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