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.
not withstondyng with her euyll sauour and poyson she infecteth and corruptyth other.  The shepe as loge as she is a lyue norryseth with her mylke, clothet with her wolle, makyth riche with her lambes, when she is deade she gyueth vs good and profytable lether, and all her body is good meat.  Euen so, cruell men, gyuen all to the world, so longe as they lyue be vnprofitable to all me, when they be deade, what with ryngyng of bellys, and pompyouse || funeralles they greue them that be on lyue, and often tymes vexe ther successours with new exactyones.  Good men of the other syde at all assais be profytable to all men, and hurtfull to noo man.  As thys holy man, whyle he was yet alyue, by hys good example, hys doctryne, his goodly exhortatyons prouokyd vs to vertuouse lyuynge, he dyd cofort the coforthlesse, he helped ye poure, ye and now that he is deade, he is in a maner more profytable.  He hathe buylded thys costly & gorgeouse churche, he hath caused greate authoryte thorough out all Englande vnto the ordre and presthode.  At ye last, thys pece of the show dothe susteyne a company of poure people. Me. Thys is of my faythe a godely cotemplacyo, but I maruayll greatly, seyng you ar thus mynded, that ye neuer dyd vysyte saynt Patryckes purgatory in Yerlande, of the || whiche the comyn people boost many wonderouse thynges, whiche seme to me not lyke to be true. Ogy. Of a suerty ther is not so meruelouse talkynge of it here, but the thynge it selffe doth fare excede. Me. Hast thou bene ther than, & gonne thorow saynt Patryckes purgatory? Ogy. I haue saylede ouer a ryuer ot hell, I went downe vnto the gates of hell, I saw what was doe ther. Me. Thou dost me a greate pleasure, if thou wyll wotsaue to tell me. Ogy. Lett this be the prohemy or begynnynge of owr communycatyon, longe enough as I suppose.  I wyll gett me home, & cause my souper to be made redy, for I am yet vndynede. Me. Why haue you not yet dyned? is it bycause of holynes? Ogy. Noo of a truthe, but it is bycause of enuy and euyll will. Me. Owe ye euyll wyll to yowr bely? Ogy. No, but to the couetyse || tauerners euer catchynge and snatchynge the whiche when they wyll not sett afore a man that is mete & conuenyent, yet they are not afearde to take of straugers that, whiche is bothe vnright and agaynst good consciens.  Of thys fashyo I am acustomed to be auengede vpon the.  If I thynke to fare well at souper other with myne acquayntauns, or with some host som what an honest man, at dyner tyme I am sycke in my stomacke, but if I chaunce to fare after myne appetyte at dyner, before souper also I begynne to be well at ease in my stomacke. Me. Wre ye not ashamede to be taken for a couetouse fellow & a nygerde? Ogy. Menedeme they that make cost of shame in soche thynges, beleue me, bestow theyr money euyll.  I haue lerned to kepe my shame for other purposys. Me. Now I longe for the rest of yowr comunycacyon, || wherfore loke to haue me
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