portrait of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
THis
gloryous
and
blessyd
confessour
&
true
relygyous
keper
called
saynt
Nycholas
of
tollentyne
/
was
borne
in
a
countree
called
Pycen
in
a
well
dysposed
Cyte
called
Fyrmane
.
His
fathers
name
was
Compagnous
.
His
mother
hyght
Amata
/
bothe
were
very
deuoute
folke
/
and
well
dysposed
.
The
whiche
longe
lackynge
a
chylde
gretely
desyrynge
to
haue
one
/
full
besyly
bothe
daye
&
nyght
besoughte
almyghty
god
with
deuoute
voyce
&
prayers
that
they
myghte
haue
one
that
myght
be
his
dylygente
seruaunt
.
And
bycause
they
thought
themselfe
vnworthy
to
be
herde
/
they
dayly
worshipped
blessyd
saynt
Nycholas
deuoutly
besechynge
hym
to
be
theyr
aduocate
that
they
myght
obteyne
theyr
petycionand
askynge
.
And
at
the
laste
of
theyr
more
deuocyon
by
the
inspyracyon
of
the
holy
ghost
they
wente
on
pylgrymage
to
a
towne
of
the
countree
of
Apuley
called
Barus
.
Where
the
for
sayd
gloryous
bysshop
saynt
Nycholas
by
an
ymage
that
was
there
of
hym
that
was
gretely
sought
&
worshypped
.
And
whan
they
had
done
theyr
pylgrymage
they
retourned
home
agayne
faythefully
trustynge
on
god
our
lady
&
saynt
Nycholas
to
haue
theyr
desyrynge
&
petycyon
/
as
at
the
laste
they
had
by
theyr
concessyon
&
grace
.
For
anone
after
they
came
home
the
forsayd
deuoute
woman
Amata
conceyued
and
by
processe
she
had
a
chylde
/
whome
she
caused
to
be
crystened
Nycholas
in
the
worshyp
of
theyr
aduocate
&
patron
saynt
Nycholas
that
they
behette
to
for
a
chylde
.
lectio
.
ij
.
THis
forsayd
chylde
Nycholas
brought
vp
in
the
vertuous
examples
&
holsome
techinges
of
his
father
&
mother
/
&
also
well
lettered
in
scrypture
/
grewe
in
chyldhode
meruaylously
good
/
so
that
all
the
folke
of
the
towne
praysed
his
vertuous
lyuynge
beynge
but
a
chylde
/
&
his
gracyous
dysposycyon
ayenst
all
men
/
as
prophecyenge
afore
/
sayd
playnly
that
grete
holynes
sholde
proue
afterwarde
in
hym
/
for
his
lyfe
shewed
and
appered
a
certayne
specyall
prerogatyue
of
all
gentylnesse
certely
/
mekenes
/
softenes
/
chastyte
of
mynde
and
body
and
so
grete
abstynence
he
dyde
that
whan
he
was
but
.vij.
yere
olde
he
fasted
thre
dayes
in
the
weke
.
Also
he
was
of
gret
pyte
/
so
that
oftentymes
wylfully
he
brought
pore
men
seke
or
dyseased
in
to
his
fathers
house
/
and
there
through
his
entyse
caused
them
to
be
releued
&
cherysshed
.
Also
he
was
of
good
relygyon
and
byleue
vnto
god
whose
ensamples
he
loked
vpon
or
redde
or
elles
remembred
/
the
good
wordes
&
commaundementes
with
a
ryght
feruent
desyre
he
gladly
herde
&
fastly
euer
prynted
them
in
his
mynde
.
In
the
whiche
thynge
is
noted
a
meruayll
the
whiche
blessed
Nycholas
tolde
in
his
laste
dayes
to
a
certayne
relygous
man
that
toke
hede
to
hym
whan
he
was
sore
seke
on
a
tyme
/
saynge
that
in
his
chyldehode
whan
he
dyde
helpe
a
preest
to
synge
masse
.
Whan
the
blessed
sacrament
was
lyfte
vp
/
our
sauyour
Iesu
cryst
appered
to
hym
in
the
lykenes
of
a
fayre
chylde
in
a
relucent
garmente
and
a
bryght
shynynge
face
and
mery
chere
/
saynt
Nycholas
herde
hym
sayng
these
wordes
.
Innocentes
&
recti
adheserunt
michi
.
That
is
to
saye
Innocentes
&
good
harmeles
men
hath
drawen
vnto
me
.
Also
he
sayd
that
in
so
moche
that
he
strongely
relysted
theyr
grete
temptacyon
of
all
goostly
enmyes
&
euer
for
soke
his
owne
wyl
to
please
hym
/
he
sholde
haue
the
more
grace
and
accepcyon
of
prayers
.
Lo
what
mede
it
is
to
waxe
good
by
tymes
/
for
grace
groweth
after
gouernaunce
.
Lcton
.
iij.
AS
he
was
a
yonge
man
he
gretely
coueyted
relygyon
/
whiche
euer
he
specyally
loued
/
&
was
made
a
chanon
in
a
place
called
saynt
sauyour
/
he
grew
vp
in
vertue
as
he
begon
tredynge
downe
&
leuynge
a
syde
all
the
vyces
of
youth
&
with
grete
payne
merueyllously
for
berynge
and
leuynge
all
maner
of
slouth
wyldnes
&
synnes
of
youth
.
It
forturied
on
a
tyme
he
herde
a
certayne
relygyous
man
of
the
nombre
of
them
that
blessed
saynt
Austyn
had
ordeyned
&
called
frere
heremyte
whan
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
herde
this
holy
relygyous
man
declare
&
shewe
openly
amonge
the
people
the
perylles
/
Ieoperdyes
&
vanytees
of
the
worlde
exortynge
all
folke
in
theyr
hertes
to
dyspyse
the
worlde
/
&
whan
this
blessed
Nycholas
herde
hym
anone
it
kyndeled
him
inwardly
/
in
so
moche
that
vtterly
he
purposed
wylfully
to
do
&
fullfyll
that
thynge
with
all
his
herte
that
the
relygyous
man
had
aduysed
hym
to
do
.
Wherfore
he
yode
to
the
relygyous
man
whose
wordes
were
roted
in
his
herte
&
lowly
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
helpe
him
for
charyte
out
of
the
bandes
of
the
worlde
in
the
whiche
sayd
saynt
Nycholas
I
haue
ben
fetered
&
combred
vnto
this
daye
/
&
that
I
myght
be
worthy
too
be
receyued
amonge
the
nombre
of
your
bretherne
freres
hermytes
of
the
ordre
of
saynt
Austyn
.
For
I
quod
saynt
Nycholas
hertely
desyre
euer
to
serue
&
gyue
me
to
god
/
vtterly
to
for
sake
the
worlde
/
the
deuyl
/
&
my
flesshe
.
And
in
euery
thynge
&
poynt
to
lyue
relygyously
to
the
vttermest
of
my
power
by
the
grace
of
god
/
&
so
dyde
he
gladly
.
His
father
and
his
mother
were
gladde
thereof
/
and
at
the
fyrst
consented
therto
.
lcton
.
iiij
.
AS
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
had
taken
upon
hym
the
relygion
of
frere
hermytes
of
the
ordre
of
saynt
Austyn
aboute
the
.xv.
yere
of
his
age
/
helyued
vertuously
therin
tyll
conuenyent
&
able
tyme
of
his
ful
aege
/
and
than
he
was
made
a
preest
in
a
towne
called
cyngulus
.
At
the
laste
he
was
sente
of
the
rulers
of
the
ordre
to
Tollentyne
where
he
ledde
almoost
all
his
lyfe
with
a
merueylous
abstynence
in
so
moche
the
he
fasted
.iiij.
dayes
euery
weke
brede
&
water
alonely
/
besyde
the
dayes
that
were
commaunded
by
the
chyrche
.
Also
flesshe
/
fysshe
nor
egges
/
whyte
mete
nor
apples
this
blessed
Nycholas
neuer
ete
.
And
on
a
tyme
whan
he
was
sore
seke
they
that
had
power
to
commaunde
vnneth
coude
brynge
hym
or
cause
him
to
ete
fless
he
a
certayne
season
bycause
to
make
hym
stronge
and
restore
his
helthe
.
And
an
other
tyme
whan
he
was
so
sore
&
greuously
seke
than
there
semed
no
lenger
lyfe
in
hym
/
nor
no
man
behete
hym
lyfe
in
this
worlde
/
as
he
was
in
a
faynt
slepe
he
sawe
Mary
vyrgyn
mother
of
god
/
&
also
saynt
Austyn
whose
helpe
he
besought
with
all
entencyon
of
all
his
herte
standynge
by
hym
with
a
mery
chere
.
And
whan
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
sawe
them
afore
hym
he
gretly
meruaylled
and
thanked
them
of
theyr
comynge
.
And
they
exorted
hym
&
commaunded
hym
to
be
of
good
chere
/
the
blessed
vyrgyn
Mary
shewed
her
fynger
to
a
strete
and
commaunded
hym
that
in
the
name
of
her
sone
he
sholde
go
in
that
strete
to
a
certayne
woman
whose
name
she
shewed
hym
/
&
that
he
sholde
aske
the
woman
newe
bake
brede
in
the
honoure
of
our
lady
&
her
sone
and
wete
it
in
water
/
and
anone
he
sholde
amende
.
And
as
he
was
commaunded
in
his
slepe
he
dyde
whan
he
waked
trustynge
in
almyghty
god
&
the
blessed
vyrgyn
mary
and
saynt
Austyn
to
be
heled
/
&
so
he
was
.
lcton
.
v.
THis
blessyd
saynt
Nycholas
punysshed
his
flesshe
&
his
body
with
grete
hardnes
&
correccyon
And
for
more
correccyon
he
ware
moost
often
chaynes
of
yron
.
And
also
softe
&
easy
beddes
&
syttynges
&
softe
and
easy
clothes
&
raymentes
he
euer
refused
.
He
laye
vpon
chaffe
the
whiche
he
thoughte
was
to
easy
for
his
body
.
Also
the
clothes
the
he
ware
was
sharpe
course
and
harde
and
often
chafed
his
body
in
many
places
.
Also
in
hym
was
grete
stedfastnes
/
for
on
a
tyme
whan
he
was
entysed
&
counsaylled
of
a
certayne
ryche
kynnesman
of
his
/
that
he
sholde
leue
so
sharpe
&
harde
a
lyfe
and
go
backe
to
an
other
place
the
he
coude
gete
him
to
where
he
myght
lyue
more
plenteously
/
and
more
delycyously
saynt
Nycholas
euer
refused
it
vtterly
with
a
stronge
mynde
in
god
/
for
he
coude
neuer
bowe
his
mynde
therto
.
His
mekenes
&
obedyence
was
excedynge
without
mesure
/
for
not
alonely
to
his
superyour
/
but
also
to
his
euenall
and
his
inferyor
.
He
was
obedyent
in
goodnes
and
suffred
them
all
.
He
had
to
all
folke
a
synguler
and
a
meruaylous
pyte
and
charyte
/
namely
to
poore
folke
/
and
nedy
/
&
to
theym
that
were
in
ony
trouble
or
sekenes
/
whome
often
he
vysyted
&
conforted
whan
he
was
very
seke
and
weyke
hymselfe
.
Somtyme
he
comforted
them
&
releued
them
with
wordes
and
somtyme
he
exhorted
theym
to
kepe
pacyence
with
good
doctryne
of
scrypture
.
And
somtyme
he
refresshed
theym
with
bodely
fode
and
clothynge
euery
man
after
his
nede
.
Also
he
caused
thrughe
his
swete
exortacyon
and
grete
many
men
that
he
knewe
had
rychesse
to
do
the
same
too
the
poore
and
nedy
.
Whan
this
blessed
saynte
Nycholas
had
knowledge
of
ony
folkes
synnes
or
fautes
eyther
by
preuy
confessyon
/
or
by
ony
otherwyse
he
was
so
sory
that
he
wolde
wepe
and
praye
for
them
and
punysshed
his
body
sore
with
fastes
and
correccyon
to
gete
them
forgyuenes
and
grace
to
amende
themselfe
and
to
contynue
in
goodnes
.
This
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
was
pale
of
face
shamefast
and
gladde
/
and
mery
of
countenaunce
/
of
a
smothe
and
fayre
flesshe
/
and
kynde
to
euery
body
.
And
he
was
moost
myse
/
redy
/
and
dylygente
to
ony
thynge
that
he
sholde
do
that
was
good
&
goodly
Lcton
.vi.
ALso
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
sayd
masse
euery
daye
/
but
he
neuer
sayd
masse
but
he
was
clene
shryuen
afore
/
ne
there
can
no
tongue
tell
the
deuocyon
that
he
had
euer
and
in
especyall
at
masse
/
for
the
streyght
of
his
masse
was
so
spedy
towardes
god
that
on
a
tyme
whan
he
wente
to
a
place
called
Pethaurus
in
a
certayne
wyldernesse
by
the
waye
and
layde
hym
downe
vpon
the
grounde
for
fayntnes
/
and
was
halfe
a
slepe
there
appered
vnto
hym
the
soule
of
a
certayne
man
whome
saynt
Nycholas
knewe
well
ynoghe
and
loued
in
his
lyfe
/
the
whiche
prayed
hym
instauntly
that
he
wolde
saye
masse
for
hym
/
the
whiche
sholde
not
delyuer
and
do
profyte
alonely
to
hym
but
also
it
sholde
profyte
vnto
innumerable
other
soules
the
whiche
soules
were
in
a
certayne
playne
there
nye
by
that
he
shewed
to
saynt
Nycholas
/
where
they
were
punysshed
and
tormented
with
greuous
paynes
/
and
that
same
soule
the
whiche
was
comen
vnto
saynt
Nycholas
for
socoure
and
helpe
was
also
tormented
with
them
with
the
same
selfe
tormentes
that
they
hadde
.
And
euen
so
it
was
done
.
¶
For
seuen
dayes
after
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
had
done
the
masse
he
sawe
than
in
his
slepe
the
same
soule
in
grete
&
infynyte
Ioy
and
myrthe
thankynge
saynt
Nycholas
entyerly
besechynge
hym
that
thrughe
his
helpe
the
other
grete
innumerable
multytude
of
soules
myght
be
delyuered
from
theyr
greuous
paynes
/
and
that
they
myght
come
to
heuen
to
euerlastynge
Ioye
and
gladnesse
.
Feria
.
ij
.
lec
.
j.
THe
custome
of
syngynge
of
this
blessed
saynte
was
euer
to
be
besy
so
that
he
slepte
neuer
a
nyght
almost
/
but
prayed
contynually
/
and
the
daye
also
/
saue
whan
he
was
besy
eyther
in
refresshynge
his
body
with
mete
or
drynke
/
the
whiche
he
toke
full
soberly
and
full
seldome
as
it
is
shewed
before
/
or
elles
in
herynge
confessyons
or
doyenge
other
necessary
thynges
that
were
good
and
vertuous
.
He
prayed
with
so
grete
stedfastnes
and
entencyon
&
was
eleuate
&
fyrmly
set
with
so
grete
attendement
&
vehemente
of
deuocyon
that
he
semed
holely
rauysshed
in
god
/
&
vtterly
delyuered
&
done
of
fro
man
/
nor
there
was
nothynge
so
hygh
and
grete
to
obteyne
but
with
the
excelente
delyte
&
besynes
as
who
sayth
with
soo
hote
affeccyon
&
hyghe
deuocyan
of
his
moost
stedfast
prayers
this
blessed
saynt
obteyned
it
&
gate
it
.
lcton
.ij.
FOr
the
whiche
namely
he
vsed
a
certayne
oratory
&
praynge
place
Ioyned
&
fast
by
an
aulter
where
nowe
his
moost
holy
bones
are
&
rest
.
Also
in
his
celle
laye
a
stone
the
whiche
he
kneled
vpon
/
&
another
the
he
lened
his
armes
vpon
whan
he
was
so
wery
that
he
coude
in
no
wyse
holde
theym
vp
no
lenger
/
and
wynter
and
somer
kneeled
on
the
colde
stones
.
lectio
.
iij.
HErof
the
fendes
had
grete
dyspyte
so
that
they
cesed
not
alonely
to
tempte
hym
with
dyuers
temptacyons
/
but
also
they
seynge
that
they
coude
in
no
wyse
cause
hym
to
consente
to
no
maner
suggestyons
of
temptacyons
/
sette
agaynste
hym
open
bataylle
/
and
vexed
hym
with
moost
sharpest
rebukes
/
threttes
vexacyons
and
sore
woundes
.
More
ouer
more
Inwardly
and
hardly
than
a
man
can
thynke
.
¶
And
more
ouer
on
a
tyme
whan
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
amended
his
garmentes
the
deuylles
toke
it
awaye
frome
hym
bycause
his
prayer
was
of
soo
grete
effecte
/
&
they
wolde
haue
caused
hym
to
leue
of
his
prayer
/
and
muse
on
thynges
vnprofytable
to
his
soule
the
whiche
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
knewe
ryght
well
bycause
of
his
good
lyuynge
&
mooste
grete
payne
in
resystynge
temptacyon
the
whiche
two
thynges
good
lyuinge
and
forsakynge
the
consentynge
of
temptacion
&
for
the
same
cause
another
tyme
they
put
out
his
lampe
&
cast
it
on
the
grounde
and
brake
it
.
lcton
.
iiij
.
ALso
oftentymes
these
forsayde
deuylles
made
grete
noyses
in
his
celle
houlynge
abhomynably
/
bycause
his
prayers
was
of
so
grete
effecte
/
&
made
russhynge
&
claterynge
of
stones
/
and
crackynge
of
the
tymbre
as
all
the
celle
shold
haue
fallen
downe
.
And
forall
this
they
seynge
that
they
coude
not
in
no
wyse
let
hym
of
his
prayer
/
nor
ones
too
make
hym
to
loke
asyde
for
he
thought
on
god
.
And
ones
he
sayd
yf
it
be
temptacyon
I
wyll
praye
moche
more
to
haue
grace
to
with
stande
it
.
yf
it
be
goddes
sonde
I
wyll
praye
feruentely
to
haue
mercy
and
grace
for
I
care
not
what
payne
come
to
my
body
so
it
be
to
the
helthe
of
my
soule
.
And
the
deuylles
seynge
that
they
coude
not
let
hym
but
he
prayed
more
and
more
/
they
came
in
at
his
dore
with
huge
and
oryble
lokes
&
ferefull
noyses
/
rorynges
and
cryenges
.
And
they
scorged
hym
so
gretely
&
bette
hym
so
fyersly
that
many
days
after
the
markes
of
the
whyppes
&
scorges
appered
in
all
the
partes
of
his
body
.
Lectio
.
v.
THe
whiche
also
another
tyme
they
dydde
vnto
hym
in
his
celle
dore
where
they
mette
hym
by
nyght
goynge
to
his
oratory
/
they
chydde
hym
&
ouerthrewe
hym
greuously
to
the
grounde
.
And
euer
whan
he
wolde
haue
rysen
vp
they
bete
hym
downe
agayne
and
hurte
him
ryght
sore
/
and
made
so
grete
noyse
that
the
freres
herde
it
and
rose
from
theyr
beddes
.
And
as
they
knewe
the
horryble
batayle
of
this
holy
man
they
toke
hym
vp
as
deed
and
bare
hym
too
his
bedde
.
And
therof
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
was
soo
feblysshed
that
euer
after
he
was
lame
.
And
lyke
wyse
we
rede
that
it
happened
soo
to
saynt
Anthony
abbot
.
This
thynge
was
of
gret
proue
&
holynes
/
&
that
he
was
good
whiche
the
deuylles
hated
so
/
&
dyde
so
grete
payne
and
persecucyon
that
he
was
a
martyr
ghostly
.
lectio
.
vi
.
THese
wycked
deuylles
also
had
greate
enuy
of
saynt
Nycholas
good
bretherne
&
of
the
bryghtnes
of
his
moost
holy
lyfe
/
fro
whome
as
they
knewe
wel
came
so
bryght
bemes
of
vertue
that
chased
all
derkenes
of
deedly
synne
and
lyghtynge
with
good
ensample
/
and
gloryfyed
all
holy
chyrche
bothe
ferre
&
brode
.
Also
thrughe
the
grete
counsayll
of
god
it
fortuned
that
this
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
sawe
a
meruaylous
vysyon
of
a
starre
the
fyrste
appered
vnto
hym
whan
he
was
a
slepe
as
there
were
a
grete
multytude
of
people
vpon
it
so
that
him
thought
it
stratched
fro
the
towne
that
he
was
borne
in
/
vnto
Tollentyne
where
after
he
deseased
.
At
laste
it
appered
vnto
hym
more
oftener
/
whan
he
was
awaked
&
euer
it
wente
afore
hym
to
an
aulter
that
stode
by
his
oratory
that
he
prayed
in
.
Feria
.
iij.
lcton
.
j.
WHan
this
blessed
saynte
Nycholas
turned
his
backe
to
go
fro
the
aulter
the
starre
vanysshed
away
/
the
whiche
whan
this
vertuous
father
vnderstode
many
yeres
afore
his
dethe
commaunded
that
his
body
sholde
be
buryed
there
whan
he
shall
departe
and
that
no
man
sholde
take
it
fro
thens
.
Also
by
this
vysyon
playnly
god
wolde
it
sholde
be
sygnyfied
that
the
moost
bryghtest
clerenes
of
his
moost
holy
lyfe
and
the
bryghtnes
of
his
grete
deserues
shewed
euery
where
&
the
ful
constaunt
&
shyninge
bryghtnes
of
his
grete
and
innumerable
myracles
sholde
lyghten
&
sprynge
out
at
the
aulter
where
by
the
vysyon
of
god
wolde
he
sholde
be
buryed
.
HEre
shall
be
shewed
the
myracles
of
this
blessed
saynt
bryefly
.
There
was
a
certayn
woman
that
euer
whan
she
conceyued
the
chylde
was
borne
or
the
tyme
/
&
she
toke
grete
sorowe
&
confessed
herselfe
with
grete
waylynges
&
wepynges
/
&
betoke
herselfe
to
hym
do
what
he
wolde
with
her
/
mekely
besechynge
hym
too
praye
for
her
/
for
it
was
vtterly
agaynst
her
wyl
.
And
this
blyssed
saynt
Nycholas
soo
prayed
for
her
vnto
god
that
euer
after
she
had
good
delyueraunce
.
¶
The
same
woman
had
a
lytyll
doughter
that
had
so
greuous
a
swellynge
vnder
her
chynne
that
it
must
nedes
be
cut
&
not
without
grete
peryll
.
And
yet
this
blyssed
saynt
Nycholas
thrughe
his
prayer
yelded
her
safe
&
sounde
to
her
mother
.
lcon
.
iij.
ALso
this
blyssed
saynt
Nycholas
delyuered
an
other
woman
the
whiche
thrughe
trauayll
.viij.
dayes
tofore
was
greuously
payned
vnto
dethe
.
Also
he
heeled
another
woman
fro
grete
payne
that
she
had
in
her
eyen
&
in
her
heed
&
in
her
face
swellynge
/
thrughe
the
besechynge
of
her
sone
to
saynt
Nycholas
that
knewe
than
his
vertue
.
Also
another
chylde
that
fel
in
the
fyre
&
the
handes
&
the
armes
was
so
sore
brenned
that
the
fyngers
grewe
togyder
/
whiche
was
heeled
thrughe
the
prayers
of
saynt
Nycholas
.
lcton
.
iiij
.
IN
lykewyse
he
heled
another
womans
sone
that
fell
also
in
to
the
fyre
&
brent
all
his
face
&
lost
his
syght
.
And
also
he
gaue
another
woman
her
sight
that
had
two
grete
eyen
&
they
stared
out
and
yet
she
coude
not
se
.
Also
another
woman
had
so
grete
disease
in
her
eyen
that
she
coude
not
se
at
all
.
And
she
had
bothe
leches
and
charmes
for
the
same
cause
/
and
whan
they
hadde
done
the
beste
that
they
coude
she
was
neuer
the
better
but
had
more
sorowe
/
for
she
lost
bothe
her
wytte
&
naturall
strengthe
/
but
by
the
prayers
of
this
blessyd
saynt
Nycholas
she
had
perfyte
syght
and
strength
.
lcton
.
v.
ALso
it
is
to
be
noted
that
he
perfytely
heeled
an
other
woman
that
was
so
often
vexed
with
so
grete
need
ache
that
she
myght
nother
heere
nor
se
.
¶
Also
he
perfytely
heled
a
woman
of
the
blody
flyxe
/
whome
no
leche
nor
medycyne
coude
helpe
.
Also
he
perfytely
heled
a
womans
breste
that
was
sore
hurte
.
Also
he
fully
heled
a
certayne
relygyous
man
of
his
ordre
that
was
brusten
&
sore
vexed
withall
.
Also
he
heled
perfytely
another
that
had
loste
the
strength
of
all
the
lefte
syde
of
his
body
/
and
that
fote
of
his
lefte
syde
.
And
also
another
that
was
moost
greuously
vexed
with
heed
ache
&
many
other
he
delyuered
fro
moost
greuous
and
ferefull
axes
.
Also
he
fully
heled
another
man
that
hewed
blockes
&
cut
the
shynnes
of
his
legges
with
so
grete
stroke
that
all
the
leches
sayd
playnly
that
there
was
no
hope
at
all
that
euer
he
sholde
be
heled
.
lcton
.
vi
.
THis
saynt
Nycholas
also
knewe
afore
and
proued
full
many
thynges
by
the
holy
ghost
.
Also
a
poore
woman
gaue
hym
a
certayne
of
floure
for
almesse
/
he
lefte
some
of
it
/
and
she
had
that
lytyll
home
in
her
vessell
/
and
it
was
so
encreased
whan
she
sholde
occupye
it
by
myracle
that
it
was
moche
more
than
euer
it
was
.
Also
at
masse
whan
there
was
water
brought
hym
and
he
lacked
wyne
/
by
his
prayer
the
water
was
torned
in
to
good
wyne
.
Also
partryges
was
brought
hym
deer
and
rosted
/
he
commaunded
them
to
flee
and
they
had
fethers
and
lyfe
/
&
flewe
forth
with
all
as
well
as
euer
they
dyd
.
Also
by
his
prayer
he
made
a
stone
hole
agayne
the
kynge
afore
the
crucyfyxe
with
yron
chaynes
&
fell
vpon
his
heed
.
Also
by
his
prayer
he
made
hole
another
stone
that
a
grete
blacke
byrde
lyke
a
kyte
dyde
breke
/
whan
there
was
a
counsayll
taken
in
the
cloyster
of
Tollentyne
too
make
a
pyt
and
wyte
where
it
myght
best
be
done
thrughe
the
prayers
of
this
holy
man
it
is
sothe
that
in
the
top
of
a
certayne
rede
the
water
sprange
vp
/
by
the
whiche
token
they
vnderstode
playnly
that
there
it
was
best
to
dygge
it
.
¶
In
translatio
scti
Nicolai
.
Lectio
.
j.
ALso
this
greate
myracle
is
to
be
had
in
mynde
that
whan
this
pytte
was
in
dyggynge
a
greate
quaue
began
bothe
in
the
pytte
&
in
the
foundacyon
of
that
chyrche
.
And
whan
this
blyssed
saynt
prayed
wepynge
the
grounde
was
sad
&
sure
/
so
that
there
was
no
fere
fallynge
.
Whan
that
this
moost
holy
man
shone
with
so
grete
myracles
at
the
laste
god
ordeyned
to
call
hym
vnto
hym
/
and
whan
the
ende
of
his
lyfe
drawed
nye
he
herde
by
nyght
before
matyns
tyme
the
moost
swetest
aungelles
the
which
abode
contynually
.vi.
monethes
before
his
dethe
.
lcton
.
ij
.
THis
blessed
saynt
Nycholas
had
so
grete
delyte
in
the
herynge
of
them
that
he
brennynge
for
that
desyre
of
another
lyfe
and
ceased
not
to
saye
with
saynt
Paule
I
desyre
and
coueyte
to
be
departed
&
to
be
with
cryste
/
for
than
I
were
surer
.
And
openly
he
sayd
vnto
them
that
were
present
that
the
tyme
of
his
dethe
was
nye
/
the
whiche
he
toke
with
so
grete
mekenes
and
deuocyon
that
they
meruayled
that
stode
by
/
namly
whan
they
sawe
hym
with
so
grete
mekenes
askynge
theym
forgyuenes
for
all
that
he
had
trespassed
them
.
He
wente
with
so
grete
Ioye
&
gladnes
that
he
was
sene
stonde
euer
by
the
heuenly
company
of
aungelles
/
and
it
was
no
meruayll
bycause
our
sauyoure
Iesu
cryste
appered
to
hym
with
his
blyssed
mother
vyrgyn
/
&
saynt
Austyn
his
aduouryes
confortynge
hym
&
sayenge
/
well
thou
be
thou
good
seruaunt
and
true
come
in
to
the
Ioye
of
thy
god
.
&c.