The Revelation TO THE MONK OF EVESHAM 1196 CAREFULLY EDITED FROM THE UNIQUE COPY, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, OF THE EDITION PRINTED BY WILLIAM DE MACHLINIA ABOUT 1482 EDITED BY EDWARD ARBER F.S.A ETC. LATE EXAMINER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TO THE UNIVERSITY OP LONDON WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO. 1895 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...... 3 THE REVELATION TO THE MONK OF EVESHAM. (1) The Prologue of the Revelation, . . .15 (2) [The Table of Chapters], . . . .16 THE REVELATION, . .19 In Fifty-eight Chapters and an Epilogue. The Trance and Recovery of the Young Monk of Eves- ham Abbey, ...... 19-35 THE JOURNEYTHROUGH PURGATORY & PARADISE TO HEAVEN. I. PURGATORY. The firft place of Pains, . . . 36-39, 73 Characters A Prior, that died this same year, . . 65 An Anchoress, that had come late from the world, 69 A Bishop 'born in this ground of England' and had his Bishopry beyond the Sea, deceased this same year about the Feast of Michael the Archangel, 70 A poor man's wife, ..... 71 A Knight that brake the Vow of Pilgrimage, 74 A Knight with the sparrowhawke on his fist, that had passed to God ten years ago, . . 75 The fecond place of Pains, . . . 40, 41, 76, 82 Characters A sinful Woman saved by Saint Margaret, . 42 A drunken Goldsmith saved by Saint Nicholas, 46-56 The three Bishops, 77 An Archbishop of Canterbury, ... 79 Poisoners, 83 Usurers, Fugitives out of Religion, . . 84 A certain King of England 84 A Bishop,an Archbi=hop-elect, that died 4 years ago, 86 An Abbot, that died 10 years ago, . . 87 An Abbess, that passed this same year out from this world 90 A Knight guilty of Simony 92 A young Monk, that was Sexton of the Church, 95 A certain Clerk that lived holily, ... 96 The third place of Pains, .... 56-59 Character A Doctor of Law, that died about 9 months ago, 60 II. PARADISE, ...... 98 The Vifion of the Crofs in Paradife, . . 105 Characters An Abbess, that died 13 years ago, . . 99 A devout and aged Prior, that died three years ago, 101 A young Monk, that died early, . . . 103 A worshipful Priest, who was an holy preacher, 104 III. HEAVEN. The Cryftal Wall, . . . . .107 The Gate and the Entring in thereo', . . 107 The Stairs in the Wall and the Throne, . . 108 The fweet Peal and Melody of Bells, . . no THE REVELATION TO THE MONK OF EVESHAM. INTR OD UCTION. IN the chronology of Englifh printing, between William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, occur the lefs familiar names of JOHN LETTOU and William of Malines, or as he varioufly printed his name, WlLHELMUM DE MACHLINIA, WlLHEL- MUM DE MECHLINIA, and even WILLIAM MACLYN. Not much is known of thefe two minor printers : nothing in- deed beyond the teflimony of their own productions. Some account, however, though it may be a limited and imperfect one, of their works will be advantageous, previous to an acquaintance with 77/i? Revelation to the Monk of EveJJiam. 2. Befides printing on their own account, Lettou and Machlinia joined in partnerfhip for at leaft the production of one book, in the colophon of which Lettou's name comes firft. Poffibly there- fore he may have been the older printer. Their works are or great rarity : fome of them extraordinarily fo. The following lift of many of them contains their defignations or titles in Eng- lifh, (hows the languages in which they are printed, and gives the prefs marks of copies now in Britifh Mufeum. Thofe dil- tinguifhed by A have the name of the printer upon them : thofe by B have neither the name of the printer nor of the place or date of printing. Sofjn ILcttou. A The Minorite ANTONIUS ANBREAS, Questions in Aristotle's Meta- physics; edited by the Augustine THOMAS PENKETH. 1480. [Latin.] Gren. Coll. 8984. A JOHN PEREZ DE VALENTIA, Expositions on tlie Psalms. 1481. [Latin.] C. u. b. 9. ILettou and fHacftlmia. A Sir THOMAS LITTLETON, Tenures. [Norman-French]. 508, f. i. Gren. Coll. 2190. B An abridgement of the Statutes, with title or printer's name, &c. [Nor- man-French.] (i) C. 12. i. 10. (2) 505. g. i. Gren. Coll. 2190. KHilliam fcc . A II. Sir THOMAS LITTLETON, Tenures. [Norman French.] 508. f. i. A III. Year Book, 34 Hen. vi. 14. [Norman- French.] C. n. b. 10. Gren. Coll. 6001. A I. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, On the secrets of Nature. [Latin], (i) C. 31. e. 25. (2) 546. h. 6. B I. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, On the secrets of women and men. [Latin.] C. 31. e. 24. A III. JOHN WATTON, ' Speculum Xristiani,' The Mirror of a Christian. [Latin and English]. C. n. a. 28. 1. Year Book, 33 Hen. VI. [Norman-French.] 505. g. i. I. Year Book, 35 Hen. VI. [Norman-French.] 505. g. i. 4 Introduction. 1. Year Book, 36 Hen. VI. [Norman-French.] 505. g. I. II. A book, without title, known as ' Nova Statuta,' The New Statutes. [Norman- French.] C. n. c. 13. B II. Tlu Re-.'clation to the Monk of Eveshant. [English.] C. 21. B III. A passing gode lityll bake necessarye and behouefull agenst the Pestilence [C. 31. e. 13], translated from the Latin of Regimen con- tra ffiidimiam sine pestant, written by Canutus, Bishop of Aarhuus in Jutland, and probably printed abroad. [C. 31. e. 10.) B HI. A Chronicle of England. [English.] Gren. Coll. 5991. B HI- Three leaves in English, [formerly in Old Royal .MS. 17. D. xv. : but now C. 3. m.] lettered on the back Treaty between Lewis A'l. and Edward I V. These'leaves contain The j>romisse ofntfttriinonie between Prince Charles of France, and Elizabeth, daughter of the English king : with other matters. B III. Statuta nfnid-westmonasteriiun edita Anno primo Regis Ricardi tertij. [Norman-French.] C. 10. b. 20: also in Petyt's AfSS. in the Inner Temple Library. B HI. Harl. MS. 5919. Art. 182 is a leaf of another work, Vulgaria Therentii, which has not come down to us entire. 3. The firft book ever printed in London, was printed by John Lettou. It was the above Penketh's edition of Andreas' Que/liom in Ariftottis Metaphyftcs : a work firft printed at Naples in 1475. The" Rev. Dr. Cotton tells us : If we consider Westminster as a distinct city from London, the latter car only claim the third, or perhaps fourth place in order of time among the English towns into which the art of printing was introduced : a press being certainly at work in Oxford in the year 1478, and one at St. Alban's in 1480. No book executed at London is found bearing an earlier date than this last- mentioned year; the first known specimen being, AntoniiAndrecequestiones super xii. libros metaphysices, printed by John Lettou, in 1480. Lettou was probably a foreigner, and he is only known to have printed two books (in 1480 and 1481) before he joined with Wm. Machlinia, who is also supposed to have been a foreigner from Germany or the Low Countries. Machlinia probably continued his occupation for some years, yet comparatively few of his books have come down to our times ; and of these not one single volume bears a date. Typographical Gazetteer, p. 148, Kd. 1831. But two copies of Andreas' Qtie/iiones are known. The above one in the Grenville Collection, and another at Magdalen College, Oxford. The two volumes printed by Lettou were both pub- lifhed at the expenfe of Thomas Wilcock. They are printed in double columns, and have blank fpaces left for the initial letters to be filled by hand, as is the cafe of mod of the above works. The colophons expanded of Lettou's two works, run thus : A. Andreas' Qtte/tiones. C Excellentissimi sacrae theologiae professoris Anthonii Andrse ordinis fratrum minorum super duodecemo libros Methaphiscae questionibus per uenerabilem uirum magistrum Thoinan Penketh ordinis fratrum Augustinen- sium emendatis finis impositus est per me lohannem lettou ad expensas Wilhelmi Wilcock impressis. Anno xristi M.CCCC.lxxx. J. Perez de Valentia's bulky work, ufually known as Expo- fitiones ftiper Pfalterinm. <[ Expliciunt Reuerendissimi doctoris Valencii sup^r psalteriuw hucusque expownes Impresse in ciuitate Londpniensi ad expensas Wilhelmi Wilcok per me lohannem lettou. Anno xristi M.CCCC.lxxxi. Ariftotle and David, Intellect and Piety : a fit beginning for the prodigious literature that has been, that is, that yet will fpring into exiftence in London. Introduction. 5 4. Sir Thomas Littleton died on 23rd Auguft 1481. It was probably after his death that Lettou and Machlinia, our firft Law printers, joined together to print what is probably the firft edition of his Tenures. The colophon of this book runs thus : Expliciut Tenores nouelli Impresse^er nos lohem lettou et Willem de machlinia in C//tate LondoniarKwz iuxta excfesinm omnium sandornm. (There were eight churches in London, dedicated to the honour of All Saints, commonly written Alhallows. Near which Alliallows cannot there- foie be now known.] There is another work, known as the Vieux Abridgement des Statutes which is alfo attributed to their joint-effort, but it bears no date nor name of printer, place, &c. 5. The works, known and fuppofitious, of William de Machlinia are more numerous. He appears to have lived either in Holborn or near the Fleet Bridge. Another of the earlieft editions of Littleton's Tenures has this Expliciunt Tenores nouelli Impress! per me Wilhelmu; de machlinia in opulen tissiama Ciuitate Londoniarum iuxta pontewz qui vulgariter dicitur Flete brigge The Year Book 34 Hen. VI., has this fhort colophon. Emp?*fte par moy William Maclyn en Holborn. The edition of Albertus Magnus Liber aggregationis feu liber fccretomm, &c., has this colophon. Albertus Magnus de Secretis naturae Explicit Necnon per me Wilhelmum de mechlinia Impressus In opulentissima Ciuitate Londoniarum Iuxta pontem qui vulgariter dicitur Flete brigge. But the mod interefting of all the acknowledged productions of Machlinia, and the one which has the clofeft affinity to the prefent work, is a book which begins Incipit liber qui vocatur Speculum Xriftiani. It is a devotional work, and confifls of three parts. (i.) The Speculum Xriftiani is compofed of fhort quotations chiefly in Latin, from the Scriptures and the Fathers, interfperfed with original, though rude Englifli verfe in illuftration of the teaching. It is divided into eight 'tables' or 'chapters': whereof the firfl treats of the Catholic faith and the articles of belief: the fecond of the ten precepts of the Decalogue and the two of the Gofpel : the third of the feven works of mercy, the feven works of the fpirit, the feven principal vertues : the fourth of the feven cardinal fins, and the like. The following to be found in the feventh table -is a good fpecimen of the verfe, which otherwife is interefting from its very early pofition in Englifh printed Poetry. Ensample we may see and here Of Iherusalem that was so riche a citee Of it openly spekys leremye And also dauid in hys prophecye How it was destroyed withouten wene And the walles be ten duun all be dene 6 IntroduClion. Wallid it was with wallys thie A semely sig.'it on to see The temple brent ful dulfully And beten doun hit was holly So riche a temple hit was one 1 n this worlde was founden none With walles ?nd pylers here onjyght Hyled with golde that schone ful bright So many lampes ther in brent ay Hit made the night bright as the daye Their oyle was medled with swete oynemcnt Out of whiche swete sauour sprent Thair sence was wonderly wrought With riche spices that they dere bought Ther of come swete smellyng Sweter felt neuer man here lyuyng Ther is now nether Emp^rour ne kyng That night mayntene suche sensyng Ther were thre hondred there in syngand Suche songe herde neuer man in this londe With harpe and pipe and sawtrie And all other maner of mynstralcye And this was all their synging The psalmes that made Dauid the kyng And why this Cite destroied was Fals and coueitous men grete cheson was 1 hat euer brent in coueitise more and more Yf we doo so aught to drede full sore Last vs befalle as thaim befelle Al wise clerkys thys tale can telle And yet this fyre brennes so bate That no man may it slewke and bate And ther of comes so grete a smoke That men may not vp to heuen loke For wher may we now many fynde That they not other bleereyed or all blynde Or ellys a perse in their eye Thof they in state or ordre be right heye Who so might conuert blynde and bleryeye And make them to goddys bydding obedient be God wolde forgyf him al his synne And graunt hym blisse that neuer schal blinne But I am nought so grete a clerke For to do so strong a werke Therfore me and all mankynde Into the mercy of god I recommende (2.) The fecond part of the Speculum Xrijliani mainly confifis of an Expofition of the Lord's Prayer. It has the following title. Sequitur exposicio oracionis dominicse cum quodam bono notabili et septem capitalia.vicia cum aliquibus ramis eorum. (3. ) The third part confifis of the Admonitions of the bleffed Ifidore : and has this title. Sequuntur monita de verbis beati ysidori extracta ad instniendum hominem qualiter vicia valeat euitare et in bonis se debeat mformare. Introduction. 7 At the clofe of the whole, comes the following colophon. Iste Libellus impr^ssus est in opulentissima Ciuitate Londoniarum -per me \Vil!elmuz de Machlinia ad instanciam necnon expensas Henrici Vranken- burgh mercatoris. As Thomas Wilcock paid the expenfes of Lettou's two books : the piety of the merchant Henry Urankenberg furnifhed Mach- linia with the means for the production of the Speculum Xrijliani. 6. A typographical matter now meets us : and it is important, becaufe it is the bridge between the known and the fuppofed works of Machlinia. Mr. Dibdin gives us this opinion of Mach- linia as a printer. Machlinia unquestionably printed with at least three different casts of letters; of which the more elegant specimens are those of the Speculum. Xriani, and A Ibertus Ma.gn.us ' De Secretis Mulierum' Machlinia is always superior to Lettou, and some attempt at proportion and beauty may be seen in his register, or press work ; but he is not only far beneath Wynkyn de Worde in every point of good printing, but is frequently below Caxton ; whose broad and bold types seem not to have suited his meagre taste. His paper is not generally so good as that of his contemporaries ; but in the subsequently mentioned work of ' Albertus Magnus,' and in the ' Nova Statuta' he has shewn himself not indifferent to the niceties and beauty of his art. The paper is excellent, the margin broad, and the register exact. Typ. Ant. ii. 9. Ed. 1812. In the above lift, an attempt has been made to claffify Mach- linia's books, according to the founts of type ufed in them. The law-books group under I. The Albertus Magnus, the Nova Statitta, and The Monk of EveJJiam, form group II. : while the third group is compofed of the Speculum Xrijliani, Chronicle of England, and Lityll boke agenjl the Plague, &=c. The three groups are (harp and diftin.2 this placis he fawe and knewe many perfons bothe men and women the whiche he knewe welle before when they lyuyd in thys world and fpake with hem there mowthe to mowith in bothe the placys as he founde hem as hit folowth wele aftir in this boke. This reuelacion was not (hewed to hym only for hym butte alfo for the confort and profetyng of all criflyn pepulle that none man fhuld dowte or myftrufte of anothir life and world the whiche cuery man and woman mofle go to and lyke as they deferue here in this world by here lyuyng fo there to be rewardyd. And as for the trowthe of this reuela- cyon no man nother woman ought to dowte in any wife, for and a man wele rede and vndirflonde the begynnyng with the ending he fhalle fo largely fee hit approuyd in grete myraclis by almyghty god fhewyd vnto the fame perfon that fame tyme that alle refons and mocionsof infydelite the which erifith often tymes of manns fenfualite fhalle vtwardly be excludyd and quen- chid and gretely fhalle caufe alle cryften pepulle that henth hit to drede god and loue hym and alfo to preyfe i6 hym in hys werkys. for feche anothir reuelacion and fo opyn y trowe was neuer mewid in this lond ne in no nothir that we rede of. prologge. C tycre &r gjmne tije djajpttrrs of tfjfs reuelarixm. C Howe this monke fyl in to a fore and greuys fekenes and gaue hym to confeffion and prayur and compunccion of teeris - Chapitur I [/. 19] C Howe he laye alfo proftrate in the chaptur howfe as thaugh he had ben dedde - ij [/. 21] C Howe the fegure of cure lordys croffe that he worfhipte was fonde blody ---- iii [/. 22] C How he was comme ageyne to him felfe iiii [/. 23] C Howe he fought aftyr hys flaffe and his fhewys and how deuoutly he worfhipte the croffe - v [/. 24] C Howe he told to a brother that he louyd wele a part of feche thynges as he had feyne - vi [p. 26] d Howe he was defired of his bretheren to etc fumwhat aftyr fo longe a fafte -- vii [/. 27] C! Howe he told to ii of his confeflburs a part of thoes thinges that he had feyne - viii [/. 28] f[ what was his peticion fpecially and howe a certeyn perfon apperyth to hym -- ix [/>. 28] C Howe he was warnyd in his flepe to worfhippe the croffe of owre lorde -- x [/. 30] C How the fame croffe bledd don to hym at the ryght fyde and at the right foote and of the. ij. lyghtys --- xi [p. 31] C Howe he came yn to chaptur howfe and toke dyfciplynys and how he was rapte - xii \p. 32] C how he felte hym felfe here rapte fyrft xiij [/. 33] C how he folowd hys leder fent Nycholas when he was rapte -- . -- xiiij [/. 35] C how fent Nycholas broughte hym to the fyrfle place of purgatorie --- xv \p. 36] C Of the grete diuerfyte of peynys yat he faw-xvi [/. 39] 17 C Of the fecunde place of peynys in purga- tory xvij [/. 40] C How fent Margaret delyuerd a fowle of a fyn- fulle woman fro the deuyllys xviij \_p. 42] C[ Of a goldefmyth that was fauyd by fent Ny- <:holas xix [/. 46] 4[ How thys monke know there fyrft that fent nvcholas was hys leder xx [/. 48] f[ How the fame goldefmith tolde the monke in purgatoryehowhedydefodenlyandwasfauydxxi [/. 48] C How the goldefmyth tolde the monke a re- medye agenft foden deth xxij [p. 5 1] <[ How the fone of this goldefmyth tolde the monke aftyr he was comme to hym felfe age.yne that hys fadyr had apperyd. iii. to hys moder aftyr hys deth xxiij [/. 54] C Of the thirde . place of peynys in purgat- orie. xxii C Of the fowle vyce and fynne of fodemytis-xxv fl[ Of adoctouralawethatwas afodemyte xxv[j] 58 p. 60 f[ Of thoes perfons that this monke fa we and fpake within the firft place of peynys and firfl with a prior xxvii [/. 65] C[ Of an ancres that he fawe and knewe in the fame place xxviii f[ Of a certen biffhoppe there alfo xxix C Of a certen woman a pore mannys wyf-xxx p. 69 /. 70 Of relygyous men what peynys they fofryd for p. 71 dyuers certen fawtys C Of a certen knight that brake a vowe xxxii C Of a nothir knight- Of thoes perfons that he fawe in the ii placys A 73 p. 74 [P- 75J of peynys xxxiiij C! Of thre byffhoppis that were there xxxv A 76 /. 77 C Of an archbiffhoppe of canturbery xxxvi /. 79] fl[ A. certen defcripcion that the monke made of dyuers kyndys of fynful peple and of her peynys xxxvii [/. 82] C Of poyfynners that he fave xxxviii [/. 83] B IS C Of vferers alfo xxxix [ Of fugytyuys of relygyon xl C Of a certen kyng of Englonde xli Of a b[i]ffhoppe that was in peynys of purga- torye and yette god (hewed for hym myracles in /. 84 /. 84 /. 84 thys world xlii C Of a certen abbot xliii C Of an abbafle alfo xliiii C Of two nonnys that were lepurs xlv C Of a knight that offendyd in fymonye xlvi C Of a monke a fextenne xlvii C Of a clerke that leuyd holylye xlviii p. 86" /. 87 /. 91 /. 92 A 93 /95 /97 C Of paradyfe and of the multitude of pepulle that he fownde there ---- xlix \p. 98 C! Howe he fawe a certen abboth there - 1 [/. 99 ^[ Of a certen Priour that lyuyd deuoutely and dyde holylye --- -- li [/. 101 C Of a certen yong monke of hys -- lii \p. \ 03 C Of a certen worfhipful prifle --- liii [/. 104" ^1 Howe o\vre lordys paflion was reprefentyd a- monge the holy fowlys that ware in paradyfe liiii [/. 105] <[ Of the entryng at the gate of paradyfe and of the ioye that apperyd wythinforthe - Iv [/. 107] f[ Howe this monke came agayne throwe the gate of paradyfe --- Ivi [/. 109] C Of the fwete melodye of bellys that he herd in paradyfe and how he came to him felfe a- geyne --- Ivii [/. no] C Approfe how this reuelacyon is of god and mofle nedys be trewe for the grete myraclys that god fhewyd on hym that fame tyme - Iviii [/. in] rapttula. C $n* fceggttttttt!) a tttmtrifotts rettelacfon fl&at tons scf;rU)i>5 of almiiojbti) goD tig sent ilnrfjolas to a monfee of ISugs ijamme n tfje Dags of ftgnge 2=Uei)arB tfje fgrst &nD tye sm of otore lorlC ffi C. Hxttttfrt C CTa jmmum. N a Monafterye callyd Euyffham there was a certen yong man turnyd wyth feythfull deuocyon fro thys worldys vanyte to the lyfe of a Monke the whiche abowte the begynnyng of hys conuerfion fylle yn to a grete and a greuys fekenes and by the fpace of. xv. monthys was fore labouryd with gret febulnes and wekenes of body. Alfo hys ftomake abhortyd fo gretly mete and drynke that fum tyme by the fpace of. ix. days or more he myght refceyue noo thyng but a lytyl warme watyr. And what fum euer thyng of leche crafte or fefyke any manne dedde to hym for hys conforte or hys amende- ment noo thyng hym helpyd but al turnyd contrarye Therfore he lay feke yn his bedde gretly deftitute of bodely ftrenght. fo that he myght not moue hym. felfe fro one place to anothyr butte by helpe of feruaurites. Alfoo yn thre the lafte monethys of hys fekeneffe he was more forer dyfeafyd and feblyd than euer he was before. Neuertheleffe than commyng on the fefle of eftur. fodenly he beganne fum what to amende yn hys bodely myghtys and with hys ftaffe walkyd aboute the fermorye. Sothly on thes euyn of fcherethurfdaye in the whiche nyght the office and feruice of owr lord ihefu cryfle ys tradicion and paffion was folenly fonge wyth grete deuocion. he wente wyth hys ftaffe to the chyrche wyth his bretheren the whiche by caufe of fekeneffe refted hem alfo with hym in the fermorie were the couent nyghtly feruice and laudes offerd vppe 20 to owr lord And there by the refpecte of heuynly grace fo grete conpunccion and fwetenes he refcyued that hys holy deuocion excedyd mefure. Wherfore he myght not conteyne hym fro wepyng and laudyng god fro mydnyght tyl fex of the belle yn the mornyng. what for remembryng wyth worfhippe and ioye the merceis of owre lord, the whiche had doon for man- kynde. And alfo remembryng wyth fore wepyng hys ofifencys and fynnys doon by fore tyme. And the hurte and the ftate of hys prefent imperfeccion. And abowte fex the belle yn the mornyng he made to be called to hym. ii. of his bretheren one after a nothyr. whiche hadd powr to here confeffyons and gyue to penitentes abfolucion and to them bothe made purely and holy as mekylle as he cowde hys confeffion of al hys fynnys and of the left offence of hys religion or of the commawndementys of god and wyth grete contricion of herte and effufion of terys defired hys abfolucion and had hyt Than on of them afkyd hym why he forowde and wepte fo imoderately for al they had went yat he fchulde fele hym felfe fone to paffe owte of this worlde. Than he feyde he felte hym felfe no thyng fo Sothly than he tolde to his brother yat dili- gently enquiryde this of hym and feyde Sir ye fchal vndyrflonde and know that thys lafle night whenne we were to gedyr in chaptur howfe. y refceyuyd fo grete fweteneffe of herte and gladneffe of fowle. that onne- this y myghte hoolde or bere my felfe. He afkyd alfo and hyt were by the relygion that the priowrs fhuld geue that nyght to the bretheren dyfcyplynys in hooly vefture and aubys. And whenne he herd hym en- quyre this he hadde wente that he had feyd hyt of grete febulneffe of his hedde. or by alyenacion of hys mynde. the whiche perauenture he hadde falle in by his infirmyte and immoderate weping or faftyng howe be hit that he with hym had meruailous wifdam and difcrecion al the tyme of hys fekeneffe. wherfore he commendyd hym to our lord no thing els enquyring of hym and fo went his weye The feke brother fpendyd 21 al that daye in laudyng and prefyng god And the next night folowing after he hadde flepte a lityll while rofe vp of his bed And when the chaptur was ronge as the tyme requyred to calle the couent to matens. he went than to chirche as he did the daye before Sothely how he behauyd hym thenne in the chirche. and whan he went thens hit lhalle be fchewyd in his wordys foloyng C ?!>otoe fie lage prostrate al fjt's fcotJg in tfjc djaptur fjotos 00 ty ijati fo DrtJDe. C Ca it |JN the morow nexte foloyng that ys good fredaye whenne the couent rofe to cum to chirche to feye prime, as they ede afore the chaptur hous they fawe the fame feke brother lye proftrate and bare foote before the abbottis fete hois face was flate to the ground as thaugh he fhuld by the ordyr afke mercy of euery prefydent. Than the bretheren feyng this mer- uelyd and rane thedir and willing to take hym vp. they founde hym as a man lyfeles without any mocyon of any membre of his body. Trewly his yes ware falle doun depe into his heed and tho yes and nofe of him ware blody or as a manne had ouyr leyde hem with mekyl bloode. wherfore they feyde alle that he was dede. His feete ware ful coolde but in the remuande of his body was found a lytyl warmenes No mouing of his pypys might be knowen long tyme And at the laft onnethis bit was perieyuyd in him a litill thynne breth and amouyng of his herte. Thenne they wefhid his heedde brefte handys and feete with colde watyr And than firft they fawe al hys body a lityl to tremyl and quake, but anoon he fefyd and was infenfybulle So long tyme they mufyd and dowtyd what they might do to hym. whyle they fawe hym not verily dedde. nothyr any thing amendyng. At the laft by confelle they had him to his bedde and there to be kepte wiih grete attendans of kepers. 22 i)loB figure of fyt trojsse. C e toas BrstrrtJ of fits fcretfjewt to tafte sum mete after so long? a fastc. C Ca bit Han after this at euyn he was gretly defired to take fome mete after fo longe a fade And than he feyde Settith before vs the bred and a litil hony that was lefte the tothir tyme And whanne hit was fo done with a ful litil refeccion ther of he brake his fafte Ande fo he bode waking in prayor and terys til the howre of night that they range to matens Sothely whan the bretheren rofe to matens he went with hem and as he had rofe with our lorde the whiche fum tyme that fame howre rofe fro deth and lyfe And fo came to chirche. not withowte ioyful merueling of them that fawe him and without fuflentacion or helpe of any thing entrid into the quire and fo he did not a xi monthis before. And there in gret deuocyon and terys bode and contynewid til matens was doon and tyl the refurreccion of our lorde the whiche yerely in the fame chirche is wont to be fhewid vyfybly and howe the angel apperid and fpake to the wemen at the fepulture of the victoriofe refurreccion of ther king and alfo that they fhulde tel to his difciplys his glo- rious refurreccion and at the lafle til our lord apperyd to his welbelouyd mary mawdelen and named her maria in the figure of a gardner and til the meffys ware doone and had refceyuid the holy comyning of criften men. 28 C $oto fje tolfce to ii of f)is confessorgs a parte of suelje tijfnges as !je ijalf serne. C CTa bin |Fter this nowe that he had refceyued cure lordys precyous body ioyful and light he was and brought of his bretheren into the colloke the which ys a place where they may fpeke to geder and there copynily they came abowte hym defiring him to tel hem of feche thinges as befylle hym and as he had feyn for ther gooftly edifiyng and comfort For al they vndyrflode that herde his wordys the day before when he was fully cumme to him felfe and fawe his contynuall weping that by mony thinges grete thingis and mer- uelus had be fhewde him. And whan they with grete inflans afkid him. he diffymylyd alle thing a lytyl while At the lafte vnto his ii confeflbrys to whom he was confeft on fhrethurfday as hit is feyd afore to hem bothe feparatly. he told thees thynges the whiche here after be digeftyd and wreten with grete weping and fyking the whiche fum tyme fefid him of his telling And fum thinges he told to hem bothe and fum thinges onely vnto the thoon / and fum othir : only to the tothir and that not without a confyderacion of a certen meke and a good auifement And this he gon to telle as hit now folowethe. C toijat toas ijis pett'eion speetaHg ana ijoto a certen person appergU to ijt'm in fjts slepe. C e came in to t^e cfmptur ijotose anD tofee &tsn>jrtj>ttft an& ijoto ty toas tytu rautgtyt oh)c tfjfjs monUc tons raptc anB folotttte ins sent Ntcijolas. Ca tfuf |Ladly than feide this monke wente y with that worfhipfull olde fader the whiche by commandement of moth and leding ot hande had take me vp to be a felow with him of his wey. and al the while that v 36 lay deflitute of my bodily wiitis. we went bothe to geder hande in hande Sothly this was fro mydnight of fherethurfday the whiche endith in the mornyng of good fredaye in whiche time y was rauyfhte in fpirite as y laye in the chaptur hows tyl the euetyde of fatur- day foloyng. in the whiche euetyde as ye fawe y was put oute fro that fecrete rede and fpiritualle fightis that y had 'before to thys opyn- and worldly conuer- facion. C $>oto sent flifljolaa fcroutjljt tin's monftr to tijc first place of ynmrs. C Ca *U [Henne went we yeflewarde by a pleyn weye in a right path til we came to a certen regyon. that was ful wyde and brode and ouer horabulle and gaflfull in fight, fowle and myry of thicke cley Trewly there we fawe an infenyte nombre of men and wemen that no man might nombre putforth to the gretnes of dyuers and inenarrabulle peynes There was a company in- numerabulle of men and women of euery condicion of euery profefllon and of euery ordyr There were the doers of al fynnys ordente to dyuers kyndes of peynes after the diuerfite of fynnes and qualite of perfons I herde and fawe bi the opyn and brode fpace of that filde whois endys no ye might fee. the wrechid companyes of men and women ouer wrechidful bounden to gedyr flockemel. in ther equalyte of fynnys and in likeneffe of profeffion equaly to forfyr and like wife to crye in here grete and greuys peynes And who fum euer y fawe there to be made redy in that peyne- full place to heuyn warde opynly y knewe and vndyr- flode. for what fynnes they were ponyfht and the kynde of the fynne and the mefure and qualite of ther fatiffaccion. the whiche they deferuyd owther by contricion and co[n]feffion of her orfenfis. or by the rcmediis and helpinges of othir benefetis done for hem 37 Trewly^l tho that y fawe put there fum what yknewe hem confortyd for the hope of euerlafting bliffe the which they hopid fum tyme to cum to And fome y fawe paciently fofyrre right grete peynes and for the gode werkys the which e they had done of ther con- fciens. that was referuyd and putte vppe in mede for them and alfo for the grete trull that they had to haue euerlafting bliffe euermore countid lygh[t]ly in her fowle the horrabulle peynes that they bare Treuly they wepte and forowde and cryed oute / for grefe of peinys and amonge this as they went forth farthir euermore her peynys were leffid and to hem more efyur Alfo y behilde mony of them that fodenly fcapyd out of the place that they were torment in and fander haftid hem felfe thanne other, to go the weye that was before hem. But anone fro benethe lyke as the grownde hadde be broken, ther brake vppe a flame of fier that inuoluyd hem and the deuyls yat mette with hem. fore bete hem with fcorgis and forkis and other dyuers kyndes of tormentyng. and foo ageyne retourned apon hem alle her wodeneffe. Neuertheles they beyng fo betyn and brokyn and inwardly brent yet they fcapyd ageyne and in lyke condicion as hit is feyd afore, the ferther they went / the leffur wes ther peynys and the yefyur Sothely in this paffage fome did gretely profet. fome but lytyl and fome al mofte neuer a dele. To fome ther goyng was no profetyng but a myferabulle fay ling / for they went fro ful cruel peynes to wers And eche of them aftyr ther olde merytys and deferuynges. owthir were holpe in her weye or lettyd or els releuyd and that was by the prefent benefetys done and fhewyd for hem of their frendys in this world. Sothely thoes thynges the whiche y confeyued in mynde. or was en- fourmed and taught by comyning and fpekyng with fome of them there, anone aftyr y wille opynly fhewe hem as hit is benethe in this prefent wryting declared. C f tfje grc te Ufuemtec 8 of pejntc s. C a *bt jjNfynyte kyndes and diuerfytees of peynys where there that y fawe Some of hem were roflyd at the fyre Some were fryed in a panne / Some were alfo rafyd with lyry naylys vnto the bonys and to the lowfing of her ioyntys Some were foden in bathis of pyche and brymflonne with an horabul flenche and other thingis melted by heete as ledde braffe and other dyuers metellys And fome were gnawyn with the venummys teth of wondyrfull wormys. Some alfo were cafle done thicke on arowe and fmyt throw with fharpe flakys and palys who ys endys were alle fyrye And whyle fome were hangyn on galows. odyr were alto dravvyn wyth hokys and fome were betyn fore wyth fcurgys. and fo in hard example they were al to toryn. Trewly of tho perfons mony were biffhoppis and ab- botys and other were of other dignitees. Sothely fome flowryd in profperite in the fpyrytualte. Some in the temporalte and fome in relygyon : the whiche were feyn poniflit in dowbulle forowe aboue other perfons. For y fawe them that were clerkys / Monkys / Noonys / laymen and lay wemen fo mekyl leffe ordende and put to peynys howe mekyl the leffe they had before of worldely dygnyte and profperyte. In trowthe y fawe hem greuyd in a more fpecyal bittirneffe of peynys aboue other, the whyche y knewe in my tyme were lugys and Prelatys of other. And by caufe hyt ys ouer longe to telle fmglerly of euery perfone : what they foffryd and wherfore they foffryd. fome thynges y wylle gedur to gedur. of fome certeyn perfons what they fofryd afore ther dethe and after ther dethe. For that was opyn to me of euery perfon Neuertheleffe there ys no mannys tonge that may fuffycyently telle the lyghtyfl peynys of that place nethyr by eflymacyon conceue hym in mynde. Alfo the dyuerfyte and mul- typlycyte of peynys. to the whiche they be cafle vndyr / 39 euer amonge fro one to a nother veryly y knowlege no man may noumbre. I take god to wytneffe. that and there were any man. the whiche had done to me : or to my frendys alle the hurtys and iniuriis. that may be done of any man in thys lyfe or ellys he had flayne vs y fey and y had fo grete an enmy put into peynys that y fawe there to be torment long tyme a thoufand tymes and hit were poffybylle y wolde fofyr temporal dethe for hys delyuerans. For alle thing ther ben fo peynfull of forowe and anguyffhe byttyrnes and wrechydnes that they excede mefure and mode, let vs nowe that be it in this worlde alyue fee and confidere by this how gretely we ought to geue vs in chayftyng oure wekyd condycyons and to amende oure leuyng and alfo how mekyl we fchulde labur to exercyfe vs to kepe the commawndementys of god and to do good werkys by the whyche and the mercy of god we may deferue to be delyuerd afore of fo grete euyllys. And alfo that owre dere frendys as fadyr and moder fyftyr and broder and othyr that were fum tyme owre loners ther fore ponyfht for her offencys myght be delyuerd the foner fro thens by good dedys and werkys of mercy and pety deuowtly done of vs for ther redempcion and helpyng And afore yere y make any fpecial mencion by wrytyng of the fore peynys and tormentys of fum perfons that y fownde and knew ther and they alfo knew me y wyl fchortly wryte yn here the placys of peynys that y behelde as y went abowte wyth heuy compaffion aftyr we were pafte the fyrfl peynful place and region Sothly to owre femyng the lengthe of thys fyrfte place afore feyde was on goyngable. but we that ys to feye my leder and y went on to the fyde ageynfte hyt as we dyd othyr peynful cooftys of tormentys but amonge them we came not how be hyt as hyt femyd to me we myghte haue done wythowt any fere or hune or harme. 40 C f tfje 0mmto place of purgatovg. C Ca Herfore after that we were pafle the firfle place of purgatorye we came to the feconde place of purgatorye and tormentys in the whyche was an hye hylle vppe al moofle to the clowdys and was deuyded fro the forfeyde fyrfle place of purgatorye. And thenne lyghtely and fwyftely we wente on thys fame hye hylle. And there was vndyr the farthyr fyde of thys hylle a full depe valeye and a derke. fet with bocis and brackys on euery fyde hangyng owte who ys lenthe no man myght fee. And in the lower parte of the feyde valeye was a full brode ponde of horrabull blake watyr. And owte of that fame fowle ponde byfyly brake a myfle of an indycybylle ftenche. Trewely the toon fyde of that fame hye hylle whyche hangyd toward the ponde cade oute fro hym an horrabulle brennyng fyre vppe on to the heuyn. And alfoo on tothyr fyde of the forfeyde hye hylle was fo grete and ineftymable coolde that ys to feye of fnowe and Hayle wyth many other cruell ftormys that me thowghte and femyd that y fawe no thyng fo peynefull and cruel as yat colde was The lenthe of that valey afore feyde and bothe the fydys of the hylle the whiche had in hem that hora- bulle fyre and coold was fo full of fowlys. as hyues fwarmyn ful of bees To the whyche fowlys thys was a comynne and a generalle tormente that nowe they were drownd in the forfeyde ponde and fro thens takyn vppe and cade in to fiere. and fo at the lafte they ware bore vppe an hy by the grete vyolente flamys of fier as fparclys byn of a brennyng fornece. and fo lette down on the tother fyde of the hylle to the horrabulle coolde of fnowe hayle and fharpeneffe of flormys and afterward cafte downe hedlonge in to the greuys ftenche of the ponde aboue feyde and ageyne takyn vp and cafte in to the brennyng fier. And fome of hem were lengur ponyfht in fier thenne other and fome in coolde And fome ware taryde lengur in the greuys flenche of the ponde. than other. And fome y fawe ware bounde and compreffid in the myddys of flamys of fier that meruelous hit is to fpeke. and as grapys be compreffyd in a preffurc. Trewely the condicion of al that ware there torment and peynde in that fecunde place was this. Alle the fpace of the ponde aboue feyde. they were compeliyd to goe throwe. fro the begynning to the endyng. for to fulfylle her purgacion. Neuertheleffe ful grete and monyfold was the diflinccyon and dyuerfyte of her peynys and tormentys. For fome had lighter ponyfh- ment than fome. and fome was grauntyd a more fwyfter paffage thens. then to fome other and that was for the qualite of her merytys and deferuingys afore done and alfo for the quantitie of fuffragys and helpys done of her frendys for hem after her dethe. And they that were of grettur offenfys and fynnis and feldyn or flowly holpyn longe tyme and fore were holdyn in peynys. And fothely the more nere they al came to the ende of the place the more yefyor and foftyr waxed their peynys. The mofte cruell peynys were in the begynnyng howe be hit as y feyde afore not al equaly Sothely the peynys and tormentys of thys feconde place were mekyl more harder and fcharper than the peynys and tormentys that we fawe in the fyrfte place, wherfore hyt was fo that mony that ware yn the fecunde place ware forer ponyfht than they that ware yn the fyrfl place. Here trewly fownde y and knew mony mo fome tyme of myne acquentans than y dyd yn the firft place. Not wythftondyng yn bothe the placys y fpake with fome. The mefure of ther flatur apperyd not fumciently as y knew hem before yn thys worlde. For the ftature and forme of fome of them was as hyt had be leffyd or thynnyde by tormentys. And fome had lefte no thyng of their quantite. Neuertheles thys dyuerfiteys of her fhappys yn no thyng lettyd my knowlege. For ther knowlege was to me fo prompte fo redy and fo opyn as hyt was that tyme when they leuyd wyth vs yn thys worlde. C fioto Btnt tnargaret ttrlimcrrtt a sofoTe of a Biwful Uiomau fro tljc Unwls. C Ca arbiif ,Ere nowe hit lykyth me to telle a certen fayre dede and wcrke of grete pete and j j mercye the whiche that tyme was to me a beholdyng of heuynes and alfo of con- folacion the whyche may be to alle the worlde a nobylle document and techyng why the peple fchulde haue god and hys holy feyntys bothe of men and wemen in worfchuppe and in reuerence. Truly whyle y behylde meruelyng thoo thyngys aboue feyde and mony other And hylde long talkyng there wyth hem that y knewe before y harde a ferre a grete noyfe and a crye as hit had be theuys that had takyn a pray or elfe as they had oner cum their ennemy with fowle mockys and fcornys. and loe after that noyfe and creye folowde a curfyd companye of wyckyd fpyrytys and a myghty ledyng with hem anone as they hopyde to helle a foule of a woman late departyd fro her body. O good god what peynys and tormentys tho cruell enmyes leyde apon her. And the more they knewe her withoute helpe the more wodder were they on her. what man heryng euer wolde beleue to any creature tellyng how tho wekyd fpyrytys and tyrandys of the deuylle caftyd that foule amonge hem. as a tenyfe balle wyth fyrye inflrumentys now fro on to another. But hoo may in any wyfe telle or fchewe to any man beleuyng howe her mawe and inwarde bowellys were fmytte thorowe wyth the fyrye dartys of tho cruell tormentours. And as god ys my wytnes y behylde and fawe her fofyrre fo grete and horrabulle peynys and tormentys verely as they leyde hem on her cruelly Nowther thefe thyngys ware vnto my fyghte as natur- aly a man feyth with bodely yes that ys to faye the vtwarde peynys that a man fofryth yn bodye. but alfo what they felte ymvardly good or euylle and with what heuyneffe or wyth what gladnes they were fmytte 43 wythinforthe in her fowllys alle was to me that tyme playne and opyn So therfore thys vnhappy fowle what for the prefente forowe or dolour that fche fofryd and hadde and the fere of euerlaflyng dampnacyon. was in grete anguys and forowe of peynys and tormentys. For there was no hope that confortyd her to icape defolate and deflytute of alle helpe and focoure O byttyrneffe of alle bytterneffe moofte byttyrfle whome no trufle or helpe releuyth or helpyth and defperacyon of the ende encrefythe. The daye before Hie lefte her mortalle body in the whyche fche leuyd flrompetly and vycyufly and nowe fche ys keuerd wyth the vefture of fchame and vellonye. And wyth yn fche ys byttyn wyth the confcyens of fchameful dedys done wyckyd- lye and wythoutforth fche ys mouyd wyth mockyng and fcornyng of deuelys heuely. Sothely fche felte thanne in her fulfylled the wordys of the holy man lob feying thys wyfe of fuche perfons. Ducunt in bonis dies fuos et in pun do ad infer na defcendunt. That ys to feye they lede her days in goodys after their plefure and in the twynkeling of an ye they falle done to helle Therfore while thys onhappy fowle by the vyctoryfe pompys of her enmyes was goyng to be broughte into helle for the fynne and onleful luflys of her body. Loe fondenly anon came done an hye fro heuyn a grel lyght by the whyche bryghtnes and bemys. the forfeyde wykyd fpiritys and minyflrys of the deuyl. ware dullyd and made onmyghty and fyl done to the gronde wyth the fowle that they had Sothly than yn the fame lyght came done a multitude of virgenys fchynyng yn clothys. whyte as the mow and fette abowte wyth golde and precius flonys. the grace and ioy that was yn the beholdyng of her facys and chere y make no menfion of for hyt was fo gret and yneflymable that y can not remembre my felfe that faw hyt. how y myght wordly fpeke of hyt. Amonge the whyche on that was moofle feyryfle wele y knewe and feche was the bleflyd virgynne and martir fent margaret. And anon as the forfeid fowle faw her 44 the whiche was more thrall for her fynnys than of the deuyllys be^anne myferably to crye and feyde. O bleifyd and precius fpowfe of cryfle haue mercy on me and helpe me that for myn nowne propyr fynnys am yn defperacyon and ryghtfully put to peynys and tor- mente. I knowlege and verely knowlege that yn al rriy.lyfe y dyfpyfyd the commawndementys of god and gaue my body to al onclene leuyng. And nothyr god. ne any of hys fentys of men or wemen that y louyd affectualy or dyd any worfhippe to hem yn dede. The only of the nowmbre of the holy fentis yn heuin euer more hertely y haue louyd and euery f.iturday of myn own goodys afore thine auter y offerde vppe candelys And the cuftome of my fowle leuyng now late, beyng hoolle of my mynde and body for thy loue and worfhippe vtwardly y lefte I beleuyd a.lfo that by the remedy of confeffion al my fynnys hade be wefhte awey. But alas for forowe my confeffion was not fufficient to wefhte and do awey fo gret and fo mony fowle fynnys and olde by caufe y lackyd before the feruor of contricion and dyd not for my fynnys euynworthy penans. Therfor my fynnys cleuyn fafl to me not yet forgeuyn the whiche y flowthyd too wype awey by goo[dj werkys. Loe ther fore my lady and my fwetnes and conforte fchalle my yyflys of de- uocyons peryfhe the whyche y haue done feytfully to the and fchalle y thys peryfhe nowe alfo not only to my felfe but alfo to the to whome only y haue fludyd befely and thowght not for to peryfhe and now y peryfhe to my felfe and to al thyngys Thefe thyngys and many othyr yn thys wyfe fche feyde wyth fore and byttur wepyng and crying more than a man may be- leue. For y take god to recorde and to my wytnes that y faw the terys breke owte of her yes as they hade be hayle ftonys. And thys whyle fche forowde the glorius virgyn and martyr fent margaret turnyd her to to her felows virgyns that were there wyth her and feyde O fche feyde ye mofle iwete fyfters ye fee now the perelle of thys woman fum tyme my feruant and 45 ye knew a[l]fo the ynportune malice of the deuyls the whyche pretendyn by mony weys of refon to haue her to hem. And therfore let vs now do that thyng the whiche only ys lefte of remedy and helpe for her. Pray we now to the euerlaftyng iuge and meke re- demer that he the whyche al thing may doo wille wyth faue as he knowyth befte. of hys goodnes. and at owre defyre fum what to helpe thys wrechyd fowle. fum tyme redemyd by hys precius blode fro the cruelle power and venummys tethe. of thefe wekyd fpiritys. And whan thys bleffyd virgyn and martyr fent mar- garet had feide thefe wordys anone whytowtyn and taryng. al thoo virgyns bowde downe to the grownd on her kneys and lyftyd vppe her handys prayng for that fynful woman to her ynmortalle fpowfe. owre bleffyd lorde and fauyur ihefu cryft. And anon as they had of god ther peticion grantyd they rofe vppe togedyr fro preyer Than anone thys bleffyd virgyn feynt mar- garet wyth ftabylle contynawnfe of face and fowle gaft- fulle and thretyng the wekyd fpiritys came nere and made of her fleue a maner of a fchorge and lyfte hyt vppe as fche wolde haue fmitte hem Then they anon as hyt had be flyes yn a whyrle wynde fleyd away hethur and thedur leuyng alone her bownde fowle. and fodenly yat yn the farthir fyde apperyd a dyke ful of boylyng watyr vppe to the brymmys Therlbre yn thys dyke y fawe her put yn And then feyde to her that bleffyd and mercyfulle helper fent margaret Here now thow mufte fulfylle they penanfe the whiche thow fchuldyfl haue done before yn they lyfe. and by my prayur thow fchalt haue mekylle helpe and releuyng of thy peynys. and aftyrwarde when thy fynnys be fully purgyd and clenfyd by me thow fchalt be admytted to referue euerlaftyng ioye and bliffe Treuly hit can not be feyde howe ioifully this fynful woman toke tho wordys feyde to her in the whiche fche knewe an ende of her due penanfe and afterward myght fele the goodnes and mercy of god So than thys vyctoryofe dede done yat glorious fight of vyrgynys afcendyt vppe to heuyn. 4 6 a goUfsmti) toaa sauctf to sent C Ca art* ,Ere now folowyth alfo Another like myracle of ful grete mercy and pety of the excel- lent might and poure of the bleffyd by- fhope fent nycholas Therfore now y wille telle a nobyl dede and werke late done in a certen feruant of his the whiche not longe a go welle y knewe and famylyarly louyd for fome gode thingys yat was feyne of him the whiche therfore the more gladlyur y wiltelle. for this man that y nowe fpeke of the whiche by his occupacion was a goldfmith told and declaryd to me firfl the merite and the name of my leder with whome y went hande in hande. and thaugh y befeyn here now fum what to breke out for the order of the narracion be caufe y feyde before that ere y made any mencyon of the tormentis and peynys of any perfons fpecially Firfl y wulde fliortly telle of the peynful placys that were fchewyd to me But let that be takyn of tho perfons the whiche afterward y wille opinly declare to the profet of hem yat lyfle to here or rede this reuelacion. Therfor as y fuppofe ye remembre how a certen perfon a goldfmith and a cytfon of this place was haflly preuent of dethe and fodenly dyed. Of whom alfo hyt was opynly noyfyd that hyt fo befylle hym for ouer mekylle drynkyng vvyne. And therfore how myght a man fey to whome thys man fchulde be fortyd but amonge them that fent iohan the apoftylle fpecially fpekyth yn hys pyflylle. RJl pcccatum ad mortem, non pro illo dico vt oret quis. That ys to fey. Ther ys fynne contynewde vn to dethe y fey no man pray for hym that contynewyth hys fynne to hys dethe who fo abfolute may be feyde that contynewyth hys fynne to hys dethe. as he that contynewyth yn dedly fynne and fo lefyth lyfe and takyth dethe. Sothly thys man bode not only yn the fynne of dronkynnes to hys dethe but alfo he fylle 47 yn to dethe doyng that fame fynne the whiche ys the feede and caufe of al euyile. And as a certen wyfe man feith dronkinnes excufith no vife Therfore thys man whoys fine and pelle we fpeke of now yat hyt fchulde be feryd and dredde yn hys wolde days was ouer prone and redy to dronkenes for the laft thre days yat euer he faw in thys worlde he continewyde dayly almofte yn the fame fynne And yf y had know for certen a day before yat he had dyed of feche a caufe as hit ys aforefeyde what fchulde y thynke or fele of hym more worthier than not for to pray for him. lefte [lefte?] my prayur before the ryghtwes iuge fchulde be voide and no thing helpyng hym Neuertheles y vfyd to pray for hym thawghe yt ware flowly. not verely cer- tifide of fo foroful a fame and happe Sothely hyt was fo. by the prouifion of god that thys goldefmyth was in the fecunde place of peynys. and alfo y fawe and behylde hym by me. whome anone y knewe and gretely memelde. feyng hym afore mony other that y behylde. in goode hope and lyghtly fofryng hys peynys. Trewly thanne my leder lokyd on me howe ftidfaftly y behylde hym and afkyd me and y knew hym And y feyde ful wele. Than he feyde. and yow knowe hym. fpeke to hym Sothly then this gold- fmyth lokid on vs bothe : and knowing vs wyth an enarrabulle geflur and behauing of gladnes ioyde to my leder and with bothe his handys fpred opyn ofte bowde done al hys body worfhippyng and greting hym with innumerable thankys for hys benefetys and good- nes fhewyd to hym And the mene whyle y falute hym. and he ioyfully falute me ageyne. Than y enqueryd of hym how hit was. that fo fone he was pafle the horable peynys. the whiche y knewe by his fighte he had fofryd Then he anfwarde this C ??fre tf)i?s ntemfte fcnctoe first tfjat sente Xf* ctjolas toas i)i?s IcBcr. C a ** dere frynde he feyde. al ye to gedur in the worlde haue me as lofle and dampde. not knowyng the goodnes and mercy here of my prefent lorde fente Nicholas, the whiche had not fofrid me an onhappy and an onprofetable feruaunt of his to be dampde and lofle euerlaftyngly. Than feyde y to hym. Trewly as thou fevfte. alle we that ware thy frendys forowde that thou didoft fo fodenly and gretly abafhyd ynwardly fuppofyng verely that thowhadyfle be dampde. and by caufe alfo thow hadyfte no helpe ne remedy by fore they dethe of the holy facramentys of the chyrche. Sothly by caufe y fynde the othyr wyfe than we wende y am glade and fayne y wolde here how and yn what wyfe thow deydyft fo and fcapydyfte eternal damnapcion Thanne he feyde. Gladly what fum euer thow defyre y wylle the telle. C $?oto tfje same gottrsmptfj toIBe tfje ntonftc gn purgaton> Ijoto i)e Bi>fB soBntlg anD get toas C Capttulumr .xxi JE knew wele how y dyfpofyd me yn my leuynge whan y was yn the worlde as thoo thingys that were opyn to mannys fyghte. Alfo y contynwyde yn the fowle fynne of dronkynnes. vn to my laft ende. of an euyl cuflome. Neuertheles hyt was not my wylle. For gretly hyt dyfplefyd me and mekyl y forowyde that y kowde not leue that vyfe. Sothly oftyn tymes y rofe ageynft my felfe fewurly purpofyng. to leue and cafte awey the fowle vyfe of dronkynnes that y was wholde yn. But anon what for the lufte of drynkyng and the importunyte of feiefhyppe that y dranke with 49 y was conflraynde to drynke aftyr the mefure of myne olde cuflome, wherby y was ouer cumme. and drawyn ageyne bonde yn to lufle and cuflome of the fame fmne. that was yn mine owne onmeferabulle taking and appe- tite Treuly amonge this by the mercy of god the whiche wylle that no man perym yn my mofte bleffyd lorde fent Nycholas whome now ye folowe graciufly and pre- fently. and whoys parefhon alfo y was. feche deuocion y had to hym. that for any occafion y neuer lefte but what mm euer y myght do to his worfchippe y dyd hyt ful deuowtly And how mekyl euer y gaue me towarde euyn to dronkynnes y vfyd euer more to be at matens. for anon as they range y wulde be ther. and oftyn tymes afore the paryfh pryfte. Alfo y fownde contynwaly a lampe of myne owne code, yn fent Nycholas chapelle And thoo thyngys that were neceffarye to the ornamentys of alle the chyrche. as yn lyghtys or any othyr thyngys. y wolde dylygently orden therfore. as y had be hys famylyar feruante and mawncypylle And wher y had not fufficyent of myn owne goodys to do hyt y wolde moue othyr of the paryfh to helpe as hyt femyd nedefulle Sothly the yyftys [gyftys?] that men or wemen gaue. y tokehem. and to be hon[our]ablevfus. ful treuly y fpendehem. Alfo twyes yn the yere that ys at crifLynmas and at eftyr wolde clene confeffe me of al my fynnys as wele as y bowde to owre paryfh pryfte. takyng penanfe for hem and yn parte y dyd fulfille hem diligently Treuly y dyd not obferue and kepe tho thingys that y was commaundyd of my goftely fathyr. for oftyn tymes y lefte fum thyngys that y fchulde haue doo and thoo thingys that y fchulde haue beware of. And of the commawndement of my goflely fadyr y faftyd the dayes of aduent as y dyd the lent fefyne.. To the whyche dayes of ad- uent. y addyd of myne owne fre wylle. as mony dayes afore aduente as wold make vppe the noumbre of the dayes of lente And fo on cryftenmas daye y wold be hofylde and refceyue the holy facrament of owre lordys precious body and blode. But alaffe for forowe 5 when that y fhuld haue be / that holy dayes of owre lordys byrthe. more holyur and deuowtur in my lyuyng then other tymes. y turnyd me contrary vnto other werkys and befyneffes of a worldly cuftome. wherfore hyt happyd vnto me alfo in myne lafte ende that the wekyd angelle of that deuyl Sathanas. the whyche ys caufer and kendler of alle euyl fcornyd me. And alfo he hadde browghte plefaunte worde and tytyngys of my dampnacyon to hys father the deuyl. yeffe the mercye and goodnes of my lorde fente Nycholas had not wyth- ftonde hym therfore euermore to hym be thankyngys of al his trew feruawntys. for my delyueraunce. for he had lowfyd and delyueryd me. And as ryghtwefly as y was to be dampde and cruelly to be ponyfhte as mekely and as mercyfully he hath noryfhte and kept me : Sothely on cryftynmas daye after that y had re- fceyuyd the good lorde that y can not remembre withowte grete horror and heuynes. y was drawyn of an euyl cuftome as y feyd afore by ouermoche drynkyng the fame daye in to dronkynneffe ageyne to the grete iniuryeand rongeof feche alorde whomeyhad refceyuyd a lytyll before in to my fowle And on the morow y wente to chyrche as y vfid to do fore waylyng the fowle vice the whiche y dyde the daye before purpofyng to be ware of hyt and to do no more / but hit was as voyde and vayne For by the occafion that y had of drinkyng and the deuylys fteryng me therto / y was deftitute and lofte the flabulnes of vertu and the mighty purpos of foburnes that y had conceuyd : and fo y fulfilde not my purpofe in dede. but fowle as y dyd yyfterdaye fo y dyd to daye and by delectacion of ouer mekyl drynkyng fyl downe agayne to dronkinnes. Sothely the next daye after folowyng the whiche ys the thirde daye after cryftynmas daye I lefte not myne olde cuftome of drinkyng. wherby y had lofte the vertu of foburnes and all my wyttys alfo. Thenne whenne hit was derke nyghte y went oute of the place where y dranke / and came home and wente to bed as y was clothyd and fchod and a lytyl y flepte And anone y woke and wold haue refyn and feyd as y had wente that then yt had ronge to matens But my wyfe told me nay and fo y layde my downe ageyne. Trewly thanne fyrfl y toke a flepe and anone after y toke my dethe And howe y felte deth fodenly cumme apone me y wille telle yow. A certen deuyl that tempted and fteryd me to the vyce of dronkynnes thowghte to hym felfe that and y deyed in feche a perylle whytowte any contradiccion he wolde me drawe to hell prefumyng alfo to haue thenne power on me to doo what fomme euer he wolde. for myne obedyens and confentyng in that vyce to hym But ageyne full mekyl he drede. lefte by the merytys of my patron fent Nicholas, y fchulde any tyme preuayle agenft him by amendement of my lyuyng : yf y lyued any lengur and fo by hys prefumptuous power cruelly me flrangulde. Trewly y felte him like an owle goo in to my mowthe the whiche oftyn tymes ful euylle y opynd to drynke and fo thorowe my throte flyly came downe to my harte. And anone y knewe that hit was the deuil. Notwith- ftondyng y was yet myndfull of the mercijs of god and alfo of myne owne wrechydnes and with ftabulle purpofe vowyd in my mynde to god that y wold purely and holy confeffe me of alle my fynnys. and vtwardly for euer forfake the wyfe of dronkennes And to this y called as inwardly as y kowde. on fent Nicholas to be my borowe. Sothely to this auyfement onnethe was graunted me the fpace of a moment. Trewely thanne the wekyd fpiryte fate downe anone apon my herte. and clypte hyt wyth hys curfyd arrays on euery fyde. Alfo he drew out of his mowthe an horrable voment of venyne and cafte hit al abrode and fo in the fpace of a twynbelyng of an ye he expellyd and cafte me oute of my bodye And anone after that y was hade forthe thorowe darke placys by the cruelle and incredible wodnes of wykyd fpirytys the whiche al to bete me difcerpte me ftekyd me drewe me and al to brend me and caryed me with them y wot not wheder / but as they wolde to euerlafting tormentys. Than 52 anone my mofle meke and dere aduocatour feynt Nicholas to whome y called with all myne herte at my lade ende. and whome euer in my lyfe y haue worfchipte thawghe y were a fynner. came thanne and mightily toke and deliueryd me oute of her handys. and here hath fette me in this place of purgatory e for my pur- gacion. And howe be yt that y fofre here fore and harde peynys y cownte hit lightly whyle y haue no drede of the wekyd fpyrytys and alfo that her tyranny and importable cruelnes ys fefyd and gone fro me / And fothely after this for certeyn y am and trufte to haue refte and euerlaftyng ioye be my lorde fent Nicholas And nowe alfo and euermore / fen the tyme that y was put here to this peynys by the whiche whenne y ame ouer fore greuyd and difefyd yet by hys meke and mofte meke and bleffyd vifitacyon. y am wel confortid and releuydageyne In mygrafle [crafte?] alfo by the whiche ygate to me and to myn owre leuyng in the world often tymes in my beginnyng y begylde and dyfceyued the pepulle for the fere of pouerte And now for that y am ful bitturly ponyfhte. and the todyr daye before mekyl more harder therffore y fofryd peynes Trewly often tyme y haue ben cafte downe hed longe into a grete hepe of brennyning money amonge the whiche y brente ful intolerably. And tho fyrye penfys y was compellyd to deuoure with an opyn mowthe that y felte alle my bowellys to brenne in me And hethir to often times y am compellyd to telle hem and of the towchyng of hem myne handys and fyngers ben fore peynde. Alfo by ouer grete brennyng and hete of thirfl my inward bowels with herte throwte and chekys waxen wan and befyly begynne to fayle Thefe and many other thinges y herde of hym as opynly as \iit might be told of any man leuyng yn hys bodye. 53 T $otoe tfje gol&8mif) also tolUe to tfje monfte a reiw&ge agenst soUen Bert). C CTa f|Vm thynge ther is the which e he tolde me amonge other that y wyl not hyde fro the reder here of. I fawe there innumerable pepulle that dyde fodenly in this world the whiche were ponyfcht al mofte owt of mefure And of many thys y knew that they the whiche were putte in delyberacyon and auyfement for to fynne And whenne they came to the dede doyng of what fomme euer fynne hyt was and eche one of theym feyde in hys mynde lo now y wylle doo and fulfille that the wyche y haue gretly defyred. he was takyn by the wille of god to the vtmeft peynys and poniffe- ment of dethe as thawgh he hadde herde of this texte in the gofpelle. Stulte en anima tua refetitur a te / ad quid cogitafti aduerfus deum immo contra ipfum te nequifflma. That ys to faye. Fole lo they fowle ys takyn fro the. wherto hafte thow thowghte agenft god and alfoo agayneft thy felfe full wekyd thynges. Ne- uertheleffe as we haue knowyn by hym felfe the whiche told thys. that whenne they were putte yn that byttyr fcharpeneffe of dethe coueytyng and purpofyng to cor- recte and amende her fautes yef they hadde any fpace of penaunce graunted vnto hem. and in her fwyfte and hafty departyng fekyd after the mercye of god and alfoo after the helpe of his holy feyntys. Therfore of the grete mercy of god her byttyr dethe was to hem a grete clenfyng of her fynnys. the whiche they fchuld haue fofrycl afterward fully in placys of peynys and tormentys. Forthermore y enquyred and afkyd of thys goldfmyth of whome y haue nowe told and feyde many thingys yeffe hyt were poffyble by any thyng that the folke myght fchonne and efchewe foden dethe. Thenne he anfwarde and feyde in thys wyfe vnto me. O he feyde Sothely and yf y haclde knowyn whenne that y was in the world leuyng fuche thyngys as y 54 knowe nowe y wulde haue taughte and defende all the world fro that grete hurte and dammage. howe the pepulle and folke myght be fewre and fafe fro the fallyng of foden dethe. Trewly and verily and the cryflyn pepulle wolde wryte dayly on her forhedys and aboute the placys of her herte wyth her fyngur of [or?] in any other wyfe. thefe. ii. wordys that conteynyth the myfterye of the helthe and faluacyon of mankynde that ys to wytte and to faye C Ihefus nazarenus wythowtyn dowte the trewe pepulle of oure fauyur ihcfu cryfte fchuld be harmeles and preferued fro fuche a grete peryll and hurte And alfoo they fchalle haue after her dethe the fame letters and wordys wretyn full opynly and clerely at her hertys and alfo in her forhedys in tokyn and in figne of grete worfchyppe. I knowe alfo that my meyny kepte me. ii. dayes on- beryde after my dethe. hopyng that y fchulde haue reuyuyd for the redneffe and hete the whyche was in my face and in my bodye the whyche douteles was of the feruent replecyon of wyne dronkyn before. For my departyng of this world was fo haftye and zwifte : that myne foule was gonne and pafle out of my bodye. yere my wyfe vnderflode or knewe hit or fende to calle for the pryfte. Thefe thyngys y knewe ful trewly there of this goldfmyth. C 3i>otoe tfjc gone of tfyr game goIBsmmlj tolBe tonto tfje inonUr aftm: tfjatfje toag cum to jjym gelfe agr^ne rtjat ijs faopr ijati aptrgD tftricg* to i)?s mother aftgr ijgg Detfje. C Ca xx'iii [Othely aftyr .xv. dayes feth y faw and herde thys the fone of the forfeyd goldefmyth a certen yonge man came to me with grete wepyng and tolde me that hys father had apperyd. iij. nyghtis to gedyr to hys moeder wakyngly as fche was yn her prayers at home yn her chambyr and bade her that fche fchulde fende 55 to me to knowe how hyt was fully with hym and of hys flate that thys knowyn. fche myght be the more con- fortyd and feythfullir and deuowter to helpe hym And alfo that fhe by the fame tellyng may the bettyr be ware gyde to her felfe and her meyny to god ward : And the fame yonge man wytnefyd wyth grete fweryng that the thyrde nyghte of hys fatherrs apperyng he herde hys mother talkyng and fpekyng longe tyme with hym. and fomme tyme enquyryng and alfo fomme tyme anfweryng hym. and thenne afterward fche told vnto my hys wordys the whyche he hadde tolde and feyde vnto her. Trewely he feyde that he herde / no maner wordys of hym talkyng or fpekyng vnto her but pacyently taryde tyl they hadde done. Sothely hys mother told hym that fche hadde harde of her hufbond twyes before. And as fche knowleged and feyde fche feyde that he was full of Ire and wrathe and moche blamed her becaufe that he was forgoten and putte owte of mynde fro her whyche was warnyd by hym felfe after hys dethe to doo a lytyll thyng for hym and that fche wulde not do fo moche for hym. but excufed her that for the on certente of vyfyons fche dyfferde hyt lefle that hyt fculd haue bene fuppofyd that fche hadde be dyfceyued and begylde. And thenne he anfwerde and feyde Sende wythoutyn taryyng thedyr as y commaunde and telle and faye to hym howe often tymes for the fame thyng y haue apperyd to the and alfoo feye apone thefe tokynys. that the lafl tyme the whiche he fawe me y was in grete peyne And amonge othyr thyngys that he herde of me y told hym how mekyl the holy confeffour feynt Nycholas hadde holpe me. Trewly he prayde me with grete inflaunce that I fchulde flere and alfo moue bothe hys wyfe and hys fone. and on hys behalfe commande hem that the feruyce and worfchyppe the whyche he was wonte to do in hys lyfe and they alfo by example to fent Nycholas. for no caufe nethyr for any occafyon fchulde be lefte but dayly more and more wyth amendement r her lyuyng dylygently fchewe and do her deuocyons 56 and feruys to hys patron and aduocatour fent Nycholas. Alfo this forefeyde man and goldfmyth of whome y haue novve told and fpokyn as hyt ys feyde afore dyde aboute a xv monthys agone the whyche trewely by the merytys of the holy confeffour fent Nycholas hys patrone yn a fhorte tyme was fpede oute of mekyl forowe that onethe y myght fee any. that profette fo mekyl there as he dede in fo .lytyl tyme. wherfore ful expedyente hyt ys to alle men whyle they leuyn in thys world deuoutely to ferue the holy feyntys of god by the whyche they may haue in her grete nede the grace and mercye of almyghty god as hyt ys fchewyd and prouyd often tymes. C <&f fltf tf)j?r& place of tfje pei?n anB torments rtjat ben in tlje jwrgatorge. C s. C CTa [Othely alle thoo that were there ponyffht and peynde were in thys worlde whyle they leuyd doers of that foule fynne the whiche oughte not [to] be namyd not only of a cryftyn man but alfo of none hethyn man. Certen grete monfturs that ys to feye grete beftys onnaturally fchapyne fchewyd hem felfe in a fyrye lykeneffe horrabulle and gaftfulle to fight and oftyn tymes vyolently came apone hem and alfo in a fowle damnable abufion compellyd hem to medylle with hem. howe be hyt that they refufyd and wulde hyt not. I abhorre and ame aflchamed to fpeke of the fowlnefle and vnclenes of that fame fynne. Thanne betwene her peynfull and curfyd clepynges they roryd and yellyd and cryed owte and afterward they fylle done to gedyr lyke as yf they hadde ben gonne and ded and anon takyn vppe ageyne and fo forth putte 59 vnto newe peynys. Trewely y remembryd not wele al that fame tyme the feyyng of the holy poflle fent powelle in hys pyflylle of feche perfons. where he con- dempnyth the foule vyce and fynne agayneft nature bothe of men and wemen. And yeffe y hadde fene and confyderyd the caufe namely nowe in tyme of cryftendame. cowde not in any wyfe haue beleuyd that fuche a foule fynne and vyfe myght haue be prefumed and done fpecyally of wemen. the whyche naturelly fchuld be more fchamfull thenne other. I neuyr herde before nether hadde any fufpycyon hethirto that the kynde of wemen hadde be deprauyd and defoyled by fuche a foule fynne. And alas for forowe. for ther was founde a company of fuche fo innumerabulle as they were myferable. Many of tho perfonys that were there in that place y knewe not nethyr wele behylde hem by caufe that the qualyte of her foule fynne. and the grete flenche and tormentys that was there fmytte me wyth full grete horrour and tedufnes. Full greuys hyt was vnto me and more thanne a man may beleue to be there in that place a moment whyle. or to beholde fuche thynges as ware there. Neuertheleffe y felte no ftenche by experyence whylys y was there as y dyd no nothir hirte of peynys. for my thoughte and yf I hadde felte hit y rnyghte noo lengur haue leuyd. Notwith- ftondyng y confyderyd aud perceyued fufficyently in mynde the intolerable gretnes of alle thyng. Trewely thoo wrechys that were there fencybly hadde experyence and felte alle thefe peynys and other mo infynyte. that no man maye tel of And amonge her forrowfulle lamentacyons of complaynyng whyle euerychon of hem cryed Alas alas why dyd y fo fynne. alas why dyd not y penans for my fynnys and amende my lyuyng. they felte and remembryd her greuys peynys. Sothely their voycys of wepyng and forowyng was exaltyd and lyfte vppe with fo gret a cry that a man wolde haue wend hyt fchulde haue be herd thorow all the world 6o C f a Ooctouv a latoe tfjat bag a soOr mwte C Ca [Rewly thawgh y refufyd as mekyll as y myghte to fee and beholde tho thinghes that were done yn that place y cowde not auoide the knovveleg of on clerk the wyche y fawe and knew fum tyme Thys clerk in hys days was a doctur of lawe and alfo amonge other that were docturs of lawe he was had in that fciens ful excellent. Full many lerners of that faculte he ordende yn fcoles wherby he gatte to hym gret famyliarite of worfhippeful men This clerk e was largely poffefte with beneficys and rentys of the chirche and yet that not withftonding dayly he coueytyd to haue more and more wherfore by the wille of god the whiche wolde haue alle men to be turne to penans. he felle yn to grete fekenes by the whiche he was fore vexid and defefid abowt a .ix. monthys. Sothely hyt was done of a meke difpenfacion of oure fayur that he fhnlde by the fchorge of fekenes and forowe. difpofe to corect and amende hys fynful leuyng. the whyche whene he was yn gode helthe of body fowle and dedly trefpaft oftyn tymes to god. But he contrary wyfe was ouer carkefulle of hysbodelyhelpe [helthe?]. thewhyche he louyd ouer mekyl. and fo vaynely prefumyd and thowght to haue hyt ageyne. wherfore he neuyr wolde dyfpofe hym to be confeft of hys fynys and fpecialy of hys fowle and onclene leuyng for the helthe of his fowle the whyche ys the fyrft and chefe dede of almys that a man fchuld doo nethyr had any compaffion on powre pepul to geue hem any almys nethir any thyng dyd to the fentys of god. as yn offeryng to hym mekely hys feruys. for the redempcion of hys fynys nethir fludyd or karyd to do any almys of his erthely and tran- fitory godys as long as he leuyd Than the heuynly lecht our fauyur feyng that he was neuer in his dayes the bettyr for the fekenefle the whiche he hadde for his 6i warnyng the whyche he fchoyd and gaue vnto hym for a goflely medefon. nethir wente owte of hys onclene leuing in the whiche vnclene leuing he was in by the affliccyon of hys grete fekeneffe. Therfore the euyll and wekid faites and dedys. that cowde not be clenfyd and purged in hys yonge aage oure lord ihefu crift mercefully putte and ende of hem in hys dethe.what more mercye myghte be done vnto hem the whyche after their hardneffe and impenytente herte. trefur to hem fro daye to daye the wrathe of owre fauyur ihefu cryfte. in the daye of hys wrathe and alfo of fchewyng hys ryghtfull iuggement. and alfoo to be refceyued in to the nyghte of dethe in the whiche nyghte of dethe no man may helpe hym felfe. for thanne no man may labure any thyng for to deferue. thanne that fone her lyfe of thys world be fchortyd and alfoo fro hem takyn aweye. in the whyche her fynnys and myfdedys encrefyn and growyn to her perdycyon and deftruccyon : And what thing myght be more holfummur to them the whyche by her folufneffe and madeneffe with a fcharpe fwerde koueyten and defyren to adde ftrokys to her owne pro- pre wowndys thanne that they be bounde and alfo her wepynys takyn aweye / the whiche they myfufyd to her owne propre hurte and dammage. Thys forfeyde clarke the whyche y knew fum tyme in my chyldhode and yong aage. y vndyrftode nor y knewe not that he was dyfcefle and ded. For that fame tyme in the whyche y knewe hym he remouyd fro that prouynce or place ther as he was wonte to dwelle in before vnto a nothir prouynce or place. Neuert[h]eleffe yn alle fuche peynys and tormentys as hit ys aboue feyd y fawe and fownde hym and y merueyled of hit For y had wente he had be yet a lyue and alfo an honeft perfon. Than y fpake to hym and afkyd whethyr he hopyd any tyme to haue the mercye of god And than he feyde Alas alas y knowe andknowe that athifhalfe[at this halfe?] domys daye yfchall haue algate no mercye And whethiry fchalle haue any -thanne y am not certeyn Sothely euermore fethe y was putte here to thefe peynys they encrefyn more and more Then y feyde to hym And why were yow 62 not confefle of thy fynnys at thy lafte ende and dydyfl no penaunce for hem Than he feyde by caufe y hopyd to haue recouered and alfo by the difceyte of the deuyl my goflely ennemy y was afchamed to con- fefle fo fowle a fynne. lefte y Ihulde haue be of les reputacyon and dyfpyfed amonge them the whiche y femyd gloryous and fayre y confefle me of lytyl and fmale fynys to feche an honeft perfon and a worfchip- full pryfle that yow knovvyfl wele And whanne he afkyd me yef y had any other thynges to be confefle of. y bade him go his waye and tolde him that yef any other thyng cumme afterward to my mynde y wulde fende for hym ageyne and tell him. And whanne he was gonne and onethis came to his chirche y begunne to deye Thenne anone he was cald for ageyne and whenne he cumme / he fownde me ded and gonne Trewly ther ys no thyng of a thowfand peynys that y fofyr dayly fo greuys to me as ys the vn happy prefen- tacion of my fowle and vnclene leuyng that y vfyd in the world, and now beyng here am compellyd to doo actually the fame foule paffyon. And befyde the hor- rabulle gretneffe of peynys that y am in. y am more confounded of fchame whyle dat y am by the fame fynne made curfyd and abhomynable in the fyght of al men. Alas alas who euer wolde haue wende that the worfchyppe and fauour the whiche y hadde amonge men fculde be turned to feche confufyon and defpexion as it is nowe wherfore ful gretely y am confowndyd and affhamed. for nowe to euery creature y appere foule and abhomynable. the whiche before apperyd to euery man gloryous and honorabulle. And thys he feyd with full fore and grete cryyng and wepyng And whyle y meruelde the wrechidnes and peynys of fo grete a man fum tyme. y fawe howe he was ponyffhte in innumerabulle w[a]yfys. and by thoo tormentyshe was brought as to nought and dyffoluyd by flrenthe and hete of fyre and fo made lyquyd as led ys whenne hyt ys multe. Sothely thanne y afkyd fent Nycholas my leder yf this mannys peynys myght be remedyde or helpe by any mene. And thanne he feyde whanne 63 the daye of dome ys cumme thenne fchall cryflys wille be fulfyllede ' He onely knowyth the hertys of alle men And then he wole doo to euery man ryghtfully. Therfore I coude knowe no thyng for certen of this mannys delyberacyon. Therfore thoo thyngys the which e we haue fpokyn of here before may wele be confyderyd as the fcripture feyth in thys wyfe. Non eft ei bene qui affiduus eft in mails et elemofinam non danti. that ys to faye hyt ys not wele with hym that ys befye in euyll Nethir with hym that dothe non almys See nowe and confydre howe gretely they be holpe in placys of peynys by the doyng of almys dedys. as oure lorde fpekyth in the gofpelle the whiche dyd hem in her lyfe. Thys clerke in hys lyfe was wife and wyttye in hys owne conceyte and trufting to him felfe fet ful lytyl to feche helpe of other by almis dede and good werkys for his fynnys. that hathe wrought nowe to hym damnacyon. Loo fo fone and fodenly he ys found e on wyfe and madde. Conceyue nowe what ys here nowe feyde of thys clarke and a lytyl before what was feyde of a goldfmyth and opynly hyt con- fermethe the fentence of the fcrypture feyng in thys wyfe Potenter potcntes tormenta fuftinebunt et exigiio conceditur mifericordia. yat ys to feye. Myghty men myghtyly fchalle fofyr tormentys. and to a meke man ys graunted mercye. That goldfmyth and though he were a fyner yet was in hys owne fyghte meke and lytyl the whiche nethir by his connyng nethyr of any othirvertue prefumyd but countyd hym felfe euermore onwyfe and onftable by caufe of hys fynnys Therfore by the mene of almys dedys. and femes as he myght doo. gate to hym the helpe and foffragys of hys grete and myghty aduocatour and patron feynt Nycholas and fo in tyme of nede he had helpe and mercy as he defyred And alfo euyn contrarye wyfe thys clarke of the excellente connyng ryches and worlchippe that he hadde procedyd forthe hys wekedneffe. And by caufe he thoughte hym felfe excepte in this worlde. fro the comon labur of men. Lo in fo cruell and byttur 64 example he is not nowe ponyffhte with othyr men. Alfo y fawe there hys tonge hauyng forthe oute of his hede and befyly brennyng as hyt were a bronde of fyre and yat veryly he fofryd by caufe that often tymes he peruerted ryghtwefnes as a man myghty in wordys takyng geftys and mennys perfons. For he vfyd not only to iangyl idyle wordys. but alfo frowardly in wordys contrarye to wrothe ouer mekyl he had ex- cedyd. Therfore no meruelle though he were ponyfhte this wyfe for fuche exceffys and fawtys. whenne oure lorde fpekyth in the gofpelle of the ryche man the whiche for hys light fpeking and iangelyng at mete was fore ponyfhte in hys tonge in a flame of fyre. Sorthely after this came to me that worfchyppefull pryfte to home this clerke was confefte of hys fmale fynnys as hit ys reherfed before And amonge other thyngys the whyche this worfchipful pryfte herde of me y tolde hovve this clarke afore feyde whenne he was confefte bade hym goo hys waye as for that tyme. and fo anone dyde as hyt ys feyde before And when y had told him this he wepte ful bytturly and toke god to recorde that hit was very trouthe as y feyde and knewe wele. that the forfeyde clerke feyde fo to hym Therfore only of that multytude of wrechys y knewe this clerke that this feyde to me. jOthely thanne fone after that we were pafte thys third place we came to a regyon where the foulys the whiche hadd done her purgacyon in purgatorye ioyfully reftyd. in the whyche place many y knewe wele and founde hem there in grete felycyte and con- forte. Trewely as touchyng the ioys of that place and the iocundnes and gladnes of them that were there as oure lorde wyll geue vs grace we fchall afterward fcliewe and declare, but fyrft let vs turne ageyne thys 65 narracyon to thoes thynges the whyche we haue lefte oute of the peynys and merytys of fome perfonys in efpecyalle. the whyche y fawe and founde in tho placys of purgatorye as hyt ys feyde before. C <9f. it. prrsoni>8 tfjat tljt's mouftc spafce tottfj m tfje" first place of purgatorye an& first tottij a prior. C f a ctrtcn ftnggftt tfjat fcrafce a botoe C xxxii jjMonge hem that brake her vowys y fawe a yong knyght brennyng in the myddys of fyre whome y knewe fumtyme ful wele And as y enquyred of him why he was putte in fo grete peynes. thys he tolde me. My lyfe he feyde that y leuyd was but baren and vayne and alfo vycyous For y was infolent and nyfe in pryde and elacyon and foule and vnclene by the vyce of lecherye. not withftonding for thys y am nowe fpecyally ponyfht by caufe y cafle aweye fro me the fygne of the holy crofle the whyche y hadde takyn apone me in a vowe that y made to goo to the holy lond howe be yt that y toke the croffe not for deuo- cyon but for vayne glorye the whiche y loued to haue hadde of the lorde yat y feruyd. Trewely euery nyght y labur in going as mekyl as y maye to make an ende of that pilgremage. But what for febulnes of ftrenthe and contraryufnes of the wedyr and alfo fcharpnes of the waye y am lettyd gretly that onethe y may goo at on tyme a full lytyl dayes iourney Sothely whenne the mornyng begynnyth. fleyn to me wykyd fpirytys beyng wodde yn al cruelnes. and drawyn me ageyne. to the place of my peynys. where euer more al the days tyme y am gretly peynde yn fyre. Neuertheles 75 wyth a certen amendement of leffur dyffefe thawght hyt be lytyl. And ageyne when nyghte comythe. y. am reftoryd to the place where y lefte lafle my iourney. and fo y go forthe on my pylgrimage. and when the mornyng ys cumme y am drawyn ageyne and cafte to peynys. And al that haue vowyd to go to the holy londe. and aftyr dyd cafle fro hem her croffe. and \vhent not dedyr. yn lyke wyfe as y go. they be com- pellyd to do her pylgrymage. fo yf they may haue the grace of god yn her lafte ende to repente hem. as y had to repente me for brekyng of my vowe. and than by the holfum remedy of confeffion thys fynne yat was dedly fynne may be changed to a venyal fynne Othyr wyfe al that breke that fame vowe. be put to eternalle datnpnacion. of anotfjer feni?gf)t. C me fit f)i>9 Bai>fs toas shorten of tije ctytrcJje. C Bise. C a liiii |Owe fothely tho thyngys the whiche we fawe as we wente forthe farthir in to the fame place nethyr tonge may telle ne mannys mynde maye worthely confyder. who ys he that may worthily tel in worde how in the myddys of tho bleffyd and holy fowlys the holy croffe of cryftys paffyon was prefented and fchewed to hem. of the whiche infynite thoufandys were there ftondyng aboute hyt and as oure lorde had be prefent in hys body fo they worfchyppte and halowed hys bleffyd paffyon Trewly there was feyne the meke redemer of mankynde oure fwete lorde and fauyur ihefus crifte as he had be done frefche on the croffe. For alle hys body was blake and blody of fcurgys and betyng and cruelly diffigurde by fowle fpyttyng crownyd with fcarpe thornys and fmytte throw with grete naylys hys fyde was fore perfyd with a fpere and fro his handys and fete ranne out blode redde as pur- pul and from his holy fyde came downe blode and water ful largely, and at this grete and wondyrful fpectacul flode his holy moder oure bleffyd lady fent marye. not now in heuynes and momyng but right gladfum and ioyng and yat was in a ful feyre demenyng. and ther alfo ftode with herre the fwete dyfcipil of crifte feynt iohnne the bleffyd euangelifte and ho may now con- ceue in mynde how thoo holy foulys ranne thedir on euery fyde gladly and lightly to fee and beholde yat bleffyd fight O what deuocyon was there of hem that behilde that glorius vyfyon O what concurs was ther of worfchipping and thanking our lorde ihefu crifte and how meruelus was her ioyful gladnes Trewly io6 remembryng thefe thyngys in my felfe y wote not whedir forow or deuocyon or compaffion or gratula- cyon drawyn nowe myne onhappy foule dyuers weyes. For wondyr and meruel of tho thingis rnakyn me alyenate fro my felfe and fum what abfent to my felfe. who ys he that wolde not ml gretly forow to fee fo feire and fo folemly a body to be cafle under fo grete iniuriis and fore peynys. and who wolde not with al his harte haue compaffion apon his mekenes fo mouid and vexyd with tormentys and vpbraydys of feche wekyd folke. and what ioye and conforte may nowe here be thoughte. that by his paffion and meke dethe helle ys foughtyn agenft. the deuyl ys ouercome and bounde his power and ftrenthe is deftroyed and man that was lofle ys reftoryd ageyne to grace and takyn oute of the peynful prifon of helle and ioynyd blef- fydly to the holy angelys of heuyn. and ho wolde not meruel on the grete mercy and goodnes of our fauyur cryfte ihefu the whiche now beyng immortalle wyl whytefaue yat hys paffyon and dethe the whyche he fofryd onys in this worlde bodely for the redemp- cion of manicynde be reprefentyd and fchewde in a vyfyon to the holy fowlys that byn in paradyfe. that her deuocyon and loue fchuld be the more accendyd and increfyd to hym. Many other thingis y faw and herde there the whyche y trowe at this tyme is bettur to leue hem out than to wryte hem. and than aftyr- ward fodenly this bleffyd fyghte and holy vyfyon was takyn fro thens Than al that grete multytude of foulys that came thedir to worfchippe the holy croffe of cryftys paffion wente ageyne euerichon to her owne places with ioy and gladnes Treuly y folowyde euer- more my duke and lodifman fent Nicholas that went forthe farthir and farther repletyd now with grete ioye and gladnes amonge the ml brighte and light man- fyons of bleffid fowlys. and the whitnes of hem yat were here in this place and the fwetnes of fauer and alfo the melodye of fynging laudys to god wes ineftymable and onethe to mannys vnderftondyng credyble. icy C $f tfje nttrgng of tfjc gate of paralyse and of tfje toj? tijat apiergB tottljmfortf). C a Ib Orthermore nowe whenne we were pafle all thefe placys and fightys aforefeyde and had gonne a good fpace more inward and euer grew to vs more and more ioye and feyernes of placys. alfo at the laile we fawe aferre a ful glorious walle of cryftal hoys heythe no man might fee. and lenthe no man might confider. and when we came thedyr y fawe within forthe a ful feyre brighte fchynyng gate and ftode opyn faue hit was figned and leide ouer with a croffe Treuly theder came flockemele the multytude of tho bleffyd fowlys that were next to hyt. and wolde cum in at that feyre gate The croffe was fette in the myddys of that gate. and nowe fche was lyfte vppe an hye and fo gaue to hem that came thedyr an opyn and a fre entryng. and afterward fche was lettyn done ageyne. and fo fparyd other oute that wuld haue commyn in But howe ioy- ful they were that wente in and how reuerently they taryde that ftode withoute abydyng the lyftyng vppe of the croffe ageyne y can not telle by no wordys Sothely here fent Nycholas and y ftode ftille to geder. and the lyftyngys vppe of the croffe and the lettyngys done ageyne. wherby fomme wente in and fome taryde withoute. y behilde long tyme with grete wonder And at the lafte fent Nycholas and y came thedyr to the fame gate hande in hande. And when we came thedyr the croffe was lyfte vp. And fo they that were there wente in. Sothely than my felowe fent Nycholas frely wente in and y foloude but fodenly and onauyfyd the croffe of the gate came done apon owre handys and departyd me fro my felawe fente Nycholas and when y fawe thys. ful fore aferde y was Then feyde fent Nycholas to me. Be not aferde but haue only ful cer- ten feythe in our lorde ihefu crifle and doutheles thou fchalt come yn And aftyr thys my hope and trufte came ageyne and the croffe was lyfte vppe and fo y cam in. but what brightnes and clerenes of light was io8 there with in forthe al aboutys no man afke ne feche of me for y can not only telle hit by worde but alfo y can not remembre hit in mynde Thatgloryous fchyning light was brighte and fmothe and fo rauefhte a man that behylde hit that hit bare a man aboue hym felfe by the grete brightnes of lyghte yn fo mekyl that what fumeuer y fawe before hit was as no thing me thought in comparyfon of hit That bryghtneffe thawghe hyt were ineftymable. Neuertheleffe hyt dullyd not a mannys fyghte. hyt rathyr fcharpyd hyt. Sothly hyt fchynyd ful meruelufly. but more yneftymably hyt de- lytyd a man that behylde hyt. and wondirfully cow- pulde a mannys fyghte to fe hit. And wyth ynforthe no thyng y myght fee. but lighte and the walle of cryf- talle throw the whyche we came yn And alfo fro the gronde vppe to toppe of that walle were grycis ordende and dyfpofyd feyre and meruelufly. by the whyche the ioyful company that was cum yn at the forfeyde gate gladly afcendyd vppe Ther was no labur. ther was no difficulte ther was no taryng yn her afcendyng. and the hier they wente the gladder they were. Sothely y ftode benethe on the grunde. and longe tyme y faw and behylde how they that came yn at the gate afcendyd vppe by the fame grycis And at the lafte as y lokyd vppe hier y faw yn a trone of ioy fittyng owre bleffyd lord and fauyur ihefus crifte yn lykenes of man. and abowte hym as hyt femyd to me were a fyue hondred fowlys. the whyche late had flyed vppe to that glorius trone. and fo they came to owre lorde and worfchpte hym and thankyde hym. for hys grete mercy and grace fchewyd and done to hem And fome were feyne on the vppur partys of the walle as they had walkyd hethyr and dedyr Trewly y knew for certen that thys place. were y faw owre lorde fyttyng yn a trone. was not the hye heuyn of heuyns where the bleffid fpiritis of angels and the holy fowlys of ryghtwys men ioyin yn the feyghte of god feyng hym yn hys magefte as he ys. where alfo innumerable thowfondis of holy fpiritys and angels lerue hym and affifte hym But than fro thens wythowten any hardnes or taryng. they afcende vppe to the hey IOQ heuin the whyche ys bleffyd of the fyghte of the euer- laflyng godhed where al only the holy angels and the fowlys of ryghtwes men that byn of angels perfeccion feyn the ynuifibly and inmortalle kynge of al worldys face to face, the whyche hathe only immortalite. and dwellyth yn lyghte. that ys inacceffyble. for no man may cumme to hyt. the whyche no mortalle man feithe nethyr may fee Sothely he ys feyne only of holy fpiritys that byn pure and clene. the whyche be not greuyd by no corrupcion of body nethir of fowle And yn thys vifion that y faw. fo mekylle y conceuyd yn my fowle of ioy and gladnes that wat fum euer may be feyde of hyt by mannys mowthe. ful lytyl hyt ys. and onfuffi- cient to expreffe the ioy of myne herte. that y had there. C ijoto t!)c monltr came ototc atjnwe tfjroUj tfte same gate of paraBgae. C &a Hit [Herfore when y had feyn al thefe fyghtys aboue feyde and many othyr innumerable my lorde fent Nycholas that hylde me by the hande feyde fchortly thys to me Loo fonne he feyde now a party aftyr they peti- cion and grete defir thow hafte feyne and beholde. the (late of the worlde yat ys to cumme as hyt myghte be to poffible Alfo the perels of hem that offendyn and erryn the peynys of fynners. the refte alfo of hem yat haue done her purgacion. the defyrys of hem that be goyng to heuynward. and the ioys of hem. that now byn cumme to the courte of heuyn and alfo the ioy of cryflis reynynge And now thow mufte go ageyne to they felfe and to thyne. and to the worldys feyghtyng Treuly thow fchalt haue and perceue the ioys that thow hafte feyne and mekyl more, yeffe thow contynew and perfeuer in the drede of god. And when he had feyde thys to me he browghte me forthe throwe the fame gate that we came yn. wherfor ful heuy and fory was y and more than a man may fuppofe. for wele y knew that y muft turne ageyne. fro that heuynly blyffe to thys worldys wrechidnes. And gretely he exhortyd me. no how y fchulde dyfpofe me. to abyde the day of my callyng oute of my body yn clennes of herte and of body, and mekenes of fpirite wyth dylygent kepyng of my religyon. Dylygently he feyde to me. kepe the com- maundementys of god. and dyfpofe they leuyng aftyr the example of ryghtwes men. And truely fo hyt fchal be. that aftyr the terme of they bodely leuyng thow fchal be admyttyd bleffydly. to her felefchippe euerlaftyngly. C s tie trcto for tije grete mwraclgs tijat our lovU s5etoi>& on tins same monlic tfjat same tome. C Ta ttmf [Ony inflruccyons and opyn examples byn here at the begynnyng of thys narracyon that euydentely prouyn thys vyfyon. not to be of mannys conceyte but vtwardely of the wylle of god the whiche wolde haue hyt fchewed to cryftyn pepul Neuertheleffe yefe there be fo grete infydelyte or infyrmyte of any per- fons that can not beleue to thefe thyngys aforfeyde lete hem confyder the grete fekeneffe and febulnes of hym that fawe hyt. fo fodenly and fo fone helyd in to a very wytnes and trowthe of this vyfyon that he fawe. Alfo let hem meruelle the grete noyfe that was abowte hym. and alfo howe that he was prycked in hys fete with nyldys by the whyche he kowde not in any wyfe be mouyd. Forthermore let hem take hede to hys yes that were fo ferre fallyn done in to hys hede and was not feyne onethe tobrethefpace of .ij. days, and alfo aftyr a ful longe fpace of howris onethe lafte myghte be perfeuyd yn hym a ful fmalle meuyng as a thynne drede yn hys vytalle veynys Alfo let hem confyder hys contynualle wepyng and terys the whyche he had aftyrward many days. And befyde all thes thyngys 112 we knowe alfo a nothyr certen thynge that was a ful feyre myracle and a very tokyn of godys curacyon fchewyd on hym the fame tyme. and as mekyl to be merueld. Sothely he had al mode the fpace of an hole yere yn hys lyfte legge a grete fore and a ful byttur as hyt were a canker large and brode wherby he was peynyd intollerably. And he was wonte to fey. that he had feche a forowandpeyne therof. as he had bore an hoote plate of yrne bownde fafte to hys legge And ther was no emplaftur no oyntmente nethyr any othyr medicyn how be hit that he had mekyl of lechis leyde to hyt. yat myghte yefe hym of hys peyne or drawe the wownde to gedyr Trewly yn the fpace of hys rauefh- yng. he was fo fully helyd that he hym felfe meruelyd wyth vs to fele and fee the peyne and ache wyth the wownde fo clene agonne. that no tokyn of hyt. ne figne of rednes or of whythnes remaynyd aboue the meruelus curacion of god. Al only thys differens had hys legge that was fore, fro todyr legge that where the forfeyde fore was that place was bare and had none heere. j]Ul delectable hyt was to hym as he feyde fro that tyme forthe. as ofte as he harde any folenne pele of ryngyng of bellys. by caufe hyt wolde then cum to hys mynde ageyne. the ful fwete pele and melody the whyche he herde. when he was amonge the bleffyd fowlys yn paradyfe. Sothely aftyr that he was cum to hym felfe and hys brethirne had tolde hym. that now ys the holy tyme of yeftyr. than fyrfte he beleuyd. when he harde hem rynge folenly to complen. for then he knew certenly. that the pele and melodye. that he herde yn paradyfe. wyth fo grete ioy and glad- nes. betokynde the fame folennyte of yeftir yn the whyche owre bleffyd lorde and fauyur ihefus crifte rofe vppe vifibly and bodely fro dethe on to lyfe. to home wyth the fadyr and the holy goofte be now and euer- more euerlaftyng ioye and blyffe Amen. Muir fs> Paterson, Printert, Edinburgh. A List of WORKS Edited by Professor EDWARD ARBER F.S.A. ; Fellow of Kings College, London ; Hon. Member of the Virginia. and Wisconsin Historical Societies ; late English Examiner at the London University ; and also at the Victoria University, Man- chester; Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, Mason College, Birmingham. 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(i) DIEI.LA [Sonnets] ; (2) The Love of DOM DIKGO and GYNEURA. 1596. * 8 An English Garner. 9. AN. Sc. DAIPHHANTUS, or the Passions of Love. 1604. See also above. D. DEFOE. The True Born Englishman. 1701. D. DEFOE. A Hymn to the Pillory. 1703. VOL. VIII. Large Crown 8vo, cloth, 5*. net. This Index Volume will, if possible, contain the following : English Political, Naval, and Military History, etc., etc. 1. J. PROCTOR. The History of WYATT'S Rebellion. 1554. 2. The burning of Paul's Church, London. 1568. 3. G. GASCOIGNE the Poet. The Spanish Fury at Antwerp. 1577- 4. J. LINGHAM. English Captains in the Low Countries. 1584. 5. The Burial of MARY QUEEN of Scots at Peterborough Cathe- dral, i August, 1587. 6. T. M. The Entertainment of JAMES I. from Edinburgh to London. 1603. 7. Bp. W. BARLOW. The Hampton Court Conference. 1604. 8. The speeches in the Star Chamber at the Censure of BAST- WICK, BARTON, and PRYNNE. 1637. 9. N. N. The Expedition of the Prince of ORANGE. 1688. English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc., etc. 10. The strange things that happened to R. HASLETON in his ten years' Travels. 1585-1595. 11. E. PELLHAM. The miraculous Deliverance of eight English- men left in Greenland, anno 1630, nine months and twelve days. English Life and Progress. 12. J. MAY. The Estate of Clothing [the manufacture of woollen Cloths'] now in England. 1613. English Poetry. 13. A translation [? by Sir E. DYER] of Six of the Idyllia of THEOCRITUS. 1588. 14. Verses penned by D. GWIN, eleven years a slave in the Spanish galleys, and presented by him to Queen ELIZABETH on 18 August, 1588. 15. W. SMITH. CHLORES. [Sonnets.] 1596. 16. T. STORER. The Life and Death of Cardinal WOLSEY. 599- 17. E. W. Thameseidos. In 3 Cantos. 1600. 18. Some Collections of Posies. 1624-1679. Chronological List of Works included in the Series. Index. IReprtnts. No. Text. s. d. \. Milton Areopagitica . . . 1644 1 2. Latimer The Ploughers . . . 1549 1 3. Gosson The School of Abuse . . 1579 1 4. Sidney An Apology for Poetry . ? 1580 1 5. E. Webbe Travels . . . . 1590 1 6. Selden Table Talk .... 1634-54 1 7. Ascham Toxophiius . . . . 1544 1 8. AddiSOn Criticism on Paradise Lost , 1711-12! 9. Lyly E UP HUES . . . 1579-80 4 10. VilliePS The Rehearsal . . . 1671 1 n. GaSGOigne The Steel Glass, etc. . . 1576 1 12. Earle Micro-cosmographie . . 1628 1 13. LatimeP 7 Sermons before EDWARD VI. 1549 1 6 14. More Utopia . . ... 1516-57 1 15. Puttenham The Art of English Poesy . 1589 2 6 16. Howell Instructions for Foreign Travel 1642 1 17. Udall Roister Doister . . . 1553-66 1 18. Mk. Of Eves. The Revelation, etc. . 1186-1410! 19. James I. A Counterblast to Tobacco, etc. 1604 1 20. Naunton Fragmenta Regalia . . 1653 1 21. Watson Poems .... 1582-93 1 6 22. Habington CASTARA .... 1640 1 23. Aseham The Schoolmaster . . 1570! 24. Tottel'S Miscellany [Songs and Sonnets] 1557 2 6 25. Lever Sermons .... 1550 1 26. W. Webbe A Discourse of English Poetry 1586 1 27. Lord Bacon A Harmony of the Essays 1597-1626 5 28. Roy, etc. Read me, and be not wroth ! 1528! 6 29- Raleigh, ete. Last Fight of the l Revenge* 1591! 30. Googe Eglogues, Epitaphs, ami Sonnets 1563 1 41 6 (For full titles, etc., see pp. 10-19.) io English Reprints. i. JOHN MILTON. Areopagitica. 1644. (a) AREOPAGITICA : A Speech of Mr. JOHN MILTON For the Liberty of Unlicencd Printing, To the Parliament of England. () A Decree of Starre-Chamber, concerning Printing, made the eleuenth of July last past, 1637. (c) An Order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the Regulating of Printing, &c. 1643. LORD MACAULAY. He attacked the licensing system in that sublime treatise which every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand, and as frontlets between his eyes. Edinburgh Review, p. 344, August, 1825. H. H AI.LAM. Many passages in this famous tract are admirably elo- quent : an intense love of liberty and truth flows through it ; the majestic soul of MILTON breathes such high thoughts as had not been uttered before. Introduction to tlie Literature of Europe, iii. 660. Ed. 1839. W. H. PRESCOTT. The most splendid argument perhaps the world had then witnessed on^behalf of intellectual liberty. History of FERDINAND ant ISABELLA, iii. 391. Ed. 1845. 2. HUGH LATIMER. Ex-Bisltop of Worcester. The Ploughers. 1549. A notable Sermon of ye reuerende Father Master HUGHE LATIMER, ivhiche he preached in ye Shrouds at patties churche in London on the xviii daye of January e. SIR R. MORISON. Did there ever any one (I say not in England only, but among other nations) flourish since the time of the Apostles, who preached the gospel more sincerely, purely, and honestly, than HUGH LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester" 1 . Apomaxis Calumniarum . . quibus JOANNES COCLEUS &c., f. 78. Ed. 1537. It was in this Sermon, that LATIMBR (himself an ex-Bishop) astonished his generation by saying that the Devil was the most diligent Prelate and Preacher in all England. " Ye shal neuer fynde him idle I warraunte 3. STEPHEN GOSSON. Stud. Oxon. The School of Abuse. 1579. (a) The Schoole of Abuse. Conteining a pleasaunt inuective against Poets, Pipers, Platers, Jesters, and such like Caterpillers of a Commonwealth ; Setting up the Flagge of Defiance to their mischieuous exercise and ouerthrowing their Bulwarkes, by Pro- phane Writers, Naturall reason and common experience. 1579- (b) An Apologie of tfie Schoole of Abuse, against Poets, Pipers, Players, and their Excusers. [Dec.] 1579. V This attack is thought to have occasioned SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S writ- ing of the following Apologie for Poesie. GOSSON was, in succession, Poet, Actor, Dramatist, Satirist, and a Puritan Clergyman. English Reprints. 1 1 4. Sir PHILIP SIDNEY. An Apology for Poetry. [? 1580.] An Apologie for Poetrie. Written by the right noble, verluous, and learned Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, Knight, 1595. H. W. LONGFELLOW. The defence of Poetry is a work of rare merit. It is a golden little volume, which the scholar may lay beneath his pillow, as CHRYSOSTOM did the works of ARISTOPHANES. North American Review, p. 57. January, 1832. The Work thus divides itself : The Etymology of Poetry. The Anatomy of the Effects of Poetry. The Anatomy of the Parts of Poetry. Objections to Poetry answered. Criticism of the existing English Poetry. 5. EDWARD WEBBE, A Chief Master Gunner. Travels. 1590. The rare and most wonderful thinges which EDWARD WEBBE an Englishman borne, hath scene and passed in his troublesome trattailes, in the Citties of Jerusalem, Damasko, Bethelem and Galely : and in all the landes of lewrie, Egipt, Grecia, Russia, and in the Land of Prester John. Wherein is set foorth his extreame slauerie sustained many yeres togither, in the Gallies and wars of the great Turk against the Landes of Persia, Tartaria, Spaine, and Portugall, with the manner of his releasement and coming to England. [1590.] 6. JOHN SELDEN. Table Talk. [1634-1654.] Table Talk : being the Discourses ) Certayne notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or ryme in English. 1575. This is our First printed piece of Poetical Criticism. (<) The Steele Glas. Written in blank verse. Probably the fourth printed English Satire : those by BARCLAY, ROY, and Sir T. WYATT being the three earlier ones. (d) The complaynt of PHI LOME NE. An Elegie. 1576. 12. JOHN EARLE, Afterwards Bishop of SALISBURY. Microcosmographie. 1628. Micro-cosmogreiphie, or a Peece of the World discovered ; in Essays and Characters. This celebrated book of Characters is graphically descriptive of the Eng- lish social life of the time, as it presented itself to a young Fellow of Merton College, Oxford ; including A She precise Hypocrite, A Sceptic in Religion, A good old man, etc. This Work is a notable specimen of a considerable class of books in our Literature, full of interest : and which help Posterity much better to under- stand the Times in which they were written. 14 English Reprints. 13. HUGH LATIMER, Ex- Bishop of WORCESTER. Seven Sermons before Edward VI. 1549. The fyrstc [seuenth] Sermon of Mayster HUGHE LATIMER, whiche he preached before the Kynges Maiestie wythin his graces palayce at Westminster on each Friday in Lent. 1549. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH. LATIMER, . . . brave, sincere, honest, in- flexible, not distinguished as a writer or a scholar, but exercising his power over men's minds by a fervid eloquence flowing from the deep conviction which animated his plain, pithy, and free-spoken Sermons. History of England, ii. 291. Ed. 1831. 14. Sir THOMAS MORE. Translation of Utopia. 1516-1557. A frutefull and pleasaunt worke of the best stale of a publique weale, and of the new yle called Utopia : Written in Latine by Sir THOMAS MORE, Knyght, and translated into Englyshe by RALPH ROBYNSON. LORD CAMPBELL. Since the time of PLATO there had been no composi- tion given to the world which, for imagination, for philosophical discrimina- tion, for a familiarity with the principles of government, for a knowledge of the springs of human action, for a keen observation of men and manners, and for felicity of expression, could be compared to the Utopia. Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Lift of Sir. T. More), \. 583. Ed. 1845. In the imaginary country of Utopia, MOKE endeavours to sketch out a State based upon two principles (i) community of goods, no private property ; and consequently (2) no use for money. 15. GEORGE PUTTENHAM, A Gentleman Pensioner to Queen ELIZABETH. The Art of English Poesy. 1589. The Arte of English Poesie. Conlriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT. W. OLDYS. It contains many pretty observations, examples, characters, and fragments of poetry for those times, now nowhere else to be met with. Sir WALTER RALEIGH, liv. Ed. 1736. O. GILCHRIST. On many accounts one of the most curious and entertain- ing, and intrinsically one of the most valuable books of the age of QUEEN ELIZABETH. The copious intermixture of contemporary anecdote, tradition, manners, opinions, and the numerous specimens of coeval poetry nowhere else preserved, contribute to form a volume of infinite amusement, curiosity, and value. Censura Literaria, i. 339. Ed. 1805. This is still also an important book on Rhetoric and the Figures of Speech. English Reprints. 15 1 6. JAMES HOWELL, Clerk of the Council to CHARLES I. ; afterwards Historiographer to CHARLES II. Instructions for Foreign Travel. 1642. Instructions for forreine travelle. Shewing by what cours, and in what compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and States of Christendome, and arrive to the practical knowledge of the Languages : , to good purpose. The MURRAY, BsEDEKER, and Practical Guide to the Grand Tour of Europe, which, at that time, was considered the finishing touch to the complete education of an English Gentleman. The route sketched out by this delightfully quaint Writer, is France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Holland. The time allowed is 3 years and 4 months : the months to be spent in travelling, the years in residence at the different cities. 17. NICHOLAS UDALL, Master, first of Eton College, then of Westminster School. Roister Doister. [1553-1566.] This is believed to be the first true English Comedy that ever came to the press. From the unique copy, which wants a title-page, now at Eton College ; and which is thought to have been printed in is66. .Dramatis Persona;. RALPH ROISTER DOISTER. MATTHEW MERRYGREEK. GAWIN GOODLUCK, affianced to Dame CUSTANCE. TRISTRAM TRUSTY, his friend. DOBINET DOUGHTY, " boy " to ROISTER DOISTER. TOM TRUEPENNY, servant to Dame CUSTANCE. SIM SURESBY, servant to GOODLUCK. Scrivener. Harpax. Dame CHRISTIAN CUSTANCE, a widow. MARGERY MUMBLECRUST, her nurse. 1 8. A Monk of Evesham, The Revelation, &c. ii86[-i4io]. 1485. IT Here begynnyth a marvellous retielacion that was schewyd of almighty god by sent Nycholas to a monke of Euyshamme yn the days of Kynge Richard thefyrst. Ami the y ere of own lord, M. C. Lxxxxvi. One of the rarest of English books printed by one of the earliest of English printers, WILLIAM DE MACLINIA ; who printed this text about 1485, in the lifetime of CAXTON. The essence of the story is as old as it professes to be ; but contains later additions, the orthography, being of about 1410. It is very devoutly written, and contains a curious Vision of Purgatory. The writer is a prototype of BUNYAN ; and his description of the Gate in the Crystal Wall of Heaven, and of the solemn and marvellously; sweet Peal of the Bells of Heaven that came to him through it, is very beautiful. 1 6 English Reprints. 19. JAMES I. A Counterblast to Tobacco. 1604. (a) The Essays of a Prentise, in the Diuine Art of Poesie. Printed while JAMES VI. of Scotland, at Edinburgh in 1585 ; and includes Ane Short treatise, conteining some Reulis and Cautelis to be obseruit and escheivit in Scottis Poesie, which is another very early piece of printed Poetical Criticism. (b) A Counterblast e to Tobacco. 1604. To this text has been added a full account of the Introduction and Early use of Tobacco in England. The herb first came into use in Europe as a medicinal leaf for poultices : smoking it was afterwards learnt from the American Indians. Our Royal Author thus sums up his opinion : "A cttstome lothsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." 20. Sir ROBERT NAUNTON, Matter of the Court of Wards. Fragmenta Regalia. 1653. Fragmenta Regalia : or Observations on the late Queen ELIZABETH, her Times and Favourites. [1630.] Naunton writes : "And thus I have delivered up this my poor Essay ; a little Draught of this great Princess, and her Times, with the Servants of her State and favour." 21. THOMAS WATSON, Londoner, Student-at-Latv. Poems. 1582-1593. (a) The 'E/caT(vtira0a or Passionate Centurie of Loue. Divided into two parts : whereof " t the first expresseth the Author's sufferance in Loue: the latter, his long farwell to Loue and all his lyrannie. 1582. (b) MELIBCEUS, Sive Ecloga in obitum Honoratissimi Viri Domini FRANCisci WALSINGHAMI. 1590. (c) The same translated into English, by the Author. 1590. (d) The Tears of Fancie, or Loue disdained. 1 593. From the unique copy, wanting Sonnets 9-16, in the possession of S. CHRISTIE MILLER, Esq., of Britwell. English Reprints. 17 22. WILLIAM HABINGTON, Castara. 1640. CASTARA. The third Edition. Corrected and augmented. was Lady LUCY HERBERT, the youngest child of the first Lord Powis ; and these Poems were chiefly marks of affection during a pure courtship followed by a happy marriage. With these, are also Songs of Friendship, especially those referring to the Hon. GEORGE TALBOT. In addition to these Poems, there are four prose Characters ; on A Mistress, A Wife, A Friend, and The Holy Man. 23. ROGER ASCHAM, The Schoolmaster. 1570. The Scholemaster, or plane and perfite way of teachyng- children to understand, write, and speake, in Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging tip of youth in lentle- man and Noble metis houses, <&V. This celebrated Work contains the story of Lady JANE GREY'S delight in reading PLATO, an attack on the 1 'talianated Englishman of the time, and much other information not specified in the above title. In it, ASCHAM gives us very fully his plan of studying Languages, which may be described as the double translation of a model book. 24. HENRY HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. Sir THOMAS WYATT. NICHOLAS GRIMALD. Lord VAUX. Tottel's Miscellany. 5 June, 1557. Songes and Sonettes, written by the right honourable Lorde HENRY HOWARD late Earle ) A Sen/ton preached the fourth Sunday in Lent before the Kynges Maiestie, and his honourable Counsdl. (f) A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse. 1550. These Sermons are reprinted from the original editions, which are of extreme rarity. They throw much light on the communistic theories of the Norfolk rebels ; and the one at Paul's Cross contains a curious account of Cambridge University life in the reign of EDWARD VI. 26. WILLIAM WEBBE, Graduate. A Discourse of English Poetry. 1586. A Discourse of English Poetrie. Together with the Authors judgement, touching the reformation of our English Verse. Another of the early pieces of Poetical Criticism, written in the year in which SHAKESPEARE is supposed to have left Stratford for London. Only two copies of this Work are known, one of these was sold for 64. This Work should be read with STANYHURST'S Translation of SEncid, I.-IV., 1582, see p. 64. WEBBE was an advocate of English Hexameters ; and here translates VIRGIL'S first two Eglogues into them. He also trans- lates into Sapphics COLIN'S Song in the Fourth Eglogue of SPENSER'S Shepherd's Calendar. 27. FRANCIS BACON. afterwards Lord VllRULAM Viscount ST. ALBANS. A Harmony of the Essays, &c. 1597-1626. And after my manner, I alter ever, -wlien I add. So that nothing it finished, till all be finished. Sir FRANCIS BACON, 27 Feb., i6io-[n]. (a) Essays, Religious Meditations, and Places of persuasion and disswasion. 1597. (&) The Writings of Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight the Kinges Sollicitor General in Moralitie, Policie, Historic. (t) The Essaies of Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight, the Kings Solliciter Generall. (J) The Essayes or Counsells, Civill and Morall of FRANCIS Lord VERULAM, Viscount ST. ALBAN. 1625. English Reprints. 19 28. WILLIAM ROY. JEROME BARLOW. Franciscan friars. Read me, and be not -wroth ! [1528.] (a) Rede me and be nott ivrothe, For I saye no thynge but trotJte. I will ascende makynge my state so hye. That my pompous honoure shall never dye. O Cnytyfe when than thynkest least of all, IVith confusion thou shall have a fall. This is the famous satire on Cardinal WOLSEY, and is the First English Protestant book ever printed, not being a portion of Holy Scripture. See /. 22 for the Fifth such book. The next two pieces form one book, printed by HANS LUFT, at Marburg, in 1530. {b) A proper dyaloge, betwene a Gentillinan and a husband- man, eche complaynynge to other their miserable catamite, through the ambition of the dergye. (c) A compendious old treatyse, shewynge, how that -we ought to have the scripture in Englysshe. 29. Sir WALTER RALEIGH. GERVASE MARKHAM. J. H. VAN LINSCHOTEN. The Last Fight of the " Revenge." 1591. (a) A Report of the truth of the fight abotit the lies of Acores, this last la Sommer. Betwixt the REUENGE, one of her Afaiesties Shippes, and an ARMADA of the King of Spaine. [By Sir W. RALEIGH.] (/;) The most honorable Tragedie of Sir RICHARD GRINUILE, Knight. 1595. [By GERVASE MARKHAM.] (c) [ The Fight and Cyclone at the Azores. [By JAV HUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN.] Several accounts are here given of one of the most extraordinary Sea rights in our Naval History. 30. BARNABE GOOGE. Eglogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets. 1563. Eglogs, Epytaphes, ami Sonettes Newly uritten by BARNABE GOOGE. Three copies only known. Reprinted from the Huth copy. In the prefatory Notes of the Life and Writings of B. GOOGE, will be found an account of the trouble he had in winning MARY DARELL for his wife. A new Literature generally begins with imitations and translations. When this book first appeared, Translations were all the rage among the "young England" of the day. This Collection of original Occasional Verse is therefore the more noticeable. The Introduction gives a glimpse of the principal Writers of the time, such as the Authors of the Mirror for Magistrates, the Translators of SENECA'S Tragedies, etc., and including such names as BALDWIN, BAVANDE, BLUNDESTON, NEVILLE, NORTH, NORTON, SACKVILLE, and YELVERTON. 2O Works in the Old Spelling. The English Scholar's Library. 16 Parts are now published, in Cloth Boards, 2 Is. Any part may be obtained separately. The general character of this Series will be gathered from the following pages: 21-26. s. d. 1. WILLIAM CAXTON. Reynard the Fox. 1 6 2. JOHN KNOX. The First Blast of the Trumpet 16 3. CLEMENT ROBINSON and others. A handful of Pleasant Delights . 1 6 4. [SIMON FISH.] A Supplication for the Beg-gars 16 5. [Rev. JOHN UDALL.] Diotrephes. . 1 6 6. [ ? ] The Return from Parnassus . 1 6 7. THOMAS DECKER. The Seven Deadly Sins of London . . . .16 8. EDWARD ARBER. An Introductory Sketch to the "Martin Marpre- late" Controversy, 1588-1590 . 3 9. [Rev. JOHN UDALL.] A Demonstra- tion of Discipline . . . .16 10. RICHARD STANIHURST. ** .ffineid L- IV." in English hexameters. . .30 11. "The Epistle" 16 12. ROBERT GREEN. Menaphon . .16 13. GEORGE JOY. An Apology to William Tyndale . ... 1 6 14. RICHARD BARNFIELD. Poems . .30 15. Bp. THOMAS COOPER. An Admonition to the People of England . .30 1 6. Captain JOHN SMITH. Works. 1120 pages. Six Facsimile Maps. 2 Vols . 12 6 The English Sclwlars Library. 21 i. William Caxton, our first Printer. Translation of REYNARD THE FOX. 1481. [COLOPHON.] / haue not added ne mynusshed btit haue folowed as nyghe as I can my copye -which was in dittche \ and by me WILLIAM CAXTON translated in to this rude and symple englyssh in th\e\ abbey of westmestre. Interesting for its own sake ; but especially as being translated as well as printed by CAXTON, who finished the printing on 6 June, 1481. The Story is the History of the Three fraudulent Escapes of the Fox from punishment, the record of the Defeat of Justice by flattering lips and dishonourable deeds. It also shows the struggle between the power of Words and the power of Blows, a conflict between Mind and Matter. It was necessary for the physically weak to have Eloquence : the blame of REYNARD is in the frightful misuse he makes of it. The author says, "There is in the world much seed left of the Fox, which now over all groweth and cometh sore up, though they have no red beards." 2. John Knox, the Scotch. Reformer. THE FIRST BLAST OF THE TRUMPET, &c. 1558. (a) The First Blast of a Trumpet against the monstrous Regiment of Women. (i>) The Propositions to be entreated in the Second BLAST. This work was wrung out of the heart of JOHN KNOX, while, at Dieppe, he heard of the martyr fires of England, and was anguished thereby. At that moment the liberties of Great Britain, and therein the hopes of the whole World, lay in the laps of four women MARY of Loraine, the Regent of Scotland ; her daughter MARY (the Queen of Scots); Queen MARY TUDOR ; and the Princess ELIZABETH. The Volume was printed at Geneva. (c) KNOX'S apologetical Defence of his FIRST BLAST, &c., to Queen ELIZABETH. 1559. 3. Clement Robinson, and divers others. A HANDFUL OF PLEASANT DELIGHTS. 1584. A Handeful of pleasant deities, Containing sundrie new Sonets and delectable Histories, in diuers kindes of Meeter. Newly deuised to the newest tunes that are now in vse, to be sung : euerie Sonet orderly pointed to his proper Tune. With new additions of certain Songs, to verie late deuised Notes, not commonly knowen, nor vsed heretofore. OPHELIA quotes from A Nosegaie, &>c., in this Poetical Miscellany ; of which only one copy is now known. It also contains the earliest text extant of the Ladle Greensleeues, which first appeared four years previously. This is the Third printed Poetical Miscellany in our language. 22 The English Scholars Library 4. [Simon Fish, of Gray's Inn.} A SUPPLICATION FOR THE BEGGARS. [? 1529.] A Supplicacyon for the Beggars. Stated by J. Fox to have been distributed in the streets of London on Candlemas Day [2 Feb., 1529]. This is the Fifth Protestant book (not being a portion of Holy Scripture that was printed in the English Language. The authorship of this anonymous tract, is fixed by a passage in Sir T. MORE'S Apology, of 1533, quoted in the Introduction. 5. [Rev. John Udall, Minister at Kingston on Thames.] DlOTREPHES. [1588.] The state of the Church of Englande, laid open in a confer nice betweene DIOTREPHES a Byshopp, TERTULLUS a Papiste, DE- METRIUS an vsurer, PANDOCHUS an Innekeeper, and PAULE a preacher of the -word of God. This is the forerunning tract of the MARTIN MARPRELATE Contro- versy. For the production of it, ROBERT WALDEGRAVE, the printer, was ruined ; and so became available for the printing of the Martinist invectives. The scene of the Dialogue is in PANDOCHUS'S Inn, which is in a posting- town on the high road from London to Edinburgh. . 6. [ ? ] THE RETURN FRO M PARNASSUS. [Acted 1602.] 1606. The Retume front Pernassus : or The Scourge of Simony. Ptibliquely acted by the Students in Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge. This play, written by a University man in December, 1601, brings WILLIAM KEMP and RICHARD BURBAGE on to the Stage, and makes them speak thus : " KEMP. Few of the vniuersity pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Oiiid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talke too much of Proserpina and htppiter. Why herees our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I [Ay] and Ben lonson too. O that Ben lonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought vp Horace giuing the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shake- speare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit : " BURBAGB. It's a shrewd fellow indeed : " What this controversy between SHAKESPEARE and JONSON was, has not yet been cleared up. It was evidently recent, when (in Dec., 1601) this play was written. The English Scholar s Library. 23 7. Thomas Decker, The Dramatist. THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF LONDON, &c. 1606. The seuen deadly Sinnes of London : drawn in seuen seuerall Coaches, throtigh the seuen seuerall Gates of the Citie, bringing the Plague with them. A prose Allegorical Satire, giving a most vivid picture of London life, in October, 1606. The seven sins are FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY. LYING. CANDLELIGHT (Deeds of Darkness). SLOTH. APISHNKSS (Changes of Fashion). SHAVING (Cheating), and CRUELTY. Their chariots, drivers, pages, attendants, and followers, are all allegori- cally described. 8. The Editor. AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH TO THE MARTIN MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY. 1588-1590. (a) The general Episcopal Administration, Censorship, Sfc. (b) The Origin of the Controversy. (() Depositions and Examinations. (d) State Documents. (e) The Brief held by Sir JOHN PUCKERING, against the Martinists. The REV. J. UDALL (who was, however, not a Martinist) ; Mrs. CRANE, of Molesey, Rev. J. PENRY, Sir R. KNIGHTLEY, of Fawsley, near North- ampton ; HUMPHREY NEWMAN, the London cobbler ; JOHN HALES, Esq., of Coventry ; Mr. and Mrs. WHEKSTON, of Wolston : JOB THROCKMORTON, Esq. ; HENRY SHARPE, bookbinder of Northampton, and the four printers. (f) Miscellaneous Information. (g) Who were the Writers who wrote under the name of MAR- TIN MARFRELATE? 9. [Rev. John Udall, Minister at Kingston on Thames.} A DEMONSTRATION OF DISCIPLINE. 1588. A Demonstration of the trueth of that discipline which CHRISTE hath prescribed in his wordefor the gouernement of his Church, in all times and places, vntil the ende of the worlde. Printed with the secret Martinist press, at East Molesey, near Hampton Court, in July, 1588 ; and secretly distributed with the Epitome in the following November. For this Work, UDALL lingered to death in prison. It is perhaps the most complete argument, in our language, for Presby- terian Puritanism, as it was then understood. Its author asserted for it, the infallibility of a Divine Logic ; but two generations had not passed away, before (under the teachings of Experience) much of this Church Polity had been discarded. 24 The English Scholar's Library. 10. Richard Stanyhurst, tht Irish Historian. Translation of ^ENEID I. -IV. 1582. Thee first fovre Bookes of VIRGIL his ^Eneis translated intoo English heroical [i.e., hexameter] verse by RICHARD STANY- HURST, wyth oother Poetical diuises theretoo annexed. Imprinted at Leiden in Holland by IOHN PATES, Anno M.D.LXXXII. This is one or the oddest and most grotesque books in the English language ; and having been printed in Flanders, the original Edition is of extreme rarity. The present text is, by the kindness of Lord ASHBURNHAM and S. CHRISTIE-MILLER, Esq., reprinted from the only two copies known, neither of which is quite perfect. GABRIEL HARVEY desired to be epitaphed, The Inventor of the English Hexameter; and STANYHURST, in imitating him, went further than any one else in maltreating English words to suit the exigencies of Classical feet. 11. Martin Marpr elate. THE EPISTLE. 1588. Oh read otter D. JOHN BRIDGES, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull vol- ume, written against the Puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, JOHN BRIDGES, Presbyter, Priest or Elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum. The Epitome [p. 26] is not yet published, but it shall be, when the Byshops are at convenient leysure to view the same. In the meane time, let them be content with this learned Epistle, Printed oversea, in Europe, within two furlongs of a Boun- sing Priest, at the cost and charges of M. MARPRELATE, gentle- man. 12. Robert Greene, M.A. MENAPHON. 1589- MENAPHON. CAMILLAS alarum to slumbering EUPHUES, in his melancholie Cell at Silexedra. Wherein are deciphered the variable effects of Fortune, the wonders of Loue, the triumphes of inconstant Time. Displaying in sundrie conceipted passions (figured in a continuate Historic} the Trophees that Vertue carrieth triumphant, maugre tht wrath of Enuie, or the resolu- tion of Fortune. One of GREENE'S novels with TOM NASH'S Preface, so important in refer- ence to the earlier HAMLET, before SHAKESPEARE'S tragedy. GREENE'S "love pamphlets" were the most popular Works of Fiction in England, up to the appearance of Sir P. SIDNEY'S Arcadia in 1590. The English Scholar s Library. 25 13. George Joy, an early Protestant Reformer. AN APOLOGY TO TINDALE. 1535- An Apologye made by GEORGE JOYE to satisfye (if it may be) W. TINDALE : to poitrge and defende himself ageinst so many sdaunderouse lyes fayned vpon him in TINDAL'S uncharitable andunsober Pystle so well worthye to be prefixed for the Reader to induce him into the understanding of hys new Testament dili- gently corrected and printed in the yeare of our Lorde, 1534, in Nouember [Antwerp, 27 Feb., 1535. This almost lost book is our only authority in respect to the surreptitious editions of the English New Testament, which were printed for the English market with very many errors, by Antwerp printers who knew not English, in the interval between TINDALE'S first editions in 1526, and his revised Text (above referred to) in 1534. 14. Richard Barnfield. of Darlaston, Staffordshire. POEMS. 1594-1598. The affectionate Shepherd. Containing the Complaint of DAPHNIS/V the Loue of GANYMEDE. In the following Work, BARNFIELD states that this is " an imitation of Virgill, in the second Eglogue of Alexis." CYNTHIA. With Certaine Sonnets, and the Legend of CAS- SANDRA. 1595. The Author thus concludes his Preface : " Thus, hoping you will beare with my rude conceit of Cynthia(A for no other cause, yet, for that it is the First Imitation of the verse of that excellent Poet, Maister Spencer, in his Fayrie Queetu), I leaue you to the reading of that, which I so much desire may breed your delight." The Encomion of Lady PECUNIA : or, The Praise of Money. 1598. Two of the Poems in this Text have been wrongly attributed to SHAKE- SPEARE. The disproof is given in the Introduction. 1 5. T[homas] C[ooper]. [Bishop of WINCHESTER.] ADMONITION TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. An admonition to the people of England' Wherein are an- swered, not onley the slaunderoui vntruethes, reprochfully uttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chief e of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredit the present state of the Church. {Jan. 1589]. This is the official reply on the part of the Hierarchy, to MARTIN MAR- PRELATE's Epistle of [Nov.] 1508 : see No. ii. on/. 24. It was published between the appearance of the EpistltxaA that of the Epitome. 26 The English Scholar s Library. 1 6. Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England. WORKS. 1608-1631. 2 vols. I2s. 6d. A complete edition, with six facsimile plates. Occasion was taken, in the preparation of this Edition, dispas- sionately to test the Author's statements. The result is perfectly satisfactory. The Lincolnshire Captain is to be implicitly believed in all that he relates of his own personal knowledge. The following are the chief Texts in this Volume : (i.) A true Relation of Occurrences in Virginia. 1608. (2.) A Map of Virginia. 1612. (3.) A Description of New England. 1616. (4.) New England's Trials. 1620 and 1622. (5.) The History of Virginia, New England, and Bermuda. 1624. (6. } An Accidence for young Seamen. 1626. (7.) His true Travels, Adventures, and Observations. 1630. (8.) Advertisements for Planters in New England, or any- where. 1631. The first Three English Books on America. [? 1511]-! 5 5 5. This work is a perfect Encyclopaedia respecting the earliest Spanish and English Voyages to America. Small Paper Edition, 456 pp., in One Volume, Demy 4/0, l is. Large Paper Edition in One Volume, Royal 4/0, .3 3-c. The Three Books are (i.) Of the new landes, etc. Printed at Antwerp about 1511. This is the first English, book in which the word America [. e. Armonica] occurs. (2.) A Treatise of the new India, etc. Translated by RICHARD EDEN from SEBASTIAN MUENSTER'S Cosmography: and printed in 1553.. The Second English Book on America. (3. ) The Decades of the New World, etc., by PIETRO MARTIRE [PETRUS MARTYR], translated by RICHARD EDEN, and printed in 1555. The Third English Book on America. SHAKESPEARE obtained the character of CALIBAN from this Work. A List of 837 London Publishers, This Master Key to English Bibliography for the period also gives the approximate period that each Publisher was in busi- ness. Demy 4/0, 32//., los. 6d. net. 27 Fcap. $to, Cloth, Gilt, los. 6d. net. THE ONLY KNOWN FRAGMENT OF The First printed English New Testament, in Quarto. BY W. TINDALE AND W. ROY. Sixty photo-lithographed pages ; preceded by a critical PREFACE. BRIEFLY told, the story of this profoundly interesting work is as follows : In 1524 TINDALE went from London to Hamburgh ; where remaining for about a year, he journeyed on to Cologne ; and there, assisted by WILLIAM ROY, subsequently the author of the satire on WOLSEY, Rede me and be nott wrotht [see/. 19], he began this first edition in 410, with glosses, of the English New Testament. A virulent enemy of the Reformation, COCHLJEUS, at that time an exile in Cologne, learnt, through giving wine to the printer's men, that P. QUENTAL the printer had in hand a secret edition of three thousand copies of the English New Testament. In great alarm, he informed HERMAN RINCK, a Senator of the city, who moved the Senate to stop the printing ; but COCHL^EUS could neither obtain a sight of the Translators, nor a sheet of the impression. TINDALE and ROY fled with the printed sheets up the Rhine to Worms ; and there completing this edition, produced also another in 8vo, without glosses. Both editions were probably in England by March, 1526. Of the six thousand copies of which they together were com- posed, there remain but this fragment of the First commenced edition, in 410 ; and" of the Second Edition, in 8vo, one complete copy in the Library of the Baptist College at Bristol, and an imperfect one in that of St Paul's Cathedral, London. In the Preface, the original documents are given intact, in connection with Evidence connected with the first Two Editions of the English New Testament, viz., in Quarto and Octavo I. WILLIAM TINDALE'S antecedent career. II. The Printing at Cologne. III. The Printing at Worms. IV. WILLIAM ROY'S connection with these Editions. V. The landing and distribution in England. VI. The persecution in England. Typographical and Literary Evidence connected with the present Fragment I. It was printed for TINDALE by PETER QUENTAL at Cologne, before 1526. II. It is not a portion of the separate Gospel of Matthew printed previous to that year. III. It is therefore certainly a fragment of the Quarto. Is the Quarto a translation of LUTHER'S German Version f Text. The prologge. Inner Marginal References. Outer Marginal Glosses. ** For a continuation of this Story see G. JOY'S Apology at p. 25. 28 THE WAR LIBRARY. Captain WILLIAM SIBORNE. The Waterloo Campaign. 1815. 4th Ed. Crown 8vo. 832 pages. 13 Medallion Portraits of Generals. 1 5 Maps and Plans. Bound in Red Cloth, uncut edges. FIVE SHILLINGS, Net. The Work is universally regarded to be the best general Account in the English language of the Twenty Days' War : including the Battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, Waterloo, and Wavre ; and the subsequent daring March on Paris. It is as fair to the French as it is to the Allies. WILLIAM BEATTY, M.D., Surgeon of H.M.S. Victory. An Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson. 2ist October, 1805. 2nd Ed. Crown 8vo. 96 pages. Two Illustrations : (i) Of Lord NELSON in the dress he wore when he received his mortal wound. (a) Of the Bullet that killed him. Bound in Blue Cloth, uncut edges. HALF-A-CROWN, Net 2 9 The Paston Letters. 1422-1509. A NEW EDITION, containing upwards of 400 letters, etc., hitherto unpublished. EDITED BY JAMES GAIRDNER, Of the Public Record Office. 3 Voh. Fcap. 8vo, Cloth extra, 15s. net. " The Paston Letters are an important testimony to the progressive con- dition of Society, and come in as a precious link in the chain of moral history of England, which they alone in this period supply. They stand, indeed, singly, as far as I know, in Europe ; for though it is highly probable that in the archives of Italian families, if not in France or Germany, a series of merely private letters equally ancient may be concealed ; I do not recollect that any have been published. They are all written in the reigns of HENRY VI. and EDWARD IV., except a few that extend as far as HENRY VII., by different members of a wealthy and respectable, but not noble, family ; and are, therefore, pictures of the life of the English gentry of that age." HENRY HALLAM, Introduction to the Literature of Europe, \. a8, Ed. 1837. These Letters are the genuine correspondence of a family in Nor- folk during the Wars of the Roses. As such, they are altogether unique in character ; yet the language is not so antiquated as to present any serious difficulty to the modern reader. The topics of the letters relate partly to the private affairs of the family, and partly to the stirring events of the time : and the correspondence includes State papers, love letters, bailiffs accounts, sentimental poems, jocular epistles, etc. Besides the public news of the day, such as the Loss of Nor- mandy by the English ; the indictment, and subsequent murder at sea of the Duke of SUFFOLK ; and all the fluctuations of the great struggle of YORK and LANCASTER ; we have the story of JOHN PASTON'S first introduction to his wife ; incidental notices of severe domestic discipline, in which his sister frequently had her head broken ; letters from Dame ELIZABETH BREWS, a match-making Mamma, who reminds the youngest JOHN PASTON that Friday is "Saint Valentine's Day," and invites him to come and visit her family from the Thursday evening till the Monday, etc., etc. Every Letter has been exhaustively annotated ; and a Chrono- logical Table, with most copious Indices, conclude the Work. 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