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,