the feast of the nativitie, and the new procession with sumptuous bankets and delicate meates:  the third day was likewise celebrated with like ceremonies with a religious dinner, and with all the consummation of the order:  when I had continued there a good space, I conceived a marvailous great pleasure and consolation in beholding ordinarily the Image of the goddesse, who at length admonished me to depart homeward, not without rendring of thanks, which although it were not sufficient, yet they were according to my power.  Howbeit I could unneth be perswaded to depart, before I had fallen prostrate before the face of the goddesse, and wiped her steps with my face, whereby I began so greatly to weepe and sigh that my words were interrupted, and as devouring my prayer, I began to say in this sort:  O holy and blessed dame, the perpetuall comfort of humane kind, who by thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and hearest a great affection to the adversities of the miserable, as a loving mother thou takest no rest, neither art thou idle at any time in giving thy benefits, and succoring all men, as well on land as sea; thou art she that puttest away all stormes and dangers from mans life by thy right hand, whereby likewise thou restrainest the fatall dispositions, appeasest the great tempests of fortune and keepest backe the course of the stars:  the gods supernall doe honour thee:  the gods infernall have thee in reverence:  thou environest all the world, thou givest light to the Sunne, thou governest the world, thou treadest downe the power of hell:  By thy meane the times returne, the Planets rejoyce, the Elements serve:  at thy commandment the winds do blow, the clouds increase, the seeds prosper, and the fruits prevaile, the birds of the aire, the beasts of the hill, the serpents of the den, and the fishes of the sea, do tremble at thy majesty, but my spirit is not able to give thee sufficient praise, my patrimonie is unable to satisfie thy sacrifice, my voice hath no power to utter that which I thinke, no if I had a thousand mouths and so many tongues:  Howbeit as a good religious person, and according to my estate, I will alwaies keepe thee in remembrance and close thee within my breast.  When I had ended mine orison, I went to embrace the great Priest Mythra my spirituall father, and to demand his pardon, considering I was unable to recompence the good which he had done to me:  after great greeting and thanks I departed from him to visit my parents and friends; and within a while after by the exhortation of the goddesse.  I made up my packet, and tooke shipping toward the Citie of Rome, where with a prosperous winde I arrived about the xii. day of December.  And the greatest desire that I had there, was daily to make my praiers to the soveraigne goddesse Isis, who by reason of the place where her temple was builded, was called Campensis, and continually adored of the people of Rome.  Her minister and worshipper was I, howbeit I was a stranger to her Church, and unknowne to her religion there.