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.
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
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