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diff --git a/old/14746.txt b/old/14746.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4d3e31 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/14746.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1967 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion, by Desiderius Erasmus + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion + +Author: Desiderius Erasmus + +Release Date: January 20, 2005 [EBook #14746] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PILGRIMAGE OF PURE DEVOTION *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope, David King, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: +The original text has no page numbers; instead, the first few leaves +of each 16-page signature are marked. This information is shown +between paired double lines: || A iij.||. Other page breaks have +been marked with double lines || + +A few apparent typographic errors were corrected and are listed at +the end of the text. Other possible errors are also noted but were +left unchanged. All other spelling and punctuation are as in +the original.] + + * * * * * + + A dialoge + or communication of + two persons, deuysyd + and set forthe in the la- + te tonge, by the noble + and famose clarke. + _Desiderius Erasmus_ + intituled ye pyl- + gremage of + pure de- + uoty- + on. + + Newly traslatyd into + Englishe. + + * * * * * + +|| [+] ij.|| + +To the reder. + +Amongest the writinges of all men, dearly belouyd +reder, not onely of the diuersyte of tongues, but also +the noble drawghts of so artificyall paynted figures, +whiche haue so lyuely expressed to ye quycke ymage, the +nature, ordre, & proporcyon of all states, as +concernynge the gouernaunce of a Christen comewealthe, +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 vpo, very fewe can fynde ye +entrye, wherby thorough faythe in the redeptyon of the +worlde thorowe ye bloode of Christe the sone of god, to +rayne || with the father and the holy goste eternally, +accordynge to the promyse of Christe, sayinge. In my +fathers hawse ther be many placys to dwell in, we wyll +come to hym and make a mansyon place with hym and I +haue and shall open thy name vnto them, that the same +loue with the whiche thou louydest me, may be in theym, +and I in the, and thys is the kyngdome of god so often +mouyd to vs in holy scripture, whiche all faythfull +shall possesse and inheret for euermore: where as ye +vnfaythfull, vnryghtswye, and synner shall not entre in +to the kyngdome of god, bycause, of chaugynge the glory +of gode immortall in to the ymage of a corruptyble man, +and therfore to incentiously he hathe suffrede them to +wandre in theyr clowdes of ygnoraunce, preferrynge the +lyes and corrupte || [+] iij.|| iudgmentes of man the +veryte and the truthe of god, rather seruynge the +creature then the creator, amongest all the parties of +the whiche (as was spoken at the begynnyng) thys alwaye +not alonely in the newe law, but also in the olde +Testament was as a thynge moost abhomynable and +displesant in the sight of gode prohybyte and forbyden: +but our nature whiche hath in hym, the dampnable +repugnauce of synne agaynst the omnypotet power of +gode, lest euyn frome owre fyrst father Adam, is so +enclyned to vyces, amongest the whiche it hath not +gyuen the least parte to thys desperate synne of +ydolatrye, agaynst the immaculate, and fearefull +commandement of god. Thou shalt haue no straunge Gods +in my syght, that it is sore to be dreadde the same +iudgement to be gyuyn || vpon vs that was gyuen vpon +the cytye of Ninyue to be absorped of the yerthe in to +the yre and vengeannce of gode, whiche hathe ben the +cause that so many wryters bothe of late dayes, and +many yeres passede, haue euyn to deathe, resisted thes +dampnable bolsterers of ydolatrye, gyuen theyr selues +to the crosse in example of reformacyon to theyr +bretherne, bothe in wrytinge and cownsell, exhortynge +the flocke of Christe frome soche prophane doctryne, +amongest whome the noble and famouse clerke _Desiderius +Erasmus_ hath setforthe to the quycke ymage, before +mennys eyes, the supersticyouse worshype and false +honor gyuyn to bones, heddes, iawes, armes, stockes, +stones, shyrtes, smokes, cotes, cappes, hattes, shoes, +mytres, slyppers, sadles, rynges, bedes, gyrdles, +bolles, || [+] iiij.|| belles, bokes, gloues, ropes, +taperes, candelles, bootes, sporres, (my breath was +almost past me) with many other soche dampnable +allusyones of the deuylle to use theme as goddes +contrary to the immaculate scripture of gode, morouer +he notethe as it were of arrogancye the pryuate +iudgment of certayne that of theyr owne brayne wolde +cast out ymages of the temple, with out a comen consent +and authoryte, some there be that alway seke halowes, +and go vpon pylgramages vnder a pretense of holynes, +whervpon thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes be now +inuented, morouer they that haue ben at Hierusalem be +called knightes of the sepulcre, and call one an other +bretherne, and vpon palme-sondaye they play the foles +sadely, drawynge after them an asse in a || rope, when +they be not moche distante frome the woden asse that +they drawe. The same do they conterfayte that haue ben +at saynt Iames in Compostella. But they be more +pernycyouse, that set forthe vncertayn relyques, for +certayne, and attrybute more to them than they oughte +to haue, and prostytute or sett theym forthe for +fylthye lukre. But now whan they perceyue, that this +theyr dapnable *Corbane [*A tresure boxe of ye Iewes.] +dothe decay, and that theyr most to be lamented blyndnes +and longe accustomed errours shuld be redressed, they, all +fayre bothe of god and man set asyde, rebelle and +make insurrectyones contrary to the ordynaunce of gode, +agaynst theyr kynge and liege lorde, prouokynge and +allurynge the symple comynaitye to theyre dampnable +ypocrysye and conspyracy, myndyng || [+] v.|| and goynge +about to preuente our most soueraigne lordes iudgment, +not yet gyue vpon theyr Sodomiticall actes, and most +horryble ypocrysy. But the worde of the lorde whiche +they so tyrannously go aboute to suppresse with all the +fauerours therof shall ouercome & destroy all soch most +to be abhorred & deceyuable inuegelers & dysturbers of +ye symple people to soch detestable treason. And that +it may so do to the terryble example of thes and a11 +other rebelles and most dysloyal subiectes, and to ye +greate comforthe & cosolacyo of his gracys faythfull +and true comens. I requyre him which brethethe where he +willithe and raygnethe eternall gode to graut vnto our +seyde most dradde soueraygne lorde whose maiesty as it +euydently appereth onely applieth his diligence to the +aduaunsynge || & lettynge forthe of the most holsome +documenth and teachyng of almyghty god, to the redres +of long accustome euylls and damnable sectes, to the +supportacion and mayntenaunce of godly and alowable +ceremonyes, to the suppressynge and most to be desired +abolishyng of the deuelishe and detestable vsurped +aucthoryties, dampnable errours and prophane abuses +brought in by that myghty Golyas, that obdurated +Phareo, that proude Nembroth (whome god amede) the +byshope of Rome, to graunte (I say) vnto hys hyghnes, +suche hys godly ayde and assistence, that hys grace +with hys moost honorable counsell (agaynst whome this +arrogant conspyracy is nowe moued and begonne) may +ouercome and debelle the stud traytres as in tymes +paste hys maiestye hath prudently || do other, that haue +hertofore attempted to perpetrate and brynge to passe +like sedicyous mishief, and so to establishe the hartes +of hys gracys true subiectes that they may wyllyngly +and according to theyr dueties, obey and fulfyll hys +most lawfull and godly ordened lawes and commaundements +wherby they shall not onely do the thyng agreable to +goddes wylle and teachynges, in that he willeth euery +soule to be subiected to the hygher power and obedyent +to theyr prynce, but also (to theyr greate laude and +prayse) shall shewe them selfe to be redy and +confirmable to do theyr dueties in aydyng hys excellent +hyghnes to the reformacyon of all pernicious abuses & +chiefly of detestable ydolatrye, whiche is so muche +prohibited in holy scripture and most displeasant to +god, || for whiche intent and purpose the sayd most +noble and famous clarke _Desiderius Erasmus_, compiled & +made this dialoge in Laten, as it foloweth herafter +nowe lately translated into our mother the Englishhe +tonge. Auoyd therfore, most deare readere, all abuses +whereby any inconuenyence may growe, other to the +hynderaunce of godes worde, to the displeasure of thy +prynce, (whome thou arte so straytly commaunded to +obaye, or to the domage of a publike weale, whiche +aboue all vices is noted most to be abhorred, not +alonely of the most holy wryteres and expownderes of +scripture, but also of prophane gentylles, whiche neuer +perceyuyd other thinge than nature enclyned theyr +hartes vnto, and so consequently to obtayne the +fruytion of the godhode thorowe the faythe that was +|| spoken of at the begynnynge to the + whiche the lorde Iesus Chri- + ste brynge vs all with a + perfaycte quyetnes, + So be it. + + + + * * * * * + +|| A.|| + + A pylgremage, for pure deuocyo. + +_Menedemus._ [*Signifieth to forsake.] What new thynge +ys it, that I se? doo I nat see _Ogygyus_ my neybur, +whom no ma could espie of all thes sex monthes before? +yt was a sayng that he was deed, It is euen he, except +that I be ferre deceyuyd. I wyll go to hym, & byd hym +good morow. Good morow Ogygyus.[*was faynyd of an old +kynge of Thebanes.] Good morow to you Menedemus. +_Mene._ I pray you frome what contray do you come to vs +ayen so saffe. For here was a great comunicacyo that +you dyd sayle streght to hell. _Ogy._ No, thankyd be +god, I haue faryd as well syns I went hens, as euer I +dyd in all my lyffe. _Me._ Well, a man may well +perceyue that all soche rumours be but vanytye. But I +pray you what araye is this that you be in, me thynke +that you be clothyd with cokle schelles, and be || lade +on euery syde with bruches of lead and tynne. And you +be pretely garnyshyd with wrethes of strawe & your arme +is full of *snakes egges.[*Signifyeth bedes. Malsyngam +ys callyd parathalassia by cause it is ny to ye see.] +_Ogy._ I haue bene on pylgremage at saynt Iames in +Compostella, & at my retourne I dyd more relygyously +vysyte our lady of Walsynga in England, a very holy +pylgremage, but I dyd rather vysyte her. For I was ther +before within this thre yere. _Me._ I trowe, it was but +for your pleasure. _Ogy._ Nay, it was for pure +deuocyon. _Me._ I suppose you learnyd that relygyo of +the Grecyanes. _Ogy._ My mother in law dyd make a vowe +that if her dougther shuld be delyueryd of a man chyld +alyue, than that I shuld go to saynt Iames on +pylgremage, and ther to salute and thake hym. _Me._ Dyd +you salute saynt Iames alonly in your name, and your +mothers. _Ogy._ No, in the name of all owre house. +_Me._ || A ij.|| Verely I thynke that your howshold as +well shold haue prosperd, in case you had not salutyd +hym at all. But I pray you what answer dyd he make to +your salutacyon. _Ogy._ Nothynge at all. But wha I dyd +offre, me tought he dyd lawghe vpon me, and becke at me +with hedde, & dyd reche to me this cokleshell. _Me._ +Wherfore dothe he gyue rather suche schelles, than +other thynges. _Ogygy._ For the see, whiche is nye vnto +hym dothe mynystre plenty of suche. _Me._ O holy saynt +Iames, that bothe is a mydwyffe to women with chyld, +and also dothe helpe his pylgrymes. But I pray you what +new kynd of makyng vowes is that that whan a ma is ydle +he shall put the burden apon an other mannes bakke? In +case that you doo bynd youre selffe with a vowe, that +yf ye matter chaunche happyly whiche you haue in hande, +that I for you || shall fast twyse in on weke, do you +beleue that I can fulfyl youre vow? _Ogy._ No, I doo +not beleue it if that you dyd vowe it in youre awne +name. It is but a sport with yow to mokke sayntes. But +this was my mother in law, I must nedys obey her, you +know womenes affectyones, & I must obaye heres. _Me._ +If that you had not perfourmyd your vowe, what iopertye +had you be in? _Ogy._ I graunt, he could not haue had +an accyon ayenst me in ye law, but he myght from +hensforthe be deafe to my vowes, orels pryuyly send +some calamytye or wretchednes amongste my housholde, +yow know well enuffe the maneres of great men. _Me._ +Tell me now what that same honest ma saynt Iames dothe, +and howe he farythe. _Ogy._ Moche colder tha he was +wontyd to do. _Me._ What is the cause of it? His age? +_Ogy._ Oh you scoffer, yow || A iij.|| know wel enoghe +that sayntes wax nat olde. But this new learnynge, +whiche runnythe all the world ouer now a dayes, dothe +cause hym to be vysytyd moche lesse than he was wontyd +to be, for if any doo come thay salute him alonly, but +they offre lytle or nothinge, and say that theyr monaye +may bettre be disposyd amongste pore people. _Me._ O a +wykyd comunicacyon. _Ogy._ Ye & so great an Apostle +whiche was wotyd to stand all in precyous stones & +gold, now stadythe all of wodde hauynge before hym +skaresly a wax candle. _Me._ If it be trew that I here, +it is great ioperdy lest that same chance to all the +rest of the sayntes. _Ogy._ I thynk it wel, for ther is +an epistle abrode whiche our lady dyd wryte apon the +same matter. _Me._ What lady? _Ogy._ *She that hathe +her name of a stone.[*Our ladi of stone in Raurachia +whiche is a certayne cuntre.] _Me._ I trawe it is in +Raurachia. _Ogy._ That same || is it. _Me._ yow tell me +of a stony lady, But to whome dyd she wryte? _Ogy._ The +epistle dothe playnely shew his name. _Me._ By whome +was it sent? _Ogy._ No dowbt but by an angell, whiche +dyd lay the wrytynges apo the aultre, wherof he +prechythe to whome it was sent. And lest there shuld be +any suspectyo of crafty couayance in you, you shall se +the epistle wryten with his owne hande. _Me._ Do you +know so well the hand of thangell whiche is secretary +to our lady? _Ogy._ Yee why nat? _Me._ By what argumet? +_Ogy._ I haue redde that *Epithaphe [*Is a scripture +wryten on a graue.] of Bede which was grauyd of the +angell: and the letteres agre in all thynges. I haue +redde also ye obligacyo whiche was sent to saynt Gyles +as dothe aper. Dothe not thes argumentes proue that +mater to be good enoghe. _Me._ May a man loke apon +them? _Ogy._ ye and if you wyll swere to kepe it || +A iiij.|| preuy. _Me._ Oh you shall speake to a stone. +_Ogy._ Ther be stones now a dayes of that name very +slawnderous, that wyll hyde nothynge. _Me._ you shall +speake to a domme man, & yow trust nat a stone. _Ogy._ +Apon ye condycyon I wyll tell it, loke that you here +with bothe youre eyares. _Me._ So I doo. + +[The epistle of our Lady.] + +_Ogy._ Mary the mother of Iesu to *Glaucoplutus +[*Glaucoplutus desirus of ryches.] sedythe gretynge. +Insomoche as you folowe Luther, you nobly perswade, +that it is but in vayne to call apo sayntes, do ye well +know for that to be grettly in my fauore. For vntyll +thys day I haue almost be slayne with the importunate +prayers of men. Of me alone they askyd althynges, as +who shuld say my sone were alway a babe, because he is +so faynyd and payntyd apo my breste, that yet he wold +be at my commaundemet and durst nat denye my petycyon, +dredynge that if he denye my petycyon, || that I shuld +denye hym my teate whan he is a thurst: and very oft +thay requyre that of me, whiche a shamfast yongman dare +scantly aske of a Bawde, yee they be suche thynges as I +am ashamyd to put in wrytynge. Now comythe ye +marchauntman and he redy to sayle into Spayne for a +vantage, dothe comytte 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 comythe the vnthryfty dyasser and +cryethe, send me good chance Lady & thow shalt haue +parte of my wynnynges: and if the dyasse runne ayenst +hym, he blasphemes, and cursythe me, bycause || I wyll +nat fauor his noghtynes. Now cryeth she that sellythe +her selffe for fylthye lukre & saythe, swete lady send +me some costomers, & if I denye it, they exclame ayenst +me & say, thou arte not the mother of marcy. Moreouer +the vowes of some women be no lesse wykyd tha folishe. +The mayd cryeth & saythe, O swet Mary send me a fayre +and riche husbond. The maryed woma saythe send me +goodly chylderen. Now laborythe the woman with chyld, +and cryeth dere lady dylyuer me of my bondes. Than +comythe ye olde wyffe, and saythe flowre of all women +send me to lyue longe withowt coghe and drynes. Now +crepythe the the dotynge old man & saythe, lady send me +for to wax yonge aye. Tha comythe forth the phylosopher +and cryethe send me some argumetis that be isoluble. +The great prest cryeth send me a fat benefyce. Tha || +saythe the bysshope kepe well my churche. Tha cryethe +ye hye Iustyce shew me thy sone or I passe out of this +worlde. Tha saythe ye Cowrtyer send me trwe confession +at the howre of my deathe. The husbondman saythe send +vs temperate wether. The mylke wyffe cryethe owt +blessyd lady saue our catell. Now if I denye anythynge +by & by I am crwell. If I comytte 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 me, 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 discomodytye with +hym. I || haue now more ease, but lesse honor & +profett. Before this tyme I was callyd quene of heuen, +lady of the world, but now any man wyll skarsly say aue +Maria or hayle Mary. Before I was clothyd with precyous +stones and gold, and had my chaunges, and dayly ther +was offeryd gold and precyous stones, now I am skarsly +coueryd with halffe a gowne and that is all beeyten +with mysse. My yerly rentes be now so smalle that I am +skarsly able to fynde my pore quere kepar to light a +wax cadle 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 reuege his wronge. If you cast saynt Petre forthe of +the churche, he may serue || you of the same sauce, and +shite vp heuyngates ayenst you. ye saynt Paule hathe +his sworde. Barthylmew is nat withowt his great knyffe. +Saynt Wyllyam is harnysyd vnder his monkes cloke, nat +withowt a greate speare. What canst thou doo ayenst +saynt George whiche is bothe a knyght & all armyd with +hys longe spere and his fearfull sword? Nor saynt +Antony is nat withowt hys weapenes for he hathe holy +fyre with hym. Ye the rest of the sayntes haue theyr +weapones or myschefues, whiche they send apon whome +they liste. But as for me thou canst not cast owt, +except thou cast owt my sone, whiche I hold in myne +armes. I wyll nat be seperat frome hym, other thou +shalt cast hym owt with me or els thou shalt let vs +bothe be, except that you wold haue a temple withowt a +Christe. These be the thynges that I wold || yow shall +know ymagyne you therfore what shal be your answer. For +this thinge pleasythe me very well. Frome oure stony +churche the calendes of Auguste, the yere frome my +sonnes passyon a M. CCCCC. xiiij. I stony lady +subscrybyd thys with myne owne hande. _Me._ Trewly that +was a soro and fearfull epistle, I suppose that +Glaucoplutus wyll beware fro hesforthe. _Ogy._ Ye & if +he be wyse. _Me._ Wherfore dyd nat that good saynt +Iames wryte to that man of the same mater. _Ogy._ I can +nat tell, except it be bycause he is so ferre of, and +now a dayes men be moche searchyd for suche maters, & +in theyr iornaye theyr lettres take frome them. _Me._ +I pray you, what god dyd send you into Englod? _Ogy._ +I saw the wynd maruelouse prosperouse thyderward, and +I had almoste promysyd this to that blessyd lady of +Walsynga that I wold seke || her within .ij. yere, +_Me._ What wold you axe of her. _Ogy._ No new thyngs at +all, but suche as be comen, as to kepe saffe and sownd +my housholde, to encreasse my goodes, and in thys world +to haue a loge and mery liffe, and wha I dye +euerlastynge lyffe in another worlde. _Me._ May nat owr +lady grante the same at home with vs? She hathe at +Antwarpe a moche more lordly temple tha at Walsyngame. +_Ogy._ I denye nat but it may be so, but in dyuers +places she grantes dyuers thynges, wether it be her +pleasur so to do, or bycause she is so gentle, that as +cocernynge this purpose, she wyll gyue her selfe to our +affectyoes. _Me._ I haue harde oft of saynt Iames, but +I pray you describe to me the kyngdome of Walsyngam. +_Ogy._ Verely I shall tell you as shortly as I canne. +Yt is the most holy name in all England, and you may +fynde some in || that yle, that suppose thayr substace +shal nat prospayre except they vysyte her with thayr +offerynge euery yere ones as thay be able to gyue. +_Me._ Wher dothe she dwell? _Ogy._ At the vttermost +parte of all England betwyxt the Northe and the Weste, +nat vary ferre from the see, skarsly iii myles, the +towne is almost susteynyd by the resort of pylgrymes. +The college is of Canoes, but thay be suche as hathe +thayr name of the Laten tonge and be called Seculares, +a kynd betwyxte monkes & Chanones. _Me._ What you tell +me of *Amphybyanes, [*Amphybyanes be thynges doutfull.] +suche as ye mostre *Fyber is.[*Fyber is a beste of ye +see & ye land.] _Ogy._ No thay be rather suche as the +*Cocatrice. [*A Cocatrice wil kyll a man with a loke,] +But withowt dissimulation, I shall put you owt of this +dowte in thre wordes. To them that thay hate, thay be +Chanones, and to them that thay loue thay be Monkes +_Menede._ Yet yowe doo nat open thys redle. _Ogy._ || +I shall paynte it before youre eyes, if the bysshope of +Rome doo shot hys thonderbowlt amogst all monkes, thay +wyll than be chanones, & nat monkes, but and if he wold +suffre all monkes to take wyues, tha wyll they be +monkes, _Me._ O new partakeres, I wold to god they wold +take away my wyffe. _Ogy._ But to come to our purpose, +the college hathe skarsly any other *emolumetes +[*Rettes.] but of the liberalite of our lady. For the +great offeryngs be kepyd stylle, but if ther be any +litle some of monaye offerid that goith to the comens +of the company, & the mayster whome thay call pryoure. +_Me._ Be thay of a vertuous lyffe? _Ogy._ Nat to be +dispraysyd, thay be more vertuous tha ryche of thayr +yerely renttes. The temple ys goodly & goregious, but +oure Lady dwellythe nat in it, but that was purchasyd +for the honor of her sone. She hathe her owne temple, +|| B.|| that she may be of the ryght hand of her sone. +_Me._ Apon the right had. Whiche way dothe her sonne +loke than? _Ogy._ It is well remembryd. Whan he lokythe +to the West, his mother is apo his right hand, but wha +he turnythe hym to the Este she is apon the lefte hand. +But yet she dwellythe nat in that churche, for it is +nat yet buyldyd all vpe, and the wynde runnythe thorow +euery parte with open wyndowes & dowres, and also nat +ferre of is the Occiane seye father of all wyndes. +_Me._ what doo yow tell me wher dothe she dwell tha? +_Ogy._ In ye same churche whiche I told you was nat all +fynyshyd, ther is a lytle chapell seelyd ouer with +wodde, on ether syde a lytle dore wher ye pylgrymes go +thorow, ther is lytle light, but of ye taperes, with a +fragrant smell. _Me._ All these be mete for religyon. +_Ogy._ Ye Menedemus if you loke within you || wyll say +that it is a seate mete for sayntes, all thynges be so +bright in gold, syluer, and precyous stones. _Me._ You +almost moue me to go thyther also. _Ogy._ It shalnat +repente you of your iornay. _Me._ Spryngithe ther no +holy oyle? _Ogy._ I trowe you dote, that spryngythe nat +but owt of the sepulchres of sayntes, as saynt Andrew, +& saynt Katere, owr lady was nat beried. _Me._ I graut +I sayd amysse, but tell on your tale. _Ogy._ So moche +more as thay persayue youre deuocyo, so moche larger +reliques wyl thay shew to you. _Me._ Ye and peradueture +that thay may haue larger offerynges, as is sayd that, +many lytle offerynges makythe a heuy boxe. _Ogygy._ Her +chaplens be alway at hand. _Me._ Be thay of ye +Chanones? _Ogy._ No, thay be nat permyttyd to be with +her, lest that peraduenture by occasyon of that +religyon, thay shuld be plukkyd || B ij.|| frome thayr +owne religyo, and whylst thay kepe that virgyne, thay +regard very lytle thayr awne virgynyte, alonly in that +inner chapell whiche is our ladyes preuy chabre, ther +standithe a certayne Chano at the autre. _Me._ For what +purpose? _Ogy._ To receyue and kepe, that whiche is +offeryd. _Me._ dothe any man gyue ayenst hys wyll. +_Ogy._ No, but many men hathe suche a gentle +shamfastnes, that thay wyll gyue some thynge to hym +that standythe by, other thay wyll offre more largely, +whiche thay wold nat doo peraueture if that he were +absent, that standithe there. _Me._ You tell me of +mannes affectiones, whiche I my selffe prouyd very +ofte. _Ogy._ Ye trewly there be some so gyue to our +blessyd lady, that whan thay apere to put vpe thayr +handes to offre, with a pure cousyance, thay stayl that +whiche other men hathe gyuen. _Me._ Than || lett no man +be there, wyll nat oure Lady shote her thonderbowlte at +suche. _Ogy._ Wherfor shuld our lady rather doo so, +than God hymselffe, whom thay be nat affrayd to pluke +owt hys robes, & breake ye churche walles therfore. +_Mene._ I am in a great doubt whether I shuld, rather +maruayle apon thayre wykyd boldnes, or Goddys great +getlenes and longe sufferynge. _Ogy._ Apo the Northe +parte ther is a certayne gaate, but lest that you +should make a lye, it is nat of the churche, but of the +pale that compassithe a bowte the churche yarde, and +that hathe a lytle wykyt, suche as be in great mennes +gaates, that who so euer wyll entre, must fyrst putin +hys legge, nat withowt some ioperdie, and than bowe +downe hys hedde. _Me._ It is ioperdie to goo thorow +suche a dore, to a mannes enemye. _Ogy._ So it is, the +sexten dyd tell me that || B iij.|| ther was ones a +knyght whiche fleeynge hys enemye, than aprochynge, dyd +ride thorow ye wykyte, and than the wretche dispayrynge +in hym selffe, apon a soden motion, dyd commend +hymselffe to ye blessyd virgyne, whiche was than at +hand. But now commythe the myrakle. By and by that +knyght was all in the churche yarde, and hys aduersary +was ragynge at the dore wowte. _Me._ And dyd he tell +you so maruylous a myrakle for a trewthe? _Ogy._ No +dowte. _Me._ But I suppose that he could nat so +lyghtely doo that to you so a great a philosopher. +_Ogy._ He dyd shewe to me in that same wykytte in a +plate of coper, the ymage of the knyght fastenyd with +nayles and with the same garmentes that the Englishmen +were wontyd to wayre at that tyme, as you may see in +that olde pictures, whiche wyl nat lye, Barbours had || +but lytle lyuynge at that tyme: and dieres & websteres +gotte but litle monay. _Me._ Why so? _Ogy._ For he had +a berd like a goote, and his cote had neuer a plyte, +& it was so litle, that with strayte gyrdynge it mayd +hys body to apere lesse than it was. Ther was another +plate, that was in quantyte and fourme like to a +cheste. _Me._ Well now it is nat to be doubtyd apo. +_Ogy._ Under ye wykyte ther was a grate of yrne, that +no man ca passe theryn but a footema, for it is nat +conuenyent that any horsse shuld tread after apon ye +place, whiche the knyght dyd cosecrate to owr lady. +_Me._ Nat withowt a good cause. _Ogy._ Frome that parte +toward the Este, there is a litle chapell, full of +maruayles and thyther I wete, ther was I receyuyd of +another of our ladyes chaplenes, ther we knelyd downe, +to make our litle prayeres. By & by, he broght forthe +|| B iiij.|| the ioynte of a mannes fynger, the +greatyste of thre, which I kyssyd, & askyd whose +relyques thay were, he dyd say that thay were saynt +Petres. What thapostle sayd I. Ye sayd he. Than I dyd +better beholde the ioynte, whiche for hys greatenes +myght well haue be a Gyates 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 +gentleme 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 Sexte, with gyuynge hym +.ij. or .iij. grotes. Before that chapell there was a +litle howsse, which he sayd ones in wynter tyme whan +that there was litle rowme to couer the reliques, that +it was sodenly broght & sett in that place. Under that +house || there was a couple of pittes, bothe fulle of +water to the brynkys, and thay say that ye sprynge of +thos pittes is dedicate to our lady, that water is very +colde, and medycynable for the hede ake and that +hartburnynge. _Me._ If that cold water wyll hele the +paynes in the hede and stomake, than wyll oyle put owte +fyre from hensforthe. _Ogy._ It is a myrakle that I +tell, good syr, or els what maruayle shuld it be, that +cowld water shuld slake thurste? _Me._ This may well be +one parte of your tale. _Ogy._ Thay say that the +fowntayne dyd sodenly sprynge owte of the erthe at the +commaundement of our lady, & I dilygently examenynge +althynges, dyd aske hym how many yeres it was sythe +that howsse was so sodenly broght thyther. Many yeres +agone saythe he. Yet, sayde I, the wallys doo nat apere +so old. He dyd nat denay it. No mor thes woden +|| B v.|| pyleres. He cowld nat denay but that they +were sette there nat longe agoo, and also the mater dyd +playnly testyfye ye same. Afterward, sayd I, thys roffe +which is all of rede dothe apere nat to be very olde, +& he granted also, thes greete bemes which lye +ouerthwerte, and these rafteres that hold vpe that +howsse were nat sett longe agone. He affyrmyd my +saynge. Well sayd I seynge that no parte of the housse +is lefte but all is new, how can yow say that this was +the house whiche was broght hyther so longe agoo. _Me._ +I pray you how dyd the howskeper, auoyde hymselffe +frome your argumet. _Ogy._ By & by he dyd shew to vs +the mater by the skyne of a bayre whiche had hangyd be +the rafteres a longe season, and dyd almost moke the +symplenes of owre wyttes that could nat perceyue so +manyfeste an argumete we beynge || perswadyd by this +argument, askid pardon of our ignorance, and callid +into our communycacyon the heuely mylke of our lady. +_Me._ O how like to the sone is the mother, for he hath +left to vs so moche blood here in erthe, & she so moche +mylke, that a man wyl skarysly beleue a woman to haue +so moche mylke of one chylde, in case the chyld shuld +sukke none at all. _Ogy._ Thay saye the same of the +holy crosse, whiche is shewyd in so many places bothe +openly, and pryuately, that if ye fragmentes were +gathered apon one heape, they wold apere to be a iuste +fraghte for a shipe, and yet Christe dyd bere all his +crosse hymselffe. _Me._ But do nat you maruayll at +this? _Ogy._ It may welbe a strage thynge, but no +maruayle, seynge that the lord whiche dothe encreasse +this at hys pleasure, is almyghty. _Me._ It is very +gently expownded, but I am || afrayd, that many of thes +be faynyd for lukre. _Ogy._ I suppose that God wold nat +suffre hymselffe to be deludyd of suche a fasshion. +_Mene._ Yis, haue nat you sene that wha bothe the +mother, the sone, the father, and the holy ghoste hathe +be robbyd of thes sacrilegyous theues, that thay +woldnat ones moue, or styre nother with bekke or crakke +wherby thay myght fray away the theues. So great is the +gentles of God. _Ogy._ So it is, but here out me tale. +This mylke is kepyd apon the hye aultre, and in the +myddys ther is Christe, with his mother apon hys ryght +hand, for her honor sake, the mylke dothe represente +the mother. _Me._ It may be sene than? _Ogy._ It is +closyd in crystalle. _Me._ It is moyste tha? _Ogy._ +What tell you me of moystenes, wha it was mylkyd more +than a thowsand and fyue hunthrithe yere agone, it is +so congelyd, that a ma wold || saye that it were chalke +temperyd with the whyte of a egge. _Me._ Ye, but do +thay sette it forthe bare? _Ogy._ No, lest so holy +mylke shuld be defowlyd with the kyssynge of men. _Me._ +You say well. For I suppose that ther be many that +kysse it, whiche be nother clene mouthyd, nor yet be +pure virgynes. _Ogy._ Whan ye sexten sawe vs, he dyd +runne to the aultre, & put apon hym his surplese, & his +stole about his nekke, knelyd downe relygyously, and +worshipyd it, and streghtforthe dyd offre the mylke to +vs to kysse. And at the ende of the aultre we knelyd +downe deuoutly, & the fyrste of all we salutyd Christe, +& than after we callyd apon our lady with thys prayer, +whiche we had mayd redy for the same purpose. O mother +& mayde, whiche dyd gyue sukke with thy virgynes teates +the lorde of heuen and yerthe, thy sone Iesus Christe, +we beynge puryfyed || thorowe hys precyous blode, do +desyre that we may attayne, and come to that blessyd +infancye of thy colombynes meknes, whiche is immaculate +without malice, frawde, or diseyte, and with all +affectyon of harte dothe couett and stody for the +heuenly mylke of the euangelicall doctryne, to go +forthe and encrease with it into a perfaycte man, into +the mesure of the plentefulnes of Christe, of whose +copany thou haste the fruycyon, togyther with the +father, & the holy ghost for euermore, so be it. _Me._ +Uerely thys is a holy prayer. But what dyd she? +_Ogygy._ Thay bothe bekkyd at vs, excepte my eyes +waggyd, and me thoght that the mylke daunsyd. In the +meanseson the sexten came to vs, withowt any wordes, +but he held out a table suche as the Germanes vse to +gather tolle apon bridges. _Me._ By my trothe I haue +cursyd veryofte suche || crauynge boxes, whan I dyd +ryde thorowe Germany. _Ogy._ We dyd gyue hym certayne +monay whiche he offeryd to our lady. Tha I axyd by a +certayne yonge man, yt was well learnyd, whiche dyd +expownde and tell vs the saynge of ye Sexte, hys name +(as fere as I remembre) was Robert alderisse, by what +tokenes or argumetes he dyd know that it was the mylke +of owr lady. And that I very fayne, & for a good +purpose desyred to knowe, that I myght stope the +mowthes of certayne newfanglyd felowes, that be wotyd +to haue suche holy relyques in derysyon and mokage. +Fyrst of all the Sexten with a froward cowntenace wold +nat tell, but I desyryd the yong man to moue hym more +instantly, but somwhat more gently he so courtesly +behauyd hymselffe, that and he had prayd owr lady +herselffe || after that fashion, she wold nat haue be +dysplesyd therwith. And tha this mystycall chapleyn, as +and if he had be inspyryd with ye holy ghoste, castynge +at vs a frounynge loke, as & if he wold haue shote at +vs ye horryble thonderbolte of the greate curse, what +nede you (saythe he) to moue suche questyones, whan yow +see before your eyes so autentycall & old a table. And +we were afrayd lest that he wold haue cast vs out of +the churche for heretykes, but that oure monay dyd +tempte hys greate furye. _Mene._ What dyd you in the +meaneseason? _Ogygyus._ What suppose you? We were +amasyd as and if a man had stryke vs with a clube, or +we had be slayne with a thonderclape, and we very lowly +axid pardon of oure folishe boldenes, and gote vs frome +thens. For so must we entreate holy thynges. || Frome +thens we went in to ye howse where owre lady dwellithe, +and whan we came there, we sawe another Sexten whiche +was but a noues, he lokyd famylarly as and if he had +knowe vs, and wha we came a litle further in, we sawe +another, that lokyd moch after suche a fashion, at the +last came the thyrd. _Me._ Perauenture thay desyryd to +descrybe you. _Ogy._ But I suspecte another mater. +_Mene._ What was it? _Ogygy._ There was a certayne +theffe that had stole almost all owr ladyes frontlet, +and I supposyd that they had me in suspycyon thereof. +And therfore whan I was within the chapell I mayd my +prayers to our lady after thys fashio. Oh cheffe of all +women Mary the mayd, most happy mother, moste pure +virgyne, we vnclene, and synners, doo vysyte the pure & +holy, and after our abylytye we haue offeryd vnto the, +we pray thy that thy || C.|| sone may grante this to +vs, that we may folow thy holy lyffe, and that we may +deserue thorow the grace of the holy ghoste, +spirytually to coceyue the lord Iesus Christ, & after +that conceptyon neuer to be separat from hym, Amen. +This done I kyssyd the aultre, and layd downe certayne +grotes for myne offerynge and went my waye. _Me._ What +dyde our lady now, dyd nat she make one sygne, that you +myght know that she had hard youre prayeres. _Ogy._ The +lyght (as I told you before) was but litle, and she +stode at the ryght ende of the aultre in the derke +corner, at the last the communicatyo of the fyrst +Sexten had so discoregyd me, that I durst not ones loke +vpe with myne eyes. _Me._ This pylgremage came but to +smale effecte. _Ogy.._ Yes, it had a very good & mery +ende. _Me._ You haue causyd me to take harte of grasse, +for (as Homere || saythe) my harte was almost in my +hose. _Ogy._ Whan dynar was done, we returnyd to ye +temple. _Me._ Durste you goo & be susspecte of felonye? +_Ogy._ Perauenture so, but I had nat my selffe in +suspicio, 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 +hagyd so hye that very fewe could rede it. My eyes be +of that fashion, that I can nother be callyd *Linceus, +[*Linceus ys a beaste so quike eyed that it wyll see +thorow any wall] nother purre blynd. And therefore I +instantly desyryd Alldryge to rede it, whose redynge I +folowyd with myne owne eyes, because I wold skarsly +truste hym in suche a mater. _Me._ Well, now all +doubtes be discussyd. _Ogy._ I was ashamyd that I +doubtyd so moche, ye mater was so playne set forthe +before oure eyes, bothe the name, the place, the thynge +it selffe as it was || C ij.|| done, to be breffe, +there was nothynge lefte owte. There was a mane whos +name was Wylyam whiche was borne in Parise, a man very +deuoute in many thyngs but pryncypally excedynge +relygyous in searchynge for the relyques of all sayntes +thorowowt all the world. He after that he had vysytyd +many places, contrayes, and regyones, at the laste +came to Costantynenople. For Wylhelmes brother was +there byshope, whiche dyd make hym pry to a certayne +mayde, whiche had professyd chastyte, that hadde parte +of oure ladyes mylke, which were an excedynge precyous +relyque, if that other with prayer, or monaye, or by +any crafte it myghte be gotte. For all the reliques +that he hadde gotte before were but tryfles to so holy +mylke. Wyllyam wold not rest there tyll that he had +gotte halffe of that holy mylke, but whan he had || +it, he thoghte that he was richer than Croeseus. _Me._ +Why nat, but was it nat withowt any goodhope? _Ogy._ He +went tha streght home, but in hys iornay he fell seke. +_Me._ Iesu there is nothynge in thys worlde that is +other permanent, or alwayes in good state. _Ogy._ But +whan he sawe & perceyuyd that he was in greate ioperdye +of his lyffe, he callyd to him a frenchman, whiche was +a very trusty companyon to hym in hys iornay. And +commaundyd all to auoyd the place, and make sylence, & +pryuyly dyd betake to hym thys mylke, apon this +condycyo, that if it chacyd to come home saffe & sownde +he wuld offre that precyous tresure to our ladyes +aultre in Paryse, whiche standythe in the myddys of the +ryuere Sequana, whiche dothe apere to separat hymselffe +to honor and obaye our blessyd lady. But to make short +tale. Wylyam is deade, & || C iij.|| buryed, the +Frenchman mayd hym redy to departe apon hys iornay, +& sodely fell seke also. And he in great dyspayre of +amendynge, dyd commyth ye mylke to an Englishma, but +nat withowt great instance, and moche prayer he dyd +that whiche he was mouyd to doo. Than dyed he. And ye +other dyd take the mylke, and put it apon an aultre of +ye same place the Chanones beynge present, whiche were +yt as we call Regulares. Thay be yet in the abbaye of +saynt Genofeffe. But ye Englishma obtaynyd the halffe +of that mylke, & caryed it to Walsynga in England, the +holy ghost put suche in hys mynde. _Me._ By my trothe +this is a godly tale. _Ogy._ But lest there shuld be +any doubte of this mater, ye Byshopes whiche dyd grante +pardon to it thayre names be wryten there, as thay came +to vysyte it, nat withowt thayre offerynges, and thay +haue || gyuen to it remyssyon, as moche as thay had to +gyue by thayre authorite. _Me._ How moche is that? +_Ogy._ Fowrty dayes. _Mene._ Yee is there dayes in +hell. _Ogy._ Trewly ther is tyme. Ye but whan thay haue +gratyd all thayre stynte, thay haue no more to grante. +_Ogy._ That is nat so for whan one parte is gone +another dothe encrease, and it chansythe dyuersly euyn +as the tonne of Canaidus. For that althoghe it be +incontynently fyllyd, yet it is alway emptye: and if +thou be takynge owt of it, yet there is neuer the lesse +in the barell. _Me._ If thay grate to an hunderithe +thowsand me fowrty dayes of pardone, wuld euery man +haue elyke? _Ogy._ No doubte of that. _Me._ And if any +haue forty byfore dynar, may he axe other forty at +after souper, is there any thynge left than to gyue +him? _Ogy._ Ye, & if thou aske it ten tymes in one +howre. _Me._ I wold || C iiij.|| to God that I had +suche a pardon bagge, I wold aske but .iij. grotes, and +if thay wold flowe so faste. _Ogy._ Ye but you desyre +to be to ryche, if that you myght for wyshynge, but I +wyl turne to my tale, but there was some good holy man +whiche dyd gyue this argumente of holynes to that +mylke, and sayd that our Ladyes mylke whiche is in many +other places, is precyous & to be worshipyd but thys is +moche more precyous, & to be honoryd, bycause the other +was shauen of stones, but this is the same that came +out of the virgynes brest. _Me._ How kno you that? +_Ogy._ The mayd of Costantynople, which dyd gyue it, +dyd saye so. _Me._ Perauenture saynt Barnard dyd gyue +it to her. _Ogy._ So I suppose. For wha he was an old +man, yet he was so happy that he sukkyd of ye same +mylke, that Iesus hymselffe sukkyd apon. _Me._ But I +maruayle why he was || rather callyd a hony sukker than +a mylke sukker. But how is it callyd oure ladyes mylke +that came neuer owt of her breste? _Ogy._ Yes it came +owt at her breste, but perauenture it light apon the +stone that he whiche sukkyd knelyd apon, and ther was +receyuyd, and so is encreasyd, & by ye wyll of god is +so multyplyed. _Me._ It is wel sayd. _Ogy._ Whan we had +sene all thys, whyle that we were walkynge vpe & downe, +if that any thynge of valure were offeryd, so that +anybody were present to see thaym ye Sextens mayd great +haste for feare of crafty couayece, lokynge apo thaym +as thay wold eate thaym. Thay poynte at hym with there +fynger, thay runne, thay goo, thay come, thay bekke one +to an other, as tho thay wold speake to thaym that +stand by if thay durste haue be bold. _Mene._ Were you +afrayd of nothynge there? _Ogy._ Yis I dyd loke +|| C v.|| apo hym, lawghynge as who shold saye I wold +moue him to speake to me, at laste he cam to me, and +axid me what was my name, I told him. He axid me if yt +were nat I that dyd hange vpe there a table of my vowe +writen in Hebrew, within .ij. yere before. I confessid +that it was ye same. _Me._ Ca you wryte hebrewe? +_Ogygy._ No but all that thay canat vnderstond, thay +suppose to be Hebrewe. And than (I suppose he was send +for) came the posterior pryor. _Me._ What name of +worshipe is that? Haue thay nat an abbate? _Ogy._ No +_Me._ Why so? _Ogy._ For thay cannat speake Hebrew. +_Me._ Haue thay nat a Bishope? _Ogy._ No. _Me._ What is +ye cause? _Ogy._ For oure lady is nat as yet so ryche, +that she is able to bye a crosse, & a mytre, whiche be +so deare, _Me._ Yet at least haue thay nat a +presedente? _Ogy._ No veryly. What lettythe thaym? +_Ogy._ That is a name || of dygnyte and nat of relygyo. +And also for that cause suche abbayes of Chanones, doo +nat receyue the name of an abbate, thay doo call thaym +maysters? _Me._ Ye, but I neuer hard tell of pryor +posterior before. _Ogy._ Dyd you neuer learne youre +gramere before. _Me._ Yis I know prior posterior amogst +the fygures. _Ogy._ That same is it. It is he that is +nexte to the prioure, for there priour is posterior. +_Me._ You speake apon the supprioure. _Ogy._ That same +dyd entertayne me very gently, he told me what greate +labure had be abowt ye readynge of thos verses, & how +many dyd rubbe thayr spectakles abowt thaym. As oft as +any old ancyent doctor other of deuynyte or of the +lawe, resorted thyder, by and by he was broght to that +table, some sayd that thay were lettres of Arabia, some +sayd thay were faynyd lettres. Well || at the last came +one that redde the tytle, it was wryten in laten with +greate Romayne lettres, ye Greke was wryten with +capytale lettres of Greke, whiche at the fyrst syght do +apere to be capytale late lettres, at thayr desyer I +dyd expownde ye verses in laten, traslatynge thaym word +for word. But wha 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 commaud me to bere this table to +Hierusale. _Me._ What nede you to be her caryoure, +seynge that she hathe so many angelles bothe at her +hedde and at her fette. _Ogy._ Than he pullid owt of +hys purse a pece of wodde, that was cutt owte of the +blokke that our ladye lenyd apon. I perceyuyd by and by +thorow the smell of it, that it was a holy thynge. Than +whan I sawe so || greate a relyque, putt of my cappe, +and fel down flatte, & very deuoutly kyssyd it .iij. or +.iiii tymes, poppyd it in my pursse. _Me._ I pray you +may a man see it? _Ogy._ I gyue you good leue. But if +you be nat fastynge, or if you accompanyed with yowre +wyffe the nyght before, I conceyle you nat to loke apon +it. _Me._ O blessed arte thou that euer thou gotte this +relyque. _Ogy._ I may tell you in cowncell, I wold nat +gyue thys litle pece for all ye gold that Tagus hathe, +I wyll sett it in gold, but so that it shall apere +thorow a crystall stone. And than the Supprioure wha he +sawe that I dyd take the relyque so honorably, he +thoght it shuld nat be lost, in case he shuld shew me +greater mysteries, he dyd aske me whether I hadde euer +sene our ladyes secretes, but at that word I was +astonyed, yet I durst nat be so so bold as to demande +what thos || secretes were. For in so holy thynges to +speake a mysse is no small danger. I sayd that I dyd +neuer se thaym but I sayd that I wold be very glade to +see thaym. But now I was broght in, and as I had be +inspired with the holy ghost, than thay lyghted a +couple of taperes, & set forthe a litle ymage, nat +couryously wroght, nor yet very gorgeous, but of a +meruelous virtue. _Me._ That litle body hathe smale +powre to worke myrakles. I saw saynt Christopher at +Parise, nat a carte lode, but as moche as a greate +hylle, yet he neuer dyd myrakles as farre as euer I +herd telle. _Ogy._ At our ladyes fette there is a +precyous stone, whos name as it is nother in Greke nor +Laten. The Frenchema gaue it the name of a tode, +bycause it is so like, that no man (althoghe he be +conynge) can set it forthe more lyuely. But so moche +greater is || the myrakle, that the stone is litle, the +fourme of the tode dothe nat apere, but it shynythe as +it were enclosyd within that precyous stone. _Me._ +Perauenture they ymagyne ye symylytude of a tode to +be there, euyn as we suppose whan we cutte ye fearne +stalke there to be an egle, and euyn as chyldren +(whiche they see nat indede) in ye clowdes, thynke they +see dragones spyttynge fyre, & hylles flammynge with +fyre, & armyd me encownterynge. _Ogy._ No, I wold you +shuld know it, there is no lyuynge tode that more +euydetly dothe expresse hymselffe than it dyd there +playnly apere. _Me._ Hetherto I haue sufferyd thy lyes, +but now get the another that wyll beleue the, thy tale +of a tode. _Ogy._ No maruayle Menedemus thogh you be so +disposyd, for all the world cannot make me to beleue +yt, not & all doctoures of dyuynyte wold swere || it +were trewe. But that I sawe it with myne eyes, ye with +thes same eyes, dyd I proue it. But in ye meanseson me +thynke you regard naturall phylosophye but litle. _Me._ +why so, because I wyll nat beleue ye asses flye? _Ogy._ +An do you nat se, how nature the worker of all thynges, +dothe so excell in expressynge ye fourme bewty, & +coloure of thaym maruylously in other thynges, but +pryncypaly in precyous stones? moreouer she hathe gyuen +to ye same stones wonderouse vertu and strekthe that is +almost incredyble, but that experience dothe otherwyse +testyfye. Tell me, do you beleue that a Adamand stone +wold drawe vnto him stele withowt any towchynge therof, +and also to be separate frome him ayen of hys owne +accorde, excepte that yow had sene it with yowre eyes. +_Me._ No verely, nat and if .x. Arystoteles wold +perswade me || to the contrarye. _Ogy._ Therfore +bycause you shuld nat say thys were a lye, in case you +here any thynge, whiche you haue not sene prouyd. In a +stone callyd Ceraunia we see ye fashon of lightnynge, +in the stone Pyropo wyldfyre, Chelazia dothe expresse +bothe the coldnes and the fourme of hayle, and thoghe +thou cast in to the hote fyre, an Emrode, wyll +expresse the clere water of the seye. Carcinas dothe +counterfayte ye shape of a crabfishe. Echites of the +serpente vyper. But to what purpose shuld I entreat, or +inuestygate the nature of suche thynges whiche be +innumerable, wha there is no parte of nature nor in the +elementes, nother in any lyuynge creature, other in +planetes, or herbes ye nature euyn as it were all of +pleasure hathe not expressyd in precyous stones? Doo +yow maruayle tha that in thys stone at owre ladies +fote, || D.|| is the fourme and fashon of a tode. _Me._ +I maruayle that nature shuld haue so moche lesure, so +to counterfayt the nature of althynges. _Ogy._ It was +but to exercyse, or occupye the curyosytye of mannes +wytte, and so at the lest wyse to kepe vs frome +ydlenes, and yet as thoghe we had nothynge to passe ye +tyme with all, we be in a maner made apon foles, apon +dyesse, and crafty iogeleres. _Me._ You saye very +truthe. _Ogy._ There be many men of no smale grauytye, +that wyll say thys kynd of stones, if that you put it +in vynagre, it wyll swyme, thoge you wold thruste it +downe with violence. _Me._ Wherfore do thay sette a +tode byfore our lady? _Ogy._ Bycause she hathe +ouercome, trode vnderfote, abolyshyd all maner of +vnclennes, poyso, pryde, couytousnes, and all wordly +affectyones that raygne in man. _Me._ Woo be to vs, +that hathe so many todes in owre hartes. || _Ogygy._ +We shal be purgyd frome thaym all, if we dylygetly +worshipe owre lady. _Me._ How wold she be worshipyd. +_Ogy._ The most acceptable honor, that thou canste doo +to her is to folowe her lyuynge. _Me._ You haue told +all at ones. But this is hard to brynge to pass. _Ogy._ +You saye truthe, but it is an excellente thynge. _Me._ +But go to, and tell on as you begane. _Ogy._ After thys +to come to owre purpose, the Supprioure shewyed to me +ymages of gold and syluer, and sayd, thes be pure gold, +and thes be syluer and gyltyd, he told the pryce of +euery one of thaym, and the patrone. Whan I wonderyd, +reioycynge of so maruelous ryches, as was abowt our +lady, than saythe the Sexte bycause I percayue, that +you be so vertuously affecte, I suppose it greate +wronge, to hyde any thynge frome you, but now you shall +see the pryuytyes || D ij.|| of our lady, and than he +pullyd owt of the aultre a whole world of maruayles, if +I shuld tell you of all, a whole daye wold nat suffyse, +& so thys pylgremage chansyd to me most happy. I was +fyllyd euyn full withe goodly syghts, and I brynge also +with me this wonderous relyque, whiche was a toke gyuen +to me froe our lady. _Me._ Haue you nat it prouyd, what +valewre your woden relyque is on? _Ogy._ Yis, that I +haue, in a certayne Inne within thys thre dayes, ther I +fownde a certayne man that was bestraght of hys wytte, +whiche shuld haue be bownde, but thys woden relyque was +put vnder hys nekke pryuyly, wherapon he gad a sadde +and sownd sleape, but in the mornynge he was hole and +sownde as euer he was before. _Me._ It was nat the +phrenysy, but the dronke dropsye, sleape ys wontyd to +be a good medicyne for ye dysease. || _Ogy._ Wha you be +dysposyd to skoffe Menedemus, yt ys best that you gette +a nother maner of gestynge stokke than thys, for I tell +you it is nother good nor holsome, to bowrde so with +sayntes. For thys same ma dyd say, that a woman dyd +apere to hym, in hys sleape, after a maruelouse +fashion, which shold gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon. +_Mene._ I suppose it was *Elleboru. [*Elleborum wyll +restore a man to hys senses that hathe lost the.] +_Ogy._ That is vncertayne, but I kno well ye ma was +well broght into hys mynde ayen. _Me._ Dyd you other +come or goo by Sante Thomas of Cantorbury that good +archebishope. _Ogy._ What els/there ys no pylgremage +more holy. _Me._ I wold fayne here of yt, and I shold +nat trouble you. _Ogy._ I pray you here, & take good +hedd. Kente ys callyd that parte of England, that +buttythe apon Frauce and Flanders, the cheffe cytye +there of ys Cantorburye, in yt there be ij. || D iij.|| +Abbayes, bothe of thaym be of Saynte Benedycts ordre, +but that which ys callyd Saynte Augustyns dothe apere +to be the oldre, that whiche ys callyd now Saynte +Thomas dothe apere to haue be the Archebyshope of +Cantorburys see, where as he was wontyd to lyue with a +sorte of monkes electe for hymselffe, as Byshopes now +adayes be wontyd to haue thayr howses nye vnto the +churche, but aparte frome other canons howses. In tymes +paste bothe Byshopes & Chanones were wontyde to be +monkes, as may be playnly prouyd by many argumentes. +The churche which ys dedycate to Saynte Thomas, dothe +streche vpe apon heght so gorgeously, that it wyll moue +pylgrymes to deuocion a ferre of, and also withe hys +bryghtnes and shynynge he dothe lyght hys neybures, +& the old place whiche was wontyd to be most holy, || +now in respecte of it, is but a darke hole and a lytle +cotage. There be a couple of great hye toures, which +doo seme to salute strangeres aferre of, and thay dow +fyll all the contray abowt bothe farre and nere, with +the sownde of great belles, in the fronte of the +temple, whiche is apo the southe syde, there stand +grauen in a stone thre armyd men, whiche with thayr +cruell handes dyd sleye the most holy saynte Thomas, +and there is wryten thayr surnames Tracy, Breton, and +Beryston. _Me._ I pray you wharfore doo thay suffer +thos wykyd knyghtes be so had in honoure. _Ogy._ Euyn +suche honor is gyuen to thaym as was gyue to Iudas, +Pylate, and Caiphas, & to the compauy of the wykyd +sowdyeres, as you may se payntyd in the tables that be +sett before aultres. Thayr surnames be putto lest any +man hereafter shuld vsurpe any || D iiij.|| cause of +thayr prayse. Thay be payntyd byfore mennes eyes, +bycause that no cowrtyer after thys shuld laye violet +handes other apo Byshopes, or the churche goodes. For +thes thre of this garde strayght apon that wykyd acte, +wente starke madde, nor thay had neuer had thayr mynde +ayen, but that thay prayd to blessyd saynt Thomas. +_Me._ O blessyd pacyence of suche martyres. _Ogy._ At +our entre in, lord what a pryncely place dyd apere vnto +vs, where as euery ma that wyll may goo in. _Me._ Is +there no maruayle to be sene. _Ogy._ Nothynge but the +greate wydnes of the place, and a sorte of bokes, +that be bownde to pyleres wherein is the gospell of +Nicodemus, and I cannat tell whos sepulkre. _Me._ What +than? _Ogy._ Thay do so dylygetle watche lest any ma +shulde entre in to the quere of yron, that thay wyll +skarsly suffre a man || to loke apon it, whiche is +betwyxte the greate churche & the hye quere (as thay +calle it) a man that wyll go thyther must clyme vp many +stayres byfore, vndre the whiche there is a certayne +wykyt with a barre that openythe the dore apon the +northe syde. There standythe forthe a certayne aultre +whiche is dedycate to our lady, it is but a lytle one, +and I suppose set there for no other purpose, but to be +a olde monumet 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, +wha he shuld departe hensse. In ye aultre is the poynte +of the sword that styryd abowt the braynes of thys +blessyd martyr. And there lye his braynes shed apon the +yerthe, whereby you may well knowe yt he was nere +deade. But the holly ruste of thys grat I deuoutly +kyssed for loue of ye || D v.|| blessyd martyr. From +thens we wet 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 champyo chastnyd hys +body, thay be horryble to loke apon, and greatly +reproue oure delycate gorgeousnes. _Me._ Ye peraueture +so thay do the mokes slotefulnes. _Ogy._ As for that +mater I canat affyrme nor yet denye, nor yet it is no +poynte of my charge. _Me._ Ye saye truthe. _Ogy._ Frome +thens we returnyd in to the quere, & apon || ye northe +syde be ye relyques shewyd, a wonderouse thynge to se, +what a sort of bones be broght forthe, skulles, iawes, +thethe, handes, fyngres, hole armes, wha we had +worshipyd thaym all, we kyssyd thaym, that I thoght we +shuld neuer haue mayd an ende, but that my pylgremage +felow whiche was an vnmete companyon for suche a +busynes, prayd thaym to make an end of sethynge forthe +thayre relyques. _Me._ What felowe was that? _Ogy._ +He was an Englyshma callyd Gratiane colte a man bothe +vertuouse and well learnyd, but he had lesse affectyon +toward pylgremages than I wold that he shuld haue. +_Me._ One of Wyclyffes scoleres I warrante you? _Ogy._ +I thynke nat, althoghe he had redde hys bokes, how he +came by thaym I cannat tell. _Me._ He dysplesyd mayster +Sexte greuosly. _Ogy._ Tha was there broght forthe || +an arme whiche had yet the redde fleshe apon it, he +abhorryd to kysse it, a man myght se by hys countenance +that he was nothynge well pleasyd, & than by and by +mayster Sexten put vp hys relyques. But than we lokyd +apo the table whiche was apo the aultre, and all hys +gorgeousnes, aftrewarde thos thyngs that were hydde +vnder the aultre. ther was nothynge but riches +excedynge, a man wold accompte both Midas and Cresus +beggers in respecte of thos riches that ther was sett +abrode. _Me._ Was ther no more kyssynge the? _Ogy._ No, +but an other affection and desyre came apo me. _Me._ +What was that? _Ogy._ I syghed that I had no suche +relyques at home. _Me._ Oh a wycked desyre & an euyl +thought _Ogy._ I graunt, and therefore I axyd, +forgyfnes of saynt Thomas before I remouyd one fote, to +departe out of the church. After || thes thus we were +brought in to ye reuestry, o good lorde what a goodly +syght was ther of vestmetes of veluet & clothe of +golde, what a some of candlestykes of gold? We sawe +ther saynt Thomas crosse staffe, ther was see also a +rede ouerlayed with syluer, it was but of a smalle +wyght, vnwrought, nor no longer then wold retch vnto a +mans mydgle. _Me._ Was ther no crosse? _Ogy._ I sawe +none at all, ther was shewed vs a robe of sylke treuly, +but sowed with cowrse threde, garnysshyd with nother +gold nor stone. Ther was also a napkyn full of swette +blody, wher with saynt Thomas wypyd bothe hys nose and +hys face, these thynges as monumetes of auncyent +sobernes we kyssed gladely. _Me._ Be not these thynges +showed to euery body? _Ogy._ No for sothe good syr. +_Me._ How happened it that you were in so good +credens, that no || secret thynges were hyd frome you? +_Ogy._ I was well acquyntede with the reuerende father +Gwylyame warham the archbyshope. He wrote .ij. or .iij. +wordes in my fauour. _Me._ I here of many that he is a +ma of syngler humanite. _Ogy._ But rather thou woldest +call hym humanite it selfe if thou dydest well know +hym. For ther is in hym soche lernynge, so vertuouse +lyffe, soche purenes of maneres, that a ma cowld wyshe +no gyfte of a parfayte Byshope in him, that he hathe +nat. Frome thens afterward we were ladde to greater +thynges. For behynde the hyghe aultre, we ascedyd as it +were in to a nother new churche, ther was shewed vs in +a chapell the face of the blessed man ouergylted and +with many precyous stones goodly garnysshed. A soden +chaunse here had almost marred the matter and put vs +out of conceyte. _Me._ I tary || to knowe what euyl +chaunse yow wyll speke of. _Ogy._ Here my companyo +Gratia gote hym lytle fauoure, for he, after we had mad +an ende of praynge, inquyred of hym that sate by the +hede, herke, he seyd, good father, is it true that I +here, that saynt Thomas whyl he it lyued was mercyfull +toward ye poer people? That is very true saythe he, and +he bega to tell greatly of his liberalyte and +compassyon that he shewede to the poer and nedy. Then +sayd Gratia: I thynke that affection and good mynd in +him not to be chaungyde, but that it is now moche +better. Unto this graunted ye keper of the hede, agayn +sayd he, then in as moche as thys holy man was so +gratyouse vnto ye poer, whan he was yet poer, & he hym +selfe had nede of monay for ye necessarys of hys body, +thynke ye nat that he wold be contet, now that he is so +ryche, and also nedethe || nothynge, that if a poer +woma hauynge at home chylderne lakynge mete and drynke, +or els doughters beynge in danger to lose ther +virginite, for defaute of ther substaunce to mary them +with, or hauynge her husbande sore syke, and destitute +of all helpe, in case she askyd lycens, & pryuyly stole +away a small porcyon of so greate riches, to sukkre her +howshold, as and if the shold haue it of one that wold +other leane, or gyue it to herre? And whan he wold nat +answere that kepyd the golden hedde, Gracyane, as he is +som what hasty, I, saythe he, doo suppose playnly, that +this holy man wold be gladde, yf that she, now beynge +deade, myght sustayne the necestiye of pore people. But +there mayster parson begone to frowne, & byte hys +lyppe, with hys holowe eyes lyke to *Gorgone [*A moster +that hathe snakes for heares apon her hedde.] ye +monstre to luke apo vs. I doo not dowbte he wold haue +|| cast vs out of the temple, and spytte apo vs, +but that he dyd knowe that we were comendyd of the +archebsyhope. But I dyd somwhat myttygate the manes +ire, with my fayre wordes, saynge that Gratiane dyd nat +speake as he thoghte, but that he gestyd as he was +wontyd to doo, and stoppyd hys mouthe with a fewe pens. +_Mene._ Treuly I do greatly alow your goodly fashion, +but oftentymes ernestly I cosyder, by what meaynes they +may be acopted without faute & blame, that bestow so +moche substance in buyldyng churchys, in garnysshynge, +and enrychynge them without all mesure. I thynke as +touchyng the holy vestmentes, & the syluer plate of the +temple ther ought to be gyuyn, to the solempne seruys, +hys dygnyte and comlynes, I wyll also that the buyldyng +of the churche shall haue hys maiesty decent and +|| E.|| conuenyent. But to what purpose seruyth so many +holy water pottes, so many cadlestyckes, so many ymages +of gold. What nede there so many payre of organes (as +thay call them) so costely & chargeable? For one payre +can not serue vs: what profyteth ye musicall criynge +out in the temples that is so derely bought and payed +for, whan in the meaneseson our brothers and systers +the lyuely temples of Christe liynge by the walles/dye +for hungre & colde. _Ogy._ Ther is no vertuouse or wyse +man, that wold nat desyre a meane to be hadde in thes +thynges. But in as moche as thys euyl is growen and +spronge vp of superstityon beyond mesure, yet may it +better be sufferde, specially when we consyder on the +other syde the euyll conscience and behauyor of them +that robb the churches of what so euer iuellys ther may +be so founde, thes || ryches were gyuen in a maner +great men, & of pryncys, the whiche they wold haue +bestowede vpon a worse vse, that is to say other at the +dyce or in the warres. And if a man take any thynge +from thense. Fyrst of all it is taken sacrylege, then +they hold ther handes that were accustomed to gyfe, +besyde that morouer they be allured & mouyde to +robbynge & vaynynge. Therfore thes mene be rather the +kepers of thys treasures the lordes. And to speake a +worde for all, me thynket it is a better syght to +beholde a temple rychely adourned, as ther be some with +bare wolles, fylthy and euyl fauorde, more mete for +stables to put horses then churches for Chrysten +people. _Me._ Yet we rede that Byshopes in tymes paste +were praysede and comended bycause they solde the holy +vesseles of theyr churches, and with that money helped +and releued the || E ij.|| nedy and poure people. +_Ogy._ Thay be praysede also now in our tyme, but thay +be praysed onely, to folow ther doynge (I suppose) thay +may not, nor be any thynge dysposede. _Me._ I +interrupte and lett yowr comunycatyon. I loke now for +the coclusyon of ye tale. _Ogy._ Gyffe audyence, I wyll +make an ende shortly. In the meane seson comyth forthe +he that is the cheffe of them all. _Me._ Who is he? the +abbot of the place? _Ogy._ He werythe a mytre, he may +spend so moche as an abbot, he wated nothynge but ye +name, and he is called prior for this cause +tharchebyshope is take in the abbotes sted. For in old +tyme who so euer was archbyshope of ye dyocese, the +same was also a monke. _Me._ In good faythe I wold be +content to be namyde a Camelle, if I myght spende +yerely the rentes and reuennes of an abbot. _Ogy._ Me +semede he was a || man bothe vertuous and wyse, and not +vnlearnede Duns diuinite. He opened the shryne to vs in +whiche ye holle body of the holy ma, thay say, dothe +rest and remayne. _Me._ Dydste thou see hys bones. +_Ogy._ That is not conuenient, nor we cowld not come to +it, except we sett vp laders, but a shryne of wod +couerede a shryne of gold, when that is drawne vp with +cordes, tha apperith treasure and riches inestimable. +_Me._ What do I here? the vilest part and worst was +golde, all thynges dyd shyne, florishe, and as it were +with lyghtnynge appered with precyouse stones and those +many and of great multitude: some were greater than a +gowse egge. Dyuerse of ye monks stode ther aboute with +greate reuerence, the couer takyn a way, all we kneled +downe and worshyped. The pryor with a whyte rodde +showed vs euery stone, addynge therto the || E iij.|| +frenche name, the value, & the autor of the gyfte, for +the cheffe stonys were sent thyther by great prynces. +_Me._ He ought to be a man of an excedyng witt & +memory. _Ogy._ You gesse well, how beit exercyse & vse +helpeth moche, for euyn the same he dothe oftentymes. +He brought vs agayne in to the crowdes. Our lady hathe +ther an habitacyon, but somwhat darke, closed rownde +aboute with double yren grats. _Me._ What feared she? +_Ogy._ Nothinge I trow, except theues. For I saw neuer +any thing more laden with riches synse I was borne of +my mother. _Me._ You show vnto me blinde ryches. +_Ogy._ Whe they brought vs candells we saw a sight +passynge ye ryches of any kynge. _Me._ Dothe it excede +our lady of walsynga? _Ogy._ To loke vpo this, is +richer, the secret tresure she knoweth her selfe, but +this is not shewede, but to great || men, or to +specyall frendes. At the last we were brought agayne in +to the reuettry, there was taken out a cofer couered +with blacke lether, it was sett downe apon the table, +it was sett open, by and by euery body kneled downe and +worshipyd. _Me._ What was in it? _Ogy._ Certayne torne +ragges of lynnen clothe, many hauynge yet remaynynge in +them the token of the fylthe of the holy mannes nose. +With these (as they say) saynt Thomas dyd wype a way +the swett of hys face or hys neke, ye fylthe of hys +nose, or other lyke fylthynes with whiche mannes body +dothe abownde. Then my companyon Gratian, yet ones +agayn, got hym but smalle fauour. Unto hym an Englyshe +man and of famylyare acquayntenance and besyde that, +a man of no smalle authorite, the Prior gaff gentylly +one of the lynne ragges, thynkynge to haue gyuen +|| E iiij.|| a gyfte very acceptable & pleasaunt, But +Gratian there with lyttle plea sede and content, not +with out an euydent synge of dyspleasure, toke one of +them betwene hys fyngers, and dysdaynyngly layd it down +agayne, made a mocke and a mow at it, after +the maner of puppettes, for thys was hys maner, if any +thing lykede hym not, that he thought worthy to be +despysede. Wher at I was bothe ashamed and wonderously +afrayed. Not withstondynge the Prior as he is a man not +at all dull wytted, dyd dyssemble the matter, & after +he had caused vs drinke a cuppe of wyne, gentylly he +let vs departe. When we came agayne to London. _Me._ +What shuld ye do at Londo: seynge ye were not farre +from the see cost, to seale in to yowr cuntre? _Ogy._ +It is true. But that see cost I refused and gladely dyd +fle from it, as from a place that is || noted and more +euyl spoken of it, for robbyng, stelynge, and vntrue +dealynge, then is of dangerouse ioperdy in the see, be +that hyll Malea wher many shyppes be drowned & vtterly +destroyed for euer. I wyll tell the what I dyd se the +last passage, at my commynge ouer. We were many caryed +in a bote frome Calys shore to go to the shyppe. +Amongest vs all was a pour yoge ma of Frauce, and +barely appayrelled. Of hym he demauuded halfe a grote. +For so moche thay dow take and exacte of euery one for +so smalle a way rowynge. He allegede pouerty, then for +ther pastyme thay searched hym, plucked of his shoes, +and betwene the shoo and the soule, thay fownde .x. or +.xij. grotes, thay toke the from hym laughyng at the +mater: mockinge and scornyng the poer & myserable +Frenchman. _Me._ What dyd ye fellow than? _Ogy._ What +thyng dyd || E v.|| he? He wept. _Me._ Whether dyd they +thys by any authoryte? _Ogy._ Suerly by the same +authoryte that thay steyle and pycke straungers males +and bowgettes, by the whiche they take a way mennes +pursys, if they se tyme and place conuenyent. _Me._ +I meruayll that they dare be so bold to doo soch a +dede, so many lokynge vpon them. _Ogy._ They be so +accustomed, that they thynk it well done. Many that +were in the shyp lokede owt and sawe it also, in the +bote were dyuerse Englyshe marchauntes, whiche grudged +agaynst it, but all in vayne. The boteme as it had ben +a tryflyng mater reiosed and were glade that they had +so taken and handelyd the myserable Frenchman. _Me._ +I wold play and sporte with these see theues, & hange +them vpon the gallowes. _Ogy._ Yet of such both the +shores swarme full. Here tell me, I pray the. What || +wyll great me do, whe theues take vpo them to +enterpryse soch masterys. Therfore, herafter I had +leuer go fourty myllys aboute, the to go that way, +thoffe it be moche shorter. Morouer euyn as ye goynge +downe to hell, is easy and leyght, but ye comynge frome +thens of greate dyffyculty, so to take shyppynge of +this syde the see, is not very easy, and the landynge +very hard & dangeroufe. Ther was at London dyuerse +maryners of Antwerpe, with them I purposed to take the +see. _Me._ Hathe that cutre so holy maryners? _Ogy._ +As an ape is euer an ape, I graute, so is a maryner +euer a maryner: yet if thou compare them vnto these, +ye lyfe by robbynge, and pyllynge and pollynge, they +be angelles. _Me._ I will remembre thy saynge, if at +any tyme I be dysposed to go and se Englade. But come +agayne in to ye waye, frome whens I broght the +|| E vi.|| owt. _Ogy._ Then as we whent toward London not +farre from Canterbury, we came in to a great hollow and +strayt way, morouer bowyng so downe, with hyllys of +eyther syde, that a man can not escape, nor it cannot +be auoyed, but he must nedes ryde that way. Upo the +lefte hand of the way, ther is an almes howse for olde +people, frome them runnyth on owt, as sone as they here +a horseman commynge, he casteth holy water vpon hym, +and anone he offereth hym the ouerlether of a shoo +bownde abowte with an yerne whope, wherin is a glasse +lyke a precyouse stone, they that kysse it gyf a pece +of monay. _Me._ In soche a way I had leuer haue an almes +howse of olde folkes, then a company of stronge theues. +_Ogy._ Gratian rode vpon my lefte hande nerer the almes +howse, he caste holy water vpon hym, he toke it in +worthe so so, || when the shoo was proferred hym, he +asked what he ment by it, saythe he, it is saynt Thomas +shoo. There at he turned and was very angry, & turned +toward me: what (saythe he) meane these bestes, that +wold haue vs kysse ye shoes of euery good man? Why doo +they not lyke wyse gyue vs to kysse the spottel, & +other fylthe & dyrt of the body? I was sory for the old +ma, & gaue hym a pece of money to coforthe hym with +all. _Me._ In myn opynyo Gratian was not all together +angry with owt a good cause. If shoes and slyppers were +kept for a toke of sobre lyuynge, I wold not be moch +dyscontent ther with, but me thynks it is a shame full +fashyon for shoes, slyppers, and breches to be offered +to kysse to any man. If some wold do it by there owne +fre wyll, of a certene affectyo of holynes, I thynke +they were whorthy of pardon. _Ogy._ It were || better +not to thes thynges, if I may say as I thynke, yet owt +of thes thynges that cannat forthwith be amended, it is +my maner if ther be any goodnes thereyn, to take it +out, and apply it to the best. In ye meanseson that +contemplacyo and light delited my mynde, that a good ma +is lykened to a shepe, an euyll man to a benemouse +best. The serpent after she is dede, ca stynge no more, +not withstondyng with her euyll sauour and poyson she +infecteth and corruptyth other. The shepe as loge 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 me, when they be deade, what with ryngyng of +bellys, and pompyouse || funeralles they greue them +that be on lyue, and often tymes vexe ther successours +with new exactyones. Good men of the other syde at all +assais be profytable to all men, and hurtfull to noo +man. As thys holy man, whyle he was yet alyue, by hys +good example, hys doctryne, his goodly exhortatyons +prouokyd vs to vertuouse lyuynge, he dyd cofort the +coforthlesse, he helped ye poure, ye and now that he is +deade, he is in a maner more profytable. He hathe +buylded thys costly & gorgeouse churche, he hath caused +greate authoryte thorough out all Englande vnto the +ordre and presthode. At ye last, thys pece of the show +dothe susteyne a company of poure people. _Me._ Thys is +of my faythe a godely cotemplacyo, but I maruayll +greatly, seyng you ar thus mynded, that ye neuer dyd +vysyte saynt Patryckes purgatory in Yerlande, of the || +whiche the comyn people boost many wonderouse thynges, +whiche seme to me not lyke to be true. _Ogy._ Of a +suerty ther is not so meruelouse talkynge of it here, +but the thynge it selffe doth fare excede. _Me._ Hast +thou bene ther than, & gonne thorow saynt Patryckes +purgatory? _Ogy._ I haue saylede ouer a ryuer ot hell, +I went downe vnto the gates of hell, I saw what was doe +ther. _Me._ Thou dost me a greate pleasure, if thou +wyll wotsaue to tell me. _Ogy._ Lett this be the +prohemy or begynnynge of owr communycatyon, longe +enough as I suppose. I wyll gett me home, & cause my +souper to be made redy, for I am yet vndynede. _Me._ +Why haue you not yet dyned? is it bycause of holynes? +_Ogy._ Noo of a truthe, but it is bycause of enuy and +euyll will. _Me._ Owe ye euyll wyll to yowr bely? _Ogy._ +No, but to the couetyse || tauerners euer catchynge and +snatchynge the whiche when they wyll not sett afore a +man that is mete & conuenyent, yet they are not afearde +to take of straugers that, whiche is bothe vnright and +agaynst good consciens. Of thys fashyo I am acustomed +to be auengede vpon the. If I thynke to fare well at +souper other with myne acquayntauns, or with some host +som what an honest man, at dyner tyme I am sycke in my +stomacke, but if I chaunce to fare after myne appetyte +at dyner, before souper also I begynne to be well at +ease in my stomacke. _Me._ Wre ye not ashamede to be +taken for a couetouse fellow & a nygerde? _Ogy._ +Menedeme they that make cost of shame in soche thynges, +beleue me, bestow theyr money euyll. I haue lerned to +kepe my shame for other purposys. _Me._ Now I longe for +the rest of yowr comunycacyon, || wherfore loke to haue +me yowr geste at souper, where ye shall tell it more +conuenyently. _Ogy._ For sothe I thanke you, that ye +offere yowr selfe to be my gest vndesyred, when many +hertely prayed refuse it, but I wyll gyue yow double +thankes, if ye wyll soupe to day at home. For I must +passe that tyme in doynge my dewty to my howsehold. But +I haue counsell to eyther of vs moche more profytable. +To morrow vnto me and my wyfe, prepare our dyner at +yowr howse, then and if it be to souper tyme, we will +not leyue of talkynge, vntyll you say that ye are wery, +and if ye wyll at souper also we wyll not forsake you. +Why, claw you your hede? prepare for vs in good fayth +we wyll come. _Me._ I had leuer haue no tales at all. +Well go to, you shall haue a dyner, but vnsauery, +except you spyce it with good & mery tales. _Ogy._ But +here || you, are ye not mouyd and styrrede in your +mynde, to take vpon yow these pylgremages? _Me._ +Perauenture it wyll sett me a fyre, after ye haue told +me the resydew, as I am now mynded, I haue enough to do +with my statyons of Rome. _Ogy._ Of Rome, that dyd +neuer see Rome?. _Me._ I wyll tell you, thus I go my +statyons at home, I go in to the parler, and I se vnto +the chast lyuynge of my doughters, agayne frome thense +I go in to my shope, I beholde what my seruauntes, +bothe men and women be doynge. Frome thense into +the kytchyn, lokynge abowt, if ther nede any +of my cownsell, frome thense hyther and thyther +obseruynge howe my chylderne be occupyed, what +my wyffe dothe, beynge carefull that euery +thynge be in ordre, these be statyons of Rome. +_Ogy._ But these thynges saynt Iames wold dow +|| for yow. _Mene._ That I shuld se vn- + to these thynges holy scriptu- + re commaundethe, that + I shuld commyt the + charge to sayntes + I dyd rede yt + neuer com- + maun- + ded. + + God saue the kynge + + FINIS. + + + * * * * * + +[Corrected Errors: + _v_ = verso (back of page) + +[+] iiij. +the pryuate iudgmegt of certayne + _was_ iudgmegt + +[+] v. +cosolacyo of his gracys faythfull and true comens + _was_ ofh is + +[+] v. _v_ +prudently + _was_ prudenly, but catchword has _prudently_ + +[+] vi. +but also (to theyr greate laude and prayse) + _was_ prayse( + +[+] vi. _v_ +Desiderius Erasmus + _was_ Dsiderius Erasmus + +B +Whan he lokythe to the West + _was_ te West + +D iij. _v_ +to the company of the wykyd sowdyeres + _was_ compauy + +D v. +Frome thens we returnyd in to the quere + _was_ returuyd + +E ij. _v_ +Me semede he was a man bothe vertuous and wyse + word _a_ printed only as catchword + +E viij. +I haue saylede ouer a ryuer to hell + _was_ ot + + +Additional Problems: + +[+] iiij. +to use theme as goddes + _u_ printed for _v_ +whervpon thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes + _v_ printed for _u_ +A Good morow Ogygyus. / Good morow to you Menedemus. + change of speaker not marked + +C v. +_Ogy._ No veryly. What lettythe thaym? _Ogy._ That is +a name of dygnyte and nat of relygyo. + change of speaker not marked + +E ij. _v_ +What do I here? the vilest part and worst was golde, + change of speaker unclear + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion +by Desiderius Erasmus + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PILGRIMAGE OF PURE DEVOTION *** + +***** This file should be named 14746.txt or 14746.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/7/4/14746/ + +Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope, David King, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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