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diff --git a/14746-h/14746-h.htm b/14746-h/14746-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3150f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/14746-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1662 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content= +"HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 1st March 2004), see www.w3.org"> +<title>A Pilgrimage...</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= +"text/html; charset=UTF-8"> +<style type="text/css"> + +body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 30%; max-width: 492px;} +p {margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.2em;} +b {letter-spacing: 0.1em;} +sup {font-size: 85%;} + +.rowOne {font-size: 250%; text-align: center;} +.headline {text-align: center; font-size: 125%;} + +.sidenote {position: absolute; left: 75%; right: 5%; +font-size: 95%; text-align: left;} + +/* to hide page numbers, set color to #FFFFFF */ +.pagenum {position: absolute; left: 5%; font-size: smaller; +text-align: left; color: #000000;} + +ins.correction {border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: +red; border-bottom-width: 1px} + +</style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14746 ***</div> + +<p>[Transcriber's note:</p> +<p>The original text has no page numbers. Instead, the first few +leaves of each 16-page signature are labeled in sequence: A, +A i, A ii; B, B i... Unmarked pages are shown in the +margin as vertical lines |</p> +<p>Each section of the original text was printed as one continuous +block. For ease in reading, this e-text has placed each speaker on +a new line.</p> +<p>A few apparent typographic errors were corrected and are marked +<ins class="correction" title="explanation will pop up">like +this</ins>. Some additional problems are marked in the same way but +were left unchanged. All other spelling and punctuation are as in +the original.]</p> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> +<div class="rowOne">A dialoge</div> +<div class="headline">or communication of<br> +two persons, deuysyd<br> +and set forthe in the la-<br> +tê tonge, by the noble<br> +and famose clarke.<br> +<i>Desiderius Erasmus</i><br> +intituled y<sup>e</sup> pyl-<br> +gremage of<br> +pure de-<br> +uoty-<br> +on.<br> +<br> +Newly trãslatyd into<br> +Englishe.</div> +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> +<span class="pagenum"><img src="images/cross_symb.png" width="9" +height="9" alt="[+]"> ij.</span> +<div class="headline">To the reder.</div> +<p><img src="images/large_A.png" border="0" align="left" hspace="5" +width="58" height="48" alt="A">Mongest 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 y<sup>e</sup> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> entrye, wherby thorough faythe in the redêptyon +of the worlde thorowe y<sup>e</sup> bloode of Christe the sone of +god, to rayne <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class= +"pagenum"><img src="images/cross_symb.png" width="9" height="9" +alt="[+]"> iij.</span> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 <i>Desiderius Erasmus</i> 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, <span class= +"pagenum"><img src="images/cross_symb.png" width="9" height="9" +alt="[+]"> iiij.</span> belles, bokes, gloues, ropes, taperes, +candelles, bootes, sporres, (my breath was almost past me) with +many other soche dampnable allusyones of the deuylle to <ins class= +"correction" title="anomalous 'u' in original">use</ins> theme as +goddes contrary to the immaculate scripture of gode, morouer he +notethe as it were of arrogancye the pryuate <ins class= +"correction" title="text reads 'iudgmegt'">iudgment</ins> 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, <ins class="correction" title= +"anomalous 'v' in original">whervpon</ins> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> +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<span class="sidenote"><img src="images/fleur.png" +width="14" height="16" alt="[a]"> A tresure boxe of y<sup>e</sup> +Iewes.</span><img src="images/fleur.png" width="14" height="16" +alt="[a]">Corbane 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 +<span class="pagenum"><img src="images/cross_symb.png" width="9" +height="9" alt="[+]"> v.</span> 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 +w<sup>t</sup> all the fauerours therof shall ouercome & destroy +all soch most to be abhorred & deceyuable inuegelers & +dysturbers of y<sup>e</sup> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> greate comforthe & cõsolacyõ +<ins class="correction" title="text reads 'ofh is'">of his</ins> +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 +<span class="pagenum">|</span> & 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 Golias, 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 +<ins class="correction" title= +"main text 'pru-denly', catchword '-dently'">prudently</ins> +<span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>t</sup> he willeth euery soule to be subiected +to the hygher power and obedyent to theyr prynce, but also (to +theyr greate laude and <ins class="correction" title= +"text reads 'prayse('">prayse)</ins> 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, <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> for whiche intent and purpose the sayd most +noble and famous clarke <i><ins class="correction" title= +"text reads 'Dsiderius'">Desiderius</ins> Erasmus</i>, 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</p> +<span class="pagenum">|</span> +<p align="center">spoken of at the begynnynge to the<br> +whiche the lorde Iesus Chri-<br> +ste brynge vs all with a<br> +perfaycte quyetnes,<br> +So be it.<br> +<img src="images/large_leaf.png" width="39" height="24" alt= +"{+}"></p> +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<span class="pagenum">A.</span><br> +<br> +<div class="headline"><img src="images/c_symb.png" width="15" +height="16" alt="(C)">A pylgremage, for pure deuocyõ.</div> +<p><b><img src="images/large_M.png" border="0" align="left" hspace= +"5" width="51" height="48" alt="M">Enedemus.</b> <img src= +"images/flower_right.png" width="30" height="16" alt="[b]"> +<span class="sidenote"><img src="images/flower_right.png" width= +"30" height="16" alt="[b]"> Signifieth to forsake.</span> What new +thynge ys it, that I se? doo I nat see <i>Ogygyus</i> 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 +<img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt= +"[c]"><span class="sidenote"><img src="images/flower.png" width= +"16" height="16" alt="[c]"> was faynyd of an old kynge of +Thebanes.</span><ins class="correction" title= +"not marked as speaker">Ogygyus</ins>. Good morow to you +Menedemus.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, thankyd be god, I haue faryd as well syns I went +hens, as euer I dyd in all my lyffe.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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 +<span class="pagenum">|</span> ladê on euery syde with +bruches of lead and tynne. And you be pretely garnyshyd +w<sup>t</sup> wrethes of strawe & your arme is full of +<span class="sidenote"><img src="images/flower.png" width="16" +height="16" alt="[d]"> Signifyeth bedes. Malsyngam ys callyd +parathalassia by cause it is ny to y<sup>e</sup> see.</span> +<img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt= +"[d]">snakes egges.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I trowe, it was but for your pleasure.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Nay, it was for pure deuocyon.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I suppose you learnyd that relygyõ of the +Grecyanes.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Dyd you salute saynt Iames alonly in your name, and +your mothers.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, in the name of all owre house.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> <span class="pagenum">A ij.</span> Verely I thynke +y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Wherfore dothe he gyue rather suche schelles, than +other thynges.</p> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> For the see, whiche is nye vnto hym dothe mynystre +plenty of suche.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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 y<sup>e</sup> matter +chaunche happyly whiche you haue in hande, that I for you +<span class="pagenum">|</span> shall fast twyse in on weke, do you +beleue y<sup>t</sup> I can fulfyl youre vow?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> If that you had not perfourmyd your vowe, what +iopertye had you be in?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I graunt, he could not haue had an accyon ayenst me +in y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Tell me now what that same honest mã saynt +Iames dothe, and howe he farythe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Moche colder thã he was wontyd to do.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What is the cause of it? His age?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Oh you scoffer, yow <span class="pagenum">A +iij.</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> O a wykyd comunicacyon.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> If it be trew that I here, it is great ioperdy lest +that same chance to all the rest of the sayntes.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I thynk it wel, for ther is an epistle abrode whiche +our lady dyd wryte apon the same matter.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What lady?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> <span class="sidenote"><img src="images/finger.png" +width="28" height="14" alt="[e]"> Our ladi of stone in Raurachia +whiche is a certayne cuntre.</span><img src="images/finger.png" +width="28" height="14" alt="[e]">She y<sup>t</sup> hathe her name +of a stone.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I trawe it is in Raurachia.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> That same <span class="pagenum">|</span>is it.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> yow tell me of a stony lady, But to whome dyd she +wryte?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> The epistle dothe playnely shew his name.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> By whome was it sent?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +w<sup>t</sup> his owne hande.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Do you know so well the hand of thangell whiche is +secretary to our lady?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Yee why nat?</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> By what argumêt?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I haue redde y<sup>t</sup> <span class= +"sidenote"><img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt= +"[f]"> Is a scripture wryten on a graue.</span><img src= +"images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt="[f]"> Epithaphe of +Bede which was grauyd of the angell: and the letteres agre in all +thynges. I haue redde also y<sup>e</sup> obligacyõ whiche +was sent to saynt Gyles as dothe aper. Dothe not thes argumentes +proue that mater to be good enoghe.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> May a man loke apon them?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> ye and if you wyll swere to kepe it <span class= +"pagenum">A iiij.</span>preuy.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Oh you shall speake to a stone.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Ther be stones now a dayes of that name very +slawnderous, that wyll hyde nothynge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> you shall speake to a domme man, & yow trust nat +a stone.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Apon y<sup>e</sup> condycyon I wyll tell it, loke +that you here with bothe youre eyares.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> So I doo.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> <span class="sidenote">The epistle of our Lady.<br> +<br> +<img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt="[g]"> +Glaucoplut<sup>9</sup> desirus of ryches.</span> Mary the mother of +Iesu to <img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt= +"[g]">Glaucoplutus sêdythe gretynge. Insomoche as you folowe +Luther, you nobly perswade, that it is but in vayne to call +apõ sayntes, do y<sup>e</sup> well know for that to be +grettly in my fauore. For vntyll thys day I haue almost be slayne +w<sup>t</sup> 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, <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>e</sup> +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 +<span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> saythe +the bysshope kepe well my churche. Thã cryethe +y<sup>e</sup>hye Iustyce shew me thy sone or I passe out of this +worlde. Thã saythe y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>t</sup> 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 +<span class="pagenum">|</span> you of the same sauce, and shite vp +heuyngates ayenst you. y<sup>e</sup> saynt Paule hathe his sworde. +Barthylmew is nat w<sup>t</sup>owt 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 +w<sup>t</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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. xiiii. I +stony lady subscrybyd thys with myne owne hande.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Trewly that was a soro and fearfull epistle, I +suppose that Glaucoplutus wyll beware frõ +hêsforthe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Ye & if he be wyse.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Wherfore dyd nat that good saynt Iames wryte to +y<sup>t</sup> man of the same mater.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I pray you, what god dyd send you into +Englõd?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I saw the wynd maruelouse prosperouse thyderward, +and I had almoste promysyd this to that blessyd lady of +Walsyngã that I wold seke <span class="pagenum">|</span> her +within .ii. yere,</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What wold you axe of her.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> May nat owr lady grante the same at home with vs? She +hathe at Antwarpe a moche more lordly temple thã at +Walsyngame.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I haue harde oft of saynt Iames, but I pray you +describe to me the kyngdome of Walsyngam.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +<span class="pagenum">|</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Wher dothe she dwell?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What you tell me of <span class="sidenote"><img src= +"images/finger.png" width="28" height="14" alt="[h]"> Amphybyanes +be thynges doutfull.<br> +<br> +<img src="images/flower_right.png" width="30" height="16" alt= +"[i]"> Fyber is a beste of y<sup>e</sup> see & y<sup>e</sup> +land.<br> +<br> +<img src="images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt="[k]"> A +Cocatrice wil kyll a man with a loke.</span> <img src= +"images/finger.png" width="28" height="14" alt="[h]">Amphybyanes, +suche as y<sup>e</sup> mõstre <img src= +"images/flower_right.png" width="30" height="16" alt="[i]"> Fyber +is.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No thay be rather suche as the <img src= +"images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt="[k]"> Cocatrice. +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</p> +<p><b>Menede.</b> Yet yowe doo nat open thys redle.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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,</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> O new partakeres, I wold to god they wold take away +my wyffe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> But to come to our purpose, the college hathe +skarsly any other <span class="sidenote"><img src= +"images/flower.png" width="16" height="16" alt="[l]"> +Rêttes.</span> <img src="images/flower.png" width="16" +height="16" alt="[l]">emolumêtes 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Be thay of a vertuous lyffe?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +y<sup>t</sup> was purchasyd for the honor of her sone. She hathe +her owne temple, <span class="pagenum">B.</span> that she may be of +the ryght hand of her sone.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Apon the right hãd. Whiche way dothe her sonne +loke than?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It is well remembryd. Whan he lokythe to <ins class= +"correction" title="text reads 'te'">the</ins> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> what doo yow tell me wher dothe she dwell +thã?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> In y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>e</sup> pylgrymes go thorow, +ther is lytle light, but of y<sup>e</sup> taperes, with a fragrant +smell.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> All these be mete for religyon.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Ye Menedemus if you loke within you <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> wyll say that it is a seate mete for sayntes, +all thynges be so bright in gold, syluer, and precyous stones.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You almost moue me to go thyther also.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It shalnat repente you of your iornay.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Spryngithe ther no holy oyle?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I trowe you dote, that spryngythe nat but owt ofthe +sepulchres of sayntes, as saynt Andrew, & saynt Katerê, +owr lady was nat beried.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I graût I sayd amysse, but tell on your +tale.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> So moche more as thay persayue youre deuocyõ, +so moche larger reliques wyl thay shew to you.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Ye and peraduêture that thay may haue larger +offerynges, as is sayd that, many lytle offerynges makythe a heuy +boxe.</p> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> Her chaplens be alway at hand.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Be thay of y<sup>e</sup> Chanones?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, thay be nat permyttyd to be with her, lest that +peraduenture by occasyon of that religyon, thay shuld be plukkyd +<span class="pagenum">B ii.</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> For what purpose?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> To receyue and kepe, y<sup>t</sup> whiche is +offeryd.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> dothe any man gyue ayenst hys wyll.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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, y<sup>t</sup> standithe +there.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You tell me of mannes affectiones, whiche I my selffe +prouyd very ofte.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 y<sup>t</sup> whiche other men +hathe gyuen.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Than <span class="pagenum">|</span> lett no man be +there, wyll nat oure Lady shote her thonderbowlte at suche.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Wherfor shuld our lady rather doo so, than God +hymselffe, whom thay be nat affrayd to pluke owt hys robes, & +breake y<sup>e</sup> churche walles therfore.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> I am in a great doubt whether I shuld, rather +maruayle apon thayre wykyd boldnes, or Goddys great gêtlenes +and longe sufferynge.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It is ioperdie to goo thorow suche a dore, to a +mannes enemye.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> So it is, the sexten dyd tell me that <span class= +"pagenum">B iii.</span> ther was ones a knyght whiche fleeynge hys +enemye, than aprochynge, dyd ride thorow y<sup>e</sup> wykyte, and +than the wretche dispayrynge in hym selffe, apon a soden motion, +dyd commend hymselffe to y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> And dyd he tell you so maruylous a myrakle for a +trewthe?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No dowte.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> But I suppose that he could nat so lyghtely doo that +to you so a great a philosopher.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> He dyd shewe to me in that same wykytte in a plate +of coper, the ymage of the knyght fastenyd with nayles and +w<sup>t</sup> the same garmentes y<sup>t</sup> the Englishmen were +wontyd to wayre at that tyme, as you may see in that olde pictures, +whiche wylnat lye, Barbours had <span class="pagenum">|</span> but +lytle lyuynge at that tyme: and dieres & websteres gotte but +litle monay.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Why so?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Well now it is nat to be doubtyd apõ.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Under y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>e</sup> +place, whiche the knyght dyd cõsecrate to owr lady.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Nat withowt a good cause.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +<span class="pagenum">B iiii.</span> 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 .ii. or .iii. grotes. Before that chapell there was a +litle howsse, which he sayd ones in wynter tyme whan y<sup>t</sup> +there was litle rowme to couer the reliques, that it was sodenly +broght & sett in that place. Under that house <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> there was a couple of pittes, bothe fulle of +water to the brynkys, and thay say that y<sup>e</sup> sprynge of +thos pittes is dedicate to our lady, that water is very colde, and +medycynable for the hede ake and that hartburnynge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> If that cold water wyll hele the paynes in the hede +and stomake, than wyll oyle put owte fyre from hensforthe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It is a myrakle that I tell, good syr, or els what +maruayle shuld it be, y<sup>t</sup> cowld water shuld slake +thurste?</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> This may well be one parte of your tale.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">B v.</span> pyleres. He +cowld nat denay but y<sup>t</sup> they were sette there nat longe +agoo, and also the mater dyd playnly testyfye y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I pray you how dyd the howskeper, auoyde hymselffe +frome your argumêt.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> perswadyd by this argument, askid pardon of our +ignorance, and callid into our communycacyon the heuêly mylke +of our lady.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Thay saye the same of the holy crosse, whiche is +shewyd in so many places bothe openly, and pryuately, that if +y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> But do nat you maruayll at this?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It may welbe a strãge thynge, but no +maruayle, seynge that the lord whiche dothe encreasse this at hys +pleasure, is almyghty.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It is very gently expownded, but I am <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> afrayd, that many of thes be faynyd for +lukre.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I suppose y<sup>t</sup> God wold nat suffre +hymselffe to be deludyd of suche a fasshion.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> So it is, but here out me tale. This mylke is kepyd +apon the hye aultre, and in the myddys ther is Christe, +w<sup>t</sup> his mother apon hys ryght hand, for her honor sake, +the mylke dothe represente the mother.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It may be sene than?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It is closyd in crystalle.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It is moyste thã?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> +saye that it were chalke temperyd with the whyte of a egge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Ye, but do thay sette it forthe bare?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, lest so holy mylke shuld be defowlyd with the +kyssynge of men.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You say well. For I suppose y<sup>t</sup> ther be +many that kysse it, whiche be nother clene mouthyd, nor yet be pure +virgynes.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Whan y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Uerely thys is a holy prayer. But what dyd she?</p> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> Thay bothe bekkyd at vs, excepte my eyes waggyd, +and me thoght y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> By my trothe I haue cursyd veryofte suche +<span class="pagenum">|</span> crauynge boxes, whan I dyd ryde +thorowe Germany.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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, y<sup>t</sup> 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 +w<sup>t</sup> 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, y<sup>t</sup> and he had +prayd owr lady herselffe <span class="pagenum">|</span> after +y<sup>t</sup> fashion, she wold nat haue be dysplesyd therwith. And +thã this mystycall chapleyn, as and if he had be inspyryd +with y<sup>e</sup> holy ghoste, castynge at vs a frounynge loke, as +& if he wold haue shote at vs y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> What dyd you in the meaneseason?</p> +<p><b>Ogygyus.</b> 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. <span class="pagenum">|</span> Frome thens we went in to +y<sup>e</sup> 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, y<sup>t</sup> lokyd moch after +suche a fashion, at the last came the thyrd.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Perauenture thay desyryd to descrybe you.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> But I suspecte another mater.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> What was it?</p> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> There was a certayne theffe y<sup>t</sup> had +stole almost all owr ladyes frontlet, and I supposyd y<sup>t</sup> +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 <span class="pagenum">C.</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What dyde our lady now, dyd nat she make one sygne, +that you myght know that she had hard youre prayeres.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> This pylgremage came but to smale effecte.</p> +<p><b>Ogy..</b> Yes, it had a very good & mery ende.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You haue causyd me to take harte of grasse, for (as +Homere <span class="pagenum">|</span> saythe) my harte was almost +in my hose.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Whan dynar was done, we returnyd to y<sup>e</sup> +temple.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Durste you goo & be susspecte of felonye?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="sidenote"><img src="images/flower_right.png" +width="30" height="16" alt="[m]"> Linceus ys a beaste so quike eyed +y<sup>t</sup> it wyll see thorow any wall</span><img src= +"images/flower_right.png" width="30" height="16" alt="[m]">Linceus, +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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Well, now all doubtes be discussyd.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I was ashamyd that I doubtyd so moche, y<sup>e</sup> +mater was so playne set forthe before oure eyes, bothe the name, +the place, the thynge it selffe as it was <span class="pagenum">C +ij.</span> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> it, +he thoghte that he was richer than Croeseus.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Why nat, but was it nat withowt any goodhope?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> He went thã streght home, but in hys iornay +he fell seke.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Iesu there is nothynge in thys worlde y<sup>t</sup> +is other permanent, or alwayes in good state.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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, & <span class="pagenum">C iij.</span> +buryed, the Frenchman mayd hym redy to departe apon hys iornay, +& sodêly fell seke also. And he in great dyspayre of +amendynge, dyd commyth y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>e</sup> other dyd take +the mylke, and put it apon an aultre of y<sup>e</sup> same place +the Chanones beynge present, whiche were yt as we call Regulares. +Thay be yet in the abbaye of saynt Genofeffe. But y<sup>e</sup> +Englishmã obtaynyd the halffe of that mylke, & caryed it +to Walsyngã in England, the holy ghost put suche in hys +mynde.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> By my trothe this is a godly tale.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> But lest there shuld be any doubte of this mater, +y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> gyuen to +it remyssyon, as moche as thay had to gyue by thayre authorite.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> How moche is that?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Fowrty dayes.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> Yee is there dayes in hell.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Trewly ther is tyme. Y<sup>e</sup> but whan thay +haue grãtyd all thayre stynte, thay haue no more to +grante.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> If thay grãte to an hunderithe thowsand +mê fowrty dayes of pardone, wuld euery man haue elyke?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No doubte of that.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> And if any haue forty byfore dynar, may he axe other +forty at after souper, is there any thynge left than to gyue +him?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Ye, & if thou aske it ten tymes in one +howre.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I wold <span class="pagenum">C iiij.</span> to God +that I had suche a pardon bagge, I wold aske but .iii. grotes, and +if thay wold flowe so faste.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Ye but you desyre to be to ryche, if y<sup>t</sup> +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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> How kno you that?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> The mayd of Cõstantynople, which dyd gyue it, +dyd saye so.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Perauenture saynt Barnard dyd gyue it to her.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> So I suppose. For whã he was an old man, yet +he was so happy y<sup>t</sup> he sukkyd of y<sup>e</sup> same +mylke, that Iesus hymselffe sukkyd apon.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> But I maruayle why he was <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> rather callyd a hony sukker than a mylke sukker. +But how is it callyd oure ladyes mylke that came neuer owt of her +breste?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Yes it came owt at her breste, but perauenture it +light apon the stone y<sup>t</sup> he whiche sukkyd knelyd apon, +and ther was receyuyd, and so is encreasyd, & by ye wyll of god +is so multyplyed.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It is wel sayd.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Whan we had sene all thys, whyle that we were +walkynge vpe & downe, if that any thynge of valure were +offeryd, so y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> Were you afrayd of nothynge there?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Yis I dyd loke <span class="pagenum">C v.</span> +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 .ii. yere before. I +confessid that it was y<sup>e</sup> same.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Cã you wryte hebrewe?</p> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> No but all that thay cãnat vnderstond, thay +suppose to be Hebrewe. And than (I suppose he was send for) came +the posterior pryor.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What name of worshipe is y<sup>t</sup>? Haue thay nat +an abbate?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Why so?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> For thay cannat speake Hebrew.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Haue thay nat a Bishope?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What is y<sup>e</sup> cause?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> For oure lady is nat as yet so ryche, that she is +able to bye a crosse, & a mytre, whiche be so deare,</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Yet at least haue thay nat a presedente?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No veryly. <ins class="correction" title= +"'Menedemus' not marked as speaker">What lettythe thaym?</ins></p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> That is a name <span class="pagenum">|</span>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?</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Ye, but I neuer hard tell of pryor posterior +before.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Dyd you neuer learne youre grãmere +before.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Yis I know prior posterior amõgst the +fygures.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> That same is it. It is he that is nexte to the +prioure, for there priour is posterior.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You speake apon the supprioure.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> That same dyd entertayne me very gently, he told me +what greate labure had be abowt y<sup>e</sup> 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 +y<sup>t</sup> thay were lettres of Arabia, some sayd thay were +faynyd lettres. Well <span class="pagenum">|</span>at the last came +one that redde the tytle, it was wryten in laten with greate +Romayne lettres, y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What nede you to be her caryoure, seynge that she +hathe so many angelles bothe at her hedde and at her fette.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span>greate a +relyque, putt of my cappe, and fel down flatte, & very deuoutly +kyssyd it .iii. or .iiii tymes, poppyd it in my pursse.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I pray you may a man see it?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> O blessed arte thou that euer thou gotte this +relyque.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I may tell you in cowncell, I wold nat gyue thys +litle pece for all y<sup>e</sup> gold that Tagus hathe, I wyll sett +it in gold, but so y<sup>t</sup> 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 <span class= +"pagenum">|</span>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 +v<sup>ir</sup>tue.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Perauenture they ymagyne y<sup>e</sup> symylytude of +a tode to be there, euyn as we suppose whan we cutte y<sup>e</sup> +fearne stalke there to be an egle, and euyn as chyldren (whiche +they see nat indede) in y<sup>e</sup> clowdes, thynke they see +dragones spyttynge fyre, & hylles flammynge with fyre, & +armyd mê encownterynge.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, I wold you shuld know it, there is no lyuynge +tode that more euydêtly dothe expresse hymselffe than it dyd +there playnly apere.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Hetherto I haue sufferyd thy lyes, but now get the +another that wyll beleue the, thy tale of a tode.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span>it were trewe. +But that I sawe it with myne eyes, ye with thes same eyes, dyd I +proue it. But in y<sup>e</sup> meanseson me thynke you regard +naturall phylosophye but litle.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> why so, because I wyll nat beleue y<sup>e</sup> asses +flye?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> An do you nat se, how nature the worker of all +thynges, dothe so excell in expressynge y<sup>e</sup> fourme bewty, +& coloure of thaym maruylously in other thynges, but pryncypaly +in precyous stones? moreouer she hathe gyuen to y<sup>e</sup> 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 +w<sup>t</sup>owt any towchynge therof, and also to be se<u>p</u>ate +frome him ayen of hys owne accorde, excepte that yow had sene it +with yowre eyes.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> No verely, nat and if .x. Arystoteles wold perswade +me <span class="pagenum">|</span>to the contrarye.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>e</sup> nature euyn as +it were all of pleasure hathe not expressyd in precyous stones? Doo +yow maruayle thã y<sup>t</sup> in thys stone at owre ladies +fote, <span class="pagenum">D.</span>is the fourme and fashon of a +tode.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I maruayle that nature shuld haue so moche lesure, so +to counterfayt the nature of althynges.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 y<sup>e</sup> tyme with all, +we be in a maner made apon foles, apon dyesse, and crafty +iogeleres.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You saye very truthe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Wherfore do thay sette a tode byfore our lady?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Bycause she hathe ouercome, trode vnderfote, +abolyshyd all maner of vnclennes, poysõ, pryde, couytousnes, +and all wordly affectyones that raygne in man.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Woo be to vs, that hathe so many todes in owre +hartes.</p> +<span class="pagenum">|</span> +<p><b>Ogygy.</b> We shal be purgyd frome thaym all, if we +dylygêtly worshipe owre lady.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> How wold she be worshipyd.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> The most acceptable honor, that thou canste doo to +her is to folowe her lyuynge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You haue told all at ones. But this is hard to brynge +to pass.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> You saye truthe, but it is an excellente thynge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> But go to, and tell on as you begane.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">D ij.</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Haue you nat it prouyd, what valewre your woden +relyque is on?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Yis, y<sup>t</sup> I haue, in a certayne Inne within +thys thre dayes, ther I fownde a certayne man y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> It was nat the phrenysy, but the dronkê +dropsye, sleape ys wontyd to be a good medicyne for y<sup>e</sup> +dysease.</p> +<span class="pagenum">|</span> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Whã you be dysposyd to skoffe Menedemus, yt +ys best y<sup>t</sup> you gette a nother maner of gestynge stokke +than thys, for I tell you it is nother good nor holsome, to bowrde +so w<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> I suppose it was <span class="sidenote"><img src= +"images/leaf_right.png" width="26" height="16" alt="[n]"> Elleborum +wyll restore a man to hys senses that hathe lost thê.</span> +<img src="images/leaf_right.png" width="26" height="16" alt= +"[n]">Elleborû.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> That is vncertayne, but I kno well y<sup>e</sup> +mã was well broght into hys mynde ayen.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Dyd you other come or goo by Sante Thomas of +Cantorbury that good archebishope.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> What els/there ys no pylgremage more holy.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I wold fayne here of yt, and I shold nat trouble +you.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I pray you here, & take good hedd. Kente ys +callyd that parte of England, y<sup>t</sup> buttythe apon +Fraûce and Flanders, the cheffe cytye there of ys +Cantorburye, in yt there be ii. <span class="pagenum">D +iij.</span>Abbayes, bothe of thaym be of Saynte Benedycts ordre, +but y<sup>t</sup> 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 w<sup>t</sup> 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, <span class= +"pagenum">|</span>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, w<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I pray you wharfore doo thay suffer thos wykyd +knyghtes be so had in honoure.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Euyn suche honor is gyuen to thaym as was gyuê +to Iudas, Pylate, and Caiphas, & to the <ins class="correction" +title="text reads 'compauy'">company</ins> 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 +<span class="pagenum">D iiij.</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> O blessyd pacyence of suche martyres.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> At our entre in, lord what a pryncely place dyd +apere vnto vs, where as euery mã that wyll may goo in.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Is there no maruayle to be sene.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Nothynge but the greate wydnes of the place, and a +sorte of bokes, y<sup>t</sup> be bownde to pyleres wherein is the +gospell of Nicodemus, and I cannat tell whos sepulkre.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What than?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Thay do so dylygêtle watche lest any mã +shulde entre in to the quere of yron, that thay wyll skarsly suffre +a man <span class="pagenum">|</span>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 y<sup>t</sup> +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 +y<sup>e</sup> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> <span class="pagenum">D v.</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Ye perauêture so thay do the mõkes +slotefulnes.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> As for that mater I cãnat affyrme nor yet +denye, nor yet it is no poynte of my charge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Ye saye truthe.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Thã was there broght forthe <span class= +"pagenum">|</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What felowe was that?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> One of Wyclyffes scoleres I warrante you?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I thynke nat, althoghe he had redde hys bokes, how +he came by thaym I cannat tell.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> He dysplesyd mayster Sextê greuosly.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Thã was there broght forthe <span class= +"pagenum">|</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Was ther no more kyssynge thê?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, but an other affection and desyre came +apõ me.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What was that?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I syghed y<sup>t</sup> I had no suche relyques at +home.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Oh a wycked desyre & an euyl thought</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I graunt, and therefore I axyd, forgyfnes of saynt +Thomas before I remouyd one fote, to departe out of the church. +After <span class="pagenum">|</span>thes thus we were brought in to +y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Was ther no crosse?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I sawe none at all, ther was shewed vs a robe of +sylke treuly, but sowed with cowrse threde, garnysshyd +w<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Be not these thynges showed to euery body?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No for sothe good syr.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> How happened it that you were in so good credens, +that no se<span class="pagenum">|</span>cret thynges were hyd frome +you?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I was well acquyntede with the reuerende father +Gwylyame warham the archbyshope. He wrote .ii. or .iii. wordes in +my fauour.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I here of many that he is a mã of syngler +humanite.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 <u>p</u>fayte 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I tary <span class="pagenum">|</span>to knowe what +euyl chaunse yow wyll speke of.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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, y<sup>t</sup> saynt Thomas whyl he it lyued was +mercyfull toward y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>t</sup> it is now moche better. Unto this +graunted y<sup>e</sup> keper of the hede, agayn sayd he, then in as +moche as thys holy man was so gratyouse vnto y<sup>e</sup> poer, +whan he was yet poer, & he hym selfe had nede of monay for +y<sup>e</sup> necessarys of hys body, thynke ye nat that he wold be +contêt, now that he is so ryche, and also nedethe +<span class="pagenum">|</span>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 +y<sup>t</sup> 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 <span class= +"sidenote"><img src="images/flower_right.png" width="30" height= +"16" alt="[o]"> A mõster y<sup>t</sup> hathe snakes for +heares apon her hedde.</span> <img src="images/flower_right.png" +width="30" height="16" alt="[o]">Gorgone y<sup>e</sup> monstre to +luke apõ vs. I doo not dowbte he wold haue <span class= +"pagenum">|</span>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.</p> +<p><b>Mene.</b> 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 +<span class="pagenum">E.</span> 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 y<sup>e</sup> musicall criynge out in the +temples y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +ry<span class="pagenum">|</span>ches 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Yet we rede that Byshopes in tymes paste were +praysede and cõmended bycause they solde the holy vesseles +of theyr churches, and w<sup>t</sup> that money helped and releued +the <span class="pagenum">E ij.</span> nedy and poure people.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I interrupte and lett yowr cõmunycatyon. I +loke now for the cõclusyon of y<sup>e</sup> tale.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Gyffe audyence, I wyll make an ende shortly. In the +meane seson comyth forthe he that is the cheffe of them all.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Who is he? the abbot of the place?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> He werythe a mytre, he may spend so moche as an +abbot, he wãted nothynge but y<sup>e</sup> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> dyocese, the same was also a monke.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> In good faythe I wold be content to be namyde a +Camelle, if I myght spende yerely the rentes and reuennes of an +abbot.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Me semede he was <span class="pagenum">|</span> +<ins class="correction" title="word 'a' only as catchword">a +man</ins> bothe vertuous and wyse, and not vnlearnede Duns +diuinite. He opened the shryne to vs in whiche y<sup>e</sup> holle +body of the holy mã, thay say, dothe rest and remayne.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Dydste thou see hys bones.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What do I here? <ins class="correction" title= +"'Ogygius' not marked as speaker">the vilest part</ins> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> monks stode ther aboute with greate reuerence, the +couer takyn a way, all we kneled downe and worshyped. The pryor +w<sup>t</sup> a whyte rodde showed vs euery stone, addynge therto +the <span class="pagenum">E iij.</span>frenche name, the value, +& the autor of the gyfte, for the cheffe stonys were sent +thyther by great prynces.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> He ought to be a man of an excedyng witt & +memory.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What feared she?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Nothinge I trow, except theues. For I saw neuer any +thing more laden with riches synse I was borne of my mother.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> You show vnto me blinde ryches.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Whê they brought vs candells we saw a sight +passynge y<sup>e</sup> ryches of any kynge.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Dothe it excede our lady of walsyngã?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> To loke vpõ this, is richer, the secret +tresure she knoweth her selfe, but this is not shewede, but to +great <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What was in it?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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, y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class= +"pagenum">E iiij.</span> 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, y<sup>t</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What shuld y<sup>e</sup> do at Londo: seynge +y<sup>e</sup> were not farre from the see cost, to seale in to yowr +cuntre?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It is true. But that see cost I refused and gladely +dyd fle from it, as from a place that is <span class= +"pagenum">|</span> 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 .xii. grotes, +thay toke thê from hym laughyng at the mater: mockinge and +scornyng the poer & myserable Frenchman.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> What dyd y<sup>e</sup> fellow than?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b>What thyng dyd <span class="pagenum">E v.</span> he? +He wept.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Whether dyd they thys by any authoryte?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I meruayll that they dare be so bold to doo soch a +dede, so many lokynge vpon them.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I wold play and sporte with these see theues, & +hange them vpon the gallowes.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Yet of such both the shores swarme full. Here tell +me, I pray the. What <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>t</sup> way, thoffe it be moche +shorter. Morouer euyn as y<sup>e</sup> goynge downe to hell, is +easy and leyght, but y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Hathe that cûtre so holy maryners?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> As an ape is euer an ape, I graûte, so is a +maryner euer a maryner: yet if thou compare them vnto these, +y<sup>e</sup> lyfe by robbynge, and pyllynge and pollynge, they be +angelles.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> I will remembre thy saynge, if at any tyme I be +dysposed to go and se Englãde. But come agayne in to +y<sup>e</sup> waye, frome whens I broght the <span class= +"pagenum">E vi.</span> owt.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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 +y<sup>t</sup> kysse it gyf a pece of monay.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> In soche a way I had leuer haue an almes howse of +olde folkes, then a company of stronge theues.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Gratian rode vpon my lefte hande nerer the almes +howse, he caste holy water vpon hym, he toke it in worthe so so, +<span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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 +w<sup>t</sup>, 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> It were <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 +y<sup>e</sup> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> 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 y<sup>e</sup> +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 y<sup>e</sup> last, thys pece of the show +dothe susteyne a company of poure people.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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 <span class="pagenum">|</span> whiche the comyn +people boost many wonderouse thynges, whiche seme to me not lyke to +be true.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Of a suerty ther is not so meruelouse talkynge of it +here, but the thynge it selffe doth fare excede.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Hast thou bene ther than, & gonne thorow saynt +Patryckes purgatory?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> I haue saylede ouer a ryuer <ins class="correction" +title="text reads 'ot'">to</ins> hell, I went downe vnto the gates +of hell, I saw what was dõe ther.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Thou dost me a greate pleasure, if thou wyll wotsaue +to tell me.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Why haue you not yet dyned? is it bycause of +holynes?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Noo of a truthe, but it is bycause of enuy and euyll +will.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Owe y<sup>e</sup> euyll wyll to yowr bely?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> No, but to the couetyse ta<span class= +"pagenum">|</span>uerners 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Wre y<sup>e</sup> not ashamede to be taken for a +couetouse fellow & a nygerde?</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> Now I longe for the rest of yowr +comunycacy<span class="pagenum">|</span>on, wherfore loke to haue +me yowr geste at souper, where y<sup>e</sup> shall tell it more +conuenyently.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> For sothe I thanke you, that y<sup>e</sup> offere +yowr selfe to be my gest vndesyred, when many hertely prayed refuse +it, but I wyll gyue yow double thankes, if y<sup>e</sup> 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 y<sup>e</sup> +wyll at souper also we wyll not forsake you. Why, claw you your +hede? prepare for vs in good fayth we wyll come.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> But here <span class="pagenum">|</span> you, are +y<sup>e</sup> not mouyd and styrrede in your mynde, to take vpon +yow these pylgremages?</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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.</p> +<p><b>Ogy.</b> Of Rome, that dyd neuer see Rome?.</p> +<p><b>Me.</b> 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.</p> +<p align="center"><b>Ogy.</b> But these thynges saynt Iames wold +dow<br> +<span class="pagenum">|</span> for yow. <b>Mene.</b> That I shuld +se vn-<br> +to these thynges holy scriptu-<br> +re commaundethe, that<br> +I shuld commyt the<br> +charge to sayntes<br> +I dyd rede yt<br> +neuer com-<br> +maun-<br> +ded.</p> +<br> +<div class="headline"><img src="images/fleur.png" width="14" +height="16" alt="[+]"> God saue the kynge <img src= +"images/fleur.png" width="14" height="16" alt="[+]"><br> +<br> +<b>FINIS.</b></div> +<br> +<p align="center"><img src="images/leaf_right.png" width="26" +height="16" alt="+"> <img src="images/clover_right.png" width="22" +height="16" alt="*"> <img src="images/flower_right.png" width="30" +height="16" alt="#"> <img src="images/fleur.png" width="14" height= +"16" alt="[+]"> <img src="images/flower_left.png" width="30" +height="16" alt="#"> <img src="images/clover_left.png" width="22" +height="16" alt="*"> <img src="images/leaf_left.png" width="26" +height="16" alt="+"></p> +<br> +<br> +<hr> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14746 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/14746-h/images/c_symb.png b/14746-h/images/c_symb.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6162086 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/c_symb.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/clover_left.png b/14746-h/images/clover_left.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8c7c9b --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/clover_left.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/clover_right.png b/14746-h/images/clover_right.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..817171b --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/clover_right.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/cross_symb.png b/14746-h/images/cross_symb.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..436a6e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/cross_symb.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/finger.png b/14746-h/images/finger.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bdd311e --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/finger.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/fleur.png b/14746-h/images/fleur.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae2586d --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/fleur.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/flower.png b/14746-h/images/flower.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d14beb --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/flower.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/flower_left.png b/14746-h/images/flower_left.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..105367a --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/flower_left.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/flower_right.png b/14746-h/images/flower_right.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..beb3de1 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/flower_right.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/large_A.png b/14746-h/images/large_A.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..615a930 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/large_A.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/large_M.png b/14746-h/images/large_M.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b116a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/large_M.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/large_leaf.png b/14746-h/images/large_leaf.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..12c9e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/large_leaf.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/leaf_left.png b/14746-h/images/leaf_left.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4723548 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/leaf_left.png diff --git a/14746-h/images/leaf_right.png b/14746-h/images/leaf_right.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f23e248 --- /dev/null +++ b/14746-h/images/leaf_right.png |
