The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 52 pages of information about The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 52 pages of information about The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion.
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
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