authoryte thorough out all Englande vnto the
+ordre and presthode. At ye last, thys pece of the show
+dothe susteyne a company of poure people. _Me._ Thys is
+of my faythe a godely cõtemplacyõ, but I maruayll
+greatly, seyng you ar thus mynded, that ye neuer dyd
+vysyte saynt Patryckes purgatory in Yerlande, of the ||
+whiche the comyn people boost many wonderouse thynges,
+whiche seme to me not lyke to be true. _Ogy._ Of a
+suerty ther is not so meruelouse talkynge of it here,
+but the thynge it selffe doth fare excede. _Me._ Hast
+thou bene ther than, & gonne thorow saynt Patryckes
+purgatory? _Ogy._ I haue saylede ouer a ryuer ot hell,
+I went downe vnto the gates of hell, I saw what was dõe
+ther. _Me._ Thou dost me a greate pleasure, if thou
+wyll wotsaue to tell me. _Ogy._ Lett this be the
+prohemy or begynnynge of owr communycatyon, longe
+enough as I suppose. I wyll gett me home, & cause my
+souper to be made redy, for I am yet vndynede. _Me._
+Why haue you not yet dyned? is it bycause of holynes?
+_Ogy._ Noo of a truthe, but it is bycause of enuy and
+euyll will. _Me._ Owe ye euyll wyll to yowr bely? _Ogy._
+No, but to the couetyse || tauerners euer catchynge and
+snatchynge the whiche when they wyll not sett afore a
+man that is mete & conuenyent, yet they are not afearde
+to take of straûgers that, whiche is bothe vnright and
+agaynst good consciens. Of thys fashyõ I am acustomed
+to be auengede vpon thê. If I thynke to fare well at
+souper other with myne acquayntauns, or with some host
+som what an honest man, at dyner tyme I am sycke in my
+stomacke, but if I chaunce to fare after myne appetyte
+at dyner, before souper also I begynne to be well at
+ease in my stomacke. _Me._ Wre ye not ashamede to be
+taken for a couetouse fellow & a nygerde? _Ogy._
+Menedeme they that make cost of shame in soche thynges,
+beleue me, bestow theyr money euyll. I haue lerned to
+kepe my shame for other purposys. _Me._ Now I longe for
+the rest of yowr comunycacyon, || wherfore loke to haue
+me yowr geste at souper, where ye shall tell it more
+conuenyently. _Ogy._ For sothe I thanke you, that ye
+offere yowr selfe to be my gest vndesyred, when many
+hertely prayed refuse it, but I wyll gyue yow double
+thankes, if ye wyll soupe to day at home. For I must
+passe that tyme in doynge my dewty to my howsehold. But
+I haue counsell to eyther of vs moche more profytable.
+To morrow vnto me and my wyfe, prepare our dyner at
+yowr howse, then and if it be to souper tyme, we will
+not leyue of talkynge, vntyll you say that ye are wery,
+and if ye wyll at souper also we wyll not forsake you.
+Why, claw you your hede? prepare for vs in good fayth
+we wyll come. _Me._ I had leuer haue no tales at all.
+Well go to, you shall haue a dyner, but vnsauery,
+except you spyce it with good & mery tales. _Ogy._ But
+here || you, are ye not mouyd and styrrede in your
+mynde, to take vpon yow these pylgremages? _Me._
+Perauenture it wyll sett me a fyre, after ye haue told
+me the resydew, as I am now mynded, I haue enough to do
+with my statyons of Rome. _Ogy._ Of Rome, that dyd
+neuer see Rome?. _Me._ I wyll tell you, thus I go my
+statyons at home, I go in to the parler, and I se vnto
+the chast lyuynge of my doughters, agayne frome thense
+I go in to my shope, I beholde what my seruauntes,
+bothe men and women be doynge. Frome thense into
+the kytchyn, lokynge abowt, if ther nede any
+of my cownsell, frome thense hyther and thyther
+obseruynge howe my chylderne be occupyed, what
+my wyffe dothe, beynge carefull that euery
+thynge be in ordre, these be statyons of Rome.
+_Ogy._ But these thynges saynt Iames wold dow
+||    for yow. _Mene._ That I shuld se vn-
+         to these thynges holy scriptu-
+             re commaundethe, that
+               I shuld commyt the
+                charge to sayntes
+                  I dyd rede yt
+                    neuer com-
+                      maun-
+                      ded.
+
+              God saue the kynge
+
+                     FINIS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Corrected Errors:
+  _v_ = verso (back of page)
+
+[+] iiij.
+the pryuate iudgmegt of certayne
+    _was_ iudgmegt
+
+[+] v.
+cõsolacyõ of his gracys faythfull and true comens
+    _was_ ofh is
+
+[+] v. _v_
+prudently
+    _was_ prudenly, but catchword has _prudently_
+
+[+] vi.
+but also (to theyr greate laude and prayse)
+    _was_ prayse(
+
+[+] vi. _v_
+Desiderius Erasmus
+    _was_ Dsiderius Erasmus
+
+B
+Whan he lokythe to the West
+    _was_ te West
+
+D iij. _v_
+to the company of the wykyd sowdyeres
+    _was_ compauy
+
+D v.
+Frome thens we returnyd in to the quere
+    _was_ returuyd
+
+E ij. _v_
+Me semede he was a man bothe vertuous and wyse
+    word _a_ printed only as catchword
+
+E viij.
+I haue saylede ouer a ryuer to hell
+    _was_ ot
+
+
+Additional Problems:
+
+[+] iiij.
+to use theme as goddes
+    _u_ printed for _v_
+whervpon thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes
+    _v_ printed for _u_
+A Good morow Ogygyus. / Good morow to you Menedemus.
+    change of speaker not marked
+
+C v.
+_Ogy._ No veryly. What lettythe thaym? _Ogy._ That is
+a name of dygnyte and nat of relygyõ.
+    change of speaker not marked
+
+E ij. _v_
+What do I here? the vilest part and worst was golde,
+    change of speaker unclear
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion
+by Desiderius Erasmus
+
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