¶
The
fyrst
chapytre
of
this
fyrst
parte
is
of
the
progenye
of
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
of
sene
and
of
other
maters
whiche
befyll
touchyng
her
:
or
she
went
out
openly
abrode
And
of
her
fader
and
moder
and
of
the
condycions
of
theym
/
Capitulum
primum
IN
the
cite
of
Geene
in
Italye
and
of
the
prouynce
of
Tuskane
ther
was
a
man
his
name
was
Janes
or
Jacob
and
his
fader
was
callyd
in
the
comyn
speche
of
the
contree
Beuencasa
:
This
James
was
symple
vertuous
wythout
fraude
or
deceyte
to
ony
man
dredynge
god
and
fleyng
alle
euyll
:
After
the
deth
of
his
fader
and
moder
he
toke
a
wyf
of
the
same
Cyte
/
her
name
was
lapa
:
She
was
a
woman
wythout
suche
malyce
that
is
vsed
amonge
men
that
ben
now
in
our
tyme
/
all
be
it
that
she
was
full
besy
aboute
that
longeth
to
houshold
and
about
meynye
and
seruauntes
as
it
was
knowen
openly
to
all
that
knewe
her
whyle
she
liued
here
in
erthe
/
whan
they
bothe
were
ioyned
to
gyder
in
matrymonye
and
lyuyd
vertuously
in
symplycite
/
suffycient
habondaunce
they
hadde
of
temperall
godes
/
and
they
bothe
of
gentyll
and
commendable
byrthe
.
Our
reuerende
lorde
blessyd
lapa
graciously
&
fulfylled
hyr
plentuously
wyth
the
birthe
of
chyldren
as
an
habondaunt
vyne
in
the
hous
of
Jacob
whiche
was
her
husbond
.
For
eche
yere
almost
she
conceyued
and
bare
a
sone
or
a
doughter
and
ofte
fythes
ij
.
sones
or
two
doughters
/
After
tyme
this
Jacob
was
passeth
out
of
this
worlde
:
Lapa
his
wyf
as
for
a
synguler
laude
and
commendacion
/
rehersyd
and
saide
to
mayster
Reymonde
the
confessour
of
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
and
glorious
martyr
katheryn
that
she
was
euer
of
soo
lyke
dysposycion
and
soo
moderate
in
worde
/
that
what
occacion
euer
came
or
trouble
or
trybulacion
/
he
exceded
neuer
in
speche
by
hasty
ne
angrye
worde
/
but
whan
he
saw
ony
of
his
meyny
greued
or
herd
hem
speke
angerly
or
bytter
wordes
/
anon
he
comforted
eche
of
theym
wyth
a
glad
●here
and
sayde
in
the
maner
of
that
contree
.
A
brother
good
day
be
to
the
:
be
not
troubled
:
speke
not
suche
wordes
which
falleth
ne
semeth
not
vs
to
speke
/
¶
And
in
speciall
lapa
his
wyf
wherseth
that
whan
on
a
tyme
one
of
his
neybours
dysesyd
hym
&
wrongfully
asked
hym
a
grete
some
of
monye
whiche
he
owed
not
by
none
reason
▪
and
soo
moche
he
vexed
hym
that
symple
man
wyth
the
might
of
other
frendes
and
supplanted
hym
wyth
grete
wronges
that
he
brought
hym
to
the
losse
of
alle
his
godes
/
And
in
alle
this
tyme
:
this
good
man
myght
neuer
suffre
in
his
presence
a
man
to
curse
hym
wronge
ne
to
speke
of
hym
harme
in
noo
wyse
/
In
soo
moche
that
he
blamed
his
wyf
Lapa
wyth
softe
wordes
:
and
sayd
suffre
dere
wyf
/
the
good
day
be
to
the
for
our
lord
shall
shewe
hym
therrour
.
&
he
shall
be
oure
defendour
:
whiche
wordes
were
founde
southe
afterward
:
for
the
veryte
was
shewed
openly
as
lyke
to
a
myracle
:
And
he
for
payne
that
he
hadde
in
his
conscyence
delyuerd
agayne
how
moche
he
hadde
errid
in
his
wrongfull
persecucion
to
the
good
man
Jacob
/
Thyse
wordes
sayde
Lapa
to
mayster
Reymonde
to
whos
wordes
he
yaue
full
truste
/
for
as
it
was
knowe
to
all
that
knewe
her
:
she
was
of
soo
moche
symplenesse
at
her
age
of
xxiiij
yere
:
that
though
she
wold
haue
lyed
:
she
●●wde
not
haue
feyned
suche
a
lesyng
:
And
soo
was
the
commyn
testymonye
of
alle
tho
that
knewe
her
husbonde
.
Jacob
that
was
he
a
man
ful
symple
by
Innocencye
and
ryghtfull
:
alwaye
fleyng
from
euyll
:
Also
this
good
mannys
softenes
in
speche
was
soo
vertuous
/
that
alle
his
meyny
namely
wymmen
dame
sels
taught
in
his
foole
myght
not
speke
ne
here
noo
worde
that
were
not
semely
or
dyshoneste
:
In
so
moche
that
one
of
his
doughter
whiche
was
callyd
Bonauentura
was
wedded
to
a
yonge
man
whiche
was
callyd
Nycolas
of
the
same
Cyte
wyth
whome
were
conuersaunt
many
other
yong
men
of
hys
age
by
cause
he
hadde
nother
fader
ne
moder
/
And
thyse
men
and
he
wythout
ony
refreynynge
of
tongue
spake
eche
to
other
▪
and
he
wyth
other
:
And
they
wyth
hym
foule
wordes
of
dyshoneste
mater
.
This
Bonauentura
att
the
laste
toke
therof
soo
grete
an
heuynes
that
she
fyll
in
to
suche
sykenes
that
fro
day
to
daye
more
&
more
she
waxed
lene
/
and
vanysshed
almost
awaye
and
ryght
feble
/
Her
husbonde
sawe
this
and
asked
hyr
the
cause
of
her
heuynesse
and
sekenesse
/
And
she
answerd
and
sayde
.
I
was
norysshed
in
myn
faders
hours
.
and
there
was
I
neuer
wonte
to
here
suche
wordes
as
I
here
now
euery
daye
/
And
so
was
I
neuer
taught
of
my
fader
and
moder
/
wherfor
knowe
it
for
sothe
but
this
dishoneste
of
speche
bee
avoyded
fro
this
hous
wythin
a
shorte
tyme
/
ye
shall
see
me
deed
:
whan
her
husbond
herde
this
bothe
he
avoyded
that
vngoodly
langage
▪
and
the
felawshyppe
and
therwyth
he
was
edefyed
moche
more
than
euer
he
was
before
▪
as
well
of
the
vertues
lyuinge
of
the
fader
and
moder
as
of
her
doughter
/
that
was
his
wyf
/
And
anone
he
forbode
his
felawes
neuer
more
to
speke
suche
maner
wordes
in
her
presens
and
nomore
they
dede
:
and
soo
the
softenes
&
the
honeste
of
Jacob
his
hous
amendyd
in
moderaunce
/
And
the
dyshoneste
of
Nycolas
hous
whiche
hadde
weddyd
Jacob
his
doughter
¶
Ferthermore
ye
shall
vnderstonde
the
Jacob
vsed
the
crafte
of
makyng
of
colours
wherwyth
wollen
and
wolle
clothes
ben
dyed
:
This
crafte
vsed
bothe
he
and
his
sonys
/
In
that
contree
they
ben
called
dyers
.
wherfore
full
wonderfully
god
ordeyned
that
a
dyers
doughter
shol
be
made
the
spouse
of
the
Emperour
of
heuen
:
As
ye
shall
see
by
goddes
grace
after
in
this
boke
:
Somme
of
this
that
I
haue
shewed
in
this
chapytre
/
was
knowe
to
the
more
parte
of
the
cyte
/
And
some
her
confessour
had
of
the
sayd
mayde
katheryn
and
of
her
moder
and
of
many
relygyous
persons
and
of
seculers
/
whiche
were
neybours
and
of
kynrede
to
the
same
Jacob
and
to
his
wyf
.
¶
Of
her
byrthe
and
of
the
merueylous
werkinge
whiche
our
lord
wrought
and
shewed
in
the
chylhode
of
this
holy
vyrgyn
and
mayde
/
Capitulum
ij
Whan
this
forsayd
Lapa
whiche
was
lyke
a
fructuous
vyne
by
fulfyllyng
the
wyne
of
Jacob
her
husbonde
in
bryngyng
forth
full
ofte
bothe
sones
and
doughters
/
It
befyll
aboute
the
laste
tyme
of
the
berynge
of
chyldren
by
the
ordynaunce
and
dy
sposycyon
of
our
lordis
mercy
that
she
conceyued
&
brought
forth
;
two
doughters
/
freell
and
febyll
by
nature
.
But
moche
more
freell
by
of
bodely
strengthe
as
semed
outward
▪
but
strengthe
and
stabylnesse
they
hadde
in
the
syght
of
god
.
¶
Whan
Lapa
the
moder
besely
behelde
theym
she
thought
well
that
she
suffysed
nought
to
nourysshe
them
bothe
forthe
wyth
her
owne
mylke
/
wherfore
by
a
good
auysement
she
commytted
that
one
to
smother
noryse
/
And
that
other
she
wythhelde
and
kepte
stylle
to
be
norysshed
forth
wyth
her
owne
mylke
:
And
soo
it
befyll
by
the
ordynaunce
of
our
lorde
/
that
she
chosed
that
doughter
to
her
owne
kepyng
▪
whiche
our
lord
of
euerlastynge
tyme
hadde
chose
vnto
his
spouse
Bothe
they
resceyued
the
grace
of
baptysme
And
all
be
it
that
they
were
of
the
nombre
of
goddes
chose
chyldren
/
Yet
the
forsayd
mayde
was
called
katheryn
and
that
other
was
called
Johan
This
later
suster
whan
she
hadde
receiued
this
grace
of
baptysme
in
the
same
grace
.
she
went
forth
to
heuen
/
For
in
short
tyme
after
she
passed
out
of
this
worlde
.
Katheryne
abode
stylle
sukkyng
on
her
moders
brestes
by
goddes
ordynaunce
she
shold
drawe
to
heuen
a
longe
cheyn●
of
soulis
/
And
for
as
moche
as
Lapa
the
moder
consyderyd
that
katheryn
abode
&
that
other
was
deed
:
She
nourysshed
her
more
dyligently
hopyng
that
she
was
chose
to
abyde
and
be
goddes
chyld
And
ofte
sythes
this
moder
lapa
wolde
saye
to
maister
Reymond
her
confessour
to
this
holy
mayde
that
she
louyd
katheryn
passyngly
aboue
alle
the
sones
and
doughters
that
euer
she
hadde
/
She
sayde
vnto
hym
also
that
she
conceyued
soo
ofte
that
she
myght
neuer
nourysshe
ony
chylde
of
her
wyth
her
owne
mylke
:
¶
Katheryn
she
nourysshed
forth
in
to
the
ende
of
the
tyme
that
she
neded
to
be
vnder
the
nourysshe
/
And
in
alle
that
tyme
she
conceyued
not
/
as
it
semed
that
oure
lorde
for
that
doughter
hadde
graunted
her
a
tyme
of
reste
of
traueylyng
of
the
byrthe
of
chyldren
:
and
in
a
token
that
she
myght
come
to
the
ende
of
conceyuyng
and
byrthe
:
in
that
doughter
whiche
sholde
after
ateyne
and
gete
the
ende
of
alle
perfection
/
¶
But
yet
this
moder
Lapa
after
the
nouryssyng
of
katheryn
▪
ones
she
conceyued
and
bare
a
doughter
whiche
was
called
Johan
:
And
there
she
made
an
ende
of
beryng
of
chyldren
after
that
she
hadde
bo●en
xxv
chyldren
/
Whan
this
mayde
was
thus
broughte
forth
and
halowed
to
god
:
And
whan
she
hadde
lefte
the
mylke
:
and
toke
to
ete
brede
whyle
she
wente
aboute
alone
:
She
began
to
be
soo
acceptable
and
soo
byloued
to
all
tho
that
sawe
her
and
soo
wyse
:
and
wonderfull
wordes
she
spake
:
that
vnnethes
her
moder
myght
holde
her
in
her
owne
hous
/
Eche
man
aboute
of
her
neybours
and
of
her
kynrede
lad
her
home
wyth
theym
/
and
glad
they
were
who
myght
haue
her
to
here
her
wyse
speche
/
And
that
they
myght
haue
felawshyp
and
the
gladenesse
of
that
yonge
mayde
.
Soo
that
of
a
maner
gladdenesse
and
of
a
passyng
solace
they
called
her
not
by
her
owne
ryght
name
katheryn
:
but
Eufrosyna
:
and
what
meued
them
to
calle
her
soo
:
they
wyst
not
theym self
/
but
she
afterward
somme
tyme
wolde
saye
and
suppose
that
it
was
a
mystery
by
cause
she
purposed
to
folowe
saynt
Eufrosyne
in
lyuyng
/
Her
confessour
that
wrote
this
legende
supposed
that
the
yonge
mayde
in
her
chyldis
speche
vsed
somme
maner
of
sownynge
that
nyghed
or
acorded
to
that
n●me
Eufrosyne
.
And
soo
in
maner
as
they
wolde
reherce
her
wordes
they
called
her
soo
by
that
name
:
Neuertheles
what
euer
it
was
that
appieryd
she
burgenyd
out
in
her
chilhode
as
a
tree
by
ony
suche
shewyng
what
fruyt
was
brought
forth
Afterward
in
her
olde
age
the
wysdome
and
the
prudence
of
her
speche
&
connyng
and
the
swetenesse
of
her
holy
conuersacion
myght
not
be
rehersed
wyth
tongue
lygthly
wryte
wyth
penne
by
theym
that
knewe
only
the
veryte
of
thys
/
whiche
hadde
very
experyence
:
She
hadde
also
an
Inward
werkynge
whyche
shewed
well
▪
not
only
by
her
speche
but
by
her
conuersacion
wher
thorugh
many
mennys
sowlis
were
drawe
to
god
:
And
hadde
thorugh
her
grace
grete
lykyng
and
sauour
in
god
in
somoche
that
all
heuynesses
were
excluded
of
all
mennys
hertes
whiche
were
conuersaunt
wyth
her
▪
and
not
only
that
but
all
thinges
that
noyed
the
sowle
was
put
awaye
.
Also
the
remembraunce
of
eche
noye
or
angwysshe
was
take
awaye
/
And
of
this
folowed
eche
man
soo
grete
reste
and
stabylnesse
/
of
sowle
whiche
they
hadde
byfore
that
euery
man
woundred
of
theym self
/
and
made
Joye
wyth
a
newe
maner
of
gladdenesse
/
and
eche
man
in
his
owne
sowle
cryed
and
sayde
:
Here
it
is
good
for
vs
to
be
▪
Make
we
thre
tabernacles
for
our
dwellyng
place
/
And
of
this
none
wounder
for
douiles
▪
he
was
there
hydde
inuysybly
in
the
breste
of
his
spouse
whiche
was
transfygured
in
the
hylle
/
As
saynt
Peter
sayde
and
other
appostles
:
¶
Now
ferthermore
to
our
purpos
this
chosen
mayde
in
her
full
tender
age
soone
began
to
waxe
and
was
conforted
wyth
the
holy
ghost
in
token
that
she
sholde
be
soone
fulfylled
wyth
the
dyuyne
wysdome
/
Aboute
her
age
of
fyue
yere
whan
she
was
taught
to
saye
the
salutacion
of
the
aungell
/
Aue
maria
:
She
recordyd
it
besely
and
sayde
it
full
ofte
/
And
whan
she
coude
saye
it
as
she
was
enspired
from
heuen
:
She
began
to
grete
oure
lady
goyng
vpward
on
a
stayere
and
comynge
dounward
on
the
same
stayere
at
eche
grees
of
the
stayere
to
worshyppe
our
lady
wyth
an
Aue
maria
/
This
she
tolde
her
confessour
afterward
in
the
secret●●esse
of
confession
.
By
this
ye
maye
s●e
that
she
that
fyrst
in
the
begynnynge
shewed
forth
fyrst
plesyng
and
acceptable
wordes
to
men
after
that
yonge
age
she
began
to
stye
vp
from
thynges
that
were
inuysyble
.
¶
After
this
holy
begynnyng
the
encresed
euery
daye
▪
And
than
as
it
pleasyd
our
lord
the
was
vyse●ed
wyth
a
gracyous
and
a
wounderfull
vysyon
to
stere
her
and
to
shewe
here
hyr
gyftes
of
grace
of
the
holy
ghoost
:
And
to
shewe
other
how
a
lytyll
plante
shold
be
brought
forthe
and
soo
nourysshed
in
to
an
him
tree
of
Cidre
by
the
moyster
of
the
holy
gost
¶
Aboute
her
age
of
vj
yere
.
It
befyll
that
this
chosen
mayde
wyth
her
brother
Steuen
somme
what
elder
than
she
wente
to
her
suster
Bonauentura
/
Of
whiche
suster
is
made
mencion
byfore
/
perauentur
on
someuer
ende
or
to
loke
how
she
ferde
as
the
maner
of
frendes
of
kynrede
is
soo
to
doo
/
whan
she
hadde
doo
that
they
were
bode
to
doo
in
her
goyng
homward
agayn
by
the
waye
whiche
is
called
in
her
tongue
wallis
piacta
/
This
holy
may
lyfte
vp
her
eyen
:
and
agaynste
her
ouer
the
chirche
of
the
freer
prechours
she
sawe
in
the
ayer
a
full
fayre
chambre
ryally
aparayed
wyth
all
ryches
and
honeste
/
where
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
in
a
trone
Imperyall
clothed
wyth
pontyfycall
vesture
hauyng
on
his
hede
a
myter
papall
/
And
wyth
hym
were
saynt
Peter
and
saynt
Poule
/
and
saynt
Johan
Euangelyst
.
And
whan
she
behelde
alle
thys
she
was
fyrst
a
stonyd
/
But
by
a
vysement
stably
she
stode
styll
and
wyth
a
louyngyng
herte
deuoutly
she
loked
on
her
sauyour
bothe
wyth
bodely
and
gostely
eyen
/
And
anone
our
lorde
drewe
her
loue
to
hym
mercy
fully
sette
his
e●en
of
his
mageste
vpon
her
graiously
&
louyngly
wyth
a
manneuer
smylyng
chere
/
And
reched
out
his
ryght
arme
toward
her
/
and
ouer
her
▪
and
gaue
her
his
blessyng
wyth
the
token
of
the
holy
crosse
/
And
after
the
maner
of
other
Bysshoppes
and
prelates
/
¶
The
grace
of
this
gyfte
of
god
was
spedfull
and
soo
effectuously
putte
in
her
that
anon
she
was
transformed
and
rauysshed
in
spyryte
vnto
oure
lord
whome
she
sawe
/
And
behylde
wyth
soo
greate
gostely
lykynge
/
and
not
only
her
gooyng
/
and
her
waye
was
out
of
her
mynde
:
but
fully
she
hadde
forgoten
her selfe
.
And
ofte
the
wente
in
the
waye
besyde
men
and
bestes
/
By
nature
dredfull
sholde
be
as
a
chylde
:
but
euer
the
eyen
and
the
hede
were
vpward
abydyng
vppon
that
blysfull
vysyon
and
none
doughte
soo
she
wolde
haue
abyde
but
she
hadde
be
touched
or
take
awaye
by
somme
other
body
as
longe
as
that
vysyon
had
endured
:
¶
But
at
the
las●e
whyles
thys
was
shewed
to
the
mayde
▪
Steuen
her
broder
helde
forthe
his
waye
and
was
passed
her
a
greate
space
wenyng
that
she
had
folowed
hym
:
But
whan
he
tourned
hym
and
sawe
her
not
folowe
/
he
tourned
agayn
and
sawe
his
suster
fer●e
be
hynde
stondyng
styll
in
the
waye
and
loke
vp
in
the
fyrmament
/
¶
And
thenne
he
cryed
after
her
wyth
alowde
voys
and
called
her
she
answerde
not
and
take
none
hede
.
Thenne
he
wente
nere
cryeng
afterher
:
but
his
voys
helped
not
:
¶
He
woundred
and
wente
thenne
&
drewe
her
by
the
honde
and
sayde
:
what
doost
thou
here
why
comest
thou
not
forthr
she
anon
cast
doune
a
lytyll
her
eyen
as
she
hadde
awaked
of
an
heuy
slepe
and
sayde
/
A
yf
thou
sawe
that
I
sawe
/
thou
woldest
not
haue
lette
me
from
this
holy
vysyon
:
And
anone
as
she
had
said●●
▪
o
wordes
She
lyft
vp
her
eyen
agayne
to
be
holde
more
vp
that
she
hadde
seen
/
But
the
vysyon
was
alle
wythdrawe
and
cesyd
/
as
his
wyll
was
whiche
aperyd
to fore
:
And
that
myght
she
not
bere
wythout
a
sharpe
stroke
of
sorowe
/
And
anone
she
vengyd
her
on
her self
wyth
sore
wepynge
for
sorowe
that
she
caste
doune
her
eyen
:
And
from
that
tyme
and
houre
/
This
yonge
mayde
and
vyrgyn
saint
Katheryn
began
to
waxe
olde
in
vertues
and
sadnesse
of
maners
and
to
haue
a
wounderfull
witte
and
a
felyng
body
bot●e
by
grace
and
by
nature
/
In
soo
moche
that
her
dedes
were
●other
chyldysshe
ne
as
a
yonge
woman
.
But
they
semed
rather
to
alle
men
that
they
came
of
the
wysedom
of
a
greate
worshypfull
age
:
Soo
that
anone
was
shewed
that
the
fyre
of
dyuyne
loue
was
kyndeled
in
her
herte
/
by
the
whiche
vertu
her
intellection
was
made
clere
.
Her
wyll
was
feruent
her
memorye
was
comforted
and
alle
her
outward
werkyng
shewed
in
alle
thynges
the
rewle
of
goddes
lawe
:
¶
And
as
she
sayd
in
confessyon
to
hyrconfessour
full
mekely
and
lowely
that
she
lerned
and
knewe
at
that
tyme
wyth
out
techyng
of
ony
body
or
ony
redynge
or
heryng
/
onely
by
the
●nfusyon
of
the
holy
ghoose
/
the
leuyng
and
the
maners
of
the
foly
faders
of
Egypte
/
and
the
lyuyng
of
many
other
Sayntes
/
and
specyally
of
the
lyfe
of
Saynt
Domynyk
▪
¶
She
hadde
soo
grete
desyre
to
folowe
the
lyuyng
of
the
holy
fadres
and
Sayntes
that
she
myghte
noo
thynge
ellys
thynke
/
but
howe
that
she
myght
come
therto
.
¶
And
by
that
cause
many
newe
thynges
beganne
in
that
holy
mayde
/
that
hyr
holy
lyuyng
and
dedes
broughte
all
men
in
to
a
wonder
.
For
after
that
tyme
she
sought
oute
where
that
she
myght
haue
a
pryue
place
to
abyde
in
preuely
whanne
she
wolde
vse
bodely
afflyccyons
/
and
whanne
she
wolde
occupye
hyr
in
prayer
and
holy
medytacyons
▪
¶
In
that
place
at
certeyne
tymes
she
scourged
hyr
lytell
tender
body
wyth
a
lytell
scourge
.
She
lefte
of
all
maner
pleye●
and
dysportes
/
and
besely
gafe
hyr
to
prayer
and
medytacyons
/
full
stylle
she
was
and
gaf
alle
to
scylence
euery
day
more
and
more
/
ageynste
the
condycyon
of
chyldren
lasse
bodely
mete
she
toke
thenne
she
was
wonte
to fore
.
And
that
is
not
wonte
to
falle
in
chyldren
that
he
wexynge
.
Exemplum
.
By
the
exsaumple
of
thys
yonge
mayde
/
many
damse●●ys
of
dwellyng
there
nye
/
and
of
hyr
age
were
steryd
to
god
by
grace
/
and
gadred
to
here
of
hyr
holy
and
gracyous
wordys
/
and
after
her
power
to
folowe
hyr
holy
werkys
/
where
thorugh
it
fyll
that
alle
the
chyldren
att
certeyne
tymes
●amen
to
gyder
in
to
a
preuy
place
of
hir
hows
where
she
dwellyd
/
as
she
hadde
chosen
to
fore
hyr
self
/
and
alle
they
scour
gyd
hem
selfe
as
she
dyde
.
And
eche
of
them
sayde
a
certeyne
Pater
noster
/
and
of
Aue
maria
/
as
Katheryne
bad
h●m
saye
.
¶
Alle
these
werkyngee
were
but
tokenys
of
gretter
meruaylles
that
sholde
folowe
after
that
.
¶
For
as
hyr
moder
tolde
full
ofte
to
Mayster
Reymond
.
¶
And
she
whan
he
asked
hyr
myghte
not
denye
hyt
/
that
full
ofte
goyng
vpward
and
dounward
the
grees
of
hyr
faders
hows
vysybly
to
alle
their
syghte
that
sawe
hyr
.
Swyf●●ly
she
wente
in
the
ayre
and
touched
noo
grees
wyth
her
fete
/
and
thys
fylle
namely
whanne
she
wolde
flee
a
waye
oute
of
companye
/
and
specyally
from
the
syghte
of
companye
of
men
.
And
for
as
moche
as
she
had
a
gretely
kynge
in
the
begynnyng
to
say
hyr
Aue
maria
.
And
to
grete
our
lady
ther
wyth
in
goynge
vp
and
doune
on
hyr
faders
grees
.
Therfore
it
is
to
suppose
that
thys
myracle
was
shewed
there
rather
thanne
in
another
place
.
¶
Forthermore
for
as
moche
as
she
had
knowynge
of
the
lyfe
of
holy
faders
of
Egypte
by
reuelacyon
/
therfore
wyth
alle
her
strengthes
she
was
steryd
gretely
to
folow
hem
.
¶
In
so
moche
that
in
the
yong
tender
age
full
feruentely
she
desyred
to
be
in
the
wyldernesse
as
the
holy
faders
were
in
olde
tyme
/
but
she
myghte
not
be
thynke
hyr
by
what
maner
waye
she
myght
perfourme
hyr
desyre
/
&
by
cause
it
was
not
ordeyned
of
god
that
she
sholde
dwell
in
soo
solytary
place
.
Oure
lorde
suffred
hyr
to
stonde
to
the
wytte
of
hir
proper
nature
as
in
that
.
And
she
myght
nomore
knowe
what
she
sholde
doo
as
touchyng
that
purpose
/
than
hyr
owne
chyldes
wytte
wolde
shewe
hyr
.
And
ryght
so
it
befyll
that
she
wyth
hyr
feruent
wyll
to
her
purpose
she
ouercame
the
tendrenesse
and
the
frealte
of
hyr
age
/
but
yet
hadde
she
not
the
parfyte
vyctorye
.
For
erly
on
a
morow
tyde
she
thought
to
go
to
the
deserte
or
ellys
wyldernesse
and
abyde
in
a
solytary
place
/
wherefor
by
chyldys
prouydence
she
purueyed
her
of
a
lofe
of
brede
and
of
no
more
.
Forthe
she
wente
toward
hyr
susters
hows
that
was
wedded
/
whyche
hows
was
faste
by
the
gate
is
clepyd
the
gate
of
saynt
Ansanye
.
She
passyd
hyr
sustrer
hows
/
and
forthe
she
wente
out
at
that
gate
/
and
so
dyd
she
neuer
afore
/
and
soo
passyd
forthe
tyll
she
came
to
a
waye
out
of
the
Cyte
where
she
saw
noo
hows
stonde
nyghe
there
as
she
dyde
in
the
cyte
.
And
thenne
she
thought
wel
she
was
nyghe
the
deserte
/
yet
wente
she
somwhat
forther
/
and
at
the
laste
she
founde
a
lytel
caue
vnder
a
banke
/
whyche
plesyd
hyr
well
▪
And
forth
she
wente
in
with
a
glad
herte
wenyng
to
hyr
that
she
hadde
fonde
the
wyldernesse
whyche
that
she
hadde
desyred
.
And
all
be
it
that
she
it
had
not
yet
our
lorde
almyghty
god
whome
she
behelde
long
to fore
and
receyned
hys
holy
blyssyng
/
whyche
gladly
acceptyth
all
holy
desyres
/
alle
be
it
that
our
lord
hadde
not
dysposed
hys
spouse
to
haue
that
manere
of
lyuyng
/
yet
wolde
not
he
suffre
that
dede
that
she
dyde
of
good
desyre
to
passe
awaye
wyth
out
a
token
/
to
sheweher
that
she
dyd
was
acceptable
and
plesyng
to
hym
.
And
anone
as
she
began
to
praye
there
feruently
/
she
was
I
lyfte
vp
lytell
and
lytell
from
the
erthe
/
and
the
body
wente
vp
as
hyghe
as
the
height
of
the
caue
wolde
suffre
/
and
so
she
stode
in
prayer
fro
the
morow
in
to
none
.
Thys
mayde
perceyued
welle
that
she
was
areryd
from
the
erthe
/
and
as
for
that
tyme
she
wende
it
had
ben
the
wor●hyng
of
hyr
enemye
/
whyche
wold
wyth
hys
fraudes
and
dysceytes
lette
hyr
prayer
and
desyre
that
she
had
to
the
deserte
/
And
for
that
cause
she
besyed
hir
and
enforced
hyr
the
more
stablye
and
feruently
to
praye
.
At
the
laste
aboute
the
houre
of
the
day
whan
our
lord
after
his
passy
on
of
the
crosse
was
take
doun
fro
the
crosse
/
she
descendyd
lytell
and
lytell
as
she
ascendyd
.
And
by
Inspyracion
of
our
lord
she
hadde
vnderstondyng
and
knowyng
that
the
tyme
was
not
yet
I
come
where
in
she
sholde
not
putte
hyr
body
in
suche
afflyccyon
for
our
lorde
.
Ne
that
she
sholde
leue
her
faders
hows
in
suche
maner
/
wherefor
she
torned
as
she
came
.
But
whan
she
wente
out
and
sawe
she
was
allone
and
behelde
the
gate
of
the
Cytee
longe
and
full
fe●re
to
her
age
and
feblynesse
dredynge
also
that
hyr
fader
and
moder
shold
wene
that
she
had
be
loste
.
She
coude
no
more
but
beganne
to
praye
and
commytted
hyr
fully
to
god
.
And
anone
in
a
shorte
whyle
by
the
ordynaunce
and
myght
of
our
lorde
she
was
borne
vp
in
the
eyre
and
sette
in
the
gate
of
the
Cytee
wyth
out
ony
harme
/
And
anone
she
wente
home
in
alle
the
hast
that
she
myght
or
coude
.
Thys
she
tolde
to
a
Cosyne
of
heres
/
whyche
was
callyd
Laxa
.
But
to
hyr
fader
and
moder
alle
thys
was
hydde
and
vnknowen
tyll
she
came
to
elder
age
/
for
they
wende
she
hadde
come
fro
hyr
susters
hows
that
was
wedded
.
Of
thys
that
is
shewed
in
thys
chapytre
in
somme
partye
.
Lapa
hir
moder
tolde
to
mayster
Reymond
Whyche
was
hyr
last
confessoure
/
and
in
somme
partye
her self
/
and
of
somme
Laxa
hyr
cosyne
not
wythstondyng
that
he
hadde
grete
swetenesse
of
alle
that
is
I
wrytton
and
sayd
afore
/
Saue
at
the
laste
bothe
of
hyr
fyrst
confessour
/
whyche
was
I
nourysshed
in
hyr
faders
hows
/
and
of
many
worshypfull
and
trewe
matro●s
of
neyghbours
nyghe
/
and
of
other
besyde
nygh
to
hyr
fader
and
moder
/
and
to
hyr
/
¶
Of
hyr
vowe
made
of
virgynyte
and
of
other
vertuous
liuynge
and
meruaylles
whyche
be
fyll
tyll
she
came
to
the
age
of
abylytee
/
to
be
wedded
to
man
/
but
wedded
was
she
not
ne
neuer
wolde
/
Capitulum
iij
SO
moche
vertue
and
grace
was
in
that
vysyon
/
whyche
is
rehersyd
in
the
nexte
●hapytle
to fore
that
all
worldly
loue
and
affeccyon
was
wyth
drawen
out
from
the
herte
of
thys
holy
yonge
mayde
/
and
onely
the
holy
loue
of
goddys
sone
and
of
the
gloryous
mayde
and
moder
of
our
lord
Ihesu
cryste
/
stylly
and
stedfastly
was
prented
in
hyr
herte
▪
Wherfore
she
sette
alle
thynge
at
noughte
/
soo
that
she
myght
ouely
wynne
our
lord
hyr
sauyour
.
And
anone
she
had
clere
vnderstondyng
only
by
the
techyng
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
that
is
full
semyng
and
accordyng
to
our
lorde
and
our
maker
of
nought
to
be
serued
wyth
alle
purytee
and
●lenues
bothe
in
body
and
in
sowle
.
Wherfore
she
desyred
fully
to
haue
and
kepe
the
clennesse
of
virgynytee
/
and
for
that
she
thought
well
and
knowynge
hyr
by
the
techynge
of
god
that
our
blessyd
lady
goddys
moder
was
the
fyrste
that
founde
the
lyf
of
virgynytee
/
wherefor
thys
mayde
conceyued
in
hyr
herte
that
vp
that
mater
she
wolde
haue
recourse
to
our
lady
for
helpe
and
counseyll
.
And
whan
that
she
came
to
seuen
yere
age
/
she
took
grete
auysemente
as
though
she
hadde
be
of
sadnesse
of
xx
yere
of
age
and
contynuelly
she
prayed
our
lady
quene
of
aungels
and
virgynes
that
she
wolde
wouchesauf
to
helpe
hyr
and
gete
hyr
of
our
lord
a
parfyte
waye
to
the
techynge
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
where
by
she
myght
doo
that
were
moost
plesynge
to
god
/
and
moste
spedefulle
for
helthe
of
hyr
sowle
.
And
in
eche
prayer
euer
she
shewed
hyr
desyre
to
our
lady
how
sore
she
desyred
to
lyue
an
aungelslyf
/
and
in
the
lyf
of
virgynytee
.
And
in
alle
thys
tyme
the
loue
of
the
euerlastyng
spouse
was
more
feruent
fro
day
to
day
in
thys
maydens
herte
/
whyche
loue
steryd
alle
hyr
sowle
wyth
oute
ony
cessyng
vnto
an
heuenly
liuynge
.
And
whan
thys
wyse
mayde
sawe
how
feruent
her
spyryte
was
in
that
desyre
/
by
cause
she
wolde
not
quenche
the
spiryte
/
whiche
that
freely
and
gracyously
hadde
graunted
that
she
asked
by
a
hote
kyndelyng
of
desyre
.
Vpon
a
day
thanne
she
chose
hyr
a
preuy
place
/
where
noo
body
myght
here
hyr
/
and
where
she
myght
speke
alle
a
lowde
wyth
a
hygh
voys
what
euer
she
wolde
saye
there
wyth
all
lownesse
of
body
and
sowle
.
Thus
spak
she
to
our
lady
and
sayde
O
moost
blyssedfull
Lady
and
moost
holy
vitgyne
/
whyche
fyrste
amonge
alle
wymmen
thou
halowedest
for
euer
thy
virgynytee
to
our
lord
wyth
makyng
to
hym
a
vowe
/
of
whome
thou
were
made
moder
of
hys
onely
sone
.
Thy
pyte
whyche
may
not
be
spoke
ne
tolde
of
tongue
lowely
I
beseche
and
praye
that
be
none
of
my
merytes
&
notwythstondyng
myn
vnworthynesse
wouchesauf
gracyous
lady
to
do
me
so
moche
grace
/
that
thou
me
spouse
to
hym
onely
whome
I
desyred
wyth
all
the
strengthes
of
my
sowle
/
and
that
is
thyn
holy
sone
my
lord
Ihesu
cryste
and
here
I
make
to
hym
&
to
the
fulle
promysse
that
I
shall
neuer
take
other
spouse
/
and
I
shall
kepe
to
hym
my
virgynyte
vndefowled
after
my
myghte
&
poure
/
Loo
maydens
that
rede
thys
/
Loo
vere
ye
may
se
how
ordynatly
alle
the
yeftes
and
vertuous
werkyng
and
dedys
of
thys
holy
mayde
were
dysposed
and
ordeyned
by
that
euerlastyng
wysdome
/
whyche
myghtely
dysposeth
alle
thynges
in
softnes
.
In
the
age
of
syy
yere
she
sawe
hir
spouse
wyth
hyr
bodely
eye
/
and
took
of
hym
hys
blyssynge
.
In
the
age
of
seuen
yere
she
made
a
vowe
of
virgynyte
.
Taketh
hede
also
by
what
auysement
and
what
ordre
she
kepte
in
makyng
hyr
auowe
.
¶
Fyrste
she
desyred
and
askyd
to
haue
hym
to
hyr
spouse
/
whome
hyr
sowle
louyd
.
After
that
desyre
and
askyng
she
forsoke
euery
maner
spouse
behotyng
to
hym
trouth
and
feyth
for
euer
lastynge
.
Thys
petycyon
myght
not
be
denyed
.
Taketh
hede
also
whome
she
prayeth
/
and
for
whom
she
prayed
/
and
how
she
prayeth
.
Fyrste
she
prayeth
that
lady
/
whyche
hath
properly
inacte
the
lyberalytee
and
the
fredome
of
alle
graces
/
and
can
not
but
euer
graunte
and
yeue
grace
.
Be
a
man
neuer
so
fowle
for
synne
/
she
holdeth
hyr
selfe
dettour
to
alle
bothe
to
wyse
and
to
vnwyse
She
despyseth
none
/
she
opened
her
hande
to
eche
man
that
hath
nede
/
and
stretched
out
hyr
pawmes
to
eche
poure
man
/
and
sheweth
out
hyr
self
to
all
folke
as
a
well
that
neuer
faylled
.
How
sholde
that
gracyous
lady
not
here
that
lytell
mayde
so
Innocent
and
feruent
/
whyche
puttyth
not
awaye
from
hyr
grace
synfull
men
/
and
women
of
elder
age
.
How
sholde
not
our
gloryous
lady
receyue
the
purpose
of
virgynyte
of
that
holy
mayde
/
whyche
gracyously
fyrste
amonge
men
founde
out
the
holy
&
clene
lif
of
virgynytee
.
How
sholde
our
mercyfull
and
pyteuous
lady
denye
thys
lytell
mayde
hyr
sone
/
whyche
drewe
hym
from
heuen
to
the
erthe
/
for
he
sholde
be
gyue
to
alle
that
belyued
on
hym
.
Now
ye
haue
seen
whom
thys
mayde
prayed
Sithe
now
I
praye
thou
for
whom
she
prayed
She
askyd
that
same
/
whiche
he
him self
taughte
for
to
aske
whyche
is
asked
.
She
sought
that
same
whyche
he
byddeth
alle
men
to
seke
that
shall
be
sought
.
And
he
hym self
that
shalle
be
sought
may
not
put
awaye
ne
put
of
.
And
the
petycyon
of
suche
a
thynge
must
nedys
haue
graunte
after
our
lordes
promyse
where
he
sayde
Askyth
and
ye
shall
haue
/
Speketh
and
ye
shall
fynde
.
He
sayde
also
in
another
place
.
Fyrste
sekyth
the
kyngdome
of
god
and
hys
ryghtwysnesse
.
Therefore
whanne
thys
mayde
and
so
besely
sought
soo
tymely
in
so
tender
chyldys
age
the
sone
of
god
/
whyche
is
hym selfe
the
kyngdome
of
god
/
How
or
what
manere
myght
it
be
/
but
that
she
sholde
fynde
what
she
soughte
/
or
haue
that
she
askyd
/
Ferthermore
now
seeth
in
what
manere
she
prayed
or
asked
that
she
desyred
/
and
ye
shalle
clerely
see
that
hyr
prayer
myghte
not
be
doon
awaye
ne
voydyd
/
She
dysposed
hyr
selfe
to
receyue
that
she
askyd
/
not
onely
for
the
tyme
that
now
is
/
but
for
alle
the
tyme
that
is
to
come
/
She
remeuyd
alle
hyr
obstacles
/
she
clothed
hyr
wyth
a
plesable
clothynge
of
pouerte
to
hym
for
euer
of
whome
she
askyd
hyr
desyre
/
She
bonde
hyrself
/
and
oblysshed
hyr
wyth
a
solempne
vowe
as
to
fore
god
/
And
soo
straytely
restrayned
hyr
selfe
/
that
neuer
the
world
ne
the
fende
sholde
lette
hyr
dysposycyon
/
In
alle
thys
tyme
ther
faylled
hyr
no
condycyons
/
whyche
a
prayer
sholde
haue
/
but
that
prayer
muste
nede
be
herde
that
she
asked
for
hyr
self
/
she
asked
fulle
mekely
that
was
helthefull
/
&
that
was
alle
helthe
/
feythfully
she
stood
and
stedfastely
/
and
to
represente
hyr
perseueraunce
.
She
made
a
perpetuell
vowe
where
by
she
remeuyd
alle
that
shold
be
obstacle
for
hyr
petycyon
.
Here
may
ye
sekerly
conclude
that
nedys
she
moste
be
herde
of
our
lord
/
thynketh
thenne
sekerly
that
as
she
asked
soo
she
resceyued
of
our
lorde
.
And
took
hyr
lorde
and
hyr
loue
for
hyr
euerlastyng
spouse
of
hys
blysfulle
moder
as
she
desyred
/
and
bi
helpe
of
that
gloryous
lady
she
was
coupled
for
euer
to
hyr
dere
sone
by
a
perpetuell
vowe
of
virgynyte
/
as
it
shall
be
proued
wyth
the
helpe
of
our
lord
by
a
clere
token
in
the
last
chapytre
of
this
fyrst
partye
.
But
now
ferthyrmore
ye
shall
knowe
that
after
thys
vowe
thys
mayde
began
euery
day
to
wexe
more
holy
and
holy
.
And
in
that
tender
age
she
began
to
take
batayll
wyth
hyr
flesshe
/
whyche
as
yet
began
neuer
to
be
rebell
.
But
for
all
that
she
purposed
to
take
a
waye
from
hyr
flesshe
all
flesshly
mete
as
moche
as
she
myghte
.
Wherfore
whanne
flesshe
was
leyde
to
hyr
/
as
it
fylle
ofte
/
eyther
she
leyde
it
to
Stephen
hyr
brothyr
or
preuely
lytyll
and
lytyll
she
voyded
it
/
that
no
body
sholde
perceyue
it
.
She
contynued
alwaye
hyr
dysplyens
/
of
whyche
I
spake
afore
/
and
encresed
hem
more
sharpely
eyther
allone
by
hyr
self
/
or
wyth
other
yonge
maydens
.
Also
a
grete
wele
of
othyr
sowles
helthe
began
to
be
kyndelyd
in
hyr
/
and
that
was
wonderfull
in
suche
a
chyldes
herte
/
and
syngulerly
she
loued
all
tho
sayntes
/
whiche
laboured
specyally
a
boute
the
helthe
of
mannes
sowle
.
She
hadde
also
knowyng
onely
by
the
techynge
of
god
that
Saynt
Domynyk
ordeyned
the
ordre
of
frere
prechours
for
loue
of
the
feythe
of
holy
chyrche
/
and
for
the
helthe
of
mannes
sowle
.
Wherfore
she
had
that
ordre
in
so
moche
reuerence
/
that
whan
she
sawe
frerys
of
that
ordre
passyng
forth
in
the
waye
by
hir
faders
how
se
/
she
marked
wel
where
they
wente
/
and
when
they
were
passyd
fulle
mekely
and
deuoutely
she
kyssed
the
steppes
of
theyr
fete
.
From
that
tyme
forward
/
there
wext
a
grete
desyre
in
hyr
sowle
to
go
vnto
that
ordre
that
she
myght
profyte
mannes
sowle
wyth
other
brethern
of
that
ordre
/
but
by
cause
she
sawe
a
grete
obstacle
in
that
she
was
a
woman
.
Therfore
she
thought
to
folowe
Saynt
Eufrosyen
as
men
clepyd
hir
in
childhode
wonderfully
as
for
a
pronostycacion
/
that
ryght
as
saynt
Eufrosyen
feyned
hyr
a
man
/
and
went
in
to
a
monastery
of
monkes
/
in
the
same
manere
thys
mayde
is
purposed
to
seyne
hyr
a
man
/
and
go
in
to
ferre
contree
where
she
was
not
knowe
/
and
take
the
abyte
of
the
ordre
of
frere
prechours
/
where
she
myght
helpe
sowles
and
saue
them
from
perysshyng
.
But
yet
not
wytfstondyng
that
same
thought
and
purpose
abode
longe
in
hyr
mynde
.
Our
lord
suffred
not
that
thought
to
be
perfourmed
in
dedene
brought
to
execucyon
/
for
the
loue
was
put
from
hyr
mynde
to
another
ende
/
and
our
lord
wolde
also
in
another
maner
fulfyll
hyr
desyre
.
In
all
thys
tyme
thys
mayde
wexte
fast
in
body
and
encreced
in
age
/
but
moche
more
hyr
sowle
encreced
in
vertue
.
Mekenes
wext
fast
/
and
deuocyon
encreced
/
feyth
was
more
clere
/
hope
was
gretely
strengthed
.
Charyte
multyplyed
hyr
feruour
.
And
of
all
thys
vertues
was
gendryd
a
vertuous
/
and
a
worshypfull
sadnes
of
maneres
/
and
of
relygyous
putte
in
the
syght
of
al
men
whyche
consydered
hyr
dedys
.
The
fader
and
the
moder
were
astonyed
/
her
brethern
and
susteren
wondred
gretely
.
Alle
the
meyne
of
hyr
faders
hows
meruaylled
beholdyng
and
perceyuynge
soo
hygh
wysdome
in
soo
tendyr
age
.
And
amonge
many
notable
wyse
wordes
and
dedys
/
one
I
wylle
shewe
you
here
in
commendacyon
of
that
mayde
.
¶
Hyt
befylle
at
that
tyme
after
seuen
yere
and
to fore
ten
yere
age
that
for
deuocyon
that
hyr
moder
hadde
to
saynt
Anthonye
.
She
wolde
haue
a
masse
I
sayde
in
the
worshyppe
of
the
same
Saynt
/
wherefor
she
clepyd
Katheryne
hir
doughter
and
took
hyr
a
certeyne
of
candelles
and
a
certeyne
of
syluer
and
sayde
.
Goo
doughter
to
our
parysshe
chyrche
and
praye
oure
parysshe
preest
to
syng
or
do
synge
a
masse
in
the
worshyp
of
saynte
Anthonye
.
And
offer
thyse
candelles
and
thys
money
vp
to
the
awtre
.
¶
Thys
mayde
was
gladde
to
doo
alle
thynge
that
myght
torne
to
the
worshyp
of
god
/
and
anone
she
wente
to
the
chyrche
and
performed
hyr
moders
byddyng
But
for
deuocyon
that
she
hadde
to
here
masse
/
she
abode
stylle
to
the
ende
of
the
masse
.
And
whan
alle
was
I
do
/
she
wente
home
ageyn
/
but
hyr
moder
wende
she
wolde
a
comen
anone
ageyn
/
anone
as
she
had
made
oblacyon
to
the
preest
¶
And
for
as
moche
as
her
doughter
taryed
so
longe
after
hir
semyng
.
Whan
she
sawe
that
she
was
come
/
she
thought
to
blame
hyr
doughter
and
sayd
.
Cursyd
be
the
wycked
tongues
/
that
sayd
thou
sholdeste
nomore
come
ageyne
.
Thys
was
the
manere
of
somme
men
to
saye
her
langage
to
her
name
that
taryed
to
longe
out
.
Thys
mayde
thenne
of
grete
wysdome
herde
what
hyr
moder
sayde
/
and
helde
hyr
stylle
a
whyle
/
and
spake
noo
worde
ageyne
.
But
after
a
good
space
thys
mayde
drewe
hir
modre
asyde
/
And
wyth
grete
sadnes
of
hyr
mekely
spak
to
hir
modre
and
seyde
¶
A
lady
modre
when
euer
I
trespas
or
do
agast
youre
biddyng
bete
ye
me
wyth
a
rodde
as
you
thynketh
best
that
I
be
more
ware
Another
time
for
it
is
worthy
and
ryght
full
that
ye
do
so
But
no
thyng
I
praye
you
for
my
defautes
curseth
neuer
good
man
ne
badde
/
For
it
is
not
semyng
for
your
degree
And
to
me
it
is
a
full
grete
affliccion̄
in
herte
/
while
hyr
modre
herde
these
wordys
sche
wondrid
gretely
And
no
merueill
was
to
here
her
lytill
doughter
teche
and
so
wysely
enforme
hir
In
somoche
that
she
hadde
no
spirite
more
to
blame
hyr
at
that
tyme
for
the
wysdom
that
she
sawe
in
so
yonge
alitill
thynge
Neuer
the
les
she
wolde
not
that
hyr
doughter
hadde
knowe
that
/
therfor
sumwhat
she
thoughte
to
speke
ageyne
and
turned
to
hir
doughter
and
seyde
/
Why
were
you
there
so
longe
/
the
doughter
seyde
mekely
ageyne
modre
I
herde
that
masse
that
yebadde
me
goo
to
/
And
whan
it
was
I
doone
I
turned
home
ageyn
wythout
ony
tarieng
for
I
abode
nowhere
till
I
come
home
ageyne
Thoo
was
the
modre
by
the
wordis
more
edyfyed
than
she
was
to fore
and
went
to
hyr
husbonde
/
&
seyd
Thus
and
thus
hath
thi
yonge
doughter
I
spoke
/
He
than
as
a
good
man
gafthankynges
to
god
/
and
bare
it
stylle
priuely
in
hys
herte
/
And
seyde
noughte
ageyne
Loo
ye
mayden̄s
that
here
or
rede
thys
book
of
thys
oon
poynt
all
be
yt
that
it
be
one
of
the
leste
Yet
mowe
ye
we
le
perceyue
how
our
lorde
encreceth
hys
grace
all
weye
in
thys
yonge
mayde
till
she
come
to
the
yeres
of
abilitee
to
be
weddyd
/
of
the
whyche
yeres
ye
shalle
see
in
the
next
chapytre
For
of
thys
chapitre
I
make
now
an
ende
¶
But
yet
ye
shall
vnderstonde
that
I
had
thyse
that
be
conteyned
in
thys
chapytre
of
the
same
mayde
for
the
more
partye
and
somme
I
hadde
of
the
modre
and
of
other
dwellyng
in
hyr
fadres
hows
whyse
she
was
of
that
age
.
¶
How
hyr
feruente
deuocyon
was
drawe
whyche
our
lord
suffred
for
encrece
of
more
grace
folowyng
.
And
of
hyr
stronge
pacyence
wyth
the
whyche
pacyens
she
suffred
in
hir
fadres
hows
many
Iniuryes
.
Capitulūq̄rtū
AFter
the
wonderfull
and
vertuous
cours
of
lyuyng
in
the
fyrst
yeres
of
thys
maydens
tender
age
/
our
lordes
wyll
was
in
somme
lyghte
defaute
to
suffre
hyr
to
fall
as
he
suffred
fulle
ofte
somme
of
hys
holy
sayntes
/
to
that
entent
that
they
sholde
the
more
myghtely
aryse
vp
ageyne
/
and
lyue
more
warly
/
and
strenght
hem
to
atteyne
to
the
ryght
waye
/
and
the
heythe
of
perfeccyon
and
gloryously
haue
the
vyctorye
of
the
fende
/
whyche
is
euer
enemye
to
mannes
sowle
.
¶
These
wordes
I
saye
here
/
for
whanne
she
came
to
the
age
of
the
yeres
of
abylyte
to
be
wedded
/
that
is
to
saye
to
the
twelthe
yere
of
hyr
age
or
lytel
more
/
thenne
after
the
manere
of
the
contree
she
abode
styll
at
home
and
came
not
out
of
hyr
fadres
hows
.
And
the
fader
and
the
moder
thenne
and
hyr
other
frendes
&
kynne
/
by
cause
they
knewe
not
the
may
dens
purpose
/
they
bethought
hem
and
besyed
hem
to
seke
aboute
where
that
thys
mayden
myght
worshypfully
and
parfy
tably
be
wedded
and
to
what
prosone
.
Hyr
moder
supposed
that
for
the
grete
wysdome
that
hyr
doughter
had
/
she
sholde
haue
be
wedded
to
somme
man
of
grete
kyneede
/
where
for
she
besyed
hir
fast
aboute
the
bodely
apparayll
and
araye
of
hyr
doughter
/
and
taught
hyr
to
wasshe
ofte
hyr
face
/
and
to
kembe
ofte
hyr
hede
/
and
to
make
hyr
fayre
here
/
and
to
voyde
alle
thynge
that
sholde
be
dyshoneste
/
or
sholde
make
foule
hyr
face
or
hyr
necke
/
That
whan
ony
man
came
to
aske
after
hyr
for
maryage
she
sholde
be
the
more
semely
and
fayrer
.
Thys
holy
mayde
was
alle
of
another
purpose
and
had
made
another
vowe
.
Alle
be
it
she
shewed
it
not
to
hyr
fader
ne
moder
/
wherfor
vtterly
she
thoughte
noo
thynge
to
do
as
hyr
moder
bad
hyr
/
touchyng
suche
curyosyte
.
She
besyed
wyth
alle
hyr
strengthes
to
plese
god
/
but
no
man
in
that
wyse
.
And
whanne
hyr
moder
hadde
aspyed
that
she
had
no
wylle
to
that
maner
of
lyuynge
/
she
was
dysplesed
/
and
clepyd
to
hyr
Bonauenture
hyr
other
doughter
whyche
was
late
I
wedded
before
/
And
bad
hyr
trete
soo
hir
suster
/
that
she
myght
araye
hyr
in
bodely
apparayll
as
the
manere
was
of
wymen
in
that
contre
that
sholde
be
maryed
/
and
doo
as
she
hadde
bad
hyr
doo
to fore
.
Hyr
moder
knewe
welle
that
Katheryne
loued
Bonauenture
fulle
tenderly
/
and
supposed
that
she
sholde
be
broughte
in
to
that
more
lyghtely
by
hyr
suggestyons
thanne
by
ony
other
.
And
soo
she
was
as
ye
shalle
see
after
.
For
by
suffraunce
of
oure
lorde
she
was
broughte
so
Inne
thorough
speche
and
example
of
hyr
suster
Bonauenture
by
many
maner
wayes
/
that
at
the
laste
she
assentyd
to
hyr
besynesse
in
apparaylle
of
hyr
body
/
after
the
wylle
of
hyr
moder
/
not
wythstondynge
that
stably
she
kepte
hyr
purpose
neuer
to
haue
husbonde
.
But
after
the
graunte
to
hyr
sustre
and
folowed
hyr
wylle
/
in
suche
araye
/
she
maad
soo
moche
sorowe
whanne
that
she
was
confessyd
therof
wyth
terys
and
sobbyng
that
eche
body
shold
suppose
that
she
hadde
do
somme
greuous
synne
:
She
vsed
ofte
to
be
confessyd
generally
:
and
alway
whan
she
came
to
the
poynt
she
accused
her selfe
full
harde
wyth
wepyng
&
sore
sobbyng
But
the
confessour
alle
be
it
he
knewe
that
a
vertue
it
is
of
god
:
and
lowely
sowles
to
see
in
them self
defaute
where
none
is
.
And
where
it
is
but
lytyll
/
it
semeth
hym
full
grete
/
Neuerthelesse
for
asmoche
as
she
accused
her self
/
and
demed
her
worthy
euerlastynge
payne
,
for
that
synne
/
sauyng
the
mercy
of
god
/
There
he
asked
her
whether
she
purposed
or
wylled
in
all
that
tyme
to
do
agaynst
her
vowe
:
She
sayde
nay
,
for
it
came
neuer
in
her
herte
.
Also
he
asked
agayne
whether
she
dyde
it
to
the
plesaunce
of
ony
man
.
In
speciall
:
or
to
the
plesaunce
of
all
men
She
answerd
and
sayde
:
ther
was
none
somoche
payne
to
her
as
to
beholde
men
or
to
be
seyne
of
men
/
or
to
be
there
men
shold
fynde
her
/
wherfore
when
her
faders
men
that
lerned
dyers
crafte
in
her
faders
hous
came
to
ony
place
or
chambre
where
she
was
.
she
fledde
as
faste
awaye
as
adders
hadde
come
to
her
soo
that
all
men
wondred
/
She
wold
neuer
goo
to
the
wyndowe
ne
to
the
dore
of
the
hows
to
see
how
men
wente
by
the
waye
/
Thenne
he
sayd
why
deserued
ye
that
dede
whiche
was
but
for
a
bodely
ornamente
euerlastyng
payne
:
namely
whan
the
apparelle
was
not
to
excessyuely
/
She
answerd
and
sayde
that
to
excessyuely
she
loued
her
suster
/
And
as
her
thought
more
than
god
as
at
that
tyme
wherfore
she
wepte
wythout
remedye
and
dyd
harde
penaunce
:
Her
confessour
wold
haue
replyed
agayne
and
sayde
Alle
bee
it
ther
was
somme
maner
excesse
of
loue
it
was
but
lytyll
:
And
that
dede
as
of
him self
was
not
I
doo
for
noo
wycked
or
euyl
entencion
/
but
for
vayne
plesaunce
of
her
for
the
tyme
and
that
was
not
agaynste
the
precepte
of
god
/
She
herde
how
her
confessour
replyed
/
she
lyft
vp
her
eyen
to
god
/
And
wyth
a
lowde
voys
cryed
and
sayde
.
A
my
lorde
god
what
ghostely
fader
haue
I
nowe
whiche
excuseth
my
synnes
/
and
wyth
a
sore
grutchynge
agaynst
her self
/
she
tourned
to
her
confessour
and
sayde
/
Fader
thynke
ye
that
this
wretchedfull
and
mooste
vnworthy
creature
of
god
whiche
hath
receyued
of
my
maker
of
nought
soo
many
gracyous
yeftes
wythout
my
labour
/
And
wythouten
ony
meryte
shold
occupye
ony
tyme
in
arraye
and
vayne
apparelle
of
this
roten
flesshe
whiche
myght
or
induce
a
dedely
synne
:
I
wene
she
sayde
helle
suffyseth
not
to
punysshe
me
:
hadde
not
the
pyte
of
god
doo
gracyously
and
mercyfull
wyth
me
/
After
thyse
wordes
her
confessour
durst
nomore
speke
of
that
mater
/
But
than
after
that
he
besyed
him
to
knowe
yf
that
blessyd
sowle
had
euer
in
her
lyf
be
kept
wythouten
ony
spot●e
of
dedely
synne
:
Soo
that
she
hadde
kepte
fully
hole
her
vyrgynyte
both
of
body
and
of
sowle
:
Not
only
from
the
synne
of
flesshely
steryng
/
but
also
of
alle
maner
of
synne
¶
And
after
that
he
knewe
how
vertuous
and
how
clene
a
sowle
she
hadde
/
This
wytnesse
and
recorde
he
bare
of
her
conuersacion
and
both
sayd
and
wrote
that
he
coude
neuer
perceyue
ne
fynde
nother
by
her
generall
confessyon
ne
speciall
confessyon
as
ofte
as
euer
she
was
confessyd
▪
And
that
was
ryght
ofte
:
that
she
hadde
offendyd
agaynst
the
precepte
of
our
lorde
:
But
yf
it
were
that
is
tolde
afore
the
whiche
he
myght
not
suppose
it
were
agaynste
the
byddynge
of
god
/
Ne
he
trowed
none
dyscrete
man
wold
suppose
it
/
And
also
he
sayde
that
he
founde
her
euer
soo
clene
fro
venyall
synnes
that
vnnethe
he
coude
perceyue
bi
her
cotydyan
confessyon
ony
maner
offence
:
It
was
openly
knowen
not
only
to
her
confessours
that
knewe
her
conscyence
:
but
to
all
that
were
conuersaunt
▪
with
her
that
neuer
or
seldon
she
offended
in
worde
:
For
eyther
she
occupyed
her
tyme
in
prayer
and
contemplacion
or
ellis
in
good
edyficacion
of
her
neyghbours
/
And
as
for
her
tyme
of
slepyng
/
vnnethes
she
wolde
grauute
to
her
a
quarter
of
an
houre
And
whan
she
sholde
ete
her
mete
▪
yet
it
may
be
called
a
mete
.
euer
she
prayed
and
thought
holy
medytacyons
thynkyng
of
the
thynges
that
she
hadde
lerned
of
our
lord
in
her
sowle
/
More
her
confessyon
:
Mayster
Reymound
bereth
a
trewe
recorde
of
her
for
the
tyme
that
he
knewe
her
and
hadde
cure
of
her
conscience
/
that
it
was
more
payne
to
her
for
to
ete
her
mete
,
than
it
was
to
an
hungry
man
for
to
be
wythdrawe
from
hys
mete
.
And
a
grete
tourmente
it
was
to
her
body
after
tyme
she
hadde
ete
:
than
it
was
com̄ely
to
a
fenerous
man
in
rennyng
offhis
feuer
/
And
this
was
one
of
the
causes
why
she
wolde
ete
her
mete
as
it
shall
be
declared
wythin
forthe
for
to
tourmente
and
put
in
payne
her
body
:
In
what
maner
of
trespaas
myght
suche
a
sowle
be
occupyed
:
that
alwaye
was
occupyed
soo
wyth
our
lord
god
/
And
yet
not
wythstondyng
suche
good
occupacions
.
She
accused
her self
soo
sharpely
in
confession
and
soo
wyttyngly
put
her selfe
in
trespaas
and
offenses
/
that
yf
hee
confessour
hadde
not
knowe
her
conuersacyon
:
He
myght
haue
supposed
that
she
hadde
trespased
where
she
trespased
not
,
but
rather
deseruyd
mede
/
Loo
ye
maydens
that
heren
and
reden
this
boke
:
alle
this
processe
is
for
no
thynge
ellys
I
sayde
but
by
that
ye
perceyuen
this
lytyll
defaute
/
In
the
whyche
this
holy
mayde
yelde
her self
soo
mekely
gylty
/
Ye
maye
vnderstonde
therby
what
perfeccyon
sheweth
therafter
by
the
gracyous
yefte
of
our
lorde
the
whiche
her
confessour
reherseth
in
this
wyse
.
Bonauentura
:
ryght
as
she
was
besy
afore
for
to
araye
this
holy
mayde
as
the
worlde
asketh
/
Ryght
soo
eftsones
she
besyed
her
for
to
enduce
her
in
suche
araye
by
her
counseyll
to
the
same
apparaylle
/
She
myght
in
noo
wyse
inclyne
the
may
dens
herte
nother
generall
nother
specy
all
that
she
sholde
shewe
her
bodely
presence
wylfully
to
the
syghte
of
man
/
to
that
entent
oonly
that
she
sholde
be
desyred
the
soner
to
be
wedded
.
all
though
her
feruour
of
prayer
:
and
of
swetenesse
off
medytacion
was
slaked
and
wythdrewē
from
her
for
a
tyme
:
Att
the
laste
oure
lorde
wolde
not
lenger
suffre
that
hys
spouse
the
whiche
had
soo
specyally
chosen
sholde
be
withdrawe
and
taryed
from
hys
speciall
seruyce
/
he
wythdrewe
from
her
in
this
wyse
-
In
a
tyme
whan
the
same
Bonauentura
.
the
suster
of
the
holy
mayde
sholde
brynge
forthe
a
chylde
she
was
yet
yonge
ynough
nough
of
age
for
to
bere
chyldren
/
Take
hede
maydens
therfore
and
see
by
thys
/
How
oure
lorde
is
displesed
wyth
theym
that
ben
aboute
for
to
lette
and
wythdrawe
theym
that
wolde
serue
hym
specially
in
maydenhode
and
chastyte
of
lyuynge
/
Thys
Bonauentura
as
it
is
rehersyd
after
was
alwaye
full
honeste
in
her
maner
of
lyuyng
bothe
in
worde
and
dede
/
But
by
cause
that
she
besyed
her
to
drawe
her
suster
to
wordly
thynges
the
whiche
desyred
to
serue
our
lorde
specyally
/
She
was
smyten
of
hym
and
punysshed
wyth
a
full
sharpe
deth
Neuerthelesse
our
lord
yet
wrought
full
mercyably
wyth
hyr
/
for
as
it
was
shewed
afterward
by
reuelacyon
to
thys
holy
mayde
/
she
was
in
purgatory
/
and
suffred
many
greuous
paynes
.
And
by
the
prayers
of
hir
she
was
delyuered
of
payne
and
restored
to
blysse
/
as
she
shewed
afterward
preuely
to
hyr
confessour
.
¶
Whanne
hyr
suster
Bonauenture
was
passyd
out
of
thys
worlde
/
thanne
thys
blessyd
mayde
Katheryn
clerely
perceyued
the
vanyte
of
thys
worlde
/
and
be
ganne
more
feruentely
and
more
gredylye
trewely
for
to
be
torned
to
the
louely
ghostly
clyppyng
of
hyr
endeles
spouse
Jhesu
cryste
/
claymyng
and
accusynge
hyr
self
gylty
wyth
Marye
magdalene
/
fallyng
doune
full
streyte
to
the
fete
of
oure
lorde
plenteuously
shedyng
out
terys
axynge
Inwardly
hys
mercy
/
praynge
and
thynkyng
vncessably
for
hyr
synnes
/
that
she
myght
deserue
to
hyr
wyth
Marye
magdalene
the
wordes
of
confort
of
our
lorde
as
he
sayde
to
Marye
thus
.
¶
Remittuntur
tibi
peccata
tua
.
¶
That
is
to
saye
/
doughter
thy
synnes
by
foryeue
the.
And
so
she
beganne
to
haue
a
synguler
affeccyon
to
Mary
magdalene
For
thanne
in
that
tyme
she
enforsed
hyrself
wyth
alle
hyr
myghtys
to
conferme
hyr
to
Marye
magdalene
to
haue
the
more
grace
in
forgyuenes
of
hyr
synnes
.
Therfore
afterward
by
encrece
of
deuocyon
thys
folow
therof
that
our
lord
god
the
spouse
of
holy
sowles
/
and
hys
blessyd
moder
our
lady
Saynt
Marye
gaue
Mary
magdalene
to
thys
blyssyd
mayde
in
to
a
maystresse
and
to
a
moder
as
it
shall
be
declared
more
openly
wyth
Inne
forth
by
the
helpe
of
Jhesu
.
¶
After
thys
the
fende
enemye
to
alle
mankynde
sorowyng
that
thus
his
pray
was
wythdrawe
/
and
delyuerd
alle
hole
from
hys
power
/
the
whyche
be
lytell
and
lytell
enforced
to
drawe
it
to
hym
.
And
also
consyderynge
/
that
thys
holy
mayde
encreced
more
and
more
to
renne
quyckely
to
the
tabernacle
of
mercy
of
hyr
spouse
Jhesu
.
He
thought
felly
and
wylely
to
lette
hyr
of
hyr
ghostly
purpose
by
the
meyne
of
hyr
faders
howsholde
/
besyeng
hym
by
aduercytees
and
persecucyons
to
drawe
hyr
holy
to
the
worlde
/
that
she
sholde
not
be
occupyed
in
suche
ghostly
excercyse
puttyng
in
to
the
the
mynde
of
hir
fader
and
moder
and
also
hyr
brethern
/
that
in
alle
wyse
she
sholde
be
wedded
.
That
they
myght
so
by
hyr
mene
purchace
somme
manere
of
kynrede
/
aboute
thys
besynesse
the
fende
enduced
hem
so
hyely
/
that
in
asmoche
as
one
of
hyr
doughters
was
passyd
out
of
thys
world
/
they
sholde
be
aboute
to
recouer
the
harme
of
hyr
that
was
dede
by
hyr
that
was
a
lyue
.
So
ferforth
that
they
were
aboute
to
seke
an
husbonde
for
thys
holy
mayde
.
¶
Whan
thys
mayde
perceyued
and
consydered
the
wyles
of
hyr
ghostly
enemye
by
Inspyracyon
of
our
lord
Jhesu
.
A
none
myghtely
and
besyly
she
contynued
in
prayer
and
medytacyon
and
excercyses
of
penaunce
to
haue
grace
to
flee
the
conuersacyon
of
men
/
and
soo
shewed
by
open
tokenys
to
hyr
frendes
/
that
in
noo
wyse
she
was
in
purpose
to
be
wedded
to
no
dedely
ne
corruptyble
spouse
.
Syth
it
so
is
and
was
that
she
had
taken
so
gracyously
to
hyr
spouse
in
hir
yonge
tender
age
the
vndedely
kyng
of
endeles
blysse
Whanne
the
fader
and
moder
&
kynne
perceyued
veryly
that
thys
holy
mayde
shewed
perseuerauntly
bothe
by
tokens
and
by
worde
/
that
she
wylled
neuer
to
be
wedded
to
none
erthely
man
/
they
thought
to
bowe
hyr
herte
/
by
a nother
mene
for
to
consente
to
theyr
purpose
.
They
callyd
to
them
a
frende
of
therys
a
frere
prechour
the
whyche
they
loued
specyally
/
and
prayed
hym
entyrly
that
he
wolde
goo
and
counseyll
that
holy
mayde
that
she
sholde
consente
to
there
wylle
.
To
whome
the
frere
answerde
and
sayde
/
he
wolde
do
that
he
myght
.
But
whan
he
came
to
thys
mayde
by
communycacyon
he
founde
hyr
so
stedfast
in
the
purpose
of
maydenhode
that
by
conscience
he
was
so
enduced
to
gyue
hyr
holsum
counseylle
and
sayde
.
Syth
it
is
so
that
thou
arte
dysposed
to
serue
our
lorde
god
in
maydenhede
/
ageynst
whyche
purpose
thy
frendes
ben
aboute
to
lette
the.
Shewe
the
stedfastnesse
of
thyn
holy
purpose
/
and
cutte
a
waye
alle
thyn
here
of
thy
hede
/
&
peraduenture
they
wold
cesse
of
there
pursuyte
.
As
soone
as
thys
blessyd
mayde
herdethys
hys
counseyll
/
she
wrought
there
after
as
though
she
hadde
I
herde
it
of
god
.
And
took
a
peyre
of
sherys
anone
and
cutte
awaye
hir
herys
/
in
the
whiche
she
supposed
she
had
synned
greuously
/
and
that
that
she
hated
so
moche
/
she
cutte
it
awaye
ryght
gladly
fast
by
the
hede
/
And
whanne
she
had
I
do
/
she
couerd
hyr
hede
wyth
a
Coyf
/
and
so
wente
forthe
alle
ageynst
the
comyn
custome
of
other
maydens
of
the
worlde
/
wyth
a
kerchyf
on
hyr
hede
after
the
doctryne
of
saynt
Powle
/
And
whan
hyr
moder
Lapa
aspyed
thys
that
hyr
doughter
Katheryn
vsed
thus
to
couer
hyr
hede
customably
/
She
asked
hyr
why
she
dyd
so
/
to
who
me
thys
mayden
gaf
none
clere
answer
/
by
cause
she
wolde
nethyr
lye
ne
telle
the
trouthe
.
Wyth
that
the
moder
wente
to
thys
maydens
hede
and
took
of
hyr
kerchyfe
wyth
hyr
owne
hondys
.
And
so
perceyued
that
hyr
here
was
cut
awaey
Thanne
was
the
moder
sorowfull
in
hyr
herte
bycause
hyr
fayre
here
was
cutte
awaye
waylynge
and
cryenge
in
thys
wyse
.
Aa
doughter
what
haste
thou
doo
.
Anone
the
mayde
keuered
hyr
hede
efte
sones
/
and
wente
a
syde
To
the
crye
of
her
moder
came
bothe
the
fader
and
the
chyldren
meruayllyng
what
it
myght
be
Whanne
they
knewe
the
cau●●
of
hyr
cryeng
/
they
were
hugely
ameuyd
ageynste
this
maide
/
of
the
whiche
trouble
was
begonne
the
secounde
bataylle
ageynst
this
mayde
more
sharper
than
thenne
was
the
fyrst
.
But
yet
to
thys
mayden
our
lord
gaff
the
vyctorye
/
that
thoo
thynges
whyche
semed
lettyng
to
hyr
holy
purpose
was
to
hyr
grete
helpe
meruayllously
for
to
knytte
hyr
to
our
lord
more
myghtely
Therefore
they
pursued
hyr
openly
rebukyng
hyr
and
thretyng
hyr
in
worde
and
dede
sayeng
thus
.
Thou
wretched
creature
trowest
thou
for
to
escape
thus
that
thou
shalt
not
fulfyll
our
wylle
because
that
thou
hast
cutte
awaye
thyn
here
/
hyt
shall
growe
ageyn
wyll
thou
nyll
thou
/
and
though
thyn
herte
sholde
to
breste
/
yet
shalt
thou
haue
an
husbonde
.
And
thou
shalt
neuer
haue
reste
vnto
the
tyme
that
thou
haste
consented
to
our
wylle
.
And
wyth
that
they
made
an
ordynaunce
that
Katheryne
shold
nomore
haue
no
pryue
chambre
by
hir self
to
dwelle
Inne
/
but
that
sholde
openly
be
occupyed
in
the
comyn
seruyce
of
the
hows
.
So
that
the
place
and
tyme
of
prayeng
and
vnyeng
and
knyttyng
to
Jhesu
hir
spoufe
sholde
vtterly
be
wyth
drawe
from
hir
And
also
that
she
shold
see
hyr
self
so
moche
the
more
in
despyte
that
she
was
made
a
comyn
seruaunte
.
After
thys
ordynaunce
thys
holy
mayde
was
putte
to
alle
manere
fylthe
besynesse
/
and
the
fowle
of
the
kechyn
.
Suffryng
euery
day
repreues
/
and
euery
day
also
wronges
and
rebukyng
and
dyspytable
wordes
were
multeplyed
ageynst
hyr
/
that
moste
of
alle
ouercomen
wymmenys
hertys
.
For
as
hyt
was
supposed
/
hyr
fader
and
hyr
moder
and
brethern
hadden
fonde
a
yong
man
of
whos
kynrede
they
weren
gretely
well
apayde
.
And
therefor
they
steryd
and
Inpugnyd
hyr
the
more
sharpely
that
she
myght
the
sonner
be
bowed
to
theyr
consent
.
But
where
that
oure
ghostly
enemye
the
fende
/
by
whos
wyckednes
&
tretcherous
werkes
all
thyse
thynges
were
wrought
/
&
doune
wende
for
to
wyth
drawe
thys
mayde
from
hyr
clene
purpose
.
There
by
the
helpe
of
god
she
was
made
moost
strengest
for
she
was
in
noo
wyse
meuyd
ne
stered
of
alle
that
was
doone
to
hyr
.
But
she
made
hyr
a
pryue
chaumbre
/
by
helpe
of
the
holy
ghoost
in
hyr
owne
sowle
/
fro
the
whyche
pryue
chaumbre
she
made
an
ordynaunce
in
hyr
self
/
neuer
for
to
go
out
for
no
manere
of
besynesse
And
so
it
was
done
in
dede
/
that
she
the
whyche
fyrste
hadde
an
outward
chaumbre
assygned
to
hyr
/
somtyme
stood
wyth
out
and
somtyme
wente
oute
.
But
afterwarde
whan
she
had
made
hyr selue
in
hyr
sowle
a
pryue
chaumbre
that
myght
not
be
take
from
hyr
of
no
creature
in
erthe
/
she
went
neuer
out
.
Thes
ben
tho
heuenly
vyctoryes
that
may
not
be
taken
awaye
fro
crystis
specyall
in
erthe
/
ouercomynge
wyth
out
ony
doubte
alle
stylly
enemyes
As
holy
wrytte
seyth
.
Regnum
dei
infra
nos
est
That
is
to
saye
/
the
kyngdome
of
heuen
is
wythin
vs
.
And
also
the
prophete
Dauyd
seyth
.
That
all
the
ioye
of
our
lordes
doughter
is
wythin
forthe
.
Wythin
vs
wyth
out
ony
doubte
/
there
is
a
clere
vnderstondyng
/
a
fr●
wylle
/
and
a
retentyf
mynde
.
Wythin
vs
also
is
the
gracyous
Infusyon
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
the
whiche
maketh
perfyte
these
ghoostly
myghtys
rehersed
afore
/
and
ouercometh
and
throweth
vnder
foot
alle
outward
aduersytres
.
Wythin
vs
yf
we
ben
trewe
vylners
of
vertue
dwelleth
that
ghest
/
the
whyche
sayde
and
seyth
.
Confidite
ego
vici
mundum
.
That
is
trusteth
feythfully
that
ye
shall
ouercome
your
enemyes
/
for
I
haue
ouercome
the
worlde
that
grete
enemye
.
In
this
blessyd
lord
/
thys
holy
mayde
Katheryn
trustyd
so
hyghely
that
she
made
hir
wyth
Inne
hyr
self
a
chambre
by
hys
helpe
/
for
whos
loue
she
charged
not
for
to
lese
the
chambre
made
of
mannes
handes
wythout
forth
.
¶
But
now
one
thynge
shall
I
saye
/
that
mayster
Reymond
the
confes
sour
of
thys
holy
mayde
beryth
recorde
of
that
whan
that
he
sholde
walke
outward
by
cause
other
whyle
of
grete
outward
besynesse
and
occupacyon
that
nedys
must
be
done
:
Thys
holy
mayde
oftymes
warned
hym
and
sayde
/
that
he
shold
make
wythin
hys
sowle
a
pryuee
celle
/
of
whyche
pryue
cell
he
sholde
neuer
goo
out
And
alle
be
it
that
he
vnderstonde
hyr
not
/
but
so
ouerly
so
lyghtely
.
Yet
neuerthelesse
afterwarde
whan
he
consydered
more
wyttely
hyr
wordes
.
The
wordes
that
Saynt
Johan
sayde
in
the
Gospell
felle
in
hys
mynde
where
it
is
rehersed
of
crystys
dyscyples
in
thys
wyse
.
Hoe
autem
non
cognouerunt
discipuli
eius
primum
.
Sed
quando
glorificatus
est
ihesus
tune
recordatisunt
.
That
is
crystys
dyscyples
knewe
not
alle
thynge
of
hym
as
touchyng
hys
passyon
fyrst
but
onely
.
But
after
tyme
whan
he
was
reysen
fro
deth
to
lyue
/
and
gloryfyed
/
thanne
they
knewe
more
openly
and
clerely
/
And
soo
in
the
same
manere
wyse
/
bothe
to
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confes
sour
&
to
tho
other
that
were
conuersaunt
wyth
hyr
/
it
happyd
meruayllously
that
they
perceyued
more
openly
and
clerely
bothe
her
dedys
and
hyr
wordes
afterwarde
/
than
whenne
they
were
wyth
hyr
presently
/
¶
Yette
shall
I
telle
you
of
another
holy
conseyt
and
a
blessyd
ymagynacyon
of
thys
holy
mayde
/
that
the
holy
ghoost
taught
hyr
/
by
the
whyche
she
ouercome
alle
wronges
and
despytes
as
she
tolde
pryuely
to
hyr
confessour
/
axyng
of
hym
mekely
how
she
myght
be
perfytly
gladde
amonge
soo
many
despytes
/
And
thanne
she
brake
out
and
sayde
/
that
she
hadde
suche
an
ymagynacyon
in
hyr
self
that
hyr
fader
represented
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
oure
sauyour
and
hyr
moder
oure
blessyd
lady
Saynt
Marye
And
hyr
brethern
and
other
many
of
the
housholde
betokeneth
the
holy
appostles
of
oure
lorde
and
other
dyscyples
of
hys
.
And
for
thys
blessyd
ymagynacyon
she
serued
hem
alle
the
more
gladdely
/
soo
that
they
were
alle
a
meruaylled
therof
.
And
by
thys
blessyd
ymagynacyon
she
wan
another
grete
profyte
/
and
as
oftr
as
she
serued
and
made
mynystracy
on
/
euer
she
hadde
in
mynde
hyr
hyr
spouse
Ihesu
Cryste
.
Whome
hyr
thought
she
serued
.
And
soo
she
beyng
in
bodely
kechyn
was
alle
waye
wyth
that
holy
place
that
is
callyd
Sancta
sanctorum
.
And
as
ofte
as
she
serued
atte
mete
/
soo
ofte
she
fedde
hyr
sowle
wyth
the
presence
of
oure
sauyour
.
A
hyghe
and
rychesse
of
endeles
counseyll
/
by
how
many
dyuers
and
meruayllous
wayes
delyuerest
them
that
trusten
in
the
from
alle
maner
dyseses
/
and
bryngest
them
in
to
the
hauen
of
endeles
reste
/
delyueryng
them
bothe
from
the
pytte
and
the
swolowe
.
Whan
alle
thys
was
done
/
thys
holy
mayde
consyderynge
euyr
more
in
hyr
sowle
the
mede
&
the
rewarde
I
ordeyned
for
hyr
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
suffred
gladly
and
nought
paynfully
/
alle
the
wronges
that
was
putte
to
hyr
.
And
also
she
encreced
contynually
the
cours
of
hyr
labour
the
more
/
that
she
myght
haue
a
full
ioye
in
hyr
sowle
.
And
by
cause
that
it
was
not
suffred
to
hyr
to
haue
a
chambre
by
hyr
self
/
but
for
to
haue
hyr
chambre
openly
as
other
hadde
.
¶
Therefore
by
an
holy
a●uysement
/
she
chose
the
chambre
of
Stephen
hyr
brother
that
hadde
nether
wyf
ne
chyldren
.
Where
by
dayes
tyme
whanne
he
was
absente
she
myght
be
allone
.
And
nyghtes
tyme
whan
he
slepte
/
she
prayed
after
hyr
desyre
/
soo
that
nyght
and
daye
she
soughte
to
see
the
face
of
hyr
spouse
Ihesu
Cryste
/
knockyng
at
the
dore
of
hys
ghoos●ly
tabernacle
wyth
out
cessyng
.
She
prayed
our
lord
vncessably
that
he
wolde
wouche
sauf
to
be
the
keper
of
hyr
virgynytee
/
sayeng
and
syngyng
in
in
sowle
wyth
Saynt
Cecylye
thys
holy
verse
of
Dauyd
the
prophete
Fiat
cor
meum
domine
et
corpus
meum
immaculatum
.
That
is
lorde
Ihesu
I
praye
that
myn
herte
and
my
body
be
kepte
clene
vnderfowled
to
the
/
and
soo
in
scylence
and
in
hope
she
was
made
stronge
in
our
lord
ryght
meruayllously
.
For
the
more
torment
and
persecucyon
she
hadde
wyth
out
forth
/
the
more
she
was
fulfylled
wyth
ghoostly
ioyes
wythin
forth
/
soo
ferforth
that
hyr
brethern
perceyueng
hir
stedfastnesse
sayden
betwyne
them
seluen
thus
we
be
ouer
come
.
Hyr
fader
that
was
most
Innocente
of
alle
consyderyng
pryuely
hyr
dedes
/
perceyued
that
she
was
ladde
euery
daye
more
and
more
by
the
holy
ghoost
/
and
nought
by
the
lyghtnes
of
yonthe
.
Alle
thyse
that
ben
rehersed
in
thys
chapytre
/
hyr
confessour
mayster
Reymond
had
it
by
reuelacyon
of
Lapa
thys
maydens
moder
/
and
of
lyxa
her
brother
wyf
and
of
other
also
that
were
in
hyr
faders
hows
/
But
as
for
other
thynges
that
other
folke
myght
not
knowe
/
he
knewe
by
tellyng
of
thys
holy
mayde
in
confessyon
/
¶
Of
the
vyctorye
whyche
she
hadde
of
them
that
desesed
hyr
/
And
that
was
by
a
culuer
whiche
hyr
fader
sawe
/
and
by
a
vysyon
of
S●ynt
Domynyk
Ca
v
IN
the
mene
whyle
that
thys
holy
mayde
was
putte
in
suche
reproue
and
shame
/
it
happyd
vp
on
a
daye
that
she
entred
in
to
the
chambre
of
hyr
yonge
brother
Stephen
.
And
prayed
deuoutly
leuyng
the
dore
vnshett
for
it
was
forboden
to
hyr
by
hyr
fader
&
moder
that
she
sholde
not
shette
the
dore
.
Casuelly
thenne
it
happened
that
the
fader
entred
in
to
the
chambre
sekynge
a
certeyne
thynge
of
hys
sones
that
he
had
nede
to
.
And
as
he
loked
aboute
/
he
sawe
hys
doughter
more
goddes
doughter
thanne
hys
/
prayng
in
a
corner
and
knelyng
/
and
a
lytell
whyte
culuer
restynge
vp
on
hyr
hede
/
the
whyche
culuer
fledde
out
of
the
chambre
wyndowe
whan
the
fader
was
entred
in
to
the
chambre
as
him
thought
Anone
the
fader
axed
the
doughter
/
what
culuer
that
myght
be
that
fledde
so
out
of
the
chambre
/
to
whom
the
doughter
answerd
and
sayde
/
that
neuer
she
sawe
culuer
ne
other
byrde
in
the
chambre
.
Thenne
hadde
the
fader
grete
meruaylle
/
and
kepte
all
thyse
wordes
pryuely
in
hys
herte
.
Fro
that
tyme
forwarde
there
beganne
gracyously
to
encrece
in
that
holy
maydens
sowle
an
holy
desyre
/
whyche
neuerthelesse
was
begonne
as
it
is
reherced
afore
in
hyr
chyldehode
/
and
now
afterward
it
was
renewyd
for
tuycyon
and
dysease
of
kepyng
of
hyr
maydenhode
or
virgynytee
/
and
that
desyre
was
no
thynge
ellys
but
for
to
receyue
the
habyte
of
the
ordre
of
frere
prechours
the
whyche
ordre
Saynt
Domynyk
was
bothe
foundour
and
fader
.
There
she
prayed
bothe
daye
and
nyght
to
our
lord
that
he
wouchesauf
to
fulfyll
hyr
desyre
.
And
therto
she
had
a
grete
deuocyon
to
Saynt
Domynyk
/
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
to
a
worthy
and
a
fruytfull
louer
of
sowles
.
Almyghty
god
therefor
sawe
how
wysely
and
how
myghtely
hys
doughter
as
a
yong
knyght
faught
in
batayll
/
and
wyth
what
feruour
of
deuocyon
she
besyed
hyr
to
plese
hym
wyth
alle
hyr
desyre
/
he
wolde
in
no
wyse
dysceyue
hyr
ne
defraude
hyr
of
hyr
holy
purpose
.
But
for
the
more
sekernesse
he
comforted
hyr
wyth
suche
a
vysyon
.
¶
This
holy
mayde
on
a
tyme
had
a
vysyon
in
hir
slepe
that
she
sawe
many
holy
faders
/
&
many
dyuers
foundours
of
the
ordre
of
the
frere
prechours
/
amonges
whom
she
saw
saynt
Dominyk
that
she
knewe
wel
I
now
/
holdyng
in
hys
honde
a
fayre
whyte
lylye
/
the
whyche
lylye
semyng
to
hir
was
all
a
fyre
as
the
busshe
that
Moyses
saw
/
&
yet
was
not
brennyd
.
Whan
this
holy
faders
al
in
general
&
eche
in
a
speciall
gaf
hir
counseyll
for
hir
more
mede
that
she
shold
chese
oo
Relygion
of
their
ordynaunce
in
the
whiche
relygion
she
myght
yelde
due
seruyce
to
god
.
She
torned
hir self
hole
to
saynt
dominik
/
&
so
saw
in
spyryt
how
that
the
holy
fader
saynt
dominyk
came
to
hir
&
brought
in
his
honde
an
habyte
of
sustris
the
whyche
susters
ben
called
sustres
of
penaunce
of
saynt
Domynyk
Of
the
whiche
susters
ther
was
ne
yet
is
no
lytell
nombre
in
the
cyte
of
Senee
.
And
whan
thys
holy
fader
saynt
domynyk
cam
to
this
mayde
he
conforted
hir
with
suche
wordes
&
sayde
Dought
be
of
good
confort
/
&
drede
no
manere
of
peryll
for
ryght
as
thou
hast
desyred
this
habyte
:
she
thought
she
receyued
it
and
thankyd
almyghty
god
and
his
worthy
confessour
Saynt
Domynyke
not
wyth
a
lytyll
gladnesse
but
wyth
ioyefull
teres
that
soo
perfyghtely
hadde
conforted
her
:
And
soo
wyth
wepyng
she
awoke
&
was
restoryd
to
her
bodely
wyttes
.
¶
And
whan
she
was
awaked
she
caught
comforte
and
bodely
strength
of
this
vysyon
/
and
toke
soo
grete
a
boldenes
of
the
truste
that
she
hadde
in
our
lorde
/
that
the
same
daye
she
called
her
fader
and
moder
and
bretheren
togyders
and
sayde
to
theym
boldely
in
this
wyse
/
Somtyme
ye
sayde
vnto
me
/
and
tretyd
me
longe
tyme
therof
that
I
sholde
bee
wedded
to
a
corruptyble
and
to
a
dedely
man
&
though
I
hadde
abhomynacion
of
suche
weddyng
in
myn
herte
as
ye
myght
clerly
perceyue
by
many
dyuerse
tokenes
if
ye
hadde
I
wolde
yet
for
the
reuerence
that
I
sholde
shewe
to
my
fader
and
moder
by
the
bydyng
of
god
vnto
this
tyme
I
excused
me
neuer
clerly
to
you
/
but
now
by
cause
I
may
noo
lenger
be
styl
I
shall
declare
to
you
openly
myn
herte
and
purpoos
/
The
whiche
purpoos
it
is
not
conceyued
of
newe
:
but
of
chyldhode
vnto
this
tyme
▪
therfore
I
wyl
ye
knowe
it
that
in
myn
chyldhode
I
made
avowe
of
virgynyte
and
serue
oure
lorde
sauyour
of
alle
the
worlde
/
and
his
blessyd
moder
gloryous
vyrgyn
marie
.
our
gloryous
lady
/
not
chyldely
but
wyth
a
sa●
and
a
longe
avysement
.
And
for
a
grete
cause
/
I
made
avowe
also
that
I
shold
neuer
take
husbond
but
hym
alone
:
Therfore
now
syth
I
am
come
by
the
sufferaunce
of
oure
lord
to
a
more
perfyght
age
and
knowleche
and
vnderston
dyng
wytte
/
wete
ye
ryght
well
this
is
the
same
purpoos
whiche
is
soo
myghty
and
stroonge
in
myn
sowle
that
it
were
more
possyble
hard
flynt
stones
rather
to
be
made
nesshed
.
than
myn
herte
shold
be
wythdrawe
fro
this
holy
pnrpos
and
therfore
the
more
ye
laboure
aboute
thys
thynge
/
the
more
tyme
ye
lese
:
Wherfore
I
counseyll
you
that
ye
leue
of
alle
maner
suche
tretyng
of
weddynge
as
touchyng
myn
persone
/
For
therin
shall
I
neuer
fulfylle
your
wyll
/
by
cause
that
I
sholde
rather
be
obedyent
to
god
than
to
man
/
therfore
yf
ye
wylle
haue
me
suche
one
in
your
hous
that
I
now
serue
god
in
this
purpoos
and
for
to
be
a
commyn
seruaunt
to
serue
you
all
/
I
am
redy
in
all
that
I
can
or
may
to
doo
you
seruyce
gladly
:
And
yf
ye
wylle
receyue
me
but
for
this
cause
that
ye
wylle
putt
me
out
of
your
hous
/
I
doo
you
well
to
wete
that
in
noo
wyse
myn
herte
may
be
wythdrawe
fro
this
holy
purpos
/
¶
I
haue
an
husbond
and
a
spouse
cryste
Jhesu
soo
rychely
and
soo
myghtely
that
wyll
not
suffre
me
in
noo
wyse
to
lacke
no
thyng
/
But
he
wyll
mynystre
to
me
all
that
me
nedeth
:
Whan
she
hadde
sayde
alle
thyse
wordes
alle
that
herde
her
speke
fyll
in
wepyng
/
and
by
cause
of
her
plentnously
syghynge
and
sobbynge
/
they
myght
for
that
time
gyue
none
answer
:
They
consyderid
to
the
holy
purpos
of
thys
holy
mayde
the
whyche
they
myght
not
wyth
saye
ne
wythstonde
:
&
they
behylde
also
how
styll
the
mayden
had
I
kepte
her
:
how
clene
&
how
pure
vnto
that
tyme
/
&
how
bodely
she
declared
her
consciens
by
wordes
of
grete
prudence
/
&
also
ouer
more
they
sawe
openli
that
she
was
rather
diposed
for
to
forsake
her
faders
hous
than
for
to
breke
her
holy
purpoos
and
soo
they
hadde
nomore
truste
of
her
weddyng
/
wherfore
it
lyked
theym
better
for
to
wepe
than
for
to
gyue
her
answer
/
Wythin
a
lytyll
whyle
after
whan
they
hadde
cesyd
all
her
wepynge
:
the
fader
that
loued
her
soo
tenderly
had
dredde
of
god
and
dred
god
/
soo
hyghely
hadde
mynde
of
the
coluer
that
he
sawe
and
of
many
good
dedes
of
the
whiche
she
vsed
/
The
whiche
dedes
he
gretely
merueylyng
gaue
her
suche
an
answere
and
sayde
/
Dere
doughter
god
forbede
it
that
we
sholde
ony
thynge
wylle
or
desyre
agaynste
the
wyll
of
god
.
For
the
whiche
wyll
/
and
fro
the
whiche
wyll
we
knowe
well
thys
holy
purpoos
cometh
fro
/
Therefore
it
is
soo
that
we
ben
taught
by
longe
experyence
.
And
now
openly
we
see
that
thou
art
not
steryd
herto
by
the
lyghtenesse
of
chyldhode
:
but
by
feruent
charyte
of
god
/
Make
thy
vowe
therfore
frely
/
and
doo
as
the
lyketh
and
as
the
holy
ghoost
techeth
the
:
¶
And
fro
this
tyme
forward
we
shall
neuer
lette
the
from
thyn
holy
purpoosne
thyne
ghostely
excercise
/
but
only
praye
for
vs
besely
that
we
maye
bee
made
worthy
to
the
promys
and
the
byheste
of
thyn
ghoostely
spouse
whom
thou
haste
chose
by
his
specyall
grace
in
thyn
tender
age
:
¶
Thenne
he
tourned
hym
to
hys
wyf
and
to
his
chyldren
and
sayde
none
of
you
from
this
tyme
forward
be
to
myne
dere
donghter
greuous
.
None
be
soo
hardy
from
this
tyme
forward
to
let
her
in
ony
wyse
to
suffer
her
to
serue
her
spouse
freely
/
and
she
to
praye
for
vs
be
sely
/
We
myght
neuer
haue
founde
a
better
husbond
to
her
thenne
he
is
.
the
whiche
vochesauf
to
be
so
nere
of
our
kynde
for
to
wedde
our
doughter
and
haue
her
to
wyf
/
Therfore
we
haue
none
cause
to
pfayne
vs
sythe
it
soo
is
that
we
haue
receyued
now
for
a
dedely
man
▪
vndedely
god
and
man
to
be
her
spouse
/
¶
Whan
the
fader
hadde
sayde
thyse
wordes
wyth
wepynge
and
wyth
weylyng
bothe
of
theym
,
selfe
and
also
of
other
that
herde
theym
and
hym
speke
and
namely
of
the
moder
that
louyd
this
mayde
in
maner
flesshely
.
thenne
this
holy
maide
Katheryn
ioyefully
thanked
oure
lorde
that
brought
her
to
this
vyctorye
and
also
her
fader
and
moder
wyth
alle
maner
of
lowenes
:
dysposyng
her self
to
vse
profytably
the
lycence
that
was
graunted
to
her
And
this
is
the
ende
of
this
chapytre
:
¶
But
now
I
wylle
ye
knowen
that
redyn
or
heren
this
booke
that
Mayster
Reymound
confessour
to
this
holy
mayde
knewe
neuer
by
reuelacion
of
the
fader
that
sawe
the
coluer
the
whiche
restyd
on
this
blessyd
maydens
hede
for
the
fader
was
deed
or
than
Mayster
Reymound
knewe
this
blessyd
mayde
.
But
he
knewe
it
by
reuelacion
of
Cosyns
that
dwellyd
in
the
faders
hous
.
the
whiche
cosins
recorded
and
bare
wytnes
that
the
fader
sawe
suche
a
culuer
wyth
her
ofte
tymes
And
therfore
he
hadde
her
in
greate
reuerence
.
and
he
wold
in
noo
wyse
that
she
hadde
be
lettyd
or
troublyd
/
¶
Of
the
vysyon
that
she
sawe
of
saynt
Domynyk
bothe
mayster
Reymound
&
her
confessour
afore
hym
knewe
it
by
tellyng
of
this
holy
mayde
.
And
whan
mayster
Reymound
examyned
her
of
the
wordes
that
she
sayde
laste
to
her
fader
moder
and
brederen
:
and
how
she
byhad
her
in
her
pesecucions
:
she
tolde
hym
alle
by
ordre
mekely
as
it
was
/
¶
Of
the
hardenesse
of
her
bodely
penaunce
&
of
afflyction
:
&
what
persecucion
she
fuffred
therfore
of
her
moder
Capitulum
vj
WHan
this
deuoute
mayde
hadde
receyued
so
large
a
lycence
that
was
graunted
her
of
longe
tyme
desyred
afore
/
She
beganne
ryght
quyckely
for
to
dyspose
merueylously
alle
her
lyf
to
the
seruyse
of
god
:
¶
Att
the
begynnyng
she
asked
to
haue
a
lytyll
chambre
to
her self
/
and
so
hadde
it
:
wherin
she
purposed
to
tourmente
her
body
wyth
penaunce
as
in
a
wyldernesse
that
she
myght
haue
the
more
fredome
of
sowle
for
to
serue
our
lord
/
How
moche
and
how
harde
penaunce
she
vsed
in
tourmentyng
of
her
body
/
And
how
grete
loue
she
hadde
in
seyng
of
hyr
spouse
in
that
lytyll
chambre
:
there
maye
noo
tongue
suffre
to
telle
/
Neuertheles
I
haue
rehersed
som
what
in
generall
of
her
grete
penaunce
/
And
now
I
purpose
to
telle
you
maydens
in
speciall
vnder
fewe
wordes
the
hardnesse
of
her
penaunce
/
soo
that
ye
of
the
grete
vertuous
herbes
of
her
holy
lyuyng
maye
taste
somwhat
of
the
fruyte
that
growen
aboute
the
herber
bothe
of
the
fyrst
and
of
the
laste
/
And
for
the
condycions
and
the
kyndis
of
the
fruyt
:
it
shall
be
declared
by
the
helpe
of
god
afterward
And
the
cause
why
that
in
this
place
is
rehersyd
some
what
of
her
fruyte
full
vertuous
lyuing
is
for
nothynge
ellys
/
But
for
the
maydens
sholde
be
the
more
able
and
redyer
to
ghostely
excercyse
:
In
this
lytyll
chambre
that
was
graunted
her
:
ofte
tymes
she
consydered
swetely
the
ghostely
werkis
of
our
old
faders
of
Egypte
.
And
in
ghostely
werkys
was
to
her
soo
moche
the
more
merueylous
,
and
that
she
hadde
the
trewe
knowleche
therof
in
her
faders
hous
wythout
ensample
or
doctryne
off
other
/
Fyrst
I
shall
telle
you
of
her
abstinence
of
mete
and
drynke
fro
her
chyldehood
in
to
the
tyme
that
she
came
to
that
age
/
She
ete
full
seldom
flesshe
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
but
whan
she
was
come
to
this
age
and
this
speciall
fredom
.
she
forsoke
vtterly
etyng
of
flesshe
soo
fer
forthe
that
belonge
of
custome
and
vse
that
she
hadde
in
forsakyng
of
it
:
It
was
so
lyght
some
to
her
that
it
was
a
payne
to
her
for
to
smelle
it
as
she
told
her
confessour
preuely
in
confessyon
and
by
cause
ye
shold
haue
none
gretter
merueylle
herof
.
I
shall
telle
you
of
another
grete
abstynence
/
Whan
her
confessonr
perceyued
in
a
tyme
that
she
was
gretly
wasted
and
feblyd
in
body
for
she
receyued
none
suche
mete
and
drynke
that
febyll
folke
sholde
be
comforted
wyth
/
He
gaue
her
counseyll
that
she
sholde
putte
in
her
colde
water
that
she
dranke
/
suger
or
a
lytyl
suger
roset
:
Wherby
her
spyrytys
myght
the
more
be
quyckenyd
/
Wyth
that
she
touenyd
to
her
confessour
and
sayde
/
A
lytyll
lyf
there
is
left
wytt
in
me
the
whiche
me
semeth
ye
wolde
it
vtterly
were
quenchyd
/
And
whan
her
confessour
hadde
askyd
her
why
and
knewe
her
excusacion
/
He
vnderstode
by
her
wordes
that
she
hadde
soo
vsed
her
to
bytter
metes
and
vnsauory
drinkys
.
that
all
maner
swete
thyng
was
noyous
to
her
body
/
by
cause
her
dysposycion
was
tourned
in
to
a
custome
:
And
soo
it
was
to
her
of
etyng
f●esshe
.
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
:
And
whan
she
sholde
drynke
wyne
as
the
contree
foryeuyd
after
the
tyme
she
hadde
lycence
to
kepe
her
chambre
:
she
medlyd
that
wyne
soo
wyth
water
that
it
loste
both
his
taste
and
his
sauour
/
and
also
a
grete
parte
of
his
colour
/
But
afterward
whan
she
was
xv
yere
of
age
she
lefte
alle
maner
of
drynkyng
of
wyne
and
vsed
to
drynke
colde
water
:
And
all
maner
soden
mete
out
taken
brede
alone
/
She
wythdrewe
fro
her
by
lytyll
and
lytyll
euery
daye
somwhat
/
and
wythin
a
lytyl
tyme
after
she
helde
her
to
brede
and
rawe
herbes
/
¶
Att
the
lasie
whan
she
was
twenty
yere
of
age
or
there
aboute
.
she
lefte
etyng
of
brede
and
helde
her
only
to
rawe
herbes
:
Thenne
afterward
she
came
to
suche
an
hyghe
state
of
lyuyng
.
nonght
by
vse
and
kynde
as
it
shall
be
declared
openly
ynogh
wythinforth
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
But
oonly
by
myracle
that
alle
be
it
:
her
body
was
oppressyd
gretely
wyth
many
dyuerse
sekenesse
and
grete
traueylles
:
The
kyndly
of
dygestyon
in
the
body
hadde
noo
place
in
her
:
and
the
stomake
also
vsed
not
the
myght
and
the
vse
of
his
offyce
of
defyeng
:
And
yet
the
strengthes
of
the
body
notwythstondyng
her
strengthe
lyuyng
both
in
mete
and
drynke
were
neuer
the
febly
er
:
soo
that
than
her
confessour
recordeth
of
her
/
alle
her
lyf
was
myracle
.
She
myght
neuer
doo
that
she
dede
by
strengthe
of
kynde
as
physyens
sayd
and
tolde
afterward
to
her
confessour
:
but
oonly
by
myracle
.
All
thyse
thynges
shall
clerely
and
play
nely
by
the
helpe
of
god
openly
be
declared
wythin
this
boke
afterward
.
But
as
for
the
conclusyon
of
her
abstynence
fro
the
tyme
that
her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
knewe
her
as
he
recordeth
of
her
is
this
that
she
lyued
not
wyth
no
mete
ne
drynke
that
was
nourysshynge
to
her
.
ne
she
hadde
none
comforte
of
none
kyndely
strengthe
:
And
yet
neuertheles
she
suffred
gladly
all
maner
dyseses
and
laboures
:
How
came
she
to
this
state
of
lyuynge
trowe
ye
trewely
not
by
bodely
excercyse
and
vse
.
But
rather
by
fulnes
of
the
spirite
I
shall
tel
you
in
what
wise
the
fulnes
off
the
spirite
some
tyme
rebonudeth
in
to
the
body
.
there
it
is
made
subiecte
&
acordyng
to
the
werkys
of
the
spyryte
for
there
the
spiryte
of
a
gostely
creature
is
fedde
wyth
the
gyftes
of
gostely
graces
/
the
body
suffreth
the
more
pacientli
aboue
naturall
strengthe
of
his
own
nedes
:
who
wold
be
in
dobute
herof
I
trowe
none
resonable
creature
/
whether
martyrs
in
her
holy
martyrdome
suffred
not
gladly
aboue
naturall
strengthe
tormente
and
myserye
of
theyr
bodyes
in
her
passyons
/
I
trowe
yeis
/
And
fro
whens
cometh
this
trowe
ye
/
but
of
fulnesse
of
the
spyryte
/
This
is
ofte
tymes
knowen
by
experyens
in
oure
dayes
:
that
yf
a
man
or
a
womman
be
occupyed
in
goddes
seruyce
deuoutly
/
He
reketh
neuer
how
longe
he
fasteth
and
neuer
to
speke
wyth
creature
/
but
whan
he
ceseth
of
the
speciall
deuocion
/
And
is
occupyed
in
outward
bodely
besynes
/
it
is
harde
for
hym
for
to
faste
&
doo
as
he
dyde
before
/
Whens
cometh
this
grace
/
but
oonly
of
the
fulnes
of
the
spyryte
that
conforteth
the
body
:
the
whiche
accordeth
to
the
werkis
of
it
/
&
alle
be
it
that
this
is
a
gyfte
aboue
nature
yet
naturally
the
spyryte
otherwhyle
communeth
wyth
the
body
:
And
the
body
wyth
the
spyryte
bothe
in
good
and
euyl
In
thyse
wordes
I
denye
not
/
but
that
ther
ben
somme
the
whiche
maye
faste
more
esely
than
somme
.
But
symply
for
to
faste
and
absteyne
longe
tyme
togyder
in
this
lyf
/
me
semeth
it
is
inpossyble
bi
nature
thus
moche
is
rehersed
of
her
grete
abstynence
for
this
tyme
/
Takyth
hede
also
of
another
thynge
that
this
holy
mayde
tourmentyd
her
body
wyth
:
besyde
all
her
abstinence
/
She
made
to
her
a
bedde
al
of
bordes
wythout
ony
other
stuff
:
otherwhyles
she
wolde
sytte
or
stonde
in
holy
medytacions
&
other
whyle
knele
&
praye
:
&
alwaye
whan
she
wolde
slepe
she
laye
coun
wythout
ony
doyng
awaye
off
her
weryng
clothes
.
For
she
weryd
alwaye
wollen
bothe
nexte
her
body
and
wythout
some
tyme
she
vsed
the
hayre
or
the
cilyce
,
and
that
she
lefte
afterward
by
cause
as
her
confessour
supposed
/
That
she
that
was
clene
wythin
eschewed
vnclennes
wythout
that
is
engendred
of
the
cilyce
or
of
the
hayre
/
But
for
the
hayre
she
vsed
an
yron
chayne
next
her
body
euyr
syttyng
faste
to
her
sydes
wythoute
ony
remeuynct
or
ease
/
vnto
the
tyme
it
endented
the
skynne
/
And
made
a
marke
ther
vpon
as
it
hadde
be
forbrennyd
:
As
her
ghostely
doughters
and
her
felawes
tolde
after
ward
to
Mayster
Reymond
her
confessour
/
the
whiche
ghostely
doughters
and
felawes
ofte
tymes
for
dyuerse
sekenesses
that
she
suffred
constreyned
her
for
to
chaunge
/
her
clothes
and
for
to
wasshe
awaye
the
swete
.
And
therfore
her
confessour
afterward
by
cause
of
her
grete
sekenesse
that
she
suffred
a
lytyl
before
that
she
sholde
be
deed
constreyned
her
by
obedyens
that
she
sholde
leue
her
cheyne
.
All
be
it
she
wolde
not
doo
it
by
hyr
good
wyll
.
Euermore
she
contynued
in
wakyng
tyl
the
daye
dawed
on
the
morowe
as
it
shall
be
declared
more
opynly
here
afterward
.
After
that
by
lytyll
and
lytyll
our
lorde
gaue
her
grace
to
ouercome
slepe
/
that
vnnethe
she
wold
slepe
half
an
houre
in
two
dayes
:
And
vnnethys
she
wolde
receyue
that
half
houre
but
as
sekenes
coustreyned
her
therto
/
And
she
wolde
saye
otherwhyle
to
her
confessour
that
the
moost
traueylle
that
euer
she
hadde
.
was
for
to
ouercome
slepe
/
It
was
soo
harde
a
bataylle
for
her
or
she
myght
haue
the
vyctorye
of
it
.
Yet
more
ouer
as
her
confessour
recorded
off
her
yf
she
myght
haue
founde
ony
body
that
cowde
hadde
vnderstonde
her
and
commyned
wyth
hyr
of
vertue
:
And
of
the
goodnes
of
god
it
shold
not
greue
her
though
she
hadde
been
wythout
mete
or
drynke
and
slepte
an
hondred
dayes
and
an
hondred
nyghtes
she
sholde
neuer
haue
be
wery
but
rather
the
fressher
and
she
gladder
/
She
tolde
ofte
tymes
to
her
confessour
that
she
was
neuer
soo
well
refrysshed
in
spyryt
in
thys
lyf
/
as
whan
she
myght
fynde
wyth
whome
she
myght
commyne
of
the
goodnes
of
god
:
And
that
knewe
well
tho
the
whiche
were
conuersaunt
wyth
her
.
¶
This
was
openly
perceyued
in
her
whan
she
myght
haue
leyser
to
speke
off
god
/
that
tho
thynges
of
vertu
the
whiche
were
hyd
in
her
herte
/
appieryd
strongely
by
ghostely
gladnesse
in
the
body
outwarde
/
¶
And
whan
she
hadde
noo
leyser
to
talke
of
oure
lorde
thenne
she
was
feble
:
Herof
bereth
wytnesse
her
confessour
:
Mayster
Reymound
/
to
the
worshyp
of
god
and
of
his
owne
shame
that
oftymes
Whan
this
holy
mayde
wolde
speke
of
the
goodnes
of
our
lorde
and
of
the
greate
myseryes
that
he
shewed
to
her
.
by
cause
of
the
longe
tyme
of
her
contynuaunce
in
spekyng
And
also
by
cause
he
was
ferre
from
her
louyng
as
he
sayde
hym selfe
/
He
fyll
in
a
slombryng
/
and
alwaye
she
contynued
forthe
in
spekynge
:
For
she
was
reysyd
vp
by
loue
in
to
the
breste
of
oure
lorde
/
nothyng
perceyuynge
that
he
was
a
slepe
.
tyll
a
longe
tyme
afterward
:
And
whan
she
perceyued
that
he
was
a
slepe
/
wyth
a
grete
voys
she
awoke
hym
&
sayde
:
why
lese
here
ye
the
prouffyte
of
our
sowle
for
a
lytyll
slepe
:
speke
I
to
a
walle
or
to
yow
/
¶
Ferthermore
she
desyred
aboue
alle
this
to
folowe
the
stappes
of
the
holy
fader
Saynt
Domynyke
/
And
that
was
in
this
wyse
/
she
receyued
euery
day
theyes
dyscyplyne
wyth
an
yron
chayne
:
The
fyrst
dyscyplyne
was
for
her self
.
The
seconde
for
alle
tho
that
were
a
lyue
And
the
thirde
for
them
that
were
deed
/
¶
Thus
we
rede
in
the
legende
of
saynt
Domynyk
that
he
vsed
contynually
/
&
therfore
she
vsed
the
same
longe
tyme
afterward
.
¶
But
after
tyme
she
was
feblyd
with
sekenes
that
she
myght
no
longer
vse
hyt
.
¶
And
whanne
hyr
confessour
axyd
of
hyr
pryuely
how
&
in
what
wyse
she
vsed
that
manere
of
penaunce
/
wyth
a
grete
shamefastenesse
she
knowleched
to
hym
.
¶
That
in
euery
dysciplyne
she
occnpyed
an
houre
and
an
halfe
/
so
that
for
the
moost
partye
the
blode
folowed
foo
the
sholdres
doune
to
the
fete
.
¶
Loo
maydens
what
perfeccyon
was
in
thys
holy
maydens
sowle
/
that
thryes
in
the
daye
lete
hyr
self
blood
for
goddys
loue
/
shedyng
hyr
blood
for
hys
blood
.
See●ye
not
in
what
vertue
she
was
of
/
that
wyth
out
ony
exaumple
or
Informacyon
of
ony
man
in
erthe
that
vsed
suche
grete
penaunce
wyth
in
hyr
faders
hows
Redeth
Sayntes
lyues
and
wrytyng
of
holy
faders
of
Egypte
/
leueth
none
vnsought
/
but
sercheth
ouer
all
/
and
espye
whether
ye
fynde
ony
lyke
to
hyr
.
Ye
shall
fynde
Saynt
Powse
the
fyrst
heremyte
lyued
longe
in
deserte
.
But
a
crowe
brought
hym
euery
daye
half
a
lof
to
hys
mete
.
Ye
may
also
fynde
saynt
Anthonye
a
full
holy
lyuer
and
dyd
grete
meruayllous
penaunce
/
&
yet
he
wente
to
dyuers
ankrys
aboute
/
and
of
eche
of
them
he
gadred
somme
floures
of
vertue
.
Ye
may
also
fynde
of
Saynt
Hyllaryon
an
holy
lyuer
.
Yet
as
Saynt
Jerome
seyth
/
he
was
fyrst
enformed
to
vertuous
lyuyng
of
Saynt
Anthonye
and
ro
wente
to
deserte
and
there
myghtly
ouercam
hys
enemyes
.
Ye
may
fynde
also
of
Macharye
and
Arsenye
and
many
other
whyche
is
longe
to
telle
of
/
that
had
techers
to
vertuous
lyuyng
/
one
or
moo
/
bothe
in
worde
and
also
in
exsaumple
/
what
in
deserte
/
or
in
Relygion
And
this
holy
mayde
had
nethyr
hyr
doctryne
to
vertues
in
Relygyon
/
nother
in
deserte
But
in
hyr
faders
hows
wythout
ony
Informacyon
or
exaumple
of
ony
man
in
erthe
/
and
there
to
came
to
a
grete
perfeccyon
of
abstynence
/
notwythstondynge
the
manyfolde
lettyng
the
whyche
she
suffred
in
hyr
faders
hows
Shall
I
yet
saye
more
of
thys
maydens
commendacyon
I
praye
you
lystene
a
lytel
whyle
&
I
shall
telle
how
holy
wrytte
maketh
mencyon
that
Moyses
fasted
twyes
fourty
dayes
/
wyth
out
mete
and
drynke
/
and
Ely
ones
/
and
our
lord
Ihesu
cryst
also
as
the
Gospell
sayth
/
that
thei
fasted
more
by
many
yeres
contynued
Holy
wrytte
telleth
not
.
Saynt
Johan
baptyst
though
he
were
in
deserte
he
lyued
by
hony
soukeles
and
herbes
.
But
symply
that
he
fasted
I
fynde
nowhere
I
wryton
.
Of
Marye
magdelyne
allone
hyr
storye
maketh
mencyon
of
hyr
lyf
that
she
fastyd
euery
yere
fourty
dayes
to
gyder
wyth
out
mete
or
drynke
thre
and
thyrty
yeres
folowyng
/
leuyng
in
a
Roche
of
the
see
.
There
for
I
trowe
it
was
that
our
lord
and
hye
blyssed
moder
commytted
hyr
to
thys
holy
mayde
for
to
be
hyr
may
stresse
and
hyr
moder
as
it
is
somwhat
I
touched
afore
.
And
as
it
shall
clerely
be
de
declared
afterward
by
the
helpe
of
god
.
By
thys
may
ye
knowe
that
thys
holy
mayde
had
a
specyall
yefte
and
a
synguler
grace
of
god
.
Not
that
she
is
preferryd
in
holy
lyuynge
aboue
alle
the
Sayntes
/
the
whyche
ben
rehersed
afore
.
For
that
were
a
full
odyous
comparyson
.
So
for
to
make
suche
lykenes
bytwene
Sayntes
/
among
whiche
sayntes
our
sauyour
Ihesu
Cryst
is
I
nempned
/
to
whome
for
to
lyken
ony
saynt
in
comparyson
of
holy
lyuyng
/
that
sholde
be
euen
wyth
hym
/
it
were
blasfemye
/
al
tho
other
sayntes
whyche
ben
named
/
they
be
not
rehersed
for
to
make
lykenesse
in
merites
of
lyuyng
/
but
that
ye
shal
consydere
and
take
hede
fyrst
of
the
grete
magnyfycence
of
our
lord
Ihesu
cryst
/
that
euery
day
by
hys
gracyous
plentuous
largenes
mult●plyed
hys
newe
yeftes
and
grace
/
where
wyth
he
arayeth
ghostly
&
maketh
perfyte
hys
chosen
sowles
.
Another
also
that
ye
shall
consydere
and
take
of
the
grete
synguler
worthynesse
in
hyr
was
noo
Iniurye
ne
wronge
to
other
sayntes
For
holy
chyrche
syngeth
and
seyth
specyally
/
&
syngulerly
of
euery
saynt
by
hym self
.
Thes
wordes
of
Salamon
.
Non
est
inuentus
similis
illi
.
That
is
none
I
founde
lyke
to
thys
:
These
wordes
muste
be
vnderstonde
of
the
grete
myght
and
large
fredom
of
our
lord
/
makyng
holy
and
perfyte
hys
chosen
sowles
.
The
whyche
may
&
wylle
endowe
&
arraye
euery
saynt
syngulerly
wyth
a
specyall
yefte
of
grace
wyth
out
ony
wronge
of
other
.
Of
alle
thys
mater
now
I
shall
cesse
and
procede
forth
in
the
fyrst
purpose
By
thyse
condycyons
of
abstynence
of
thys
holy
mayde
/
may
be
vnderstonde
clerely
that
she
was
lene
in
body
/
that
wyth
so
many
herdenes
of
penaunce
and
sharpe
afflyccyon●
was
so
often
tymes
tamed
/
and
all
was
for
to
make
hyr
body
buxom
and
subgett●
to
the
seruyce
of
the
sowle
.
On
a
tyme
hyr
moder
Lapa
tolde
to
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
▪
Thought
that
hyr
doughter
tormented
so
holy
hyr
body
in
penaunce
/
she
was
of
soo
grete
myght
&
strenghte
in
body
/
that
she
wolde
wyth
out
ony
greuaunce
lyf
vp
on
hyr
sholdres
a
borthen
that
was
I
now
for
an
hors
for
to
bere
/
&
bere
it
vp
in
to
an
hyghe
garet
aboue
two
longe
steyers
For
she
was
that
tyme
as
she
sayde
twyes
soo
grete
in
body
thanne
she
was
afterward
at
the
age
of
xxxviij
whan
she
had
contynued
in
soo
grete
penaunces
.
Hyt
was
no
meruayll
and
so
it
is
/
for
but
yf
it
had
nought
I
be
that
our
lord
hadde
kepte
hyr
by
myracle
/
hyt
hadde
be
no
meruayll
though
she
hadde
be
all
wastyd
awaye
.
For
at
that
tyme
whan
that
hyr
confessour
mayster
Reymond
knewe
hyr
/
she
was
a
full
slender
creature
and
that
was
no
meruayll
.
For
the
spiryte
encreced
in
vertue
/
the
weyker
wexxd
the
body
as
though
it
wer●
ouercome
of
the
sowle
/
&
not
wythstondyng
alle
thys
she
wolde
euer
laboure
gladdely
and
namely
for
the
helthe
of
sowles
.
All
be
it
she
suffred
grete
sekenesse
in
hyr
body
/
for
the
spyryte
whyche
was
so
strong
wythin
susteyned
and
comforted
the
feble
body
wyth
out
.
Now
shall
I
cesse
here
of
/
and
torne
ageyn
to
the
fyrst
mater
of
thys
chapytre
.
Whan
thys
holy
mayde
hadde
full
graunte
and
lycence
of
hyr
frendes
for
to
serue
our
lord
in
hyr
lytell
chambre
assygned
to
hir
/
and
there
began
full
feruently
for
to
styghe
vp
ghoostly
to
hyr
heuenly
spouse
.
The
serpent
our
olde
enemye
the
fende
though
she
had
ouercome
hym
dyuers
tymes
afore
.
Yet
he
cessed
not
for
to
assaylle
hyr
estesonys
.
He
steryd
Eue
hys
doughter
.
Lapa
thys
maydens
moder
by
a
carnall
loue
that
she
hadde
more
to
the
body
of
hyr
doughter
than
to
hyr
self
/
for
to
lette
hyr
of
hyr
penaunce
For
on
a
tyme
whan
the
moder
came
to
hyr
doughter
/
and
aspyed
howe
she
bete
hyr
self
wyth
an
yren
chayne
/
she
cryed
waylyng
wyth
a
lowde
voys
and
seyde
.
A
doughter
what
doste
thou
/
thou
arte
but
dede
/
for
thou
sleest
thy self
/
allas
who
hath
counseylled
my
doughter
herto
/
who
hath
steryd
hyr
to
do
thys
.
And
soo
wyth
cryeng
and
waylyng
thys
olde
womman
tormented
hyr
self
as
she
had
be
a
wood
body
wyth
t●ryng
of
hyr
clothes
&
of
hyr
here
/
for
she
thought
hyr
doughter
was
but
dede
.
By
the
noyse
of
thys
cryeng
all
the
neghbours
were
styred
aboute
for
to
come
Inne
and
see
what
thys
olde
woman
eyled
.
Whan
they
cam
they
sawe
how
thys
holy
mayde
had
made
hyr
a
bedde
all
of
bare
boordys
where
on
she
rested
when
she
wolde
slepe
.
And
wyth
vyolence
hyr
moder
took
hyr
out
of
the
chambre
and
broughte
hyr
to
her
owne
chambre
there
she
laye
/
for
she
thought
that
she
wolde
make
her
slepe
in
her
owne
bedde
wyth
hyr
.
And
whan
thys
holy
mayden
sawe
thys
/
by
wysdome
of
spyryte
she
shewed
grete
gladnes
in
chere
and
kneled
doun
a
fore
hyr
moder
prayng
her
mekely
wyth
esy
wordes
that
she
wolde
wouchesauf
to
put
awaye
alle
hyr
steryng
and
vnpacyence
and
be
esy
/
for
she
was
redy
to
obeye
to
hyr
as
she
wolde
haue
hyr
redy
for
to
lye
wyth
hyr
as
she
wolde
bydde
hyr
.
Whan
she
thus
wysely
p●syd
her
moder
for
to
kepe
hyr
in
quyete
/
she
layde
hyr
doune
by
her
in
that
one
syde
of
the
bedde
/
and
had
there
swete
medytacyons
that
she
was
wont●
to
haue
.
After
tyme
hir
moder
was
a
slepe
/
she
rose
vp
pryuely
and
wente
agayne
to
hyr
holy
ghostly
excercyse
.
The
fende
eftsones
hadde
enuye
herto
that
she
sholde
so
encrece
in
vertue
/
styred
hyr
moder
the
seconde
tyme
ageyn
hyr
.
But
there
ageyn
thys
holy
mayde
vsed
thys
prudence
by
cause
she
wolde
nomore
make
▪
hyr
moder
sory
wyth
hyr
/
she
took
pryuely
a
post
and
leyde
it
in
hyr
bedde
vnder
a
shete
and
clothes
abouen
/
that
the
moder
whan
she
wold
comen
and
vysyte
hyr
sholde
suppose
that
it
had
be
she
/
the
whyche
had
laye
there
vnder
the
clothes
.
And
yet
neuerthelesse
she
kepte
hir
comyn
●●stome
of
harde
lyeng
/
as
she
dyd
afore
/
hyt
was
not
longe
tyme
after
/
but
that
the
moder
aspyed
thys
well
/
&
when
she
had
aspyed
it
she
sayd
to
hyr
doughter
in
thys
wyse
.
Doughter
I
see
well
alle
my
laboure
is
in
vayne
/
I
may
not
chaunge
the
from
thy
purpose
/
ese
it
is
to
me
for
to
lete
it
ouer
passe
lyghtly
.
And
therefor
go
and
slepe
there
on
thou
arte
I
wont●
.
And
soo
she
was
ouercomen
wyth
the
stedfastnes
of
thys
holy
mayde
and
suffred
hyr
euer
afterwarde
to
lyue
as
the
holy
ghoost
styred
hyr
.
Thus
endeth
thys
chapytre
.
Somme
thynges
ther
ben
rehersed
there
Inne
that
hyr
confessour
mayster
Reymond
knewe
and
hadde
reuelacyon
of
by
the
holy
mayde
Katheryne
▪
As
is
of
hyr
grete
abstynence
and
other
sharpenesse
of
penaunce
/
and
of
hyr
maner
of
worchyng
in
them
/
and
somme
thynkes
he
knewe
by
reuelacyon
of
hyr
moder
Lapa
/
and
som
of
other
dyuers
matrons
that
were
conuersaunt
with
her
.
But
som
thynges
he
knewe
by
hym self
/
namely
of
hyr
synguler
&
gracyous
yefte
of
abstynence
.
¶
Of
the
laste
vyctorye
that
she
had
in
a
bathe
.
And
how
she
took
the
abyte
of
Saynt
Domynyk
Whyche
she
had
long
tyme
desyred
to fore
.
Ca
vij
WHan
thys
holy
mayde
was
restoryd
ageyn
to
hyr
deuoute
excercyse
the
more
that
she
perceyued
that
the
enemye
of
all
mankynde
was
besy
for
to
lette
hyr
/
the
more
feruent
she
was
in
hyr
ghostly
excercyse
.
Euery
day
she
wayled
&
euery
day
she
wepte
/
axynge
and
prayng
our
lorde
deuoutly
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
to
gyue
hir
grace
to
resceyue
the
abyte
of
saynt
Domynyk
that
she
had
long
desyred
.
The
whiche
thorugh
hys
grete
●yt●●
was
be
hote
hyr
by
our●
holy
fader
Saynt
Domynyk
in
a
vysyon
.
For
she
was
neuer
seker
in
hir self
to
kepe
the
purpose
of
maydenhode
vnto
the
tyme
she
resceyued
that
holy
abyte
she
wyst
well
that
after
tyme
she
were
arayed
wyth
that
abyte
alle
maner
speche
of
hyr
weddyng
shold
cesse
/
and
she
sholde
be
suffred
for
to
serue
hyr
ghoostely
the
more
frely
.
Wherfore
she
prayed
hyr
fader
&
moder
that
they
wold
gyue
hyr
leue
to
be
one
of
the
susters
of
penaunce
of
sayn
t●
Domynyk
/
that
ben
called
in
comyn
speche
of
the
Cyte
of
Senee
susters
of
the
mant●ll
.
And
ouermore
she
prayed
to
the
same
sustres
that
they
receyue
hyr
to
the
same
abyte
amonge
theyr●
holy
nombre
.
To
thys
axyng
the
mod
was
not
well
apayed
/
alle
be
it
she
sayde
not
ones
nay
/
but
euer
she
was
aboute
as
moche
as
she
myght
for
to
withdrawe
hyr
from
hyr
grete
penaunce
that
she
vsed
.
And
for
thys
cause
she
purposed
on
a
tyme
for
to
go
to
an
hoot
bath
/
or
for
to
be
bathed
&
hyr
doughter
wyth
hyr
.
That
assone
as
thys
holy
mayde
had
felte
ony
maner
comforte
&
solace
to
the
body
by
that
bathyng
by
lytell
&
lytell
she
shold
haue
left
hyr
grete
penaunce
▪
Thys
was
not
done
wythout
wyll
of
the
fende
/
the
whyche
besyed
hym
in
that
he
myght
to
wyth
drawe
suche
a
feruent
sowle
from
the
ghostly
callynge
of
hyr
heuenly
spouse
He
taught
thys
synfull
womman
Lapa
this
maydens
moder
full
pryuely
his
malycyous
wylles
Neuerthelesse
bi
cause
ther
may
no
counseyll
preuayll
ne
haue
the
maystrye
ageynst
the
counseyll
of
god
Thys
holy
mayde
that
was
armed
wyth
the
armere
of
vyctorye
bothe
in
hyr
ryght
syde
/
and
eke
in
hyr
lefte
syde
torned
alle
the
fende
is
trecherous
wylles
to
grete
profyt●
of
hyr
sowle
.
Whan
she
came
to
the
bathe
/
she
founde
a
newe
maner
bathyng
in
hyr
sowle
/
how
that
she
shold
tormente
hyr
body
amonge
the
delycyous
bathes
.
She
went
to
the
condyt●
there
the
hote
water
cam
Inne
to
the
bathe
&
there
she
satte
all
naked
and
suffred
pacyently
the
hote
water
brenne
hyr
tender
naked
flesshe
the
whyche
was
more
payne
to
hyr
/
thenne
whan
she
bete
hyr
wyth
a
cheyne
Now
shall
I
telle
you
how
hyr
confessour
knewe
it
.
In
a
tyme
hyr
moder
Lapa
tolde
mayster
Reymond
afore
hyr
doughter
how
they
went
for
to
be
bathed
/
&
thenne
thys
mayde
pryuely
tolde
hym
how
she
was
bathed
/
and
how
wysely
she
asked
leue
of
hir
moder
whan
she
was
there
that
she
myght
be
bathed
by
hyr
self
whan
all
folke
were
gone
.
For
she
wyst
well
yf
hyr
moder
had
seen
hyr
she
myght
not
do
as
she
dyd
And
thenne
hyr
confessour
axyd
hyr
how
she
myght
suffre
so
grete
hete
wyth
out
peryll
of
deth
.
Thys
mayde
answerd
to
hym
&
sayd
full
symply
/
that
whan
she
satte
in
that
bathe
/
she
thought
besyly
vpon
the
paynes
of
purgatorye
&
of
hell
/
prayng
to
our
lord
whome
she
had
so
hyely
offendyd
/
that
he
wolde
wouchesauf
to
torne
mercyably
tho
peynes
that
she
had
deserued
in
to
that
temperall
payne
that
she
suffred
gladly
.
Of
hys
mercy
she
had
so
grete
gladdenesse
in
hyr
herte
/
that
all
the
peyne
was
ryght
swete
to
hir
&
therfore
hyr
body
was
no
thynge
hurte
there
by
/
though
she
felt
peyne
.
Whan
she
had
tolde
thys
tale
/
hyr
confessour
wente
home
/
&
she
ageyne
to
hir
penaunce
that
she
was
wont
to
vse
And
whan
hir
mod
that
perceyued
/
she
had
no
more
hope
tho
of
hir
chaungyng
.
But
yet
she
cessyd
neuer
wyth
out
grutchyng
of
the
penaunce
that
she
vsed
.
Of
the
whyche
grutchyng
thys
mayde
hyr
doughter
lyghtt●ly
suffred
hit
ouer
passe
wyth
a
defeere
hauyng
myude
rather
of
hir
holy
purpos
/
&
excyted
&
steryd
hyr
moder
euery
day
that
●he
●hold
go
to
the
sustres
of
penaunce
of
saynt
Domynyk
for
to
praye
them
that
hyr
doughter
myght
receyue
them
abyte
of
penaunce
that
she
had
so
long
tyme
desyred
:
The
moder
seyng
that
she
myght
haue
no
reste
for
hyr
doughter
/
she
wente
to
the
susters
of
penaunce
&
prayed
that
hyr
doughter
myght
receyue
the
abyte
amonges
them
.
To
whom
they
answerd
&
sayd
.
That
it
was
not
hyr
custome
to
receyue
maydens
/
ne
yonge
wymmen
to
that
abyte
/
but
onely
wedowes
of
sadde
age
and
of
good
name
&
fame
that
wold
fully
gyue
hem
to
goddes
seruyse
For
syth
it
is
so
that
susters
of
that
abyte
be
not
enclosed
vp
/
but
eueryche
of
them
lyued
at
home
in
hyr
owne
hows
/
hyt
were
full
necessary
that
eche
of
them
were
of
suche
sadde
age
that
they
myght
&
coude
gouerne
them self
saddely
.
The
cause
why
these
susters
of
penaunce
answerd
thus
/
it
shall
be
declared
by
the
helpe
of
god
openly
I
nough
in
the
next
chapytre
that
sueth
.
Whan
the
moder
had
this
answere
she
went
home
&
tolde
hyr
doughter
/
the
whiche
answere
was
to
the
doughter
full
gladsome
/
&
to
the
moder
not
full
heuysom
.
Neuerthelesse
yet
thys
holy
mayde
mystrusted
not
/
for
she
wys●
welle
hyr
purpose
sholde
be
fulfylled
that
was
behot
hir
of
so
gloryous
a
fader
as
Saynt
Domynyk
.
And
therefore
ef●sones
she
prayed
hyr
mod
that
she
sholde
not
cesse
/
but
go
to
thyse
susters
ageyn
&
praye
them
wyth
asmoche
instaunce
as
she
coude
/
that
she
myght
receyue
that
abyte
.
The
moder
dyd
so
/
&
brought
ageyn
the
same
answer
as
she
dyd
fyrst
Then
ne
sone
after
it
happed
that
thys
mayde
fyll
seek
in
body
/
the
whyche
sekenesse
comynly
yong
folk
ben
vexyd
wyth
or
thanne
they
come
to
a
sadde
age
.
And
yet
p●raduenture
that
passynge
he●●
that
sh●
suff●ed
in
the
hote
bathe
myght
be
cause
there
of
/
al
be
it
that
it
was
the
wyl
of
god
that
it
shold
be
so
.
All
the
skynne
of
hyr
body
was
full
of
bladders
&
byles
/
that
vnnethe
she
myght
be
knowe
.
And
there
to
also
she
had
a
strong
feuer
.
The
moder
seyng
that
hyr
doughter
was
soo
seek
all
though
she
loued
hir
sones
&
doughter
tenderly
Yet
thys
doughter
whom
that
she
nourysshed
wyth
hyr
owne
mylke
she
loued
more
tenderly
/
&
therefor
she
was
the
more
sory
of
hyr
dysease
.
And
she
knewe
no
cause
where
of
thys
sekenesse
cam
For
suche
a
sekenesse
myght
not
come
of
abstynence
/
but
rather
of
supfluyte
.
And
also
that
same
tyme
it
was
comyn
sekenesse
to
yong
chyldren
&
yong
maydens
And
therefor
she
coude
not
deme
where
of
the
sekenesse
came
/
&
what
ese
&
remedye
she
myght
do
there
to
/
she
dyd
bothe
in
wordes
of
comfort
/
&
also
in
dede
/
syttyng
alle
waye
by
the
beddes
syde
by
hyr
.
But
the
seker
the
doughter
was
in
body
/
the
strenger
she
was
in
hyr
holy
desyre
/
wayteng
after
leysyr
to
constreng
hyr
mod
in
manere
for
to
pursewe
to
fulfyll
hyr
desyre
wysely
&
swetly
she
sayde
to
hyr
moder
.
Good
dere
moder
yf
ye
wold
I
were
hole
&
ferd●
well
/
I
praye
you
beth
aboute
that
my
desyre
may
be
fulfylled
for
to
receyue
that
abyte
of
penaunce
.
Ellys
I
wote
well
that
our
lord
&
saynt
domynyk
the
whyche
haue
called
me
to
there
seruyce
woll
so
ordeyne
for
me
/
that
ye
sholde
no
longer
haue
me
in
thys
lyf
.
Whan
the
moder
herde
thys
oft●
&
many
tymes
rehersed
to
hyr
/
she
beynge
a
ferde
lest
she
sholde
haue
deyde
/
went
to
the
same
susters
ageyn
&
prayed
them
so
entyerly
of
the
abyte
/
that
they
were
ouercome
wyth
hyr
prayers
&
so
graunted
hyr
in
thys
wyse
.
Yf
youre
doughter
be
noght
ouer
semely
in
body
/
&
ouer
f●y●●
in
beaute
/
we
shall
graun●●
your
axyng
&
receyue
hyr
And
yf
she
be
to
fayre
we
drede
vs
of
the
peryll
of
slandre
/
and
of
malycyou●
lyuyng
of
men
in
thyse
dayes
.
And
for
thys
cause
we
dare
not
consente
to
receyue
hyr
in
noo
wyse
.
To
whom
the
moder
answerd
&
sayde
Cometh
and
see
hyr
&
eue
ye
the
dome
whee
she
be
fayre
or
not
.
There
were
sente
two
dyscrete
matrons
chosen
amonge
them
wyth
Lapa
for
to
see
thys
mayde
bothe
of
dysposycyon
of
hyr
body
/
&
also
for
to
serche
hyr
desyre
of
soule
When
they
come
they
founde
thys
mayde
lyeng
seek
in
a
bedde
/
&
therefor
they
myght
not
clerely
knowe
the
dysposycyon
of
hyr
body
for
sekenesse
.
Neuerthelesse
as
by
hyr
wordes
they
knewe
hyr
feruent
desyre
of
sowle
to
the
seruyce
of
god
/
&
were
gretly
astoyned
there
by
.
And
also
gladde
seeng
so
yong
a
mayden
passe
in
vertuous
●yuyng
many
olde
matrons
/
wherefor
they
took
her
leue
ioyefully
gretely
edyfyed
by
hyr
wordes
&
tolde
theyr
felawys
with
a
grete
ioye
what
they
harde
&
sawe
.
Whan
thise
susters
herde
thys
/
by
counseyll
of
the
frerys
they
receyued
hyr
with
oon
wyl
&
one
assent●
amonges
them
sendyng
worde
to
the
moder
/
that
also
sone
as
the
mayden
were
hole
/
she
shold
brynge
hir
to
the
frere
prechours
/
that
she
myght
r●ceyue
the
abyte
of
Saynt
Domynyk
/
the
whyche
she
had
so
long
desyred
in
presence
of
the
brethern
&
the
sust●en
of
the
same
abyte
as
the
custome
is
.
Whan
the
moder
tolde
these
wordys
to
hyr
dought
she
was
gladde
that
she
wepte
for
ioye
&
thanked
our
lord
&
saynt
domynyk
that
hadde
fulfylled
hys
promys
and
byh●st
.
Thanne
she
began
to
preye
to
god
that
she
myght
be
hole
of
hyr
bodely
Infyrmy●●
/
for
to
fulfylle
hir
holy
purpose
in
receyuyng
of
the
abyte
/
lest
she
shold
be
lette
&
delayed
of
hyr
desyre
/
for
that
bodely
seke●●sse
.
And
there
she
was
fyrst
gladde
of
hir
bodely
sekenesse
with
meke
suffraunce
.
Afterward
she
was
as
heuy
therof
besekyng
our
lord
with
besy
prayers
that
he
wold
wouchelauf
to
delyuer
hyr
wyth
out
ony
taryeng
of
that
sekenesse
the
whiche
letted
the
purpose
of
hyr
desyre
/
&
as
she
prayed
our
lord
graunted
hir
/
for
wyth
in
fewe
dayes
afterward
she
was
hole
.
Our
lord
wold
not
alway
of
his
goodnesse
denye
the
axyng
of
suche
that
conferme
them
euer
wyth
all
theyr
besynesse
to
fulfylle
hys
wyll
For
what
euer
she
axyd
or
desyred
she
referred
it
to
him
who
me
she
loued
wyth
all
the
myghtes
of
hir
sowle
/
and
to
who●
seruyce
she
offred
hyr
self
all
hole
body
and
sowle
/
whome
she
was
restoryd
of
bodely
hele
.
Alle
be
it
the
mod
was
aboute
to
tarye
hyr
of
hyr
purpose
lenger
tyme
.
She
made
suche
Instaunce
to
hyr
moder
/
that
the
day
and
houre
was
assygned
whan
she
sholde
receyue
hyr
abyte
/
the
whyche
abyte
she
receyued
wyth
a
grete
ghostly
gladnesse
/
whanne
the
moder
and
the
doughter
were
come
to
gyder
to
the
chyrche
.
The
frere
that
had
the
charge
of
the
susters
arayed
that
holy
mayde
wyth
that
maner
of
abyte
in
presence
of
them
all
of
the
colours
of
whyte
and
blak
in
token
of
Innocence
and
me
kenesse
/
the
whyche
abyte
holy
faders
of
Saynt
Domynykes
ordre
ordeyned
for
to
be
hadde
.
Soo
that
by
the
whytnes
is
vnderstonde
Innocencye
/
and
by
the
blaknesse
mekenes
.
For
as
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
recordeth
and
wryteth
▪
Ther
was
none
abyte
soo
well
accordyng
to
hyr
conuersacyon
of
lyuyng
bothe
Inward
and
outward
.
Thenne
thys
mayden
wyth
alle
hyr
myght
●●o
that
tyme
forthward
mortyfyed
hyr
body
in
sleyng
of
the
olde
lust
of
synne
wyth
alle
hys
braunches
of
pryde
/
in
the
wynnyng
of
the
veray
mekenesse
/
the
whyche
mekenesse
betokeneth
the
mantell
of
blacke
that
she
hadde
receyued
.
Alsoo
she
besyed
hyr
wyth
alle
hyr
myghtes
for
to
kepe
the
Innocencye
of
virgynytee
and
maydenhode
/
not
onely
of
body
/
but
also
of
sowle
to
her
endeles
spouse
Ihesu
cryst
/
the
whyche
is
veray
lyght
for
to
receyue
by
hym
fayrenesse
of
vertuous
lyuyng
/
the
whyche
fayrenesse
is
betokenyd
by
the
whyte
cote
vnder
the
mantell
.
Yf
hyr
abyte
had
be
all
black
or
alle
whyte
/
tho
two
thynges
mekenesse
and
Innocencye
myght
not
properly
be
vnderstonde
therby
.
And
yf
hyr
abyte
hadde
ben
graye
russeth
/
it
myght
represente
mortyfycacyon
.
But
not
properly
puryte
and
clennesse
of
sowle
.
Thys
was
the
cause
why
the
susters
at
the
begynnyng
denyed
hyr
thys
abyte
lest
she
hadde
not
be
able
to
bere
it
in
mekenesse
and
clennesse
of
herte
/
dredyng
of
hyr
yonge
age
.
Whanne
that
holy
mayde
hadde
receyued
that
abyte
/
hyt
become
hyr
better
than
it
dyd
the
matrons
.
Therfor
it
had
not
be
well
do
/
that
it
hadde
be
denyed
hyr
/
whyche
abyte
was
ordeyned
afore
of
holy
faders
in
token
of
Innocencye
.
Syth
it
soo
was
that
she
passyd
in
clennes
alle
the
chastyte
of
wedowhode
.
Of
one
thynge
hyr
confessour
Mayster
Reymond
recordeth
and
wryteth
that
/
that
abyte
hadde
neuer
hys
full
perfeccyon
in
the
Cytee
of
Senee
vnto
the
tyme
that
holy
mayde
hadde
I
take
vpon
hyr
for
to
were
hyt
.
She
was
the
fyrst
mayde
in
that
Cytee
that
took
it
vp
on
hyr
/
the
whyche
many
maydens
afterward
receyued
also
.
Soo
it
myght
be
songe
of
hyr
that
verse
that
Dauyd
the
prophete
speketh
of
.
Adducentur
regi
virgines
posteam
.
That
is
to
our
lorde
god
endeles
kyng
/
many
maydens
shall
be
brought
Inne
after
thys
holy
mayde
Katheryne
.
¶
How
thys
mayden
encreced
it
shall
be
declared
afterward
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
But
now
I
shall
make
an
ende
of
thys
chapytre
and
procede
forthe
how
thys
holy
abyte
beganne
of
thys
holy
Relygyous
estate
/
lest
for
defaute
of
knowyng
there
of
/
the
opynyon
and
the
fame
of
thys
holy
maydens
vertuous
lyuynge
myght
be
lessenyd
therby
in
somme
mennys
hertys
/
as
for
the
matere
the
whyche
is
reherced
in
thys
chapytre
mayster
Reymond
recordeth
and
seyth
that
he
hadde
it
by
relacyon
of
hyr
moder
/
and
of
hyr
self
And
as
the
abyte
it
nedeth
no
profe
/
for
it
is
knowen
openly
ynough
.
¶
Of
the
begynnyng
and
the
foundamente
of
the
Relygyous
state
of
the
susters
of
penaunce
of
Saynt
Domynyk
/
and
where
of
came
the
manere
of
lyuyng
of
tho
sustren
.
Capitulum
viij
ALle
tho
that
wyll
rede
thys
presente
chapytre
folowynge
/
they
shall
fynde
wryten
as
it
is
recorded
of
many
feythfull
creatures
in
dyuerse
partyes
of
ytalye
/
many
worthy
actys
and
dedys
of
our
holy
fader
Saynte
Domynyk
.
That
gloryous
worthy
confessour
of
Cryste
/
Tutor
and
defendour
of
the
feyth
of
holy
chyrche
Saynte
Domynyk
also
techer
and
enfourmer
of
the
good
state
of
perfyte
lyuers
ouercame
myghtely
bothe
in
Tholose
and
also
in
Lombardye
.
What
by
hym selfe
and
by
hys
brethern
/
many
heretykes
:
So
that
in
the
tyme
of
his
canonizacion
at
Rome
was
prouyd
openly
a
for
our●
holy
fader
the
pope
that
an
hondred
thousand
heretykes
and
more
were
tourned
by
hys
prechyng
and
shewyng
of
myracles
in
lumbardye
alone
/
¶
Neuertheles
that
venemous
doctryne
of
the
heretykes
hadde
soo
enfected
the
peple
sowles
that
almoost
all
the
possessyons
of
holy
chyrche
were
in
laymennes
hondes
kepyng
it
as
here
owne
herytage
And
that
caused
Bysshoppe●
to
goo
aboute
and
begge
.
For
they
hadde
none
power
neuer
to
wythstonde
her
here●ye
for
the
defaulte
of
temperall
substaunce
/
ne
for
to
releue
clerkys
and
poure
folke
after
the
dewe
of
her
offyce
/
This
consydered
our
holy
fader
Saynt
domynyke
&
myght
in
none
wyse
suffre
this
myscheff
in
holy
chyrche
for
the
grete
and
entyrly
loue
that
he
hadde
therto
he
chaas
a
worthy
lyf
of
pouerte
both
for
hym selfe
and
also
for
theim
that
shold
be
his
folowers
And
thenne
beganne
to
pursue
forthe
for
the
ryght
of
holy
chyrche
assosyeng●
to
hym
cert●yn
laye
people
that
d●ed
god
and
that
he
knew
well
and
so
commyned
wyth
theym
of
the
ordeynaunce
of
an
holy
lyuyng
that
sholde
recouere
againe
the
rychesses
of
holy
chirche
and
defended
it
myghtely
euer
afterward
/
&
faithfully
agaynst
heretikes
by
comyn
assent
suche
a
lyf
was
soo
graunted
and
ordeyned
.
¶
For
there
that
our
holy
fader
Saynt
Domynyke
founde
ony
well
wyllynge
folke
to
suche
a
lyuyng
/
Fyrst
he
enduced
theym
for
to
swere
that
they
sholde
kepe
and
obserue
all
the
thynges
that
shold
be
reherced
to
theym
to
the
vterest
for
to
putte
her
goodes
and
her
lyf
therfore
in
Jeoperdye
:
and
le●te
this
holy
lyuynge
sholde
bee
lette
by
suche
that
we●●
wedded
/
He
made
also
wyues
to
swere
that
they
sholde
also
not
lette
her
husbondes
to
maynten
in
suche
a
poure
lyuyng
the
ryght
of
holy
chyrche
:
but
rather
sholde
helpe
theym
to
her
power
in
all
that
they
might
:
And
to
eyther
partye
this
holy
fader
saynt
domynyke
he
byhote
theym
sykerly
yf
they
kepte
this
purpoos
:
endeles
lyf
for
her
mede
/
¶
Tho
men
that
toke
this
holy
lyf
vppon
them
were
called
fryers
of
Crysico
knyghthode
/
Neuertheles
by
cause
t●ey
sholde
beknowen
fro
other
by
somme
token
and
that
they
sholde
haue
somme
maner
of
besynes
aboue
the
vsage
of
other
laye
peple
:
He
gaue
them
the
colour
of
his
owne
habyte
that
bothe
men
and
wymmen
of
the
same
knyghthode
of
Ihesu
cryst
shold
were
whyte
and
blake
.
Soo
that
eyther
colour
sholde
apere
outward
in
token
of
innocencye
and
mekenes
:
Euermore
he
assigned
theym
to
saye
a
certeyn
nombre
of
Pater
nosters
:
&
Aue
maria
.
That
they
sholde
be
occupyed
at
euery
houre
of
diuyne
seruyce
day●
by
day
▪
whan
this
was
do
after
tyme
saynt
domynyk
passed
out
of
this
worlde
to
blysse
of
heuen
&
by
encresyng
of
myracles
was
canonyzed
in
the
court
of
Rome
:
The
f●●res
&
suster●
that
fyrst
were
called
of
the
knyghthode
of
Ihu
cyr●●
to
amo●●
synguler
▪
worshyp
of
the
founder
of
saynt
domynyk
chaunged
her
name
by
a
commin
ass●t
/
&
were
called
f●●ers
&
susters
of
the
penaunce
of
saynt
domynyk
/
&
the
cause
why
them
thought
that
her
fyrst
name
sholde
be
chaunged
was
this
/
they
saw
that
bi
the
merytes
&
myracles
of
saynt
domynyk
:
&
by
the
prechyng
of
the
fryers
their
cursed
heresye
was
cause
/
wherfore
theym
thought
that
it
was
not
moche
nedefull
to
be
occupyed
in
suche
outward
batayle
of
prechyng
but
rather
wythinward
batayle
agaynst
her
gostely
enmyes
/
they
chose
therfore
to
be
called
fryers
&
susters
of
penaunce
/
At
the
last
the
nombre
of
fryer
prechours
encresyd
so
hugely
/
amonge
whom
was
one
as
a
clere
shynnyng
sterre
:
Saynt
peter
bothe
martyr
and
mayde
/
the
whiche
was
martred
of
heretykes
for
the
ryght
of
holy
chyrche
:
And
destroyed
more
heretykes
after
his
deth
/
And
soo
thys
company
of
wulues
that
were
aboute
to
destroye
goddes
vnite
of
holy
chyrche
were
vtterly
avoyded
and
peas
was
yelden
to
all
holy
chyrche
/
wherfore
the
cause
of
that
name
of
knyghthede
sesyd
and
channged
in
to
a
name
of
penaunce
/
Neuerthelesse
this
maner
of
state
of
louyng
descendeth
and
remayneth
only
to
men
a
whyle
:
And
ther
wyues
ben
left
soole
lyuyng
by
theym self
a
relygyous
lyf
neuer
afterward
desyryng
for
to
bee
wedded
:
by
cause
of
the
relygyous
that
they
kepte
wyth
her
husbondes
afore
/
But
the
state
the
whiche
they
began
they
kepte
to
her
lyues
ende
/
¶
This
consyderyd
and
behelde
other
wydowes
that
purposed
to
kepe
theym
in
wedowhode
desiring
to
folowe
susters
of
penaunce
of
Saynt
domynyke
/
For
remedye
of
her
synnes
they
prayed
the
fryer
prechours
that
were
in
Italye
to
enforme
them
of
the
maner
of
lyuyng
/
The
whiche
was
ordeyned
of
Saynt
Domynyke
.
By
cause
the
maner
of
lyuyng
was
not
hard
:
A
blessyd
fader
of
the
same
ordre
/
the
whiche
was
called
Munyo
wrote
that
maner
of
lyuyng
/
and
toke
it
to
thyse
wydowes
:
the
whiche
manere
of
lyuyng
in
to
this
daye
is
callyd
amonges
theym
a
rule
:
All
be
it
thay
it
may
not
properly
be
callyd
soo
/
In
as
moche
as
encludeth
not
wythin
it
the
thre
pryncypall
vowes
that
other
relygyous
folke
haue
/
And
after
tyme
that
this
nombre
of
susters
thus
encresed
in
dyuerse
partyes
of
Italye
/
Our
holy
fader
the
pope
in
tho
dayes
the
whiche
was
called
honoryus
perceyued
that
good
lyuynge
of
thyse
susters
graunted
theym
by
bulle
that
in
tyme
of
Interdyction
that
they
myght
here
her
dyuyne
seruyce
amonges
the
fryer
prechours
/
And
soo
our
holy
fader
the
pope
Johan
the
whiche
came
after
hym
he
hadde
made
the
constytucions
of
Clementynis
agaynste
the
vyrgyns
and
by
gardys
:
He
declared
the
bulle
of
the
same
decretall
or
constytucion
that
it
sholde
not
be
vnderstonde
of
the
same
susters
of
penaunce
of
Saynt
domynyke
:
For
by
that
Decretall
the
astate
is
not
repreued
in
ony
wyse
/
¶
Loo
maydens
by
this
ye
may
vnder
stonde
why
that
state
of
liuing
was
founde
in
wymmen
only
:
And
why
the
susters
answerd
soo
att
the
begynnynge
to
the
moder
of
this
holy
mayde
/
that
were
not
wounte
to
receyue
maydens
to
that
state
of
lyuyng
:
but
oonly
to
wydowes
approuyd
in
sadnes
/
thyse
thynges
that
ben
wrytten
in
this
chapytre
for
the
more
parte
Mayster
.
Reymound
founde
them
wryten
in
dyuerse
places
of
Italye
:
But
some
maters
he
herde
and
vnderstode
theym
wyth
inquysycion
of
many
holy
faythfull
and
olde
fryers
and
susters
of
Saynt
Domynyke
And
thus
endeth
this
chapytre
/
¶
Of
the
wonderfull
encrece
and
how
she
prouffyted
in
vertu
and
holy
lyuyng
/
And
that
she
sholde
bee
byloued
in
all
thynges
whiche
she
rehersed
to
her
confessour
of
grace
done
to
here
of
our
lorde
Capl
ix
How
this
holy
mayde
in
receyuinge
of
her
habyte
made
none
byhest
to
the
thre
pryncipalle
avowes
of
relygyon
/
by
cause
that
the
estat
asked
it
nought
:
As
it
is
rehersed
afore
Yet
neuerthelesse
she
purposed
to
kepefull
stedfastly
tho
thre
pryncypal
avowes
in
her self
.
As
for
the
vowe
of
chastyte
there
was
none
doughte
of
/
For
she
hadde
made
avowe
of
maydenhode
afore
in
her
tender
age
.
as
touchyng
for
her
obedyence
:
She
purposed
oonly
for
to
bee
obedyent
to
that
fryer
that
was
mayster
of
the
susters
and
to
the
pryoresse
of
the
same
susters
.
But
also
to
her
confessour
the
whiche
obedyence
she
kepte
to
her
lyues
ende
/
¶
For
as
she
sayde
by
her
lyue
whan
she
sholde
passe
out
of
this
worlde
:
She
hadde
neuer
mynde
that
she
brake
onis
her
obedyence
/
Neuerthels
by
cause
there
were
somme
the
whiche
hadde
enuye
off
her
holynesse
both
bacbyters
and
lyers
that
sayde
the
contrarye
/
¶
I
doo
you
to
vnderstonde
maydens
that
thowe
this
holy
mayde
hadde
none
other
tourment
whyle
she
was
lyuynge
in
erthe
but
oonly
vndyscrete
byddyng
and
mysseyng
of
her
souereyns
:
she
myght
haue
ben
in
maner
a
martyr
by
the
grete
pacience
the
whiche
she
suffred
:
Her
confessours
vnderstood
nonght
ne
gaue
none
credence
many
tymes
to
the
excellent
gyfte
of
grace
that
she
receyued
of
god
/
Ne
gaue
none
reuerence
to
the
werkys
of
our
lorde
that
wrought
in
her
merueylously
/
And
therforre
they
wold
haue
made
her
lyuyng
after
the
commyn
lyuyng
of
her
susters
/
not
consyderyng
the
opyn
tokens
of
grace
that
were
shewed
in
her
dyuerse
tymes
.
But
rather
they
myghi
be
lykened
to
the
pharysens
that
seyth
the
opyn
myracles
the
whyche
our
lord
wrought
:
And
yet
they
grutched
by
cause
he
helyd
a
man
vpon
the
sabat
daye
seyng
thus
/
¶
Non
est
hic
homo
a
deo
qui
sabbatum
non
custodit
:
That
is
this
man
is
not
of
god
hals
that
kepeth
not
his
sabat
daye
This
holy
mayde
whan
she
hadde
receyued
her
habyte
of
penaunce
▪
she
besyed
her
what
she
cowde
to
obeye
to
her
souereyns
/
and
therto
she
durst
not
forsake
the
waye
of
vertuous
lyuynge
/
the
whiche
our
lord
taught
her
by
hym self
/
soo
that
bytwene
thyse
two
/
she
was
sore
angwisshed
in
tourment
that
ther
maye
none
tongue
telle
it
ne
penne
wryte
it
/
Was
this
not
trought
ye
maydens
a
martyrdome
for
her
/
I
trowe
yeis
/
A
a
lorde
god
ofte
was
it
sayde
to
her
in
repref
that
all
her
vysyons
come
nought
of
god
but
of
the
fende
/
¶
Notwythstondyng
that
they
the
whiche
sawe
in
her
many
merueylous
werkes
and
that
therto
they
myght
see
that
all
her
lyf
was
myracle
/
as
it
shall
declared
more
clerely
here
after
/
Now
was
this
a
stronge
martyrdome
as
me
semeth
¶
And
as
touchyng
to
pouerte
of
lynyng
she
kepte
soo
perfyghtly
that
vertu
pouerte
that
she
beyng
/
in
her
faders
hous
and
housholde
where
greate
plente
was
of
temperall
goodes
:
for
her self
she
toke
no
thynge
but
that
she
wolde
gyue
frely
to
poure
folke
/
And
therto
her
fader
gaue
her
a
specyall
leue
/
¶
She
loued
soo
moche
pouerte
that
as
she
sayde
preuyly
to
her
confessoure
she
hadde
neuer
ioye
of
her
faders
hous
by
cause
temperall
goodes
were
soo
plenteuosly
vsed
therin
:
And
therfore
she
prayed
oure
lord
hertely
that
he
wolde
vochesauf
to
tak
awaye
that
rychesse
:
And
brynge
hyr
frendes
to
pouerte
seyng
in
this
wyse
.
Lorde
whether
this
good
that
aboundeth
soo
plentuously
in
myn
faders
hous
by
that
good
I
sholde
aske
for
myn
frendes
/
and
nought
oonly
of
good
euerlastyng
/
I
knowe
well
lord
that
amonges
thyse
temperall
goodes
there
is
moche
peryll
medeled
amonge
:
And
therfore
I
wolde
nought
myn
frendes
were
encombred
wyth
theym
.
¶
Whan
she
hadde
thus
prayed
/
our
lorde
of
his
goodnes
herde
her
prayers
:
and
suffred
hee
frendes
Fader
and
moder
and
other
of
her
kynne
to
falle
to
ryght
lowe
pouerte
by
many
merueylous
chaunces
wythout
ony
trespaas
of
theym
:
As
it
was
well
knowe
to
all
tho
that
knewe
theym
whyles
they
lyued
/
By
this
may
ye
knowe
that
this
mayden
kepte
full
dewely
the
thre
pryncipall
vowes
of
relygyon
:
That
is
obedyence
/
chastyte
and
pouerte
/
all
be
it
that
she
made
none
avowe
openly
whan
she
receyued
her
habyte
of
penaunce
/
Now
shall
I
telle
you
of
her
perfection
after
tyme
she
hadde
receyued
her
habyte
whan
she
hadde
receyued
habyte
as
our
holy
fader
Saynt
domynyke
promysed
her
/
she
began
anone
swete
vertuous
lyuynge
and
sought
occacions
and
causes
for
to
constreyne
her self
more
streyghtly
:
than
she
dyde
afore
that
she
myght
the
more
deuoutlye
loue
her
spouse
Ihesu
seyng
to
her self
in
this
wyse
:
Lo
thou
hast
now
take
vp
on
the
a
maner
of
relygyon
thou
mayst
nomore
lyue
as
thou
hast
doo
thy
seculer
lyuynge
is
goo
:
And
a
newe
relygyon
is
come
:
after
the
whiche
reule
thou
must
nedes
be
reuled
/
S●est
thou
not
the
colour
of
thyn
clothes
the
nedeth
now
fro
this
time
forward
to
kepe
perfyghtly
pouerte
and
clennesse
of
body
and
sowle
,
whiche
be
tokeneth
bi
the
whyte
cote
:
The
nedeth
also
to
be
dede
to
the
worlde
:
the
whiche
betokenneth
by
the
blake
mantel
/
therfore
see
to
thy self
how
thou
gouerneste
the
for
thou
muste
now
goo
in
the
streyte
waye
that
fewe
walken
ynne
:
For
the
more
sekernesse
therfore
of
kepyng
of
her
pouerte
and
clennesse
/
¶
This
holy
mayde
purposed
her
to
kepe
sylence
full
streyte
/
and
not
for
to
speke
but
whan
she
shold
be
shryue
/
And
as
her
confessour
both
sayde
and
wrote
that
was
afore
Mayster
Reymound
▪
thre
yere
contynuelly
she
kepte
her
sylence
/
but
whan
she
wolde
beshryue
She
kepte
her
also
contynuelly
in
her
chambre
/
But
whan
she
wolde
goo
to
the
chyrche
for
her
mete
she
hadde
none
nede
to
goo
out
/
It
was
lytyll
and
soone
doo
.
For
she
vsed
to
ete
none
maner
of
mete
that
was
made
by
the
fyre
out
taken
breed
alone
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
¶
Also
she
made
an
ordynaunce
in
her
owne
herte
neuer
to
come
to
mete
but
wyth
wepyng
:
soo
that
euer
afore
mete
she
wolde
offre
to
our
lord
teres
for
to
fede
her
soule
fyrst
/
And
than
afterwarde
wolde
she
susteyne
her
body
wyth
mete
/
¶
Her
faders
hows
was
to
her
as
a
wyldernesse
and
deserte
/
notwythstondyng
the
confluence
of
peple
that
were
therin
.
¶
Besyde
all
this
what
wakyng
what
prayers
what
medytacions
and
what
teres
she
vsed
.
I
trowe
there
is
none
tongue
cowde
telle
/
¶
She
made
also
an
other
ordynaunce
in
her self
that
whan
her
bretheren
the
freer
prechours
stepte
.
she
wolde
wake
/
And
whan
the
friers
hadde
tonge
the
ij
peel
to
matyns
and
anone
erst
wolde
she
seye
than
her
spouse
Ihesu
Cryste
in
this
wyse
Loo
lorde
myn
bretheren
And
thyn
seruauntes
haue
I
rested
them
in
to
this
tyme
/
and
I
haue
prayed
for
theym
to
the
that
thou
sholdest
kepe
them
fro
deuelys
and
fro
the
ouercomyng
off
the
fendes
/
¶
Now
lorde
they
be
aryse
to
praye
to
the
/
therfore
lorde
I
praye
the
kepe
theym
/
and
gyue
me
leue
to
reste
a
whyle
/
And
soo
she
laye
doune
vpon
hard
bordes
/
and
a
stoke
vnder
her
hede
in
stede
of
a
bolster
/
¶
Our
lord
Ihesu
her
gracious
spouse
seyng
all
this
in
this
mayde
the
whiche
gaue
her
all
thyse
graces
wolde
not
suffer
soo
able
and
soo
dylygent
a
dyscyple
to
be
vntaught
wythout
a
perfyght
mayter
Nother
man
ne
angell
:
But
he
hym self
wolde
be
her
informer
of
vertu
:
Anone
as
she
was
shett
vp
in
her
chambre
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
her
well
beloued
spouse
and
sauyour
of
alle
mankynde
/
appieryd
to
her
and
taught
her
and
enformed
her
fully
of
tho
thynges
that
longeth
to
the
helthe
of
sowle
as
she
her self
tolde
priuely
after
ward
to
her
confessour
and
sayde
to
hym
thyse
wordes
:
Fader
vnderstondeth
this
for
a
trouthe
that
I
was
neuer
taught
ne
enformed
ony
thynge
that
longeth
to
helth
of
sowle
:
of
man
ne
of
woman
but
oonly
off
myn
lorde
Ihesu
the
spouse
of
my
sowle
other
by
his
inspyracion
or
ellys
by
hys
open
apperyng
spekyng
to
me
as
I
nowe
speke
to
you
:
¶
She
knowleched
also
to
her
confessour
that
in
the
begynnyng
of
that
vysyon
whan
it
apperyd
openly
to
her
bodely
wyttes
/
soo
that
she
perceyued
wyth
her
bodeli
erys
a
voys
/
she
began
to
waxe
aferd
lest
it
hadde
be
a
deceyte
of
the
fende
that
ofte
tymes
transfygureth
hym
in
to
an
Angell
of
lyght
:
the
whiche
feer
in
noo
wyse
dysplesyd
our
lorde
but
rather
he
commended
that
feer
and
sayde
/
As
longe
as
a
man
or
a
woman
lyueth
in
this
lyf
.
they
sholde
euer
be
aferd
/
for
soo
thou
mayst
fynde
wryten
/
¶
Beatus
vir
qui
semper
est
pauidus
/
That
is
to
saye
blessyd
be
that
man
that
euer
is
feerfull
:
¶
Ferthermore
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
sayde
to
her
:
Doughter
wylt
thou
that
I
shall
teche
the
how
thou
mayste
knowe
myn
vysyon
from
the
vysyon
of
the
fende
.
To
whom
this
holy
mayde
answerde
full
mekely
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
vouchesauf
to
teche
her
Thenne
sayde
oure
lorde
thyn
soule
may
esely
be
taught
by
Inspyracyon
and
by
worde
for
to
dyscerne
bytwene
the
one
and
the
other
/
But
by
cause
that
I
wolde
it
myght
prouffyghte
as
well
to
the
other
as
to
the
/
Therfore
I
shall
teche
the
by
worde
.
¶
Doctours
of
holy
chyrche
whome
I
haue
taught
the
trouthe
seyn
/
and
soothe
it
is
/
that
myn
vysyon
begynneth
wyth
a
drede
but
euer
in
the
passyng
it
setteth
a
sowle
in
greate
reste
and
sekernes
/
It
begynneth
wyth
a
maner
of
bytternes
But
euermore
more
and
more
it
wexith
swete
/
And
the
contrarye
herte
dothe
the
vysyon
of
the
fende
:
It
gyueth
in
the
begynnyng
as
it
semeth
a
maner
of
gladdenes
or
sykenes
/
or
ellys
swetenesse
/
But
whan
it
passeth
awaye
/
euer
it
encreseth
in
the
sowle
dred
and
bytternesse
This
is
the
trewest
knowleche
for
to
knowe
myn
wayes
from
the
fendes
wayes
¶
The
waye
of
penaunce
and
the
kepynge
of
myn
preceptys
and
commaundementes
in
the
begynnyng
it
semeth
harde
and
sharpe
/
But
the
more
a
sowle
prouffyteth
in
kepyng
of
theym
:
the
more
esely
it
waxith
¶
The
waye
of
synne
in
the
begynnyng
semeth
full
delectable
but
euer
in
encres
therof
a
sowle
is
made
more
and
more
dampnable
/
¶
But
yet
shall
I
gyue
the
another
token
for
to
knowe
myn
vysyon
from
the
vysyon
of
the
fende
/
Vnderstonde
this
for
a
sothe
/
that
sythe
it
soo
is
that
I
am
trouthe
euer
of
myn
vysyons
the
sowle
of
man
receyueth
a
greate
knowleche
of
trouthe
:
and
by
cause
that
the
knowleche
of
trouthe
is
full
necessarye
to
the
soule
as
well
to
her self
as
to
me
that
she
may
knowe
me
&
her self
/
of
the
whiche
knowleche
she
passeth
out
fro
her self
in
settinge
lytyll
by
her selfe
and
honoureth
and
worshyppeth
me
/
The
whiche
condycion
properly
is
called
the
condycions
of
mekenes
.
Therfore
it
were
full
nedefull
that
a
sowle
sholde
thus
knowe
her self
/
And
soo
be
made
meke
by
vysyon
.
The
contrarye
is
of
the
vysyon
of
the
fende
.
sythe
it
so
is
that
the
fende
is
fader
of
lesynge
and
kynge
of
all
the
chyldren
of
pryde
/
And
he
may
not
gyue
but
that
/
that
he
hathe
as
his
lesyng
and
pryde
.
Therfore
as
of
his
visyon
/
a
soule
semeth
moche
by
her self
and
is
made
glad
and
〈…〉
Joye
/
The
whiche
is
properly
the
condycion
of
pryde
:
and
so
she
is
by
lefte
swellyng
and
bolnyng
in
pryde
:
Thenne
therfore
yf
thou
examyne
and
dyscusse
dylygently
in
thy self
:
mayste
knowe
whether
vysyon
come
to
the
of
trouthe
or
ellys
of
falsenesse
/
yf
it
come
of
trouthe
:
it
maketh
thyn
sowle
meke
/
yf
it
come
of
falsenes
&
by
desceyte
:
it
maketh
thyn
sowle
proude
.
¶
Thenne
this
hooly
mayde
whan
she
hadde
herde
thys
/
she
kepte
this
holsome
doctryne
full
dylygently
in
her
sowle
and
tolde
it
afterward
to
her
confessour
and
also
to
other
for
her
edyfycacion
as
it
shall
be
rehersyd
wythinforthe
by
the
helpe
of
god
.
And
thenne
began
our
lorde
to
shewed
this
holy
mayde
visyons
&
reuelacyons
plentuously
:
soo
ferforth
that
vnnethe
myght
be
founde
two
men
so
homely
in
conuersacion
to
gyders
:
as
oure
lorde
Jhesu
and
she
were
to
gyders
/
For
whether
she
prayed
or
redde
or
had
medytacions
or
walked
or
slepte
o
wyse
or
other
:
she
was
comforted
many
times
whan
she
spake
wyth
other
she
hadde
reuelacions
or
vysyons
and
spake
in
her
sowle
to
our
lord
whyles
her
tongue
spake
outward
to
other
/
But
that
myghte
not
longe
contynue
for
her
sowle
was
so
wonderly
I
drawe
vp
to
her
spouse
Jhesu
that
wythin
a
lytyll
whyle
afterward
.
She
was
rauysshed
out
of
her
bodely
felyng
.
Out
of
this
rauysshyng
came
many
merueylous
thynges
that
foloweth
afterward
▪
as
well
of
her
grete
abstynence
as
of
her
merueylous
doctryne
:
And
also
vpon
myracles
the
whiche
oure
lorde
shewed
in
her
by
her
lyffe
/
now
than
lest
there
be
somme
that
wolde
be
in
doubte
whether
this
holy
mayde
hadde
suche
reuelacions
or
not
.
I
shalle
telle
you
how
her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
preued
it
whether
her
reoelacions
and
vysyons
were
trewe
or
not
/
At
the
begynnyng
whan
Mayster
Reymound
herde
of
her
hye
conuersacion
of
liuyng
he
began
to
waxe
homely
wyth
her
in
comunycacion
wyth
her
/
for
he
coude
not
fele
it
verely
that
suche
reuelacyons
in
her
myght
be
trewe
the
whiche
mystruste
was
for
his
better
/
And
therfore
he
enquyred
by
diuers
menes
and
wayes
to
knowe
whether
they
came
of
god
.
or
of
the
fende
:
Or
whether
they
were
fals
or
trewe
:
For
thenne
came
to
his
mynde
of
ypocritis
the
whiche
regnyd
in
his
dayes
/
and
that
he
founde
many
dyscetys
/
&
namely
amonges
wymmen
/
whom
the
deuyll
dysceyued
wyth
the
vyce
aboue
all
other
creaturs
Hyt
came
also
in
to
his
mynde
how
the
fyrst
womman
Eue
was
deceyued
/
and
many
suche
other
/
&
therefor
he
doubted
the
more
of
this
holy
mayde
.
Whyle
he
stode
long
thus
in
suche
a
doubte
/
it
came
to
his
mynde
/
that
yf
he
myght
by
hir
prayers
gete
of
our
lord
one
grete
contrycyon
for
hys
synnes
aboue
the
customable
contrycyon
that
he
was
wonte
to
haue
/
by
that
myght
he
knowe
that
all
hyr
vysyons
reuelacyons
&
dedys
come
of
the
holy
ghost
For
ther
may
none
gete
suche
a
contrycyon
/
but
by
yefte
of
the
holy
ghost
.
And
all
be
it
that
ther
is
none
lyuyng
that
can
saye
whether
he
be
worthy
of
god
hate
or
loue
Yet
hertely
contrycyon
for
synnes
is
a
grete
token
of
grace
Mayster
Reymond
had
not
so
sone
thought
thys
/
that
he
went
to
thys
holy
mayde
/
&
prayed
hir
hertely
/
that
she
wold
praye
for
hym
to
oure
lord
/
that
he
wouchesauf
to
for
gyue
hym
the
synnes
the
whyche
he
had
done
To
whom
thys
holy
mayde
answerd
&
sayd
that
she
wold
full
gladly
.
Than
sayde
mayster
Reymond
that
he
myght
not
be
easyd
in
his
desyre
by
hyr
prayers
onely
but
yf
he
had
there
of
a
bull
that
hys
synnes
were
for
gyuen
Of
whom
thys
holy
mayde
axed
wyth
a
smylynge
chere
/
what
bull
he
desyred
to
haue
.
He
answerd
that
in
token
of
a
bull
he
axed
one
grete
contrycyon
for
hys
synnes
/
the
whiche
contrycyon
thys
holy
mayde
sayde
he
shold
haue
all
redy
.
Thenne
that
tyme
hyt
semed
to
mayster
Reymond
that
she
vnderstode
clerely
all
hys
thoughtes
/
&
so
he
went
from
hyr
.
On
the
morne
it
happed
mayster
Reymond
for
to
be
seek
and
laye
don
in
his
bedde
/
whom
kepte
one
of
hys
brethern
a
deuoute
man
the
whyche
was
called
Nycholas
of
Pyse
.
The
place
ther
he
lay
in
seek
was
an
hows
of
sustres
in
as
moche
as
he
caught
hys
sekenes
sodeynle
Jorneyng
by
the
waye
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
he
was
seke
.
She
a●os
vp
of
hyr
bedde
not
wythstondyng
that
she
was
seek
hir self
of
the
feuers
/
and
other
dyuers
passyons
/
and
sayd
to
hyr
felawe
Goo
we
and
see
we
how
srere
Reymond
dothe
fare
.
And
hyr
felawe
answerd
&
sayd
that
it
was
no
nede
/
&
though
it
were
nede
/
yet
was
she
more
seker
than
he
Neuerthelesse
yet
she
come
to
hym
and
axyd
how
he
ferd
.
Anone
whan
he
sawe
hyr
he
meruaylled
gretety
&
sayd
to
hyr
as
fe●illy
as
he
myght
speke
.
Aa
lady
why
come
ye
hyther
/
ye
be
agrete
dele
seker
than
I
am
.
Thanne
she
began
to
speke
of
the
goodnesse
of
our
lord
as
she
was
wonte
to
do
and
of
oure
vnkyndnesse
ayenst
hym
.
Wyth
that
mayster
Reymond
hir
confessour
arose
vp
out
of
hys
bedde
gretely
comforted
by
hyr
wordes
/
and
sate
in
an
other
bedde
besyde
/
hauyng
no
mynde
yet
of
the
wordes
that
the
holy
mayde
spake
to
hym
at
euen
afore
All
this
whyle
she
contynued
in
spekyng
of
the
kyndenes
of
our
lord
/
and
of
oure
grete
vnkyndenes
.
Sodeynly
in
tyme
of
hyr
deuoute
comunycacyon
came
to
hys
mynde
a
clere
consyderacyon
of
hys
synnes
/
that
hym
thought
he
stode
afore
the
ryghtwys
Jugement
to
be
condempned
to
the
peyne
for
his
wycked
lyuyng
ryght
as
a
theef
that
stood
before
a
temporall
Juge
.
Hym
thought
also
that
he
sawe
in
hys
soule
the
grete
benygnyte
&
the
mekenes
of
our
lorde
/
that
gracyously
delyuered
hym
fro
the
peyne
that
he
was
worthy
for
to
haue
/
&
not
onely
that
/
but
also
he
clothed
hym
wyth
hys
owne
clothes
/
ther
he
was
naked
/
and
had
hym
in
hys
holy
hows
/
and
fedde
hym
and
nourysshed
hym
/
and
accepted
hym
to
hys
seruyce
/
and
ther
to
by
the
synguler
grace
of
hys
ende
.
Loo
the
goodnesse
/
hys
deth
/
vnto
lyf
/
hys
drede
vnto
hope
/
hys
sorow
vnto
ioye
/
&
hys
shame
vnto
worshyp
.
By
thyse
consyderacions
&
clerely
knowynges
/
and
syghte
of
hys
soule
/
the
wyckettes
of
the
wyndowes
of
his
harde
herte
were
broken
vp
&
opened
/
and
the
wellys
&
ryuers
of
wepyng
terys
aperyd
plenteuouly
/
by
cause
that
the
foundament
&
the
grounde
of
hys
trespassys
were
shewed
so
clerely
to
hym
/
in
so
moche
that
he
wayled
&
that
he
was
aferde
laste
by
suche
grete
plente
of
sorow
/
hys
herte
&
his
brest
wold
haue
to
barst
Whan
thys
holy
mayde
saw
that
she
was
styll
&
suffred
hym
a
whyle
to
be
fedde
wyth
hys
owne
terys
/
for
therefore
she
came
.
Wythin
a
whyle
after
he
cessyd
lytell
&
lytell
/
and
bethought
him
meruayllously
of
this
newe
grace
/
thynkyng
also
of
hys
petycyon
the
whiche
he
axed
of
this
holy
mayde
the
day
before
/
wyth
that
he
torned
to
hyr
&
sayd
/
is
thys
thy
bull
that
I
spak
of
to
you
yesterdaye
.
She
answerd
&
sayd
ye
laynge
hir
hondes
vpon
hys
sholdres
seyeng
thus
/
haue
in
mynde
fader
of
the
gracyous
yeftes
of
our
lord
.
And
soo
wente
home
to
hyr
chambre
/
and
he
abode
stylle
wyth
hys
felawe
gretely
edyfyed
&
comforted
.
Another
tyme
the
same
mayster
Reymond
had
another
excellent
token
of
thys
holy
mayde
wyth
out
ony
axyng
afore
Hit
happed
on
a
tyme
that
thys
holy
mayde
was
vysyted
by
dyuers
sekenes
/
&
laye
seek
in
hyr
bedde
.
And
sent
after
hyr
confessour
desyryng
to
comen
wyth
him
pryuely
of
other
newe
reuelacyons
/
the
whyche
our
lord
had
shewed
her
grete
sekenesse
beganne
to
speke
of
the
goodnes
of
our
lord
/
and
of
the
reuelacion
that
he
shewed
hyr
that
day
.
He
heryng
so
grete
reuelacyon●
and
wonderfull
shewed
to
hyr
/
and
to
none
other
that
euer
he
herde
of
/
hauyng
no
mynde
of
the
grace
that
our
lord
hadde
gyue
hym
afore
by
prayers
of
this
holy
mayde
.
He
bethought
hym
of
somthynges
that
she
rehersed
and
sayd
to
himself
thus
/
whether
it
be
all
trewe
that
she
seyth
.
Whanne
he
had
thought
thus
/
he
loked
sodeynly
in
hyr
face
/
and
saw
that
hyr
vysage
was
transformed
in
to
mannes
vysage
berded
/
the
whyche
vysage
behelde
hym
stedfastly
/
and
made
hym
sore
aferde
.
Hit
was
to
his
syght
a
semely
longe
vysage
of
myddel
age
/
not
hauynge
to
long
a
berde
/
but
of
a
resonable
assise
coloured
after
whete
/
shewyng
in
his
syghte
a
mageste
after
the
mageste
of
oure
lord
Jhesu
/
and
myght
in
no
wyse
for
that
tyme
see
none
other
face
/
but
onely
that
face
.
Of
thys
syght
he
had
so
grete
a
fere
/
that
he
lyfte
vp
his
armes
and
began
to
crye
and
sayd
.
Oo
who
is
he
that
loketh
vpon
me
.
To
whome
this
holy
mayde
answerd
and
sayd
.
He
that
is
seeth
and
beholdeth
you
wyth
that
worde
/
that
dredefull
face
vanysshed
awaye
/
and
the
maydens
vysage
appyred
to
him
clerely
.
Thys
was
no
feynyng
thyng
but
a
trewe
/
as
he
recordeth
&
bereth
wytnes
in
hys
wrytynges
He
recordeth
also
for
the
more
confyrmacyon
of
that
myracle
that
after
that
sensybly
vysyon
/
he
hadde
soo
clere
a
knowyng
wythin
hymself
in
his
sowle
by
ghostly
Illumynyng
of
the
mater
that
the
holy
mayde
spak
to
hym
/
of
the
whiche
he
wyll
not
pupplyche
it
openly
.
That
hym
thought
he
felt
in
experyence
that
thyng
the
whyche
our
lorde
sayd
to
hys
dyscyples
whan
he
behote
them
the
holy
ghoost
seyeng
to
theim
thus
Et
que
ventura
sunt
annunciabit
vobis
.
That
is
whan
ye
haue
receyued
the
holy
ghost
/
he
shall
shewe
thynges
that
ben
to
come
Loo
For
the
mystrust
that
he
hadde
to
her
wordes
oure
lorde
of
his
gracyous
goodnesse
wouchesauf
to
teche
hym
clerely
by
him self
/
he
afterward
for
to
bere
wyttenes
to
other
that
hir
reuelacions
weren
&
ben
trewe
pryntyng
stedfastly
in
his
mynde
/
the
grete
graces
that
he
shewed
to
Saynt
Thomas
of
Inde
/
for
he
that
wolde
not
be
taught
&
enfourmed
by
open
tokenes
of
gracyous
gyfte
/
the
whyche
he
receyued
by
this
holy
mayde
he
was
taught
and
enformed
by
example
of
suche
a
disciple
that
was
mystrowyng
as
he
was
For
after
tyme
he
had
receyued
a
gracyous
token
of
conpunccyon
of
our
lord
afore
by
merytes
of
holy
prayers
of
this
holy
mayde
/
yet
he
contynued
in
mystrust
of
hyr
reuelacyons
that
they
were
not
trewe
.
Wherefor
our
lord
himself
/
shewed
hym self
openly
to
his
outeward
wyttys
/
that
he
myght
therby
knowe
by
open
experyence
that
he
spak
in
hir
so
that
it
may
be
sayd
that
he
shewed
him
thenne
to
mayster
Reymond
/
the
whiche
mystrowed
as
he
dyd
som
tyme
to
saynt
Thomas
of
Inde
by
bodely
felyng
.
And
ryght
as
he
cryed
afterward
&
sayd
this
worde
Deus
meus
et
dominus
meus
.
That
is
my
god
&
my
lord
So
may
thys
mystrowynge
renuwed
saye
after
thise
two
vysyons
of
this
holy
mayde
/
that
she
is
&
was
the
veray
spouse
and
the
veray
discyple
of
our
lord
god
.
All
these
ben
rehersed
to
you
maydens
/
that
ye
sholde
be
in
no
doubte
/
ne
despyse
the
reuelacions
and
the
vysyons
/
the
whiche
ye
shall
here
by
the
helpe
of
god
afterward
Alle
be
it
that
no
wytnes
may
be
founde
of
recorde
saue
she
allone
/
but
that
ye
sholde
here
hem
/
rede
hem
/
&
vnderstonde
hem
with
reuerence
.
And
also
that
ye
may
lerne
ther
by
holy
examples
&
doctrynes
/
the
whiche
our
lord
hath
shewed
in
suche
a
vessell
by
kynde
seke
&
bryttell
.
But
by
grace
meruaylously
made
strong
and
precyous
.
And
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
.
All
thoo
thynges
the
whiche
mayster
Reymond
was
taught
&
enfourmed
of
this
holy
mayde
/
he
hath
declared
them
openly
in
this
chapytre
.
Outake
one
thyng
that
he
was
charged
by
hyr
to
kepe
it
pryuely
of
a
certeyn
reuelacion
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
.
¶
Of
a
noble
doctryne
whyche
our
lord
gaf
to
hyr
in
her
begynnyng
/
and
of
other
doctrynes
in
the
whyche
he
founded
hyr
maner
of
lyuyng
.
Capitulum
x
SYth
it
so
is
that
the
grounde
&
the
foundament
of
trust
and
byleue
touche
the
reuelacyons
of
this
holy
mayde
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
is
declared
in
the
chapytre
that
goth
afore
.
Therfore
now
I
shall
procede
forth
&
shewe
you
the
spyrytuall
edyfycacyon
of
this
same
mayde
.
And
by
cause
that
trewe
sowles
&
feythfull
ben
fedde
and
edyfyed
by
the
wordes
of
our
lord
.
Therefor
I
shall
telle
you
&
shewe
you
a
notable
doctryne
of
the
whiche
this
holy
mayde
was
taught
of
our
lord
him self
.
Thys
holy
mayde
tolde
to
hyr
confessours
amonges
whom
mayster
Reymond
was
one
/
that
in
the
begynnyng
of
hyr
vysyons
our
lord
appyred
to
hyr
whan
she
prayed
&
sayde
to
hyr
in
this
wyse
.
Knowest
thou
not
doughter
who
thou
arte
/
and
who
I
am
yf
thou
knowe
well
these
two
wordes
/
thou
art
/
and
shalt
be
blessyd
Thou
art
she
that
art
not
/
and
I
am
he
that
am
.
Yf
thou
haue
the
veray
knoweleche
of
these
two
thynges
in
thy
soule
/
thy
ghostly
enemye
shall
neuer
dysceyue
the.
But
thou
shalt
escape
gracyously
all
his
snares
/
ne
thou
shalte
neuer
consente
to
ony
thyng
that
is
ayenst
my
commaundementes
and
preceptes
.
But
alle
grace
alle
treuthe
alle
charyte
thou
wylte
wynne
wythout
ony
hardenesse
And
now
is
this
a
bryef
worde
and
a
grete
&
in
maner
Infynyte
and
endeles
.
Oo
this
is
a
grete
wysdome
expressyd
vnder
fewe
syllables
Whether
this
be
not
that
leng
the
that
brede
/
that
heythe
and
that
depthe
the
whiche
saynt
Poule
desyred
for
to
haue
wyth
all
sayntes
/
I
trowe
yes
.
Oo
dere
maydens
consydereth
&
beholdeth
meruayllously
this
Incomparable
tresoure
/
the
whiche
is
founde
in
this
holy
maydes
breste
.
For
our
lord
Jhesu
that
vndeceyuable
trouth
seyth
to
this
holy
mayde
thus
.
Yf
thou
knowe
thyse
two
thynges
in
thy
sowle
/
the
fende
shall
neuer
deceyue
the
Me
semeth
it
is
full
good
for
you
to
make
here
thre
tabernacles
or
dwellyng
places
vnto
the
worshyp
of
god
/
that
excellent
doctou●
the
whiche
t●ched
the
vnderstondyng
of
thyse
fruytfull
wordes
Another
to
the
loue
and
deuocyon
of
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
.
The
whiche
receyued
the
holsom
doctryne
of
this
fewe
fruytfull
wordes
And
the
thyrde
to
the
ghostly
tresoure
of
valour
of
all
tho
the
whiche
fynden
lyf
in
this
fewe
fruytfull
wordes
.
In
the
vnderstondyng
of
thoo
fruytfull
wordes
/
now
be
founden
&
had
ghostly
rychesse
so
plenteuously
that
it
shall
no
nede
be
to
alle
tho
that
haue
soo
founde
this
ghostly
rychesse
/
for
to
begge
of
other
A
whether
this
bryef
fruytfull
sentence
be
not
trewe
/
where
it
is
sayde
.
Art
not
thou
she
that
is
not
/
I
troweyes
.
Euery
creature
is
made
of
our
maker
Jhesu
cryst
of
nought
So
ferforth
that
yf
our
lord
Jhesu
cryst
oure
maker
wolde
cesse
for
a
tyme
/
be
it
neuer
so
lytell
fro
conseruacyon
of
hys
creature
that
he
hath
made
.
Anone
that
creature
shold
torne
in
to
nought
/
whan
soo
euer
a
creature
doth
synne
/
the
whyche
synne
in
hym self
is
nought
:
Ne
of
hym self
he
may
noo
thynge
do
or
thynke
that
is
ought
.
As
Saynt
Poule
seyth
.
And
that
is
meruaylle
/
for
he
may
not
be
ne
haue
beyng
of
him self
/
ne
yet
be
conserued
of
him self
in
his
beyng
.
And
therfore
the
apos●le
sayd
.
Qui
se
existimat
ali●uid
esse
cum
nichil
fit
ipse
se
seduci●
.
That
is
he
that
wenyth
he
be
ought
/
he
is
nought
/
he
deceyueth
hym selfe
.
Se●st
thou
not
mayde
how
noughty
a
creature
is
A
creature
made
of
nought
/
euer
of
him self
●owyng
to
nought
by
synne
maketh
him self
noughte
/
as
Saynt
Austyn
sayd
/
for
he
may
noo
thyng
do
that
is
ought
by
hym self
/
but
rather
that
is
nought
/
as
oure
lorde
sayd
.
Sine
me
nichil
po●●stis
sacere
.
That
is
wythout
me
ye
may
do
ryght
nought
/
the
whyche
nought
is
synne
.
Therfore
ye
may
wel
clerely
know
by
this
that
a
creature
of
hym self
is
nought
And
that
knewe
well
Saynt●s
afore
thys
tyme
/
the
whiche
by
knoweleche
of
this
veray
wysdom
excluded
vera●ly
out
of
theyr
sowles
alle
manere
of
synne
.
What
manere
of
Inflacyon
of
synne
may
entree
in
to
suche
a
sowle
the
whiche
knoweth
hir self
nought
How
may
she
be
ioyfull
in
vayne
glorye
of
ony
good
werke
that
euer
she
dyd
/
the
whiche
knoweth
wel
I
nough
that
suche
good
dedys
come
neuer
from
hir
/
but
fro
god
How
may
suche
a
sowle
enhaunce
hir selfe
by
pryde
aboue
other
that
holdeth
hyr
self
nought
.
How
may
a
sowle
that
thus
sett●th
hir self
at
nought
/
Inwardely
despyse
other
/
other
haue
enuye
to
other
.
How
may
ony
creature
haue
vaynioye
in
outwarde
rychesse
/
that
now
hath
dyspysed
all
his
owne
ioye
of
hym self
.
I
trowe
suche
a
creature
is
taught
by
the
wordes
of
our
lord
endeles
wysdom
where
he
sayd
Siego
quero
gloriam
meam
gloria
mea
nichil
est
.
That
is
yf
I
seek
myn
owne
ioye
/
my
ioye
is
nought
Also
how
may
suche
a
creature
that
knowed
hym self
in
no
wyse
his
owne
/
but
onely
his
that
made
hym
/
see
of
alle
outwarde
thynges
/
this
is
myne
/
syth
he
hym self
is
not
his
.
How
myght
make
suche
a
creature
to
haue
delectacyon
in
flesshely
synnes
/
that
euery
day
restreyneth
hym self
by
suche
manere
consyderacion
of
nought
Loo
maydens
by
this
bryef
fruytfull
wordes
/
thou
art
nought
/
ye
may
consydere
/
that
all
maner
of
synne
is
and
may
be
excludeth
.
That
other
bryef
fruytful
worde
that
oure
lorde
sayde
to
this
holy
mayde
is
this
.
I
am
he
that
am
/
whether
this
bryef
fruytful
worde
be
a
newe
worde
/
ye
forsothe
bothe
newe
&
olde
.
This
is
that
olde
worde
that
our
lorde
sayde
to
Moyses
in
the
sussh
/
the
whiche
semyd
brennyng
whan
he
sayde
.
Qui
est
misit
me
.
That
is
say
to
the
chyldren
of
Israel
He
that
is
sente
me
to
you
.
Hit
is
also
now
a
newe
worde
/
by
cause
it
is
newe
reherfed
to
this
holy
mayden
in
lyke
wordes
that
she
the
whiche
by
the
fyrst
bryef
fruytfull
sentence
was
I
taught
to
knowe
hir self
nough
/
sholde
lerne
by
the
nexte
fruytfull
senten●e
to
aske
our
lorde
ought
/
the
whiche
is
the
endeles
welle
of
all
essencyall
beyng
.
By
thyse
bryef
fruytfull
sentencys
may
ye
knowe
that
a
creature
is
nought
of
hym self
.
For
all
that
he
hath
of
vertue
/
and
of
beynge
cometh
of
god
maker
of
all
creatures
.
Almyghty
god
maker
of
al
creatures
hath
onely
of
hym self
and
of
none
other
endeles
perfeccyon
of
essencyall
beynge
.
For
he
myght
neuer
forme
and
make
all
thyng
of
nought
/
but
yf
he
had
an
Infynyte
vertue
of
essencyall
beyng
in
hym self
.
Wherfore
alle
that
euer
oure
lorde
Jhesu
/
that
souerayne
mayster
taught
his
spouse
in
tho
two
bryef
sentences
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
is
no
thyng
ellys
but
this
/
that
she
sholde
knowe
hir self
as
she
is
/
and
our
lord
verayly
as
for
hir
maker
in
the
depnes
of
hir
herte
/
and
thenne
she
sholde
be
blessyd
.
In
the
same
wyse
I
fynde
I
wryten
that
he
sayd
to
saynt
K●theryne
the
virgyn
and
marter
.
Whan
he
vysytre
hir
in
prysone
/
Doughter
knowe
me
for
thy
maker
.
Of
suche
manere
of
knoweleche
cometh
all
maner
of
perfeccyon
and
all
ordynate
settyng
of
the
sowle
/
What
is
he
that
may
not
loue
so
large
and
so
free
a
gyuer
wyth
all
his
herte
/
and
all
his
sowle
/
what
is
he
that
is
not
styred
euery
day
more
and
more
to
loue
suche
a
lorde
that
fyrst
er
thanne
he
made
his
creatures
/
he
loued
hem
not
for
theyr
deserue
and
meryte
/
but
onely
by
his
Infynte
goodnes
/
¶
What
is
he
that
ferth
not
and
dredeth
contynually
to
offende
in
ony
maner
of
wyse
/
soo
grete
and
soo
dredefull
a
maker
soo
myghty
and
soo
large
a
gyuer
/
soo
gladsom
and
soo
free
a
louer
.
What
is
he
that
may
not
gladdely
suffre
all
manere
of
dyseases
for
suche
a
lorde
/
of
who
me
he
hath
receyued
/
and
receyuyth
day
by
day
/
and
hopeth
to
receyue
wythoute
ony
deubte
soo
manyfolde
goodnesse
.
What
is
he
that
sholde
be
wery
/
or
tormented
by
sekenes
to
please
so
amyable
a
lorde
.
What
is
he
that
endeyneth
to
kepe
reuerently
and
louyngly
in
hys
mynde
the
blessyd
wordes
that
suche
a
lorde
wouchesaue
to
hys
creatures
.
¶
What
is
he
that
wyll
not
gladdely
obeye
to
the
commaundementes
and
pretho
thynges
that
the
sowle
loueth
the
whiche
desyre
may
not
be
hadde
wiwout
werke
:
soo
ferforth
that
in
as
moche
it
loueth
soo
moche
it
werketh
/
And
yet
neuertheles
it
trusteth
nought
in
her
owne
werke
as
in
her
owne
self
:
but
only
in
our
lorde
that
worched
in
her
:
The
cause
of
this
louely
desyre
is
noothynge
ellys
/
but
the
very
knoleche
off
god
that
he
is
aulterd
/
therfore
amonge
all
other
merueylaus
thynges
of
this
holy
mayde
:
she
helde
that
doctryne
the
whiche
our
lord
taught
her
syngulerly
to
bee
worshy
p●ed
/
To
the
whiche
wurshypfull
doctryne
yet
shall
I
adde
more
to
/
For
but
yf
I
be
gretly
dysceyued
all
they
come
out
of
the
fyrst
notable
doctryne
.
Ofte
tymes
this
holy
mayde
was
wount
to
comyn
and
to
speke
to
tor
confessoure
Mayster
Reymound
of
the
worthynes
and
condycions
that
our
lord
loued
off
a
sowle
/
And
she
sayde
that
suche
a
sowle
perceyued
not
ne
seeth
not
ne
loued
her self
ne
none
other
sowle
ne
hadde
none
mynde
of
none
creature
:
This
was
a
full
hard
word
to
Mayster
Reymound
for
to
vnderstonde
and
therfore
he
prayed
this
hooly
mayde
for
to
declare
it
.
Thenne
she
sayde
a
sowle
seeth
her selfe
that
she
is
verely
nought
of
her self
and
knoweth
perfyghtly
that
all
the
goodnes
wyth
alle
the
myghtes
of
the
sowle
is
her
maker
/
¶
She
forsaked
vite●ly
her self
And
alle
creature
and
hedeth
her self
fully
in
her
maker
our
lord
Jhesu
in
soo
moche
that
she
sendeth
fully
and
pryncypaly
all
her
ghostely
and
bodely
werkynges
in
hym
In
whom
she
perceyued
that
she
maye
fynde
all
goodnes
and
all
perfection
off
blessydnes
and
therfore
she
shalle
haue
none
wyll
to
goo
out
from
suche
inwarde
knowleche
of
hym
for
nothynge
/
And
of
this
vinte
and
loue
that
is
encresed
euery
daye
in
suche
a
sowle
:
She
is
transfourmyd
in
a
maner
in
to
oure
lord
that
she
may
neyther
thynke
ne
vnder
stonde
ne
loue
ne
haue
no
mynde
but
god
or
ellys
in
god
/
she
maye
not
see
her self
ne
none
other
creatures
but
onely
in
god
/
Ne
she
may
not
loue
her self
ne
none
other
but
only
in
god
.
Ne
she
maye
not
hane
mynde
in
her self
ne
of
none
other
but
only
in
god
:
ne
she
maye
haue
no
mynde
but
only
in
her
maker
:
Ryght
as
a
man
that
is
vnder
a
water
and
swymmeth
vnder
the
water
nether
seeth
ne
touched
nothyng
but
water
and
that
is
vnder
the
water
/
And
thynge
that
he
is
aboue
the
water
he
neyther
toucheth
ne
seeth
of
that
that
is
aboue
the
water
it
shyneth
vnder
the
water
for
that
he
may
perceyue
and
yet
none
other
wyse
but
in
the
water
/
And
as
they
maye
byshewed
in
water
as
longe
as
he
is
voder
the
water
:
Ryght
so
fareth
it
of
a
sowle
that
is
hyd
in
the
loue
of
god
:
¶
All
this
she
lerned
of
our
lorde
that
dyuyne
loue
the
whiche
neuer
teched
errour
to
his
meke
dyscyples
:
ne
gyueth
theym
cause
to
coueyte
ony
thynge
wyth
out
hym
/
For
euer
her
ghostely
excersyse
in
is
hym
/
¶
Another
tyme
this
holy
mayde
rehersyd
in
presence
of
her
confessour
Maister
Reymound
and
to
many
other
that
wer
called
to
clennes
of
lyuyng
:
A
full
notable
doctryne
and
a
vertuous
the
whiche
is
good
for
pure
maydens
to
knowe
/
Whos
chast
lyuyng
is
full
spe●yally
to
god
/
And
the
more
ye
ben
met
ner
to
god
by
swete
meke
maydenhede
the
sonner
ye
maye
vnderstonde
that
vertuous
doctryne
/
And
it
is
this
that
a
sowle
the
whiche
is
vertuously
I
mette
to
god
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
:
As
moche
as
it
hath
of
the
loue
of
god
/
Soo
moche
it
hath
of
the
hate
of
her
owne
sensualyte
.
For
of
the
loue
of
god
naturally
cometh
hate
of
synne
the
whiche
is
do
ne
agaynst
god
/
the
sowle
the●fore
consyderyng
that
the
rote
and
the
begynnynge
of
synne
regneth
in
the
sensualyte
&
there
pryncypally
is
roted
:
She
meued
and
storyd
hyghely
and
holyly
wyth
alle
her
merytes
agaynst
her
owne
sensualyte
/
not
for
to
vtterly
destroye
the
rote
For
that
mayr
not
be
longe
the
sowle
dwelleth
in
the
body
lyuyng
in
this
lyffe
But
euer
it
shall
be
lefte
a
rote
namely
of
smale
venyall
synnes
:
Wherto
accordeth
ryght
well
saynt
Johan
whan
he
sayth
thus
/
Si
diximus
quia
peccatum
non
habemus
/
ipsi
nos
seducimus
&c.
That
is
yf
we
saye
that
we
haue
noo
maner
of
synne
in
our
sensualytes
namely
of
venyall
synnes
▪
we
desceyue
oure self
/
And
by
cause
she
maye
not
vtterly
destroye
that
rote
of
synne
thus
in
her
sensualyte
as
it
is
sayde
afore
/
She
conceyued
a
grete
displesaunce
agaynst
sensualyte
and
of
her
sesu●lyte
/
The
whiche
dyplesaunce
spyngin
vp
an
hooly
hate
and
a
dysplrsyng
of
her
sensualyte
by
the
whiche
the
sowle
is
euer
wel
kepte
fro
her
ghostely
ennemyes
¶
There
is
noo
thynge
that
kepeth
the
sowle
soo
stronge
and
soo
syker
as
doth
suche
an
holy
ha●e
:
and
that
felt
well
the
Appostle
whan
he
sayde
/
Cum
infirmot
tunc
forcior
sum
et
potens
/
¶
That
is
whan
I
am
feble
and
syke
in
myn
sensualyte
by
hate
of
synne
/
Thenne
I
am
the
stronger
and
myghty
er
in
myn
sowle
/
Loo
fader
of
suche
hate
cometh
vertu
and
of
swete
febylnesse
and
sykenesse
cometh
▪
strengthe
/
And
of
suche
displesaunce
cometh
plesaunce
.
¶
Suche
holy
hate
fader
haue
euer
with
you
:
For
it
shall
make
you
meke
and
euer
to
fele
meke
thynges
of
your self
/
it
shall
make
you
pacient
in
aduersyt●
/
and
temperate
in
prosperyte
/
And
sette
you
namely
in
all
honeste
of
vertue
:
And
it
shall
also
make
you
loued
●oi●●e
god
and
man
:
¶
A
/
a
/
now
is
that
a
paynfull
sowle
and
full
of
woo
that
hath
not
this
blysse
For
where
that
suche
holy
hate
is
not
.
ther
is
moche
vnordynate
loue
the
whyche
is
the
stynkyng
thorroke
and
canell
of
all
synne
:
and
the
cause
and
the
rote
of
all
euill
concupyscence
.
Al
suche
and
lyke
wordes
this
hooly
Mayde
comyned
daye
by
daye
/
wyth
suche
drede
in
commendyng
of
holy
hate
of
synne
and
in
despysyng
of
vnordynate
loue
:
¶
But
whan
euer
she
perceyued
that
ony
defaute
of
synne
or
of
synne
in
many
creature
that
comyned
with
her
or
in
ony
other
/
Anon
she
wolde
be
styred
to
compassyon
and
sayde
/
Loo
brethern
loo
susteren
the
cause
of
this
tr●spaas
and
this
synne
is
nothyng
ellys
but
an
vnordynate
loue
of
your self
:
The
whiche
vnordynate
loue
is
norysshed
of
pride
and
of
all
vices
/
¶
Doth
all
your
besynes
for
the
loue
of
god
to
put●e
awaye
suche
vnordynate
loue
of
your
owne
self
oute
of
your
owne
hertes
/
And
planteth
therin
holy
hate
of
synne
for
certeyn
that
is
the
ryght
waye
of
perfection
and
amendement
off
all
synne
/
¶
Loo
maydens
how
well
thys
hooly
maydes
doctryne
accordeth
to
the
wordes
of
Saynt
Poule
where
he
sayd
thus
Quod
virtus
in
infirmitate
perficitur
That
is
vertu
is
made
parfyghtly
in
sekenes
and
febylnes
and
that
was
whan
he
prayed
to
our
lord
to
remeue
awaye
his
temptacions
/
To
whome
oure
lorde
answerd
and
sayde
thus
/
¶
Sufficit
tibi
paule
gracia
mea
.
That
is
it
is
Inow
to
the
paule
myn
grace
/
that
is
for
to
hate
synne
and
wythstonde
it
:
Thenne
brake
out
saynt
Paule
and
saide
:
¶
Libenter
gloriabor
in
infirmitatibus
meis
vt
inhabitet
in
me
virtus
cristi
:
That
is
I
shal
gladly
be
Joyefull
in
minsekenes
and
febylnes
by
laborynge
in
hatyng
and
vnderstondyng
of
synne
:
that
the
vertu
and
the
grace
therof
maye
be
inhabyted
in
myn
sowle
:
See
ye
not
now
how
thyse
holsom
doctrynes
of
this
holi
mayde
ben
grounded
vpon
a
stedfast
stone
of
trouthe
the
whiche
stone
is
Cryst
In
as
moche
as
they
acorden
wyth
holy
wrytynges
of
doctours
:
Thus
endeth
this
Chapytre
▪
but
I
praye
you
al
that
shall
rede
it
or
here
it
that
they
mekely
consydere
the
meryte
and
the
deserte
of
this
holy
mayde
/
whan
oure
lorde
vou
chesaf
to
enforme
her
in
vertu
by
his
owne
proper
persone
▪
And
also
that
wolde
gyue
credence
wythouten
ony
othe
to
her
wordes
:
For
he
was
a
faythfull
doctour
that
taught
her
/
And
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
.
¶
Of
the
merueylous
victorye
of
temptacions
by
another
maner
doctryne
gyue
vnto
our
lord
/
and
of
a
famylyaryte
and
holynes
whiche
she
hadde
wyth
oure
lorde
whiche
hath
not
be
herde
to
fore
/
Capitulum
xi
IFynde
wryten
that
whan
kynge
Salamon
hadde
doon
make
and
reysed
vp
a
toure
for
to
kepe
the
Cyte
of
Jherusalem
fro
enemyes
/
The
kynge
of
Babylone
was
wood
wyth
all
and
reysed
vp
an
host
for
to
destroye
that
toure
yf
he
myght
Assone
as
kinge
Salamon
perceyued
that
he
wold
come
wyth
an
hoste
for
to
destroye
that
toure
/
He
ordeyned
to
be
made
merueyllous
stronge
wallys
rounde
aboute
the
toure
so
myghtely
and
soo
myghty
walles
that
whan
euer
they
came
to
assayle
it
wyth
ony
maner
of
shotte
:
their
dartes
sholde
merueylously
turne
agayn
and
wounde
or
slee
the
hoste
¶
Ryght
soo
the
kynge
of
Babylone
that
is
the
kynge
of
pryde
and
enemye
of
peas
the
fende
of
ghostely
enemye
consyderyng
that
kynge
Salamon
auctor
and
conseruatour
or
keper
of
peas
hadde
reysed
vp
an
hyghe
vertuous
toure
the
whiche
was
this
holy
mayde
Katheryn
to
the
defens
of
Jherusalem
that
is
holy
chyrche
dredyng
therby
feste
she
sholde
be
cause
of
many
creatures
helthe
as
she
was
in
dede
:
both
by
good
ensamples
of
lyuyng
and
also
by
her
holy
doctryne
/
he
waxed
wood
wyth
her
and
tourned
to
her
wyth
all
the
spyryte
of
hys
malyce
for
to
destroye
her
wyth
many
thousande
whyles
.
But
almyghty
god
that
mercyable
and
peasyble
lord
suffred
that
to
be
done
for
to
encrece
the
victoryous
blessed
endeles
crowne
of
his
spouse
/
&
therto
he
strengthed
her
ouer
all
wyth
myghty
ghostely
armour
for
to
ouercome
hym
so
that
she
wan̄
more
of
vertue
in
tyme
off
her
batayle
by
ouercomynge
of
the
temptacyons
/
Thenne
she
dyde
in
tyme
off
peas
whylys
she
was
wythout
temptacions
and
soo
all
the
fende
whyles
tourned
agayn
shamefully
to
hym self
/
Oure
lord
enspyred
her
to
aske
him
bi
prayers
for
to
haue
the
vertu
of
ghostely
strengthe
wherfore
she
prayed
many
dayes
and
longe
tyme
/
At
the
laste
after
suche
longe
and
deuoute
prayer
our
lorde
vocheūsaufe
to
here
her
Gracyously
/
and
taught
her
in
this
wyse
sey●ng
thus
Doughter
yf
thou
wilt
gete
the
vertu
of
ghostely
strengthe
thou
muste
folowe
me
all
be
it
that
I
myght
by
myn
goodly
vertu
ouercome
all
the
power
of
the
fendes
by
many
maner
wayes
of
ouercomyng
:
¶
Yet
for
to
gyue
you
ensample
by
my
manhede
/
I
wolde
not
ouercome
hym
but
only
by
takyng
of
dethe
vppon
the
crosse
that
ye
myght
be
taught
therby
yf
ye
wolde
ouercome
your
ghostely
enemyes
/
for
to
take
the
crosse
as
I
dide
:
the
whiche
crosse
shall
be
to
you
a
grete
refresshyng
in
all
your
temptacyons
yf
ye
haue
mynde
of
the
paynes
that
I
suffred
:
there
vpon
of
temptacyons
:
And
certeyne
the
paynes
of
the
crosse
may
well
be
called
refresshyng
of
temptacion
/
For
the
more
payne
ye
suffre
for
myn
loue
:
the
more
lyke
ye
bee
to
me
in
passyon
/
nedes
ye
muste
be
lyke
to
me
in
Joye
/
¶
Therfore
for
myn
loue
doughter
suffre
pacyently
bytter
thynges
and
none
swete
thynges
/
And
doughter
in
none
wise
for
thou
shalt
be
stronge
enough●
for
to
suffre
alle
thynges
pacyently
▪
¶
Whan
this
holy
mayde
hadde
herde
this
holy
lesson
she
foryate
it
nought
but
bare
it
euer
quykly
in
her
mynd
.
And
euer
afterward
hadde
Joye
and
delyte
in
trybulacions
/
soo
ferforthe
that
there
was
noo
thynge
in
erthe
soo
grete
refresshyng
to
her
:
as
was
passions
and
trybulacyons
/
For
by
swete
sufferaunces
of
trybulacions
she
wyste
well
that
her
crowne
encresyd
in
the
blesse
of
heuen
:
¶
After
tyme
that
kynge
Salamon
oure
lorde
Jhesu
Cryste
kynge
of
heuen
ande
of
erthe
hadde
armed
hys
blessyd
toure
this
maydes
sowle
by
swete
myghty
and
holsom
doctrynes
/
he
suffred
enemyes
to
come
and
preue
that
toure
/
yf
they
myght
by
ony
waye
or
wyse
destroye
it
.
¶
The
kynge
of
Babylone
oure
ghostely
enmye
the
fende
wyth
alle
hys
cursyd
companye
come
and
byseged
thys
blessyd
toure
thorugh
the
sufferaunce
of
god
rounde
aboute
wyth
many
wretchid
temptacions
/
¶
But
fyrst
he
began
to
assayle
this
mayde
by
flesshely
temptacions
whom
not
oonly
he
tempted
by
thoughtes
withinforthe
ne
by
yllusyons
and
fantasyes
in
her
slepe
:
but
by
opyn
vysyons
wakynge
bothe
in
seyeng
and
herynge
and
seyng
.
¶
He
tempted
her
in
many
maner
off
wyse
by
takyng
vppon
hym
a
body
off
the
eyre
▪
shame
it
is
to
here
in
how
foule
flesshely
synne
he
tempted
her
/
And
therfore
I
shall
not
reherse
theym
/
but
to
clene
sowles
it
is
delectable
to
here
¶
How
this
holy
mayde
ouercame
suche
foule
delusyons
:
and
therfore
that
shall
I
reherce
:
Whan
this
holy
mayde
perceyned
how
besy
the
fende
was
to
brynge
her
to
synne
/
She
arose
agaynste
her self
▪
myghtely
and
punysshed
her
body
by
weryng
of
the
cheyne
in
soo
moche
that
the
blode
folowed
/
And
therto
she
walked
more
thenne
she●
was
wonte
to
doo
in
chirche
that
almoost
by
vse
of
the
whiche
the
slepe
was
taken
awaye
from
her
:
And
yet
wolde
not
the
fende
sece
fro
his
bata●●●e
that
he
hadde
begonne
.
but
he
toke
vppon
hym
a
body
of
the
eyre
as
I
haue
rehersed
to fore
wyth
a
greate
nombre
and
an
horryble
companye
wyth
hym
and
came
and
stode
byfore
this
holy
mayde
as
thought
he
hadde
compassyon
of
her
and
counseylled
her
and
sayd
:
O
wretche
why
tourmentest
thou
thy
body
in
soo
ydell
/
what
shalt
thou
wynne
by
suche
tourment
off
peyne
:
wenest
thou
that
thou
mayst
contynue
therin
to
thyn
laste
ende
thenne
mayst
thou
neuer
contynue
therin
I
warne
the
well
:
but
yf
thou
wylt
slee
thy self
and
soo
it
were
better
for
the
for
to
sese
off
this
grete
folye
thenne
soo
to
slee
thyn
owne
body
:
Yet
hast
thou
tyme
that
now
for
to
haue
ioye
in
the
worlde
/
thou
arte
yonge
/
and
therfore
thou
mayst
the
sonner
recouere
thyne
strengthe
of
thy
body
agayn
/
¶
Notwythstondyng
thyn
grete
penaunce
that
thou
hast
doo
/
lyue
as
other
wymmen
doo
take
an
husbond
and
brynge
forthe
chyldren
to
encrece
of
mankynde
:
Yf
thy
desyre
be
to
plese
god
/
trowest
thou
that
holy
wymmen
haue
not
be
weddyd
/
Thynke
on
Sara
and
Rebecca
/
Lya
&
Rachell
.
how
they
were
weddyd
&
brought
forth
chyldren
and
yet
weren
hooly
wymmen
.
Wherto
hast
thou
tabe
vppon
the
a
synguler
lyf
that
thou
mayst
in
noo
wyse
contynue
/
All
the
whyles
that
suche
wordes
and
many
other
lyke
.
the
fende
wyth
his
cursyd
companye
multeplyed
agaynst
her
/
She
prayed
euer
deuoutlye
and
commanded
her
lyuyng
to
her
spouse
Jhesu
/
and
kepte
her
herte
keyes
all
the
whyles
that
the
fendes
stood
afore
her
&
she
answerde
none
worde
to
theym
but
thus
:
I
truste
in
myn
lorde
Jhesu
Cryste
and
not
in
myn
self
/
other
worde
myght
they
neuer
haue
of
her
but
alwaye
she
contynued
stedfastly
in
her
deuoute
prayers
:
And
afterward
she
tolde
to
her
confessour
mayster
Reymound
/
&
thaughte
many
other
that
were
conuersaunt
with
her
this
lesson
for
a
generall
rule
/
that
whan
temptacions
arysen
in
vs
we
sholde
neuer
dyspyse
ne
make
questions
for
that
is
she
sayd
that
the
fende
seketh
off
vs
for
to
falle
in
questyons
wyth
hym
/
He
trusted
soo
hyely
in
the
grete
sotelte
of
his
malyce
that
he
sholde
ouercome
vs
wyth
his
sofystycall
resons
/
Whiche
we
sholde
not
make
questyons
wyth
hym
ne
answere
to
his
questyons
/
I
shall
tel
you
by
ensample
:
Ryght
a
chast
woman
to
hir
husbonde
sholde
not
answere
to
the
sotelte
maundes
that
wonteth
to
make
to
her
/
but
rather
bowe
awaye
from
hym
yf
she
wolde
escape
synne
/
Ryght
so
is
a
sowle
the
whiche
is
coniuncte
to
oure
lorde
by
chaste
loue
sholde
neuer
make
questyons
ne
answere
/
the
questyons
to
the
fende
that
cursed
auout●●er
our
enemye
:
But
rather
tourne
her
to
deuoute
prayer
and
commaunde
her
to
our
lorde
/
that
she
consente
not
to
his
sotell
demaundes
/
for
by
vertu
of
deuoute
prayer
and
stedfaste
faythe
we
maye
ouercome
alle
the
sotell
temptacions
of
the
fend
:
Thus
in
this
wyse
this
holy
mayde
crystis
spouse
ouercome
her
enemye
soo
that
he
cesyd
of
the
kynde
of
temptacions
agaynst
her
and
tourned
hym
to
another
abhomynable
kynde
of
temptacions
that
was
this
He
brought
afore
her
the
likenesse
of
men
and
wymmen
medlyng
togyders
in
the
fowlest
wyses
that
myght
be
deuysed
/
Spekyng
to
gyders
foule
dyshonest
wordes
in
soo
moche
that
this
cursyd
company
ranne
abonte
her
wyth
yellyng
and
cryeng
for
to
stere
her
to
suche
abhomynable
synnes
/
¶
O
lorde
god
what
traueyle
hadde
she
than
in
her
sowle
that
was
soo
constreyned
to
see
and
to
here
that
thynge
that
she
hadde
moost
in
abhomynacion
/
al
be
it
she
closed
hir
eyen
/
and
stopped
hir
eren
.
And
ther
to
yet
she
hadde
another
torment
for
hir
spouse
that
our
lorde
Jhesu
was
wonte
to
vysyte
hir
&
comforte
gracyously
.
Semed
as
for
a
tyme
ferre
from
hyr
that
nother
vysybly
ne
vnuysybly
he
shewed
to
hyr
his
helpe
/
as
it
semed
/
of
the
whyche
she
hadde
full
grete
sorowe
in
hyr
sowle
/
all
be
it
that
she
cessyd
not
of
hyr
grete
penaunce
/
but
euer
contynued
ther
Inne
and
in
deuoute
prayer
.
At
the
last
she
bethought
by
Inspyracyon
of
the
holy
ghoost
of
a
certeyne
fleyte
/
the
whyche
she
tolde
afterward
to
hir
confessour
and
to
many
other
.
For
to
eshe
we
ther
by
the
sotell
temptacion
of
the
fende
and
it
was
this
.
It
happed
she
sayde
that
other
whyle
deuoute
feruour
of
a
sowle
leuyng
oure
lorde
Jhesu
other
by
somme
certeyne
synne
/
or
ellys
by
newe
sotyll
temptacyons
of
the
fende
wexyth
dull
and
slowe
/
and
other
whyle
it
is
I
brought
to
veray
coldenesse
.
In
so
moche
that
somme
vnwytty
folke
consyderyng
that
they
ben
destytute
so
fro
ghostly
comfortes
/
the
whiche
they
were
wonte
to
haue
leue
therfore
theyr
ghoostly
excercyse
that
they
were
wonte
to
vse
of
prayer
/
of
medytacyons
/
of
redyng
/
of
holy
comynycacyons
/
and
of
penaunce
doyng
/
wheby
they
be
made
more
redy
to
be
ouercome
of
the
fende
For
he
desyred
no
thyng
ellys
of
crystys
knyght
but
that
he
sholde
putte
a
waye
hys
armour
/
by
the
whiche
he
was
wonte
to
ouercome
hys
enemye
.
A
wyse
knyght
of
our
lord
Jhesu
cryste
shold
not
do
but
thus
/
the
more
he
seeth
hym self
dull
and
slouth
or
colde
in
deuocyon
/
the
rather
he
sholde
contynue
in
hys
ghoostly
exercyse
/
and
nought
for
to
make
them
lesse
/
but
rather
encrece
them
.
Another
thynge
also
thys
mayde
ferned
of
our
lorde
Jhesu
&
vsed
for
to
saye
it
hyr
self
in
edyfycacyon
of
other
.
Thou
vyle
wretchyd
creature
art
thou
worthy
ony
maner
of
comfort
in
this
lyffe
/
why
host
thou
not
mynde
of
thy
synnes
/
what
supposest
thou
of
thy self
wretchyd
synner
this
is
not
I
nough
to
the
/
trowest
thou
that
thou
art
escaped
by
the
mercy
of
our
lord
fro
euer
lastyng
dampnacyon
.
Therfore
thou
sholdest
be
well
apayed
thou
wretche
though
thou
suffreddest
/
the
peynes
&
derkenes
of
soule
all
the
dayes
of
thy
●●f
why
art
thou
thanne
heuy
and
sorowfull
to
suffre
suche
peynes
.
Sythe
by
goddes
grace
thou
shalte
escape
endeles
peynes
/
wyth
cryst
Jhesu
wythout
ony
doubte
/
thou
shalt
be
comforted
endelesly
/
yf
thou
suffre
this
peynes
pacyentely
/
whether
thou
hast
chosen
to
serue
our
lorde
onely
for
the
comforte
/
that
thou
mayst
haue
of
hym
in
thys
fyf
/
nay
but
for
the
conforte
/
that
thou
shalte
haue
of
hym
in
the
blysse
of
heuen
.
Therfore
aryse
vp
now
and
cesse
not
of
thy
ghostly
excercyse
that
thou
hast
vsed
/
but
rather
encrece
more
ther
to
.
Wyth
thyse
dartes
of
mekenes
this
holy
mayde
wounded
the
provide
kynge
of
babylonye
hyr
enemy
the
fende
.
And
strengthed
hyr
self
gretely
wyth
suche
wyse
wordes
/
and
as
she
knoweleched
to
hir
confessour
mayster
Reymond
/
ther
was
suche
a
multytude
of
fendes
in
hyr
chambre
as
hyr
semed
/
●he
sawe
with
hyr
eyen
aboute
for
to
styre
hyr
to
foule
thoughtes
of
synne
that
she
fledde
hir
chambre
for
a
tyme
and
kepte
hyr
self
more
in
the
chyrche
thanne
she
was
wonte
to
do
.
Alle
be
it
that
she
was
pursued
thyder
by
theyr
sotyll
temptacyons
/
yet
neuerthelesse
she
thought
that
she
wolde
folowe
the
steppes
of
Saynt
Jerome
fleenge
and
hydyng
hir self
by
dales
and
hylles
in
eshewyng
of
suche
abhomynable
temptacyons
.
And
euer
whan
she
came
home
fro
chyrche
to
hyr
chambre
/
she
founde
so
many
a
multytude
of
fendes
there
Inne
/
seyenge
vnhonest
wordes
/
and
doyng
the
abhomynable
dedys
of
lecherye
/
and
as
hir
semed
rennyng
aboute
hyder
and
thyder
/
as
it
had
ben
a
passyng
swarme
of
flyes
Thanne
she
took
hir
to
prayer
/
and
so
longe
she
prayed
to
our
lorde
vnto
the
tyme
that
heuysom
compayne
were
I
swaged
somwhat
fro
theyre
abhomynable
temptacyons
.
Whan
thyse
wretched
temptacyons
had
contynued
many
dayes
to
gydres
/
In
a
tyme
whan
she
was
come
fro
chyrche
to
hyr
chambre
and
fyll
doune
to
prayer
/
sone
after
ther
appyred
a
gladsome
beme
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
and
opened
hyr
sowle
/
that
she
sholde
haue
in
mynde
how
that
not
many
a
dayes
afore
she
hadde
asked
of
our
lord
the
vertue
and
the
gyfte
of
strengthe
.
And
what
doctryne
our
lord
had
gyue
hyr
for
to
gete
the
gyfte
of
vertue
and
of
strengthe
.
And
anone
she
vnderstode
the
meuynge
of
the
foule
temptacyons
of
the
fende
/
and
conceyued
ther
by
a
grete
gladnesse
/
that
our
lord
had
gyue
hir
suche
strengthe
to
ouercome
them
/
and
purposed
euer
afterwarde
to
suffre
mekely
and
gladdely
all
suche
heuysom
temptacion
/
and
all
maner
dyseases
for
the
loue
of
hyr
spouse
.
Than
one
of
the
fendes
that
was
more
bolder
thanne
ony
of
that
other
&
more
wycked
spake
to
the
holy
mayde
in
thys
wyse
.
What
thynkest
thou
to
do
wretche
/
thynkest
thou
euer
to
kepe
this
caytyf
lyf
/
knowe
it
well
we
shall
neuer
cesse
to
payne
the
and
heuy
the
to
thy
deth
vnto
the
tyme
thou
consente
to
vs
/
To
whom
the
holy
mayde
answerd
hauyng
in
minde
the
doctryne
the
whiche
oure
lorde
taught
her
seyeng
thus
:
I
haue
chose
payne
for
my
refresshyng
And
therfore
it
is
not
harde
to
me
for
to
suffre
theym
:
but
rather
dylectable
for
the
loue
of
my
sauyour
as
longe
as
it
pleseth
his
mageste
that
I
shall
suffre
theym
assone
as
she
hadde
sayde
that
worde
anone
sodenlye
the
abhomynable
companye
of
fendes
vanysshed
awaye
all
confused
And
after
that
a
grete
vnspekable
lyht
of
heuen
appieryd
and
shynned
alle
her
chambre
/
and
in
that
lyght
apperyd
our
lord
Jhesu
cryste
as
he
hang
vpon
the
crosse
whan
he
shedde
his
precious
blode
and
called
the
holy
mayde
to
hym
and
sayde
:
Myn
owne
doughter
katheryn
:
seest
thou
not
what
I
suffred
for
the
be
not
heuy
therfore
for
to
suffre
for
me
/
After
that
he
came
more
nerre
to
hyr
in
another
maner
of
lyknesse
for
to
comforte
hyr
&
thanke
hyr
for
her
gloryous
victorye
that
she
had
wonne
Thenne
she
after
thyse
wordes
:
of
saint
anthonye
seyde
to
hym
thus
/
O
my
lord
Jhesu
where
were
thou
whan
my
sowle
was
soo
vexyd
wyth
suche
fowle
fylthy
temptacions
:
Our
lord
sayde
agayne
I
was
in
thy
sowle
and
in
thy
herte
/
Thenne
sayde
she
agayn
/
A
lorde
sauyng
alway
thy
trouthe
and
the
reuerence
of
thy
mageste
/
how
maye
it
be
that
thou
sholdest
dwelle
in
so
foule
a
herte
:
that
was
replete
wyth
soo
many
fylthy
thoughtis
and
vnclennes
/
Oure
lorde
sayde
eftsones
,
whether
caused
tho
temptacions
&
the
thoughtes
in
thyn
herte
gladnesse
or
sorowe
delectacion
or
weylynge
/
She
answerde
naye
lorde
/
But
grete
soro
we
and
weylynge
/
Our
lord
sayde
thenne
.
who
was
cause
of
that
sorowe
and
weylyng
:
But
I
that
dwellyd
in
thyn
herte
:
yf
I
hadde
not
be
there
thylke
foule
thoughte
sholde
hadde
partyd
thyne
herte
and
so
thou
sholdest
hadde
dylectacion
in
theym
/
But
my
presence
was
cause
why
theymyslyked
the
:
whan
thou
woldest
hadde
putte
theym
fro
the
wyth
dyplesaunce
and
myghtest
not
as
thou
woldest
thou
weptyst
/
and
were
sory
/
&
all
thys
made
I
that
was
presente
wythinforth
wyth
in
thyn
herte
and
defended
the
from
thyn
enemyes
:
And
suffre
the
wythout
forthe
to
troubled
as
moche
as
was
nedeful
be
and
spedefull
to
thyn
helthe
/
And
whan
the
tyme
that
the
bataylle
was
fulfylled
and
ended
by
me
.
I
sente
the
wyth
out
forthe
my
bemys
of
lyght
And
anone
the
derkenes
of
the
fendes
fledde
/
for
they
might
not
abyde
there
my
lyght
is
who
was
he
the
whiche
enfourmed
the
now
last
that
tho
peyne
were
to
the
full
holsom
for
to
wynne
ghostely
strengthe
by
.
And
that
thou
sholdest
suffre
theym
paciently
as
longe
as
it
was
lykynge
to
me
:
but
only
that
shyneth
in
the
beme
And
by
cause
thou
offredes●
thy selfe
hertely
to
suffre
tho
peynes
paciently
for
my
sowle
Therfore
they
were
frely
wyth
drawe
fro
the
by
shewyng
of
my
preserce
/
And
therfore
doughter
that
hast
soo
trewely
ouercome
by
my
vertue
/
and
not
by
thyne
:
thou
hast
deserued
there
by
more
grace
of
me
thenne
thou
wenest
:
Wherfore
fro
this
tyme
fortherward
I
shall
shewe
me
to
the
more
famulyerly
and
more
homely
than
I
haue
doo
before
/
After
tyme
this
vysyon
was
ended
she
was
belefte
in
so
moche
plente
of
swetenesse
that
noo
penne
may
wryte
it
to
the
full
.
There
belefte
in
her
herte
syngulerly
amerueylous
swetenesse
of
that
worde
that
our
lord
callyd
her
his
doughter
/
Whan
he
called
her
myn
owne
doughter
katheryne
▪
Soo
that
she
prayed
her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
whan
that
euer
he
wold
calle
her
he
wold
vouche
sauf
to
calle
her
on
the
same
wyse
that
euyr
her
swetenesse
myght
therby
be
renewed
in
her
sowle
/
Fro
that
tyme
fortherward
oure
lorde
Jhesu
her
spouse
was
wyth
her
ryght
homely
for
he
apperyd
to
her
ofte
tymes
other
whyle
hym self
allone
/
other
whyle
he
brought
oure
ladye
his
blessyd
moder
wyth
hym
/
¶
Other
whyle
saynt
Domynyk
ther
whyle
both
to
gyders
.
¶
Also
somtyme
he
brought
wyth
hym
Marie
magdalene
/
Saynt
Johan
the
Euaungelyste
/
Saynt
Poule
the
Appostle
and
other
moo
suche
as
he
lyked
/
But
for
the
more
party
he
came
hym self
allone
and
spake
wyth
her
as
homely
/
as
a
frende
wolde
speke
wyth
his
moste
homely
frende
/
In
soo
moche
that
bothe
to
gyders
wolde
walke
vp
&
doune
in
her
chamber
/
as
two
relygyous
men
or
two
clerkys
seyng
psalmes
or
howres
to
gydres
/
And
this
she
be
knewe
ofte
tyme
afterward
to
mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
full
ferefully
.
O
now
was
this
a
merueylous
thynge
/
O
what
this
was
a
merueylous
shewyng
and
an
homely
that
neuer
hath
be
herde
afore
.
Neuertheles
maydens
ye
nede
to
be
in
no
doubte
therof
yf
ye
mekely
and
Inwardely
consydere
the
depthe
of
the
goodnes
of
our
lorde
:
For
to
eueryche
of
his
chosen
soules
he
gyueth
somme
synguier
gyfte
and
grace
wherof
they
maye
haue
an
excellent
Joye
aboue
other
▪
that
not
only
the
heythe
of
his
souereygne
magnyfycence
apperyd
in
all
his
sayntes
at
onys
but
in
eueryche
by
hym selfe
somme
synguler
grace
.
For
ryght
at
it
is
sene
all
daye
that
one
man
is
not
lyke
another
/
but
hathe
somme
maner
of
dyfference
/
Ryght
soo
eueri
saynte
in
heuen
hath
somme
dyfference
of
some
synguler
grace
gyuen
of
god
fro
other
/
Therfore
it
is
not
to
merueylle
gretely
though
somme
speciall
grace
bee
seyde
of
one
that
is
not
founde
therof
/
And
by
cause
I
haue
rehersyd
of
seynge
of
ther
psalmes
I
shall
tell
you
maydens
how
this
holy
maide
lerned
for
to
rede
for
by
techyng
of
man
or
of
woman
lerned
she
neuer
She
tolde
ones
to
hir
confessoure
mayster
Reymond
that
she
hadde
a
desired
to
kunne
hyr
mattyns
&
therefore
on
a
tyme
she
prayed
one
of
hyr
susters
to
gete
her
an
A
/
b
/
c
/
to
teche
her
for
to
knowe
her
lettres
:
And
she
hadde
I
traueylled
sore
many
wekes
to
gydres
:
&
dyde
spende
her
tyme
there
aboutes
for
to
knowe
her
lettres
:
And
myght
not
come
therto
/
She
bethought
her
to
complayne
to
oure
lorde
that
heuenly
mayster
for
myspendyng
of
her
tyme
/
prayeng
hym
that
he
wolde
vouchesauf
to
teche
her
yf
it
were
lykynge
to
hym
&
spendefull
for
her
soo
for
to
kunne
to
rede
And
ellys
lorde
thy
wylle
be
done
/
For
it
is
Inow
to
me
yf
it
be
lykyng
to
the
the
I
be
symple
of
lyuyng
/
and
for
to
spende
my
tyme
in
holy
medytacions
/
Now
is
this
a
merueylous
thynge
She
hadde
not
soo
soone
endeth
her
prayer
but
that
she
coude
rede
lyuelye
her
psalmes
as
redely
as
she
hadde
ben
ony
kunnyng
clerke
/
whan
her
confessour
perceyued
that
he
was
gretely
astonyed
/
For
as
moche
as
she
coude
not
spelle
ne
knowe
vnnethe
noo
lettre
the
whiche
was
ordeyned
of
god
as
he
supposed
for
a
merueyllous
token
in
her
:
After
this
/
this
mayde
gate
her
bokes
of
goddes
seruyse
/
for
to
saye
ther
matyns
and
her
howrys
theri●
And
amonge
all
other
verses
that
she
sayde
/
she
marked
the
verse
that
euery
houre
begynneth
wyth
that
is
:
Deus
in
adiutorium
meum
intende
/
●n̄e
adadiuuandum
me
festina
/
And
kept
that
verse
specially
in
her
mynde
to
her
lyues
ende
.
And
ofte
tymes
she
wolde
reherce
that
/
Soone
after
that
she
encresyd
in
her
soule
merueylously
in
perfeccion
of
contemplacion
/
And
thenne
cessyd
lytyll
her
vocall
prayer
bycause
that
she
was
soo
ofte
tymes
rauysshed
in
to
the
heythe
off
contemplacion
/
soo
ferforth
that
by
cause
of
suche
ofte
rauysshyng
she
myght
not
ofte
tymes
perfourme
ne
make
an
ende
of
her
Pater
noster
/
For
her
sowle
was
rauysshed
fro
her
outward
wyttes
as
I
shall
declare
to
you
here
afterward
by
the
helpe
of
god
.
For
thus
shall
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
:
All
this
that
is
conteyned
therin
her
confessur
had
some
other
by
knowleche
of
her
pryuely
/
And
somme
by
relacion
that
she
tolde
to
other
As
it
hadde
be
tolde
of
another
and
not
of
her self
to
the
more
edyfycacion
of
them
¶
Of
her
merueylous
disponsacyon
wyth
the
whiche
she
was
weddyd
in
faythe
to
our
lorde
wyth
a
rynge
.
Capitulum
duodecium
/
AS
this
holy
mayde
encrecyd
and
profyted
more
&
more
day
by
daye
in
grace
and
in
vertu
/
there
came
an
holy
desyre
to
her
sowle
to
praye
our
lord
to
gyue
her
the
perfyte
degre
off
feyth
:
By
the
whiche
fayth
she
myght
be
more
able
to
hym
●oythouten
ony
chaungynge
thenne
she
was
afore
:
Anone
forthe
she
prayed
to
our
lord
that
he
wolde
vouchesauf
to
encrece
her
fayth
&
make
it
so
perfyte
in
her
that
it
shold
neuer
be
hurte●ne
throwe
doune
by
violence
of
ony
maner
aduersarye
:
To
whom
once
lorde
answerd
in
this
wyse
/
I
shall
dyspouse
the
to
me
in
faythe
/
yet
she
prayed
the
same
often
tymes
aftyrward
and
euer
hadde
the
same
answere
of
our
lorde
agayn
At
the
laste
it
happened
a
lytyll
a
fore
the
begynnyng
of
lente
in
the
dayes
when
the
peple
made
an
ende
of
eting
offlesshe
and
in
manere
made
veyne
and
ydil
festys
in
seruyng
of
the
wombe
▪
Thys
holy
mayde
closid
hyr
vp
in
hyr
chambre
Sekyng
by
fastyng
&
prayenge
the
gloryus
and
gracious
face
of
hyr
spouse
●hu
axyng
specyaly
by
feruent
prayer
vncessablythe
same
that
she
axid
afore
of
the
vertu
of
fayth
that
he
wolde
vouchesauf
to
encrece
it
and
make
it
perfyggt
in
her
/
To
whom
our
lord
apperid
and
sayde
.
By
cause
that
thou
hast
putt
awaye
and
flelde
all
maner
nf
vanytes
of
etyng
of
slesshe
thyse
dayes
for
my
loue
▪
And
sette
the
dylectacion
of
thyn
herte
fully
in
me
this
tyme
/
where
all
other
aboute
the
and
namely
in
the
same
hous
that
thou
dwellest
in
:
maken
festys
and
ioyen
therin
.
I
shall
therfore
make
a
solempne
feste
of
dispousacion
betwene
the
sowle
and
me
.
And
so
as
I
behyte
I
shal
dispouse
the
to
me
in
faith
/
Our
lord
had
not
soo
soone
sayde
this
wordes
.
That
our
lady
his
gloryous
moder
/
And
hys
blessyd
Euangelyste
saynt
Johan
/
and
the
gloryous
appostle
saynt
poule
/
and
saynt
Domynyke
the
fader
of
her
relygion
apperyd
and
wyth
theym
Dauyd
the
prophete
brengyng
in
his
honde
a
sauter
of
musyke
:
¶
Fyrst
our
blessyd
lady
goddes
moder
came
to
this
holy
mayde
/
and
toke
her
honde
In
her
holi
honde
stret
chyng
out
her
fyngers
to
her
sone
prayleng
hym
that
he
wolde
vonchesuf
to
wedde
this
mayde
to
hym
in
feythe
.
The
whiche
deuoute
axynge
oure
lorde
graunted
her
and
brought
forth
a
Rynge
arayed
rounde
aboute
wyth
foure
precious
margarete
stones
/
And
in
the
ouer
parte
off
the
rynge
was
enclosyd
a
ryght
fayre
dyamant
stone
/
That
rynge
he
put
with
his
holy
honde
vppon
the
fyngre
of
this
maydens
ryght
honde
seyeng
to
her
thus
Loo
I
dyspouse
the
to
me
that
am
thy
maker
and
thy
sauyour
in
faith
the
whiche
disposycion
shall
be
confermed
&
kept
in
the
vndefouled
vnto
the
tyme
thou
shalt
halowe
euerlastynge
weddyng
wyth
me
in
the
blesse
of
heuen
/
Therefore
douhter
now
fro
this
tyme
fortherwarde
worke
myghtely
and
put
awaye
all
maner
of
doubte
for
now
thou
arte
armed
with
the
strengthe
of
the
feith
/
for
to
ouercome
therby
all
thyn
aduersaryes
/
And
thus
this
gracious
vision
cessyd
:
But
euer
afterward
▪
this
rynge
bylefte
vp
on
this
holi
maydes
fynger
not
to
other
folkes
syht
but
to
her
owne
syght
for
she
be
knewe
many
tymes
and
ofte
to
her
confessour
maister
Reymound
wyth
grete
drede
&
fere
that
she
sawe
euer
that
rynge
vppon
her
fyngre
/
And
there
was
neuer
tyme
but
that
she
sawe
it
/
Loo
maydens
ryht
as
saynt
katheryn
the
martyr
virgyn
&
quene
.
After
her
baptym
was
dyspoused
to
our
lorde
as
the
legende
maketh
mencion
/
Ryght
ye
maye
consydre
now
how
this
holy
mayde
katheryn
/
After
so
many
victoryes
of
temptacions
of
her
flesshe
was
solemply
dyspoused
to
the
same
lorde
:
And
ye
consydre
the
coudycyons
of
this
rynge
/
ye
shall●welle
see
that
the
tokene
acordeth
that
that
is
betokeneth
to
She
axed
stedfaste
feythe
/
what
is
strenger
than
a
dyamaunt
stone
:
it
wythston
dyth
all
maner
hardenesse
and
it
persyth
the
hardest
thynge
that
is
/
but
that
stone
it self
is
broke
onely
with
the
blode
of
a
goote
.
Ryght
soo
a
stronge
feythfull
herte
wythstondeth
and
ouercometh
wyth
his
strenthe
alle
maner
of
aduersyte
/
But
the
mynde
of
crystys
precious
blood
the
whiche
is
called
in
holy
wryte
a
goote
the
whiche
precious
blode
he
shadde
vpon
the
crosse
for
mankynde
:
that
stroge
herte
is
relentyd
and
al
to
broste
/
the
four
precious
Margarete
stonys
in
the
rynge
betokenyth
noo
thynge
ellis
/
but
foure
purytres
&
clenes
that
whiche
was
in
that
holy
mayde
/
that
is
clennes
of
hyr
entente
clennes
of
hyr
thought
clennes
of
hyr
speche
and
clennes
of
hir
workynge
Alle
thyse
shall
be
declared
by
the
grace
of
god
more
largely
here
aftyrwarde
I
supposo
that
thys
dyspousacion̄
was
no
thynge
ellys
but
a
confirmacioun
of
godis
grace
And
the
token
of
thys
gracyous
confyrmacion̄
/
was
the
rynge
the
whiche
only
apperid
to
her
and
to
none
other
for
this
cause
that
she
shold
not
fere
ne
drede
to
delyuer
other
owte
of
the
wretched
worlde
by
her
prayers
/
and
by
the
helpe
of
that
special
grace
that
god
hadde
endowed
her
wyth
.
One
of
the
princypall
causes
after
holy
doctours
why
the
almyghty
god
vouchesauf
of
his
synguler
preuylege
to
shewe
to
some
that
they
ben
plesaunt
to
hym
and
in
estate
of
grace
is
in
this
wycked
world
for
worshyppe
for
his
entent
is
to
sende
them
/
For
to
fyght
wyth
this
wycked
world
for
worshyppe
of
this
holy
name
and
helthe
off
soules
as
he
dyde
to
his
Appostlis
on
wytsondaye
/
the
whiche
token
/
specyal
tokenes
of
grace
:
Ryght
soo
this
hooly
mayde
aboue
the
condycion
of
alle
other
wymmen
after
tyme
she
was
thus
confermed
i●
grace
/
she
was
sente
openli
for
the
wourshyppe
of
god
to
procure
helthe
of
sowles
/
as
it
shall
bee
declared
by
the
helpe
of
god
here
afterward
more
openly
/
And
therfore
I
trowe
it
was
that
she
toke
of
our
lorde
the
token
of
confyrmacion
of
grace
that
she
sholde
boldely
and
myghtely
doo
execucion
of
that
/
that
our
lorde
commaunded
her
/
Thus
shall
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
and
of
the
fyrst
parte
of
the
legende
of
this
hooly
mayde
saynt
katheryn
of
Scene
to
the
worship
of
the
holy
trynyte
and
to
helthe
of
sowles
/
Regnaute
semper
in
oīꝰ
scis
domino
nostro
Ihesu
cristo
/
quin
cum
patre
almoque
spūiscō
viuit
et
regnat
deus
Per
omnia
secula
seculorum
Amen
/
¶
Here
begynneth
the
second
partye
in
the
whiche
is
shewed
the
conuersacion
of
this
holy
mayde
with
men
/
And
how
the
gyftes
whiche
she
hadde
receyued
off
oure
lorde
pryuyly
enclosed
wythin
herself
were
openly
shewed
to
the
worlde
/
And
fyrst
how
oure
lorde
bad
her
that
she
sholde
be
conuersaunt
amonges
men
/
Capitulum
Prymum
●After
tyme
that
this
holy
Mayde
was
despoused
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
our
lorde
began
to
drawe
her
litill
and
lytyll
to
the
conuersacion
of
men
/
And
that
was
full
mennerly
and
mesurably
not
for
to
wythdrawe
vtterly
fro
her
his
dyuyne
presence
/
but
rather
as
moche
as
longeth
to
the
mesure
of
perfection
for
to
encrese
it
as
it
shall
be
declared
openly
afterward
/
And
therfore
in
a
tyme
whan
he
appyred
to
her
and
hadde
taughte
her
of
the
kyngdom
of
heuen
and
shewed
her
many
mysteryes
/
And
also
to
seye
the
psalmes
and
the
houres
of
dyuyne
seruince
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
forthwith
he
bad
her
that
she
sholde
go
doune
to
mete
with
other
of
her
moders
housholde
and
afterward
that
she
sholde
come
agayn
to
him
Whan
this
holy
mayde
herde
this
she
sobbyd
and
wepte
&
fyll
doune
to
his
feete
for
sorowe
and
fayde
to
hym
thyse
wordes
/
O
swete
Ihesu
lorde
why
puttest
thou
me
awaye
fro
the
/
and
yf
I
haue
offendyd
and
displesyd
the
mayster
/
Loo
lord
there
is
myn
body
at
thyn
feet
/
punysshe
it
&
I
shal
gladly
helpe
therto
/
&
suffre
me
not
good
lord
to
be
punysshed
wyth
so●
sharpe
and
soo
hard
a
payne
to
be
departed
in
ony
maner
of
wise
fro
thin
blissed
presence
/
what
haue
I
to
doo
wyth
that
mete
I
haue
mete
that
they
knewe
not
of
whether
receyueth
anone
more
lyf
by
bodely
metes
or
by
ghostely
metes
/
Lorde
as
thou
knowest
well
I
haue
fledde
the
conuersacion
off
men
/
that
I
myght
the
sonner
fynde
/
and
now
sythe
I
haue
founde
the
by
the
mercy
and
graciously
thou
haste
shewed
the
to
me
though
I
am
vnworthy
sholde
I
nowe
than
forsake
this
precious
tresour
And
put
me
to
the
conuersacion
of
men
eftsones
and
soo
ben
founde
reprobable
in
the
faythe
/
A
nay
lord
suffer
not
that
be
soo
for
thyne
infynyte
goodnes
/
whan
she
had
thus
longe
wepte
and
weyled
wyth
swete
sobbyng
wordes
/
oure
lorde
sayde
to
her
/
suffre
now
dere
doughter
for
it
is
full
semely
to
the
that
thou
shodeste
fulfylle
all
maner
of
vertu
that
not
only
it
be
fruytfull
to
thyn
self
/
but
also
to
other
by
myn
specyall
grace
it
is
not
myn
entent
for
to
dysceuere
or
departe
the
from
me
in
ony
maner
of
wyse
.
But
rather
I
shall
haue
the
to
me
more
strenger
by
medytacions
of
neyghbours
charyte
Knewest
thou
not
well
that
in
thise
two
thynges
scondeth
the
perfection
of
myn
commaundementys
that
is
in
loue
off
god
and
loue
of
thyn
neyghbour
/
I
wil
therfore
that
thou
wyll
fulfylle
the
verof
thyse
two
preceptis
that
thou
may
go
to
heuen
not
wyth
one
wynge
but
wyth
tweyne
/
Haue
doughter
how
of
thin
yonge
age
thou
hast
had
hyther
to
a
yele
&
a
loue
of
helthe
of
sowles
/
&
by
me
it
hathe
be
encresyd
in
so
moche
that
in
thyn
yonge
age
thou
purposed
the
to
feyne
the
aman
by
cause
thou
myghtest
the
sonner
be
receyued
amonge
the
order
of
the
fryer
prechours
in
straunge
contrees
that
thou
sholdest
not
be
knowen
soo
for
to
prouffyte
to
the
helthe
of
mennys
soules
&
for
that
synguler
loue
that
thou
haddest
to
myn
seruaunt
Domynyk
/
thou
desyrest
wyth
a
grete
honour
his
habyte
that
thou
now
hast
receyued
/
the
whiche
domynyk
pryncypally
for
helthe
of
soules
I
ordeyned
that
order
why
merueylest
thou
/
&
wey
lest
thou
soo
/
yf
I
brynge
the
to
that
/
that
thou
hast
soo
longe
desyred
/
Wyth
thyse
wordes
of
our
lord
/
this
holi
maide
was
gretely
comforted
&
sayde
vnto
hym
lyke
as
our
gloryous
lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
marie
sayde
to
gabriel
suche
wordes
Qn̄o
fit
istud
/
A
good
lord
in
what
wyse
&
what
maner
may
this
be
done
/
Our
lord
sayde
agayn
as
myn
goodnes
shal
dyspose
&
ordeyne
/
Thenne
she
as
a
good
dyscyple
&
a
trewe
folower
of
her
mayster
Cryste
Ihesu
sayde
lord
thyn
wyl
be
done
in
all
thynges
and
not
in
me
for
I
am
derkenes
/
and
thou
art
lyght
/
I
am
she
that
is
nought
/
and
thou
art
he
that
is
ought
I
am
she
that
is
vnwis
/
and
thou
art
he
that
is
endeles
wysdom
of
the
fader
/
But
yet
I
praye
the
lord
in
what
maner
of
wyse
may
this
be
that
thou
seyste
now
that
I
wretche
than
am
soo
freell
shold
be
soo
profytable
to
mannys
soule
Thou
knowest
well
lord
that
men
setten
lytyll
store
by
womens
wordes
speke
the
neuer
so
vertuously
as
it
were
not
semely
/
Ne
lyuest
thou
that
wymmen
sholde
be
more
conuersaunt
amonges
men
/
To
this
our
lorde
answerd
in
maner
as
Gabryell
answerd
oure
gloryous
lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
Mary
/
and
sayd
there
is
none
word
that
cometh
fro
goddes
mouthe
vnpossyble
at
hym
for
to
be
done
/
Am
not
I
he
the
whiche
hathe
made
mankynde
bothe
man
and
woman
and
the
shappe
of
euery
eyther
/
And
where
that
I
wyl
enspyre
myn
grace
al
is
one
to
me
both
man
and
woman
/
the
necke
agayn
in
his
kynde
/
But
by
cryeng
of
one
of
this
maydes
susters
to
her
that
she
sholde
cese
she
lefte
of
/
And
after
tyme
that
her
spyryte
was
restoryd
agayne
to
the
bodely
wyttys
she
felte
her
necke
soo
sore
as
thought
it
had
be
smyten
wyth
many
grete
strokys
/
There
as
the
hooly
mayde
tolde
it
afterward
to
her
confessour
maister
Reymounde
yf
her
moder
hadde
put
neuer
so
lytyll
more
strengthe
than
she
dyde
to
ryghting
of
her
necke
as
she
was
aboute
▪
she
shold
haue
broken
her
necke
/
with
suche
maner
passyng
out
of
the
body
/
The
sowle
of
this
holy
mayde
was
ofte
tymes
rauysshyng
▪
so
that
other
whyle
by
vyolens
of
the
spyryte
/
the
body
was
lefte
vp
fro
the
erthe
/
as
marie
Magdalene
was
in
tyme
of
her
rauysshyng
as
it
shall
be
declared
afterward
more
openly
/
¶
But
now
I
shall
tell
you
of
a
myracle
that
befyll
in
the
begynnynge
of
her
rauysshyng
/
It
befyl
in
a
tyme
whan
this
hooly
mayde
tournyd
a
spete
or
a
broche
wyth
flesshe
by
the
fyre
of
hote
brenning
coles
,
her
sowle
was
enflamed
and
brente
in
the
mene
whyle
wyth
the
fyre
of
the
holy
ghoste
/
And
anone
she
was
rauysshed
fro
her
bodely
wyttes
seasyng
for
the
tyme
of
her
tournyng
of
her
spytte
/
Whan
her
brothers
wyf
the
whiche
was
callyd
Lysa
perceyued
this
knowyng
the
condycions
of
this
holy
mayde
▪
she
toke
the
spytte
of
her
honde
and
lete
her
alone
/
&
whan
the
mete
was
ynow
▪
and
also
folke
had
suppyd
/
yet
she
bylefte
in
the
sarauysshyng
/
Thenne
Lysa
bethought
her
to
abyde
vpon
her
vnto
the
tyme
that
she
hadde
doo
/
She
brought
her
husbond
a
bedde
and
her
chyldren
and
came
agayn
to
aspye
how
she
dyde
/
and
founde
here
falle
doun
in
to
the
hote
brennyng
coles
wyth
that
Lysa
weyled
and
cryed
and
sayde
Alas
alas
katheryn
is
alle
brennyd
and
ran
to
her
anone
and
pullyd
here
out
of
the
fyre
.
A
and
founde
her
clothes
nothyng
hurt
ne
brente
ne
hauynge
noo
maner
of
tastyng
of
the
fyre
,
ne
yet
more
ouer
there
bylefte
nomaner
of
asshes
vpon
her
clothes
/
Loo
perceyue
ye
not
maydens
what
vertu
of
gostely
fyre
was
wythin
this
maydes
sowle
by
whos
myght
the
strengthe
of
that
outward
naturall
fyre
was
vtterly
wytdrawe
/
See
ye
not
how
the
myracle
of
the
chyldren
whiche
were
caste
in
to
the
ouen
for
to
be
brent
was
thenne
renewed
in
this
holy
mayde
.
And
this
myracle
was
not
onys
shewed
in
her
but
ofte
tymes
:
¶
Onys
it
befyll
her
as
she
was
in
the
chyrche
of
the
fryers
whan
she
was
soo
rauysshed
:
she
bowed
her
hede
doune
to
a
pyler
.
in
the
mene
whyle
/
in
the
whiche
pyller
there
were
certeyne
ymages
of
dyuerse
sayntes
at
the
reuerens
of
whiche
sayntes
there
was
a
man
styked
vp
a
waxe
candell
brennyng
the
whiche
candell
fyll
doune
vppon
thys
holy
maydes
hede
in
tyme
of
her
rauysshyng
/
And
soo
it
brennyd
vppon
her
hede
in
to
the
tyme
the
candell
was
all
wasted
/
And
soo
she
had
no
harme
:
Was
not
this
a
merueylous
thynge
and
a
wounderfull
that
the
candell
brennyd
vpon
her
hede
till
it
was
wasted
and
hurte
nothynge
her
kerchies
¶
And
whan
the
candell
was
all
brente
/
It
quenchyd
vpon
her
hede
as
though
it
hadde
be
quenchyd
vpon
a
stone
or
vppon
erthe
.
¶
Of
this
myracle
bare
wytnesse
many
of
her
susters
that
sawe
it
and
tolde
afterward
to
her
confessour
/
Mayster
.
Reymound
:
One
of
the
susters
whiche
sawe
it
was
called
lysa
/
another
Alyxa
/
and
the
thyrde
Francisca
.
Yet
besyde
as
this
it
befyll
lyke
vnto
the
same
of
her
in
dyuerse
places
of
the
worlde
there
that
she
came
:
Namely
whan
she
was
aboute
to
edefye
men̄ys
sowles
to
vertu
/
than
the
fend
by
his
malyce
was
gretely
stered
agaynst
her
by
the
sufferaunce
of
god
:
and
soo
ferforth
that
in
the
presence
of
many
of
goddes
seruauntes
he
kast
her
in
to
a
fyre
/
And
whyles
other
were
aboute
to
drawe
her
out
wyth
wepyng
and
weylyng
she
smyled
vpon
theym
and
come
out
of
the
fyre
by
her selfe
and
was
nothynge
hurte
neyther
in
body
ne
in
her
clothes
/
Thenne
she
sayde
to
theym
that
stode
aboute
beeth
no
thynge
aferde
:
For
it
is
myn
ghostely
enemye
the
fende
that
hath
doo
this
myracle
&
this
recordeth
dyuerse
that
sawe
it
to
mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
/
¶
Another
tyme
also
in
her
chambre
bi
her
beddes
syde
there
was
an
erthen
panne
wyth
brennynge
coles
in
the
whiche
brennyng
coles
the
enuyous
fend
caste
her
wyth
suche
a
strengthe
that
her
hede
was
the
fyrst
that
fyll
in
the
fyre
and
so
the
panne
to
braste
for
vyolence
of
the
stroke
/
and
yet
her
hed
was
in
noo
wyse
hurte
:
She
arose
vp
and
sayde
wyth
smilyng
there
to
a
deuoute
woman
whiche
was
callyd
Gabryell
/
Loo
how
this
malycions
enemye
werketh
:
Lyke
to
I
ride
in
vitas
patrum
of
a
woman
that
was
callyd
Infracia
:
and
therfore
it
is
none
merueyle
though
our
lord
suffer
the
fende
to
werke
suche
thynges
in
his
derlynges
and
chosen
chyldren
/
sythen
it
so
was
that
he
suffred
hym
to
werke
as
harde
thinges
in
his
persone
/
whan
he
suffred
hym
to
sette
hym
vpon
the
pynacle
of
the
temple
/
And
vppon
the
hye
hylle
/
¶
Tus
by
suche
merueylous
thynges
our
lord
wrought
merueylously
in
hys
mayden
katheryn
soo
that
she
encresyd
more
and
more
by
his
grace
euery
daye
in
his
perfection
and
as
moche
that
loue
was
bothe
rote
and
cause
of
all
her
werkys
:
The
charytable
werkisof
her
neybours
passed
all
other
werkys
.
And
the
charytable
werkys
was
in
double
wyse
that
is
bothe
to
body
and
soule
.
¶
The
fyrst
shall
I
telle
you
of
the
dedis
of
charyte
and
of
mercy
that
she
dyde
to
her
neyghbours
that
were
syke
in
body
/
And
afterward
of
the
dedes
of
charyte
and
of
mercy
that
she
dyde
to
theym
that
were
seke
in
sowle
/
The
nexte
chapytre
shal
declare
openly
of
dyuerse
merueylys
that
our
lorde
shewed
in
her
in
helyng
of
poure
folke
And
also
of
a
merueylous
charyte
that
she
shewed
a
nemptis
hem
that
were
seke
in
body
/
The
wytnesse
of
this
chapytre
is
rehersed
wythin
the
same
chapyter
/
¶
Of
woundres
whiche
she
dyde
in
helthe
and
in
comforte
to
the
necessyte
of
theym
that
were
poure
and
nedy
Capytulum
iij
WHan
this
holy
mayde
Katherin
perceyued
that
the
more
mylder
she
was
to
her
neyghbours
the
more
gracyous
she
was
to
the
syghte
of
her
spouse
Ihesu
/
she
applyed
her
euer
afterward
to
socour
and
helpe
theym
in
her
nede
wyth
all
her
herte
largely
/
¶
And
by
cause
she
wolde
nothynge
haue
of
her
owne
as
her
owne
in
her
owne
possession
▪
Ryght
as
a
very
relygyous
woman
that
hadde
ordeyned
in
her
owne
herte
to
kepe
the
iij
pryncipall
vowes
of
relygyon
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
in
the
fyrst
party
/
lest
she
sholde
be
founde
gylty
of
withdrawynge
other
mennys
good
against
the
will
of
the
hauer
/
she
wente
to
her
fader
and
besoughte
hym
mekely
and
lowely
that
he
wolde
gyue
her
leue
to
gyue
almesse
after
her
conscyence
to
●ore
folke
of
the
goodis
of
god
I
gyue
hym
in
his
housholde
/
To
the
whiche
her
fader
graunted
her
the
more
frely
in
as
moche
as
he
knowe
well
that
she
folowynge
perfyghtly
the
steppes
off
of
our
/
And
graunted
not
oonly
to
her
thus
in
pryuyte
bytwene
theym
bothe
:
But
also
afterward
to
all
that
were
in
in
his
housholde
he
gaue
in
commaundemente
that
noo
body
sholde
lette
his
dere
doughter
for
to
gyue
almesse
of
suche
goodes
that
our
lord
hadde
gyue
hym
in
his
housholde
though
she
wolde
gyue
to
poure
folke
all
that
euer
he
hadde
in
hys
housholde
/
Assone
as
she
hadde
this
lycence
▪
she
began
to
departe
the
goodes
of
her
fader
to
poure
folke
:
Neuerthelesse
in
as
moche
as
she
lyued
wyth
a
gyfte
off
dyscrecion
:
she
departed
not
that
good
to
alle
that
wolde
aske
/
But
to
theym
that
she
knewe
were
nede
folke
/
alle
though
they
asked
not
/
amonge
all
other
nedy
folke
there
came
two
he
knowleched
that
there
were
many
poure
nedy
housholders
a
lytyll
besyde
the
Cyte
of
gene
that
had
grete
nede
and
were
sore
ashamed
for
to
aske
/
after
tyme
she
knewe
that
she
forgate
it
not
but
that
she
arose
vp
erly
in
the
morowe
as
saynt
Nycholas
dyde
and
bare
on
her
sholders
home
to
their
houses
bothe
wyne
and
oyle
and
other
thynges
that
was
nedefull
/
And
as
god
wolde
whan
she
came
she
founde
her
dorys
open
And
she
put
wythin
the
dores
that
she
brought
:
and
drewe
the
dore
to
and
fledpreuyly
her
waye
¶
It
befyll
in
a
tyme
that
she
was
seke
in
body
soo
that
fro
the
sole
of
her
fote
to
the
toppe
of
the
hede
the
body
was
swollen
/
that
she
myght
not
aryse
vp
of
her
bedde
ne
stonde
on
her
fete
▪
And
she
herde
saye
than
/
that
there
was
a
poure
wydowe
a
lytyll
besyde
,
the
whiche
grete
hunger
and
greate
nede
wyth
her
sones
and
doughters
:
For
compassyon
that
she
hadde
of
this
poure
woman
and
of
her
chyldren
:
The
nexte
nyght
after
she
prayed
oure
lorde
that
he
wolde
vochesauf
to
gyue
her
soo
moche
strengthe
for
a
tyme
that
she
myght
goo
and
so
oour
that
poure
woman
/
Anone
she
aroos
,
vp
erly
vpon
the
morowe
&
fylled
her
sacke
of
her
faders
:
where
and
her
grete
vessell
or
a
flacat
of
wyne
and
another
vessell
wyth
oyle
:
&
what
that
she
myght
euer
fynde
besyde
forth
the
whiche
myght
bee
necessarye
to
mannys
lyuelood
and
all
thyse
she
kept
in
her
chambre
:
all
be
it
that
eueryche
of
thyse
was
for
her
berdem
ynow
for
to
here
alone
yet
she
bare
all
at
onys
to
the
wedowes
hous
somme
therof
she
trussed
vpon
her
sholders
somme
vp
her
ryght
arme
and
somme
vp
her
lift
arme
and
somme
therof
bonnden
onder
her
gyrdell
/
and
by
myracle
that
was
heuy
ynouht
to
bere
eueryche
by
hym self
/
she
bare
it
alle
at
onys
esely
without
ony
peyne
or
greuaūec
She
knowleche
after
ward
bothe
to
her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
and
to
other
of
the
fryers
:
that
the
berdom
wayde
nomore
to
her
than
thought
she
hadde
lifte
vp
a
lytyll
wase
of
strawe
:
and
yet
in
trouthe
yf
it
hadde
be
trewely
wayed
It
sholde
haue
wayed
an
hondred
pound
of
weyte
or
there
aboute
Er
than
the
comyn
bell
of
the
Cyte
was
roungen
erly
in
the
morowe
it
was
not
lefull
neuer
one
to
walke
in
the
cyte
:
aft
tyme
it
was
ronge
this
holy
mayde
waited
well
her
tyme
and
toke
her
Journeye
wyth
her
burthen
/
All
be
it
that
she
were
yonge
and
all
forbolnyd
bysekenes
:
yet
she
ranne
to
the
poure
wydowed
hous
so
faste
as
though
she
hadde
felt
nothynge
of
paynes
ne
of
the
burthen
/
And
whan
she
came
nyghe
to
the
poure
wydowes
hous
her
byrthen
waxit
heuy
and
greuo●
to
bere
/
soo
that
her
semed
she
myght
not
bere
it
a
paas
further
/
whan
she
perceyued
this
she
vnderstoode
anone
that
it
was
oure
lordes
wyll
and
prayed
him
deuoutly
wyth
truste
that
he
wolde
vouchesaufe
to
ese
her
/
Anone
she
was
esyd
of
her
byrthen
/
&
came
to
the
poure
wydowes
hous
and
founde
her
dore
half
open
/
As
preuyly
as
she
coude
she
drewe
her
byrthen
wythin
the
dore
/
and
yet
it
made
suche
a
noyse
that
it
woke
the
wydowe
.
And
she
fledde
as
she
myght
for
sekenes
but
that
was
not
full
ferre
/
but
for
her
sekenes
encresyd
more
and
more
/
by
the
ordeynaunce
of
god
that
vnnethes
she
myghte
remeue
her
out
of
the
waye
/
wherfore
she
spak
to
our
lord
wyth
weilyng
chere
and
in
maner
in
smylyng
chere
/
and
sayde
good
lord
why
hast
thou
so
dysceyued
me
/
it
is
good
to
the
to
shame
me
here
/
it
is
thy
wyll
that
myn
foly
bee
pupplysshed
to
all
folke
here
aboute
hast
thou
now
forgete
thy
mercy
that
thou
haste
shewed
to
me
thyn
vnwourthy
▪
I
praye
the
lord
yelde
me
myn
strengthe
that
I
maye
come
home
to
myn
chambre
/
in
tyme
she
spake
thus
&
thyse
wordes
and
lyke
to
thyse
/
She
enforced
and
strengthed
her self
that
she
myght
go
forthe
seyeng
to
her
owne
body
thus
/
thou
moost
nedes
forthe
though
thou
sholdeste
deye
by
the
waye
and
therfore
goo
forth
what
wyth
goynge
but
more
wyth
crepyng
forth
she
went
lytyll
not
soo
fer
/
but
that
the
poure
wedowe
arose
vp
and
aspyed
by
the
habyte
who
it
was
that
dyd
her
that
benefet
¶
Oure
lord
thenne
consydered
that
she
was
gretely
tourmentyd
in
her
goyng
/
restoryd
her
agayne
to
the
strengthe
that
she
hadde
afore
/
but
not
soo
perfyghtely
/
So
that
wyth
grete
hardynes
she
came
home
er
thenne
it
was
lyght
daye
.
And
laye
doune
in
her
bedde
ryght
feble
as
she
dyde
before
thus
oure
lorde
touched
and
touched
her
by
sekenesse
as
hym
lyked
/
Loo
maydens
here
ye
maye
see
the
myracles
of
saint
nycholas
been
renewed
in
this
holy
mayde
/
and
not
only
by
myracle
/
But
by
many
myracles
:
now
shall
I
procede
forth
and
shewe
you
the
vertuous
lyuyng
of
saynt
martyn
/
How
our
lord
shewed
hym
in
her
:
¶
It
befyll
on
a
tyme
whan
this
holy
mayde
was
in
the
chyrche
of
the
freyers
There
came
to
her
a
poure
man
&
asked
somme
helpe
of
her
for
the
loue
of
god
.
This
holy
mayde
perceyued
wel
that
she
hadde
nothynge
that
she
myght
gyue
him
For
she
was
not
wonte
to
here
neyther
golde
ne
syluer
/
she
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
abyde
a
whyle
tyll
she
came
from
home
/
For
gladly
she
wolde
and
plenteuously
gyue
almes
of
suche
thynges
that
she
hadde
at
home
in
houshold
/
Thenne
the
poure
man
sade
yf
thou
haue
ony
thyng
for
to
gyue
me
here
I
praye
the
to
gyue
me
for
I
may
not
abyde
so
long
/
it
was
to
suppose
by
this
that
it
was
another
that
apperyd
in
the
poure
man
his
lykenes
&
not
he
that
it
semed
/
This
holy
mayde
was
both
that
she
sholde
goo
fro
her
with
out
somwhat
she
bethought
her
what
she
myght
gyue
hym
to
fulfylle
his
nede
/
Anone
it
came
to
her
mynde
of
a
lytyll
syluer
crose
that
hynghe
by
her
bodyes
that
whiche
for
that
tyme
she
had
in
her
honde
she
pulled
away
that
lytyll
crosse
&
gaue
it
gladly
to
the
poure
man
/
whan
the
poure
man
had
that
crosse
he
wente
awaye
fro
her
gladly
and
asked
nomore
almes
the
day
of
none
other
man
as
though
he
had
come
for
the
crosse
alone
/
The
nexte
nyght
folowyng
whan
this
holy
mayde
prayed
as
she
was
wounte
to
do
Almyghty
god
oure
sauyour
apperyd
to
her
hauyng
that
same
lytyll
crosse
in
in
his
blessyd
honde
arayed
wyth
mani
precious
stones
and
sayde
doughter
knowest
not
thou
this
crosse
/
this
mayde
answerde
to
hym
&
sayde
/
she
knewe
it
well
but
she
sayde
that
it
was
not
soo
fayre
araied
whan
she
had
it
/
To
whom
our
lord
sayde
again
/
yesterday
thou
gauest
it
me
this
gladly
wyth
grete
charyte
and
loue
the
whiche
loue
and
charyte
betokeneth
by
thyse
precious
stones
therfore
I
behote
that
at
the
daye
of
dome
afore
alle
the
companye
of
angels
and
men
/
I
shall
shewe
the
this
to
encrece
of
thy
ioye
/
For
I
shall
not
hede
ne
suffre
to
be
hyd
the
dedes
of
mercy
that
ben
doo
by
the
/
wyth
this
our
lorde
cesyd
of
that
aperycion
.
&
she
thanked
ourlord
/
&
euer
after
was
I
steryd
to
doo
more
suche
almesse
as
it
was
well
proued
afterward
/
another
daye
also
it
befyll
whan
deuyn
seruice
was
doo
at
the
fryers
after
tyme
that
the
peple
was
goo
out
of
the
chyrche
and
she
bylefte
behynde
alone
wyth
one
of
her
susters
for
to
praye
▪
as
she
came
dounward
fro
the
chapell
the
whiche
was
ordeyned
/
for
the
susters
of
penaunce
/
oure
lord
apperyd
to
her
in
lykenesse
of
a
poure
pylgrym
at
the
age
as
her
semed
of
ij
.
or
iij
and
thyrty
yere
half
naked
and
asked
her
that
she
wolde
gyue
hym
clothes
for
the
loue
of
god
/
Theen̄e
she
was
that
tyme
steryd
to
doo
dedes
of
mercy
more
than
euer
she
was
:
she
prayed
the
poure
man
that
he
wolde
abyde
a
whyle
vnto
the
tyme
she
came
doune
agayn
fro
the
chapell
:
and
thenne
she
wolde
helpe
hym
of
somme
clothes
/
She
wente
vp
agayn
to
the
chapell
and
dyde
of
herk
ertyll
vnder
the
whiche
kertell
she
wered
nexte
her
her
body
here
cote
that
was
wythout
sleues
and
gaue
it
wyth
a
greate
gladnes
to
the
poure
man
/
After
tyme
the
poure
had
receyued
it
he
asked
more
of
her
and
sayde
/
A
/
a.
good
lady
I
praye
you
sythe
ye
haue
gyue
me
a
wollen
clothe
/
gyue
me
lynen
clothes
for
to
were
nexte
myn
body
/
Thenne
she
sayde
to
hym
come
after
me
and
thou
shalt
houe
gladly
and
she
went
afore
and
hir
spouse
Thesu
vnknowyng
to
her
in
a
pylgryme
lykenes
folowed
her
.
Whan
she
came
home
she
went
thyder
where
the
lynen
clothes
of
her
fader
and
of
her
brothers
layen
/
&
brought
out
bothe
a
sherte
and
other
lynen
clothes
and
toke
gladly
to
the
poure
pylgrym
/
Yet
whan
the
poure
man
hadde
receyued
that
he
asked
more
and
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
gyue
hym
sleues
to
his
kertyll
for
to
couer
his
armes
/
¶
Wyth
that
she
wente
her
in
nothynge
heuy
of
his
crawyng
but
gladly
sought
aboute
for
his
sleues
/
At
the
laste
she
founde
a
newe
cote
of
a
mayden
seruaunt
of
the
hous
hauyng
and
hangyng
vpon
a
perche
the
whiche
was
neuer
werid
ther
of
she
toke
awaye
the
sleues
and
toke
it
gladly
to
the
poure
man
/
yet
he
asked
more
and
sayde
/
Lady
thou
hast
now
clothed
me
,
he
thanke
the
for
whos
loue
thou
hast
doo
it
but
yet
I
haue
a
felawe
lyeng
in
an
hospytall
her
besyde
the
whiche
nedeth
gretely
clothes
.
If
ye
wyll
sende
hym
ony
clothes
I
shall
bere
it
to
hym
in
your
byhalue
full
gladly
/
yet
this
hooly
mayde
for
his
multyplyeng
of
askynge
was
neuer
the
weryer
But
rather
the
more
feruent
for
to
do
almes
largely
She
be
thought
hyr
where
she
mygth
haue
a
clothe
to
clothe
wyth
this
nedy
man
that
lyeth
in
the
hoospytall
Thenne
fyll
to
hyr
mynde
that
all
the
meyne
of
the
hou
/
solde
were
ryght
lothe
to
geuen
almes
out
take
hyr
fadre
allone
/
and
therfor
the
shytte
vp
alle
her
clothes
vnder
lok
and
keye
/
lest
she
sholde
fynde
them
and
gyue
them
in
almes
.
Ouermore
she
consydered
dyscretely
that
she
had
take
I
nogh
awaye
of
the
mayden
seruaunt
of
the
housholde
/
and
therfore
she
wolde
take
awaye
nomore
of
hyres
by
cause
she
was
nedy
hyr
selfe
.
Thanne
she
dysputed
wyth
hyr
self
whrther
she
sholde
gyue
hym
hyr
owne
cote
or
not
/
by
cause
she
hadde
noo
moo
but
one
/
charyte
sayde
yes
/
but
honeste
sayd
nay
.
Atte
last
charyte
oueroo
me
honeste
/
that
is
for
to
say
charyte
that
longeth
to
the
sowle
/
ouercome
honeste
the
whiche
hadde
compassyon
vpon
the
body
She
thought
yf
the
pour
man
shold
go
awaye
wythout
somme
clothe
/
it
shold
be
slaunderous
to
other
/
and
yf
she
had
gyuen
hyr
owne
coote
and
goo
naked
than
sholde
she
hadde
slandred
sowles
/
whos
soules
she
ought
for
to
loue
more
than
the
body
And
therfore
hir
semed
that
sowles
shold
not
be
slaundred
in
no
wyse
for
no
temporall
almes
.
And
thanne
she
answered
to
the
poure
man
thus
.
Trewely
dere
frende
yf
it
were
honest
and
lefull
to
me
for
to
gyue
my
cote
that
I
were
thou
sholdest
haue
it
gladdely
.
But
by
cause
I
haue
no
moo
/
it
were
not
semely
that
I
sholde
gyue
awaye
thys
.
And
therfore
I
praye
the
holde
me
excused
/
for
gladdely
wolde
I
gyue
it
the
yf
I
hadde
ony
moo
.
Thenne
the
poure
man
smyled
vpon
hyr
and
sayd
well
lady
I
see
well
yf
thou
haddest
moo
thou
woldest
gladdely
gyue
me
/
therfore
I
thanke
the
/
fare
well
.
Whanne
he
was
borned
fro
hir
/
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
by
certeyn
sygnes
that
it
sholde
be
he
the
whiche
was
wonte
to
appere
to
hir
and
was
often
tymes
conuersaunt
wyth
hyr
/
she
was
in
manere
of
doubte
/
but
hyr
herte
brenned
in
loue
.
Neuerthelesse
in
as
moche
as
she
helde
hir self
to
comyne
occupacyon
of
housholde
as
she
was
wonte
to
do
The
next
nyght
suyng
our
lord
Jhesu
cryste
appered
to
hyr
/
as
she
prayed
in
lykenes
of
that
poure
man
holdyng
in
hys
honde
that
cote
that
the
holy
mayde
gaf
hym
arayed
wyth
clere
shynyng
precyous
stones
/
and
sayd
to
hyr
thus
Dere
doughter
knowest
thou
not
this
dote
/
she
answered
and
sayd
yes
/
but
she
gaf
it
not
so
arrayed
:
To
whome
our
lord
sayd
ageyne
.
Thou
gauest
me
yester
daye
this
cote
so
frely
&
so
charytable
that
it
voyded
awaye
fro
me
the
peyne
of
colde
Therfore
I
shall
now
gyue
the
a
cote
/
the
whiche
shall
be
Inuysyble
to
men
/
but
to
the
it
shall
be
sensyble
.
Out
of
myn
holy
body
I
shall
take
it
/
and
hyue
it
the
/
by
the
whiche
bothe
thy
body
and
thy
sowle
may
be
keuered
and
kepte
from
noyous
colde
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
shall
be
arayed
in
ioye
wythout
an
ende
a
fore
my
sayntes
and
angels
.
Anone
forth
wyth
he
toke
out
a
clothe
of
a
sangueyne
colour
wyth
hys
holy
hondes
out
of
the
wounde
of
his
syde
shynyng
alle
aboute
to
the
quantyte
&
mesure
of
the
maydens
bodye
.
Where
wyth
he
arayed
hyr
wyth
hys
owne
holy
hondes
and
sayd
.
Thys
clothe
I
gyue
the
all
the
whyle
thou
dwellest
in
erthe
in
token
of
thy
clothe
of
ioye
/
that
thou
shalt
be
arayed
wythin
heuen
Thus
this
vysyon
cessyd
.
After
that
the
holy
mayde
hadde
soo
grete
grace
in
receyuyng
of
that
ghostly
gyfte
/
not
onely
in
hir
sowle
but
also
in
hir
body
/
that
fro
that
houre
in
to
hyr
endyng
daye
/
she
neded
neuer
to
were
moo
clothes
in
wynter
thanne
in
somer
.
For
were
the
wedder
neuer
so
colde
she
vsed
no
mo
clothes
than
a
cote
and
a
kertell
.
For
euer
afterward
as
she
semed
she
felte
that
ghostly
cote
vpon
hyr
/
the
whiche
our
lord
gaf
hir
/
and
that
was
the
cause
that
she
felte
no
colde
.
See
ye
not
maydens
of
what
worthynes
this
holy
mayde
was
that
folowed
Saynt
Nycholas
in
gyuyng
of
atmespryuely
/
and
folowed
saynt
martyn
in
gyuyng
of
hyr
owne
clothes
the
whiche
our
lord
allowed
by
hys
holy
apperyng
to
thys
blessyd
mayde
.
And
there
to
gaf
hyr
a
sensyble
and
an
euerlastyng
token
/
for
to
fele
in
erthe
how
plesaunt
almes
dedes
ben
to
hym
.
Me
semeth
that
whan
our
lorde
sayd
to
thys
holy
mayde
that
he
wolde
she
we
hyr
that
lytell
crosse
at
the
daye
of
dome
the
whiche
she
gaue
in
almes
And
also
that
he
wolde
araye
hyr
wyth
a
clothe
of
ioye
/
in
heuen
is
no
thyng
ellys
but
a
sikernes
of
endeles
helthe
.
And
therto
an
excellent
ioye
in
blysse
for
hir
mede
Therfore
maydens
sett
not
lytell
by
suche
reuelacyons
and
suche
tokenes
/
for
sykernesse
of
endeles
helthe
onely
causeth
so
grete
ioye
and
so
grete
comforte
in
a
sowle
that
it
were
impossyble
a
tongue
to
tell
it
or
a
penne
to
wryte
it
.
What
foloweth
after
suche
a
sykernesse
of
ioye
trowe
ye
to
a
sowle
.
Trewely
encrece
of
all
vertue
of
pacyence
/
of
strengthe
/
of
temperaunce
of
besynesse
/
and
delygence
in
kepyng
of
hyr
self
/
in
holy
werkes
of
feyth
/
of
hope
/
of
charytr
/
and
of
suche
other
vertues
.
And
all
that
were
harde
to
suche
a
soule
afore
ben
made
by
suche
comfort
ryght
esye
Loo
what
grace
suche
predestynacyon
notefyed
to
a
clene
sowle
wercheth
.
Another
tyme
also
it
befyll
that
thys
holy
mayde
fulfylled
wyth
compassyon
perceyued
that
ther
was
a
man
the
whiche
made
him
pore
wylfully
for
goddes
loue
and
lacked
mete
/
wherfore
she
toke
preuely
a
lynnen
bagge
and
fylled
it
wyth
egges
/
and
bare
it
wyth
hyr
preuely
vnder
hyr
●oote
to
refresshe
wyth
that
poure
man
whan
she
mette
wyth
him
.
She
came
to
the
place
there
that
the
poure
ma●
dwellyd
/
and
entred
fyrst
in
to
the
chyrche
there
besyde
for
to
praye
.
And
whan
she
was
entred
/
she
bethought
on
our
lord
so
Inwardly
/
and
anone
her
spiryte
was
rauysshed
/
soo
that
she
was
fully
for
that
tyme
wythdrawe
from
hyr
outwarde
wyttys
/
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
.
Whanne
she
was
thus
rauysshed
/
it
happed
sodeynly
that
the
body
bowed
to
a
pyler
casuelly
on
that
syde
that
the
egges
were
on
/
so
that
she
lened
fully
vpon
the
bagge
wyth
egges
/
thanne
was
ther
in
the
same
bagge
for
goten
afore
a
thymbyll
as
tayllours
sowen
wyth
/
the
whiche
thymbyll
was
broken
in
thre
partyes
by
burthon
of
hir
body
/
but
the
eyren
that
charyte
hyd
there
were
hole
&
in
noo
partye
broken
.
Now
was
thys
a
meruayllous
thyng
that
the
eyren
were
hole
/
and
the
thymbyll
of
coper
was
to
broke
/
so
our
lorde
shewed
there
hys
myracle
in
the
charytable
eyren
.
For
our
lord
shewed
his
helpe
not
only
by
this
holy
mayde
to
nedy
folke
/
but
also
he
shewed
hys
myracle
in
hyr
by
werkes
of
his
godhede
And
for
to
declare
the
more
openly
/
I
shall
tell
you
a
meruaylles
thyng
/
of
whiche
meruayll
were
wytnes
bothe
men
and
womman
aboute
the
nombre
of
xx
of
this
maydens
faders
housholde
Her
moder
Lapa
tolde
mayster
Reymond
hir
doughters
confessour
that
after
tyme
hir
doughter
thys
holy
mayde
had
leue
of
hyr
fad
to
gyue
almes
.
It
befylle
that
the
meyne
of
the
housholde
had
dronke
amonges
them
a
certeyn
vessell
of
wyne
/
so
that
the
remenaunt
the
whiche
was
lefte
was
not
fresshe
for
to
gyue
to
poure
men
/
in
asmoche
she
had
in
custome
to
gyue
them
of
the
beste
for
goddes
loue
.
She
went
hyr
than
to
the
next
vessell
of
wyne
there
besyde
in
hyr
faders
seller
/
and
tamed
that
for
poure
folke
And
gaf
them
largely
ther
of
euery
day
as
they
neded
many
dayes
to
gyder
/
and
it
was
not
aspyed
of
the
meyne
.
At
the
last
whan
the
fyrst
vessell
was
done
/
the
boteler
mynystred
drynke
to
the
meyne
of
the
vessell
the
whyche
the
holy
mayde
had
tamed
.
Yet
the
holy
mayde
left
not
therfore
/
but
alwaye
she
gaue
ther
of
to
the
poure
folke
/
and
the
more
the
meyne
dronke
/
the
more
largely
she
gaue
to
poure
folke
/
and
it
was
not
aspyed
/
ne
the
wyne
was
neuer
the
vnfressher
ne
neuer
the
lasse
in
the
vessell
/
but
allewaye
kepte
his
estate
/
bothe
in
fulnesse
&
in
fresshenesse
.
Alle
the
meyne
of
the
housholde
gretely
meruaylled
ther
of
that
the
vessell
contynued
so
long
/
and
the
wyne
was
so
good
and
so
fresshe
/
for
it
was
well
knowe
afore
/
that
suche
a
vessell
of
wyne
myght
not
laste
ouer
xv
dayes
or
xx
dayes
at
the
ferthest
Neuerthelesse
it
contynued
not
onely
xx
dayes
/
but
a
full
moneth
complete
And
yet
it
semyd
that
the
vessell
was
noo
wyse
lessened
.
All
the
meyne
had
meruayll
ther
of
that
the
wyne
was
so
good
&
so
fresshe
&
lastyd
so
long
.
For
better
wyne
them
semed
they
tastyd
neuer
It
was
vnknowe
to
them
all
how
that
myght
be
/
but
the
holy
mayde
knewe
well
I
nogh
that
it
was
by
myracle
of
our
lord
/
by
cause
of
the
almes
that
she
gaue
ther
of
the
more
largely
to
the
poure
folke
.
And
therfore
she
gaue
ther
of
the
more
largely
to
pour
folke
openly
that
all
the
meyne
myght
see
it
and
yet
it
semed
neuer
the
lesse
in
the
vessell
.
O
moneth
was
passyd
&
an
other
began
to
entre
/
&
yet
the
wyne
contynued
euer
lyke
fresshe
/
&
lyke
full
as
it
dyd
fyrste
in
to
the
tyme
the
grapes
were
rype
for
to
make
newe
wyne
.
Whenne
the
g●apes
were
rype
&
vessellys
were
ordeyned
for
to
be
fylled
wyth
newe
wyne
/
the
mayster
of
the
wyne
bad
&
commaunded
/
that
the
vessell
whiche
contynued
so
long
wyth
olde
wyne
/
sholde
be
emptyed
and
fyllyd
with
newe
wyne
One
of
the
seruauntes
made
ordynaunce
for
to
empte
that
vessell
by
fyllyng
of
botellys
/
&
yet
it
semed
neuer
the
lesse
.
Atte
the
laste
the
vessell
was
vndone
for
to
be
gawgid
to
knowe
ther
by
what
was
lefte
in
the
vessell
/
&
it
was
founde
all
drye
as
though
ther
had
no
wyne
be
ther
Inne
many
monthes
afore
Thenne
all
the
housholde
were
more
amexuaylled
of
the
myracle
thenne
they
were
of
the
habundaunce
of
wyne
afore
.
Loo
maydens
what
myracle
our
lord
shewed
by
gyuyng
of
almes
dede
of
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
/
the
whiche
myracle
was
openly
afterward
knowen
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
Thus
endeth
this
chapytre
.
The
wyttenesse
of
thys
mater
conteyned
in
thys
chapytre
ben
rehersed
in
thys
chapytre
.
¶
Of
meruayllous
dedys
whiche
she
dyd
in
lowely
&
besy
seruyse
to
them
that
were
syke
.
Capitulum
iiij
THys
holy
mayde
had
a
meruayllous
compassyon
in
hyr
soule
of
poure
folke
and
nedy
But
yet
she
hadde
a
more
excellent
&
a
more
meruayllous
pyte
of
seke
folk
/
for
the
whiche
pyte
that
she
hadde
of
them
she
wroughte
many
wonder
thynges
/
whom
I
shall
rerce
by
the
grace
of
god
/
for
the
more
edyfycacyon
of
theym
the
whiche
shall
rede
or
here
thys
holy
legende
.
And
though
it
seme
to
somme
incredyble
/
yet
shall
I
not
leue
therfore
.
In
the
cyte
of
Sene
ther
was
a
full
poure
womman
/
and
a
syke
that
for
nede
and
wantyng
of
temporall
gooddes
/
she
was
constreyned
to
lygge
in
an
hospytak
in
the
same
Cyte
where
she
supposed
to
haue
and
fynde
remedye
of
hyr
syknes
/
that
she
myght
not
haue
by
hyr
self
/
it
happed
thanne
that
she
was
receyued
in
to
a
poure
hospytall
of
the
same
cyte
/
in
the
whiche
hospytall
vnnethe
she
myght
haue
that
she
nedyd
Hyr
sykenesse
encrecyd
so
hyghely
that
she
was
a
lepre
tho●ugh
out
all
hyr
body
/
thenne
all
that
euer
were
wyth
Inne
the
hospytall
eshewed
hir
te
more
/
and
dysposed
for
that
she
sholde
be
sente
to
the
spytellhous
wythout
the
toune
/
the
whyche
was
ordeyned
for
lazaros
and
not
for
to
abyde
amonges
them
.
Whanne
thys
holy
mayde
perceyued
thys
/
she
wente
full
of
charyte
to
the
same
hospytall
/
and
vysyted
the
poure
leprous
womman
/
and
mynystred
to
hyr
not
onely
the
substaunce
of
temporall
gooddes
/
but
also
the
helpe
of
hyr
owne
mynystracyon
.
For
euery
day
on
the
morowe
/
and
euery
nyght
at
euen
/
she
vysyted
the
same
seek
womman
by
hyr
owne
persone
consyderyng
in
that
same
leprous
womman
hir
spoust
Jhesu
with
hyr
ghoostly
eye
.
And
therfore
she
serued
her
to
more
besely
/
the
more
dylygentely
/
and
the
more
mekely
/
thys
holy
mayde
serued
hyr
the
more
prude
and
vnkynde
/
the
seek
womman
was
ageynst
hyr
.
For
so
ofte
tymes
it
happeth
in
them
that
ben
not
meke
/
that
the
more
mekenes
ther
is
shewed
to
them
/
the
more
proude
they
be
.
And
there
that
they
sholde
thanke
our
lord
for
the
kyndnes
whiche
is
shewed
to
them
/
the
shewe
rather
Iniuryes
and
wronges
/
ryght
so
dyd
thys
seke
womman
to
this
holy
mayde
whan
she
saw
that
she
was
serued
soo
customably
euery
day
of
thys
holy
mayde
/
she
began
to
chyde
hir
whanne
she
was
not
serued
to
hyr
plesaunce
.
It
befyll
other
whyle
that
thys
holy
mayde
was
longe
at
the
chyrche
/
and
contynued
somtyme
longer
thenne
somtyme
/
and
that
was
the
cause
ofte
tyme
why
she
was
taryed
fro
that
seek
womman
And
after
whan
she
came
late
to
the
seek
womman
/
she
wolde
chyde
hyr
shappely
/
and
sayde
to
hyr
soornfully
many
suche
heuy
wordes
.
O
lady
quene
welcome
/
where
haue
ye
ben
so
longe
lady
quene
/
a
now
ye
be
a
grete
lady
that
so
long
haue
ben
at
the
frerys
/
haue
ye
talkyd
I
nough
wyth
the
freres
lady
/
wyth
suche
lyke
wordes
and
many
lyke
these
/
she
dyd
what
she
coude
to
styre
thys
holy
mayde
to
wrath
/
yet
was
she
not
styred
by
hyr
wordes
/
but
rather
serued
hyr
as
she
wolde
hyr
owne
moder
/
&
comforted
hyr
as
lowely
/
and
as
mekely
as
she
wolde
hyr
owne
moder
/
seynge
to
hyr
ryght
thus
O
good
moder
/
for
goddes
loue
be
not
dyspleased
wyth
me
/
for
though
I
haue
be
longe
I
shall
mende
all
thyng
anone
.
Than
she
hyd
hyr
fast
&
made
a
fyre
/
and
ordeyned
besyly
for
hyr
mete
/
and
for
all
other
necessaryes
as
she
wolde
for
hyr
owne
moder
/
soo
that
the
seke
womman
in
all
hyr
vnpacyence
meruaylled
of
hir
pacyence
Thys
rebukynge
contynued
longe
tyme
/
and
yet
was
that
holy
mayde
neuer
wery
of
hyr
seruyse
/
but
rather
contynued
/
many
folk
had
meruayll
therof
.
But
hyr
owne
mod
Lapa
was
gretely
troubled
wyth
al
and
cryed
vpon
hyr
that
she
sholde
leue
that
minystracion
lest
she
were
a
lepre
as
the
seke
woman
was
/
&
oftymes
she
sayd
to
hir
Doughter
I
wote
well
thou
shalt
be
a
leper
yf
thou
contynue
in
seruyce
of
this
seke
woman
/
and
that
may
I
not
suffer
/
And
therfore
leue
of
I
charge
the
/
To
whom
this
holy
mayde
excused
her
honestely
and
sayde
that
she
hadde
it
of
oure
lord
that
she
sholde
not
leue
the
minystracion
of
that
poure
woman
/
And
soo
she
e●ed
her
moder
/
and
she
contynued
forthe
in
her
hooly
mynystracion
.
Thenne
the
fende
perceyued
that
she
myght
not
bee
ouercome
by
swete
reuelyng
/
he
tourned
hym
to
another
whyle
by
the
suffraunce
of
oure
lorde
and
made
her
hondes
leper
the
whiche
touched
the
lepers
body
of
the
seke
woman
in
soo
ferforth
that
euery
body
that
sawe
her
sayd
that
she
was
a
leper
yet
wold
she
not
sece
thefor
but
rather
desireth
to
be
a
leper
than
for
to
se●e
of
holy
ministracion
/
she
despysed
her
owne
body
&
rought
neuer
what
befyll
to
her
so
that
she
mightserue
our
lord
That
lepers
sekenes
contynued
vppon
her
many
dayes
/
But
her
semed
full
fewe
daye
in
comparyson
of
grete
loue
that
she
hadde
to
our
lord
.
That
blessyd
lord
the
whiche
tournyd
all
thynge
to
god
in
his
louers
after
tyme
he
consyderyd
the
ghostely
strengthe
of
his
spouse
this
holy
mayde
:
he
wolde
not
suffer
that
the
lepers
sykenes
sholde
longe
endure
in
her
/
Wythin
a
lytyll
tyme
afterward
it
happed
by
the
dysposycyon
of
our
lord
that
lepers
woman
sholde
passe
out
of
this
worlde
/
Soo
that
in
a
tyme
of
her
passynge
this
holy
mayde
was
wyth
her
and
comforted
her
besely
and
blessydly
.
¶
Whan
she
was
passed
she
wasshed
deuotly
that
lepres
body
and
arayed
it
to
the
berynge
/
And
whan
her
dyryge
and
her
masse
was
done
/
she
beryed
her
wyth
her
owne
hondes
/
And
assone
as
she
was
buryed
/
the
leper
passed
awaye
fro
her
hondes
as
though
she
hadde
neuer
no
ne
sykenesse
therof
/
But
rather
her
hondes
was
more
fayrer
afterward
thenne
ony
place
of
her
body
/
as
though
she
hadde
neuer
be
touched
wyth
ony
spyce
of
lepre
.
See
not
ye
maydens
what
encrece
of
vertue
this
hooly
mayde
wan
by
this
dede
of
mercy
/
charyte
the
moder
of
vertu
stererd
her
to
doo
that
charytable
dede
of
mercy
and
mekenesse
conpeled
with
charyte
the
whiche
made
her
to
bee
subiecte
and
seruaunt
to
the
seke
/
And
also
pacyence
was
conpeled
wyth
that
charyte
the
whiche
made
her
to
suffre
pacyently
and
gladly
the
seke
wommans
rebukynge
:
¶
And
yet
ferthermore
to
this
dede
off
charyte
was
knytte
wythouten
ony
doughte
sekernesse
of
clere
faythe
/
By
the
whiche
faythe
she
behelde
euer
her
spouse
Jhesu
in
her
sowle
as
ofte
as
she
mynystred
to
that
woman
.
¶
And
yet
neuertheles
she
failed
none
hope
,
by
the
whiche
she
contynued
to
the
laste
ende
in
her
holy
mynystracyon
.
After
alle
thyse
hooly
company
of
vertues
folowed
an
open
myracle
in
clensyng
of
that
lepre
by
the
dethe
of
this
poure
woman
the
whiche
she
toke
by
her
mynystracyon
.
This
is
a
gracious
myracle
and
a
merueylous
yet
sholde
ye
see
and
here
a
more
merueylous
thinge
that
folowed
yf
ye
lysten
/
&
here
it
besely
/
In
the
same
Cyte
of
Gene
there
was
a
susters
of
penaunce
of
Saynt
Domynyk
seke
that
whiche
was
called
after
the
maner
of
speche
in
the
countre
Palmaria
/
the
suster
Palmaria
was
so
gretely
styred
to
hate
by
excytacion
of
the
fende
agaynst
this
holy
mayde
katheryn
/
that
as
ofte
as
euer
she
sawe
her
or
herd
herd
her
speke
or
herd
speke
of
her
.
she
was
hyghely
troubylyd
in
her
sowle
soo
ferforth
that
she
shewed
alle
the
tokenes
of
malyce
agaynste
her
bothe
in
ba●bytyng
of
her
pryuyly
and
openly
&
also
in
cursyng
/
Assone
as
the
holy
maide
perceyued
this
/
she
shewed
to
her
alle
maner
of
myldenes
and
mekenes
for
to
pees
her
in
that
that
she
coude
:
but
alway
her
seke
suster
despysed
all
her
mekenesse
to
the
vtterest
and
sette
none
pryce
bi
her
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
ranne
by
prayer
wyth
a
feruent
deuote
herte
to
our
lorde
Ihesu
her
spouse
prayeng
to
hym
specyally
for
her
seke
suster
that
he
wold
vouchesauf
to
gyue
her
grace
of
forgyuenes
the
prayers
were
as
a
brennyng
fyre
ascendynge
vp
to
our
lorde
askyng
of
him
bothe
mercy
&
dome
/
all
bee
it
that
the
entent
of
this
holy
mayde
was
nothyng
ellys
but
for
to
aske
mercy
for
her
and
no
ne
dome
/
yet
it
was
lykyng
to
our
lorde
for
that
tyme
not
for
to
gyue
hys
mercy
wythout
dome
/
there
shewed
oure
lorde
hys
grete
dome
but
yf
byrrayers
of
this
holy
mayde
/
He
shewed
a
more
gretter
mercy
/
he
smote
mercyably
to
that
suster
Palmarya
in
her
body
that
her
soule
shol
be
made
hole
/
but
what
hardynes
of
obstinacion
was
in
that
seke
suster
/
And
what
swetenes
of
charyte
there
agaynst
was
in
his
spouse
katheryne
/
It
was
clerely
shewed
afterward
by
ryghtwysdom
euermore
he
encresyng
in
this
holy
mayde
katheryn
the
loue
of
sowles
by
shewyng
of
a
wonderfull
fayrnes
of
that
susters
soule
/
the
whiche
was
fyrst
by
the
ryght
wysdome
of
hym
I
demed
to
bee
dampned
for
her
obs●ynacie
/
but
merytes
and
prayers
of
this
hooly
mayde
/
it
was
afterward
saued
/
Whan
our
lorde
hadde
smyte
that
suster
palmarya
in
her
body
by
bodely
sekenes
to
that
entent
onely
that
her
soule
shold
be
more
hole
/
yet
wolde
she
not
sece
of
her
malycyous
hate
that
she
shewed
wythout
cause
to
this
holy
mayde
/
But
rather
was
more
greuous
to
her
after
her
sekenes
thenne
she
was
in
her
he
le
/
The
more
froward
she
was
to
the
holy
mayde
.
the
more
mekenes
she
she
wed
agayn
to
her
and
wold
ofte
tymes
full
charytably
be
wyth
her
and
do
her
seruyce
both
wyth
louyng
wordes
and
dedes
¶
Yet
was
that
seke
suster
harder
thenne
ony
stone
agaynste
her
that
neyther
by
charytable
wordes
ne
dedes
ne
seruyces
she
wolde
not
be
pesed
/
but
euer
was
grutchyng
vpon
her
soo
ferforth
that
she
bad
her
goo
out
of
the
hous
that
she
was
inne
wyth
a
wood
violent
spyryt
This
consyderyd
our
lord
that
rightwis
iuge
/
he
leyde
his
honde
of
ryghtwysnes
vpon
that
enmye
of
charyte
/
and
touched
her
soo
/
Soo
sodenly
that
bothe
wythout
shryfte
and
housell
she
drewe
faste
to
the
deth
of
body
and
sowle
:
Whan
this
holy
may
herd
her
of
/
Anone
she
went
to
her
chamber
and
bysoughte
our
lord
by
deuout
prayer
for
that
soule
lest
it
sholde
peryche
by
occasyon
of
her
/
Suche
wordes
she
seyde
to
oure
lorde
in
her
sowle
in
tyme
of
her
prayer
as
afterward
she
was
be
knowe
to
her
confessour
/
Lord
whyder
I
wretche
am
I
bore
to
the
ende
by
occasyon
of
me
soules
I
made
lyke
to
that
shold
be
put
to
endeles
peynel
:
●&
wylt
thou
suffer
lord
that
by
occasyon
of
endeles
dampnacion
to
myn
suster
to
whom
I
sholde
be
an
instrument
of
euerlastynge
helthe
:
A
myn
good
lord
put
awaye
suche
an
orybyll
dome
for
the
multytude
of
thyn
grete
mercy
/
It
had
be
better
I
had
neuer
be
borne
/
than
soulis
I
bought
by
precyous
blod
shold
for
me
be
dampned
O
lorde
be
thyse
thyne
byhestes
the
whiche
thou
behotest
me
by
thy
large
mercy
I
sholde
be
profytable
to
the
sowle
he
le
off
myn
neyghbours
:
be
thyse
the
fruytes
of
helthe
that
I
sholde
brynge
forth
for
that
myn
suster
sholde
be
dampned
/
and
none
douwte
mynsynne
is
cause
therof
and
of
her
payne
/
For
other
fruyte
brynge
I
not
forth
but
synne
alone
/
But
yet
shall
I
not
cese
to
aske
mercy
vnto
the
tyme
I
haue
somme
comforte
of
myn
susters
sauacion
in
this
wyse
this
hooly
mayde
prayed
more
in
sowle
thenne
in
worde
outward
and
for
that
she
shold
haue
the
more
compassyon
of
her
susters
sowle
:
our
lord
shewed
her
in
the
mischefs
perile
that
her
susters
sowle
was
inne
comered
and
wythinne
that
syght
oure
lorde
answerd
her
and
sayde
that
he
myght
not
suffer
it
of
his
ryghtwysnes
but
that
suche
a
malycious
hate
and
an
obstynate
must
nedes
be
punysshed
/
Thenne
the
holy
maide
fell
doune
a
fore
oure
lord
in
prayer
and
sayde
:
Lord
I
shall
go
neuer
out
of
this
place
in
to
the
tyme
,
thou
hast
shewed
methy
mercy
for
my
suster
/
punisshe
me
lorde
for
her
synne
for
I
that
am
cause
of
her
trespaas
shold
bee
punisshed
and
not
she
therfore
merciable
lord
I
beseche
the
for
thy
grete
mercy
and
thyn
endeles
godenes
that
thou
suffer
not
myn
susters
sowle
goo
out
of
her
body
in
to
the
tyme
that
she
haue
receyued
that
grace
&
thy
merci
¶
Loo
maydens
that
prayer
was
off
grete
strengthe
that
her
suster
soule
myghte
not
passe
out
of
the
body
vnto
the
tyme
oure
lorde
shewed
his
plentuous
mercy
in
her
.
notwythstondynge
the
seke
woman
lay
adrawyng
on
thre
dayes
and
thre
nyghtes
soo
that
many
folke
that
knewe
her
merueylled
and
sorowed
for
her
that
she
suffred
soo
longe
a
peyne
.
&
yet
in
all
that
tyme
this
holy
mayde
continued
in
her
deuout
prayer
/
neuer
cesing
vnto
the
tyme
she
hadde
ouercome
in
maner
of
our
lord
by
meke
teres
/
Then●e
our
lorde
by
her
deuout
prayers
graciously
sent
his
mercy
vnto
that
sowle
/
and
gaue
her
clere
knowyng
to
knowe
her
trespas
/
and
also
gaue
her
suffycient
contrycion
to
helthe
of
her
sowle
.
Assone
as
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
by
reuelacion
that
she
hadde
suche
a
grace
she
wente
to
the
seke
susters
chamber
for
to
comforte
her
/
And
whan
the
seke
suster
sawe
this
hooly
mayde
she
dyde
her
reuerence
wyth
grete
ioye
as
she
myght
whome
she
had
first
in
grete
repreue
and
soo
she
accused
her self
wyth
spekynge
and
tokens
makyng
&
asked
her
mercy
and
forgyuenesse
of
her
trespaas
as
she
myght
speke
and
soo
she
was
shryue
and
hoselyd
and
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
wyth
grete
contrycion
/
Whan
she
was
passed
out
of
this
world
.
thenne
our
lorde
shewed
to
this
holy
mayde
her
sowle
in
soo
grete
bryghtnesse
and
fayrnes
/
that
as
she
knowleched
afterward
to
her
confessour
it
myght
not
be
tolde
ne
spoken
wyth
mannys
tongue
/
Yet
was
not
that
the
fayrenesse
that
she
sholde
haue
in
blysse
endelesly
but
oonly
the
fayrenes
that
she
hadde
in
her
first
creacion
and
in
receyuyng
of
her
baptysme
And
thenne
sayde
our
lord
to
this
hooly
mayde
,
loo
dere
doughter
by
the
I
haue
receyned
this
soule
that
was
loste
/
is
thys
not
a
fayre
soule
and
a
semely
/
Loo
is
he
or
she
that
wyll
not
doo
her
besines
for
wynnyng
of
suche
a
fayre
sowle
/
yf
that
I
am
the
most
souerayn
fayrnes
of
whom
cometh
alle
maner
of
vertues
fayrnesse
was
so
oucome
thrugh
loue
of
fairnesse
of
mannys
soule
that
I
wold
come
doun
froheuē
to
erthe
&
shedde
my
blode
for
to
raunsom
it
/
moche
ye
thenne
shold
laboure
so
eyther
for
other
the
so
fayr
a
creature
be
not
lost
.
for
this
cause
I
haue
shewed
the
this
soule
that
thou
may
the
more
her
afterward
be
●●erid
for
to
wynne
soules
to
me
/
and
also
that
thou
may
stere
other
to
the
same
grace
/
This
holy
mayde
thenne
thanked
our
lord
for
his
blessyd
reuelacion
prayng
hym
mekely
wyth
alle
the
affeccion
of
her
sowle
that
he
wolde
vouchesaf
to
gyue
her
that
grace
euer
afterward
that
she
myght
see
the
fayrnesse
of
euery
soule
of
all
tho
the
whiche
been
conuersaunt
wyth
her
:
so
the
more
be
steryd
for
to
winne
her
helthe
/
the
whiche
grace
oure
lorde
graunted
her
and
sayde
/
by
cause
thou
haste
despised
for
myn
sake
all
maner
of
flesshely
conuersacion
and
art
knytte
to
me
in
the
spyryte
the
whiche
am
the
moost
souerayn
spyryte
/
and
also
haste
prayed
soo
besely
and
soo
deuotily
fore
this
sowle
/
therfore
now
I
gyue
thy
soule
clere
syght
by
the
whiche
thou
mayste
perceyue
and
beholde
bothe
the
fayrenes
and
the
fylthes
of
euery
soule
that
is
present
afore
the
/
So
that
as
thy
bodely
wittes
afore
this
tyme
haue
perceyued
the
condycions
of
bodyes
ryght
so
from
this
tyme
forward
thyn
ghostely
wyttes
sholde
perceyue
and
consydere
the
conditions
of
the
spyrytes
not
only
of
tho
the
whilche
ben
I
presented
to
the
/
but
also
of
all
other
for
whos
helpe
thou
shalt
praye
though
they
neuer
be
presented
to
thy
bodely
syght
/
¶
The
grace
of
this
gyfte
was
euer
after
ward
soo
spedefull
in
this
holy
mayde
that
fro
that
tyme
forward
she
perceiued
more
clerly
the
qualytes
and
dedes
▪
of
the
sowles
of
theym
the
whiche
aperyd
afore
her
than
of
her
bodyes
/
so
ferforth
that
in
a
tyme
Mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
complayned
to
her
of
some
that
grutched
vppon
her
by
cause
that
she
suffred
many
dyuerse
persones
to
knele
afore
her
&
wolde
not
byd
theym
stonde
vp
/
To
whom
she
aus●terd
in
this
wyse
.
God
knoweth
fader
that
I
am
occupyed
aboute
the
consyderacion
of
her
sowles
that
I
perceyued
nothyng
in
maner
of
outward
dedes
/
Thenne
asked
her
confessour
of
her
and
sayde
wheder●ye
see
her
sowles
/
To
whom
she
answerd
thus
/
Fader
vnder
confessyon
I
shewe
to
you
that
after
tyme
our
sauyour
hadde
I
gyue
me
suche
a
grace
that
I
sawe
the
fayrnesse
off
myn
sufters
soule
the
whiche
was
ordeyned
to
be
dampned
for
her
trespaas
by
his
right
wysdom
he
delyuerd
mercyable
by
mym
prayers
shewed
me
afterward
He
fayrenes
ther
apperyd
afterwar
vnnethe
afore
me
/
but
that
I
sawe
the
condycions
of
theyr
sowles
and
therfore
fader
I
am
syker
if
ye
hadde
onys
seen
the
fayrenesse
of
a
resonable
sowle
/
ye
wold
suffre
an
hondred
tymes
bodely
deth
if
it
were
possyble
for
the
wynnyge
off
a
soule
/
there
is
nothyng
in
wis
worlde
that
maye
be
lykened
to
her
fayrnesse
whan
here
ōfessour
herd
/
this
he
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
vouchesaf
to
tell
hym
all
the
processe
how
she
come
to
suche
a
reuclacion
/
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
tolde
him
al
the
processe
as
it
is
reherced
afore
all
bee
it
though
she
tolde
it
but
shortly
and
me
kely
of
the
trespas
of
her
seke
suster
done
agaynst
her
/
But
her
confessour
afterward
enquyred
the
sothe
of
that
odyous
cryme
of
her
susters
the
whiche
knewe
them
both
well
ynow
/
Ferthermore
to
the
more
confyrmacion
of
thyse
thynges
that
benrehersed
afore
maister
Reymound
her
confessour
recordeth
of
her
that
he
was
ofte
tymes
a
speker
bytwene
her
&
the
pope
gregori
xj
For
she
was
an
ytaly
coude
vnd
stonde
none
latyn
/
&
the
pope
Gregorye
coude
vnderstonde
none
ytaly
.
&
therfore
Mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
that
coude
bothe
was
a
speker
bytwene
them
Amonges
alle
other
communycacions
that
this
holy
mayde
communyd
wyth
pope
Gregory
.
she
complayned
her
of
the
court
of
Rome
/
And
sayde
that
the
that
paradyse
sholde
be
of
vertu
/
ther
she
founde
stynche
of
cursed
vices
thenne
the
pope
asked
her
by
her
confessour
how
longe
she
hadde
be
in
the
courte
/
To
whom
she
answerd
sodenly
wyth
a
meke
boldenes
to
the
pope
in
this
wyse
/
to
the
worshyppe
of
almyghty
god
I
dare
well
say
that
I
perceyued
moche
more
the
stynche
of
synne
the
whiche
is
vsed
in
the
court
of
Rome
at
home
in
myn
owne
cyte
there
as
I
was
borne
:
thenne
they
that
hath
sinned
and
synne
euery
daye
:
Thenne
the
pope
after
this
answere
helde
his
peas
:
And
was
merueylously
astonyed
:
but
her
confessour
maister
Reymound
merueylously
marked
he
wordes
and
wyth
what
auctoryte
they
were
spoken
to
suche
a
wourthy
prelate
:
Also
ofte
tymes
it
befyll
bothe
to
mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
and
to
other
that
folowed
that
holy
mayde
in
to
dyuerse
countrees
:
where
neyther
she
ne
they
came
afore
that
ther
come
to
her
and
to
hym
many
vnknowen
persons
semely
arayed
for
to
comin
with
theym
of
vertu
semyng
as
though
they
hadde
be
vertuous
folke
:
But
in
trouthe
they
encombred
wyth
wretched
synnes
.
whos
synnes
she
perceyued
anone
wherfore
she
wolde
neyther
speke
to
theym
netourne
her
face
to
theym
.
And
whan
she
sawe
that
they
abode
longe
;
Thenne
she
brake
out
a
lytyll
her
voyce
more
than
she
was
wonte
to
doo
and
sayde
to
theym
suche
wordes
:
Fyrst
we
shold
amende
our
lyf
fro
synne
and
goo
out
of
the
deuyles
seruyce
:
and
thenne
to
speke
of
our
lord
:
Whan
she
had
said
suche
wordes
she
wente
fro
theym
assone
as
she
myght
goodly
.
And
afterward
her
confessour
and
her
felawes
founde
it
sothe
that
they
were
e
ncombred
wyth
wretched
synnes
in
the
whiche
synnes
they
contynued
wythouten
repentaunce
/
Another
tyme
also
she
spake
wyth
a
woman
:
the
whiche
woman
semed
an
honest
woman
but
in
soth
she
was
the
concubyne
of
a
man
of
holi
chirche
and
that
was
grete
pyte
:
As
they
spake
togyders
the
wymmen
myght
not
loke
vpon
the
maidens
face
:
by
cause
euer
the
hooly
mayde
tourned
awaye
her
face
fro
her
.
Of
this
thynge
her
confessour
hadde
grete
merueyle
:
And
in
a
tyme
asked
her
why
she
dyde
soo
/
¶
To
whome
she
answerd
and
sayde
Fader
I
am
syker
and
ye
hadde
felt
that
stynche
of
synne
that
I
felte
in
her
/
ye
wolde
haue
caste
oute
alle
that
is
in
your
body
for
sqweymusnes
/
Loo
maydens
all
thyse
ensamples
haue
I
sett
here
for
ye
sholde
knowe
what
excellent
gyftes
of
grace
our
lord
gaue
to
this
hooly
mayde
by
cause
of
her
meke
lyuyng
:
¶
Ouermore
our
ghoostely
enemye
the
fend
perceyuyng
that
this
hooly
mayde
wan
grete
vertues
by
the
seruyce
that
she
dede
to
seke
folke
He
thought
by
somme
maner
of
wylle
to
wythdrawe
her
fro
that
holy
besynes
:
and
yet
myght
he
not
For
the
more
that
he
was
aboute
to
lette
her
.
the
more
she
encresyd
vertuously
by
that
occupacion
/
¶
It
befyl
in
a
tyme
that
one
of
the
susters
of
penaunce
whyche
was
called
after
the
maner
of
the
countree
Andred
/
This
andred
was
touched
bi
the
suffraunce
of
oure
lorde
wyth
a
greuous
infyrmyte
and
that
was
in
this
thyse
.
She
hadde
vppon
her
brest
a
sore
the
whiche
was
called
a
cancer
.
And
that
fretid
the
flesshe
rounde
aboute
/
and
it
was
soo
corrupte
that
there
myght
none
come
nyghe
her
for
stynche
/
But
yf
they
hylde
her
nose
/
And
soo
there
was
fewe
or
none
that
myghte
suffre
to
come
nyghe
her
.
¶
whanne
this
hooly
Mayde
perceyued
this
.
she
vnderstoode
that
oure
lord
had
receyued
that
seke
suster
to
her
kepyng
/
Thenne
anone
she
came
to
her
that
wyth
a
glad
there
she
comforted
her
and
she
serued
her
gladly
to
the
laste
ende
of
her
sekenes
/
that
seke
suster
toke
her
seruyce
the
more
freely
in
as
moche
as
she
consydered
that
all
other
forsoke
her
/
this
holy
mayde
lefte
no
thynge
vndo
that
was
longyng
to
her
seke
suster
encresyd
neuer
her
abhomynable
stynche
neuer
so
moche
/
She
stode
by
her
and
opened
her
wounde
/
wasshed
it
and
wepte
it
/
and
coueryd
it
▪
and
yet
neuer
she
hyldeth
she
her
nose
for
noo
stynche
ne
shewed
none
token
of
lothsomnes
/
ne
neuer
was
heuy
ne
wroth
of
seruyce
ne
wery
about
her
.
but
gladli
dyd
her
dilygent
seruyce
/
soo
that
her
seke
suster
had
merueyle
of
the
grete
stedfastenes
/
and
of
the
grete
sufferaunce
and
of
the
grete
fulnes
of
loue
and
charyte
that
was
in
so
yonge
a
mayde
/
Of
this
grete
loue
and
charyte
that
she
shewed
to
that
seke
suster
the
fende
had
grete
enuye
and
was
aboute
to
lette
that
dede
of
mercy
and
of
charyte
after
his
power
.
¶
Fyrst
vpon
a
daye
as
this
holy
mayde
was
aboute
to
vnoouere
her
wounde
for
to
wasshe
it
and
wype
it
&
to
refreissh
it
agayn
▪
there
came
out
suche
an
odoure
of
stynche
that
vnnethe
her
stomake
myght
suffer
it
:
But
almost
she
was
brought
to
a
vomyte
.
Assone
as
she
perceyued
that
/
she
arose
agaynst
her self
wyth
an
hyghe
wrathe
and
sayde
to
her
skeymons
flesshe
in
this
wyse
whether
the
wretched
flesshe
haste
abhomynacion
now
of
thyn
suster
the
whiche
oure
lorde
boughte
wyth
his
precious
blode
/
thou
mayste
falle
euery
daye
in
the
same
sykenesse
that
she
is
in
or
in
verse
:
trewely
thou
shalt
be
punysshed
therfore
/
Anone
she
bowed
done
to
the
sore
and
hyld
her
nose
and
her
mouthe
open
agaynst
the
wounde
soo
longe
vnto
the
tyme
she
felt
in
her selfe
that
her
skeymousnes
was
goo
/
and
soo
she
ouer
came
the
flesshe
that
was
contrary
to
the
spyryte
/
The
seke
suster
behelde
this
and
cryed
to
her
merueylyng
and
sayde
cecedere
doughter
corrupte
not
thy selfe
wyth
this
foule
stynkyng
sore
/
¶
This
holy
mayde
for
alle
her
cryenge
wolde
not
aryse
vp
vnto
the
tyme
she
felt
her
enemye
was
ouercome
and
so
she
arose
vp
and
he
auoyded
awaye
fro
her
for
a
tyme
/
But
he
consyderyng
that
he
myght
not
haue
the
maystry
of
her
wrought
wylyly
agaynst
her
by
her
seke
suster
/
He
put
in
her
herte
suche
an
heuenes
agaynst
this
holy
mayde
that
she
lotheth
her
seruyce
/
and
by
lytyll
and
lytyll
that
malyce
soo
encresyd
that
lothenes
was
tourned
in
to
an
hate
.
For
though
she
knewe
well
ynow
that
there
was
none
that
wolde
serue
her
but
she
/
But
yet
she
s●cyd
not
of
that
pryuy
hate
but
brake
out
agaynst
her
in
to
a
suspycious
g●losye
.
for
that
is
the
condycion
of
theym
that
lyuen
in
hate
euer
lyghtely
for
to
leue
a
suspycious
thought
of
them
that
they
hate
:
And
at
the
laste
she
began
to
ymage
ne
and
bere
her
an
honde
that
whan
she
was
not
present
wyth
her
she
was
aboute
somme
actuell
synne
flesshely
in
somme
other
preuy
places
▪
¶
Yet
wold
not
this
holy
mayde
neuer
s●ce
of
her
holy
seruise
aboute
her
notwithstondyng
suspycious
ymagynacions
I
put
agaynst
her
/
For
she
wel
that
wylecome
by
the
deuyll
and
the
more
besy
she
was
aboute
her
the
more
wrathfull
was
her
seke
suster
agaynst
her
by
exortacion
and
excitacion
of
the
fende
that
euer
hated
the
dedes
of
charite
/
In
so
moche
that
he
steryd
that
seke
suster
to
slander
thys
holi
mayde
openly
of
the
filthe
of
vnclen̄e
and
that
scland
was
so
open
/
that
at
the
last
whanne
that
it
came
to
hir
susters
he
ryng
/
somme
of
the
oldest
/
and
of
the
sted
fastest
cam
to
thys
seke
suster
for
to
knowe
the
trouthe
Thanne
the
seek
suster
as
she
sdaūdred
hyr
afore
/
ryght
soo
she
contynued
in
the
same
sclaund
to
hir
susters
/
accusyng
hir
full
foule
actuell
vnclennesse
Of
the
whiche
foule
accusacy
on
/
thyse
sustres
were
gretely
a
meruaylled
and
styred
ageynst
thys
holy
mayde
/
and
so
was
called
forthe
a
fore
them
/
and
sharpely
rebuked
wyth
many
repreuable
wordes
axyng
of
hir
how
she
wold
suffre
hyr
self
so
be
deceyued
for
to
lese
hyr
maydenhode
.
To
whome
thys
holy
mayde
answerd
full
pacyently
and
softely
/
seynge
thus
▪
Trewely
ladyes
and
sustres
by
the
grace
of
our
lord
Jhesu
cryste
/
I
am
a
mayde
.
And
neuer
wold
she
say
other
worde
in
blamyng
of
hyr
that
so
had
accused
hyr
/
but
onely
thus
.
Trewely
I
am
a
mayde
/
trewely
I
am
a
mayde
.
Yet
for
all
thys
she
cessyd
neuer
of
hyr
seruyse
/
all
be
it
that
it
was
full
heuysom
to
hir
for
to
here
suche
wordes
&
sclaundre
But
yet
fyrst
she
serued
hyr
seek
suster
/
and
afterward
went
to
hir
chamb●e
for
to
praye
/
for
that
was
hyr
most
comforte
in
all
suche
dyseases
.
There
she
prayed
in
soule
more
thenne
in
wordes
by
mouthe
/
and
that
was
in
thys
wyse
.
O
almyghty
god
&
my
dere
beloued
spouse
/
thou
knowest
well
that
the
name
of
maydes
is
tender
/
and
lyghtly
for
to
catche
sclaundre
/
&
namely
of
suche
maydens
that
haue
chosen
the
to
be
their
spouse
/
and
that
was
the
cause
why
that
thou
woldest
/
that
thy
gloryous
moder
our
lady
Saynt
Mary
/
was
commytted
to
Joseph
/
that
was
called
&
spoused
hyr
husbond
for
to
kepe
hyr
name
of
virgynyte
wythout
sclaunder
Thou
knowest
lord
that
alle
thys
sclaundre
/
the
whiche
is
putte
vpon
me
is
come
by
the
fende
●he
fader
of
●esynges
/
by
cause
I
sholde
cesse
of
the
besynes
the
whiche
I
haue
begonne
for
thy
loue
.
Therfore
lord
I
praye
the
helpe
me
/
that
knowest
well
I
am
gylteles
/
and
suffre
not
thys
wycked
enemye
the
whiche
was
ouert●
rowe
by
thy
passyon
to
haue
the
maystrye
of
me
.
Whanne
she
hadde
prayed
thus
longe
to
our
lord
wepyng
plenteuously
.
Oure
lorde
appyred
to
hyr
as
she
knowelechyd
afterward
in
confessyon
to
hyr
confessour
mayster
Reymond
.
Holdyng
in
his
ryght
honde
a
golden
crowne
arayed
with
precyous
margaryte
stonys
.
And
in
hys
lyfte
honde
a
garlonde
of
sharpe
thornes
/
seyng
to
hyr
in
thys
wyse
Dere
doughter
it
is
nedefull
that
thou
be
crowned
wyth
owne
of
thyse
two
crownes
/
&
therfore
chese
whether
thou
hast
leuer
haue
of
thys
two
.
Ch●se
now
whether
thou
haddest
leuer
be
crowned
wyth
the
sha●pe
crowne
of
thorne
in
thys
ly●
/
and
that
other
to
be
reserued
to
the
in
euer
lastyng
lyf
.
Or
ellys
for
to
haue
this
precyous
crowne
.
&
for
to
haue
the
other
after
thys
lyfe
.
Thenne
thys
holy
mayde
sayde
.
Lord
thou
knowest
well
that
I
haue
forsake
myn
owne
wylle
/
and
chosen
for
to
do
after
thy
blyssed
wyll
/
therfore
I
dare
not
chese
no
maner
thyng
wythout
thy
plesaunt
wyll
.
Neuerthelesse
by
cause
thou
wylte
that
I
shall
answer
I
say
thus
that
I
chese
rather
in
thys
lyf
euer
to
be
confourmed
to
thy
blessyd
passyon
/
and
soo
for
to
suffre
peynes
for
thy
loue
.
After
thyse
wordes
anone
she
toke
of
our
lordes
hondes
the
garland
of
thornes
feruently
and
put
it
myghtely
vpon
hyr
hede
wyth
a
maner
of
vyolence
/
that
the
thornys
percyd
hir
hede
rounde
about
/
as
hir
thought
in
so
moche
that
she
had
a
peyne
long
afterward
in
hyr
hede
by
prykynge
of
the
thornys
/
as
she
recorded
hir self
openly
to
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
.
Than
sayd
our
ford
to
hyr
thus
/
in
my
poure
is
al
thyng
/
and
as
I
haue
suffred
this
sclaunder
to
be
araysed
/
ryght
so
it
is
in
my
power
to
cesse
it
.
Therfore
thou
shalt
contynue
in
that
holy
seruyse
as
thou
hast
be
gonne
/
&
gyue
no
stede
to
the
sende
that
wold
let
the
/
I
shall
gyue
the
full
vntorye
of
thyne
enemye
/
that
what
that
euer
he
hath
Imagyned
ageynst
the
it
shall
torne
to
hys
owne
hede
for
thy
more
ioye
/
and
hys
more
peyne
.
Thus
was
thys
holy
mayde
comforted
/
and
soo
bode
stylle
in
that
holy
seruyse
.
But
whanne
thys
sclaundre
cam
to
hyr
moder
Lapa
/
all
be
it
that
she
was
seker
ynough
of
hyr
doughter
/
she
was
gretely
styred
by
thys
sclaunder
&
sayd
to
hyr
wyth
myghty
spyryte
in
thys
wyse
Doughter
haue
I
not
oft
sayd
to
the
/
that
thou
sholdest
nomore
serue
that
stynkyng
woman
/
loo
what
reward
she
hath
gyue
the
for
thy
besye
seruyse
She
hath
sclaundred
the
full
foule
to
all
thy
sustres
/
yf
thou
euer
serue
hyr
more
or
come
to
hyr
/
neuer
shall
I
calle
ne
name
the
my
doughter
afterward
/
ne
thou
me
thy
moder
.
Now
was
this
the
soty
lest
wyll
of
all
.
For
ther
the
fende
myght
not
haue
the
maystrye
of
hir
by
sclaunde
ryng
of
hyr
seek
suster
/
he
beganne
wyth
a
maner
of
pyte
to
lette
hyr
of
hyr
holy
seruyse
by
hyr
moders
mouthe
.
Thenne
was
thys
holy
mayde
astonyed
somwhat
for
hir
moders
wordes
.
And
at
the
last
she
wente
to
hyr
and
knelyd
afore
hyr
seynge
to
hyr
thus
.
Swete
moder
whether
our
lorde
wolde
be
pleased
yf
we
leue
vndone
the
dedys
of
mercy
to
our
negyhbours
for
theyr
vnkyndenes
.
Whether
our
sauyour
lefte
to
raunsom
vs
by
suffryng
deth
on
the
crosse
for
the
reprouyng
wordes
and
obloquye
of
men
.
God
knoweth
moder
&
your
charyte
also
yf
I
lefte
thys
seek
suster
/
&
wolde
do
hir
no
seruyse
/
there
wolde
none
do
hir
seruyse
.
And
so
she
shold
deye
for
defau●●
.
Sholde
we
be
cause
and
occasyon
of
hyr
deth
/
she
is
now
a
lytell
deceyued
of
the
fende
/
perauenture
here
afterward
our
lorde
wyll
gyue
hyr
grace
for
to
knowe
hyr
trespas
.
By
suche
wordes
&
lyke
to
thise
/
at
the
laste
she
wan
hyr
moders
blessyng
/
and
wente
to
the
seek
suster
ageyn
and
serued
hir
so
gladly
as
though
she
had
neuer
sayd
euyll
of
hyr
.
These
ke
suster
was
than
astonyed
/
and
perceyued
thenne
that
she
had
do
amysse
/
and
beganne
to
haue
sorowe
&
contrycyon
in
hyr
herte
of
hir
sclaunder
that
she
had
put
vpon
hir
.
Thenne
our
lord
shewed
mercy
to
hyr
.
And
for
to
make
the
good
fame
of
hys
mayde
/
he
shewed
that
seek
suster
in
a
tyme
/
as
she
laye
in
hyr
bedde
a
gracious
vysyon
/
that
he
wouchesauf
to
shewe
to
thys
holy
mayde
vpon
a
daye
/
whanne
thys
holy
mayde
wente
to
hyr
/
chambre
after
hyr
seruyse
that
she
had
do
to
that
seek
suster
.
That
same
seek
suster
sawe
as
she
laye
in
hyr
bedde
aboute
the
holy
mayde
a
grete
lyght
comyng
don
from
heuen
/
of
so
grete
mirthe
&
swetenes
that
it
made
hyr
for
to
forgete
vtterly
all
hyr
dyseases
/
what
thys
myght
mene
clerely
she
wyst
neuer
/
but
she
loked
aboute
here
and
there
.
And
behelde
the
maydes
face
transformed
or
transfygured
/
that
hyr
semed
that
she
was
not
thenne
Katheryn
Lapais
doughter
/
but
rather
lyke
to
an
heuenly
creature
gloryfyed
/
&
that
lyghte
beclypped
hyr
rounde
aboute
.
And
the
more
she
behelde
hyr
/
the
more
she
yelde
hir self
gylty
in
hyr
sowle
to
our
lorde
/
of
the
sclaunder
that
she
putt●
vpon
that
holy
mayde
.
Whanne
thys
vysyon
hadde
tary●●
a
whyle
the
whiche
appyred
to
the
bodely
eyen
of
that
seek
suster
/
as
it
came
so
it
passyd
awaye
/
after
the
whiche
passyng
the
seek
suster
was
long
after
comforted
/
and
also
sorowfull
for
her
trespas
And
anone
she
axed
mercy
of
the
holy
mayde
wyth
sobbyng
terys
that
she
had
so
wyckedly
trespassyd
ageynst
hyr
/
and
sclaundred
hyr
full
falsely
.
Loo
maydens
by
that
outward
lyght
/
our
lorde
gaf
hyr
an
Inward
lyght
/
for
to
knowe
how
falsely
she
was
deceyued
by
the
fende
.
Anone
forthwyth
whanne
this
holy
mayde
herde
how
mekely
she
axed
forgyuenes
.
She
wente
to
hyr
mekely
and
took
hyr
in
her
armes
and
kyssed
hyr
/
seyng
to
hyr
thus
full
comfortably
.
Dere
moder
I
am
not
dysplesed
wyth
you
in
no
wyse
/
for
I
wote
well
it
was
the
fendes
malyce
/
and
not
youres
/
but
I
thanke
yon
wyth
all
my
herte
/
for
ye
loue
me
in
that
ye
wolde
I
were
kept
clene
And
therfore
I
wyte
you
no
thyng
of
all
thys
/
but
the
fende
that
hath
wrought
all
this
so
malyciously
ageynst
me
/
wyth
suche
wordes
and
lyke
thyse
.
Thys
holy
mayde
comforted
hyr
seek
suster
and
dyd
hyr
seruyse
as
she
was
wonte
to
do
/
and
whan
she
had
do
/
leste
she
shold
haue
spende
hyr
tyme
in
vayne
/
she
wente
to
hyr
chambre
and
occupyed
hyr
in
prayer
.
In
the
mene
tyme
that
the
seek
su
ste
knowleched
hir
gylty
with
wepyng
and
waylyng
afore
all
thoo
that
came
to
hyr
and
sayd
openly
afore
theym
alle
that
by
dysceyte
of
the
fende
/
she
sclaundred
the
holy
mayde
wrongfully
.
And
she
axed
forgyuenes
of
hem
alle
.
For
she
sayde
that
she
knewe
well
ynough
that
this
mayde
was
not
onely
pure
and
clene
from
flesshely
synnes
/
but
also
she
was
holy
and
fulfylled
wyth
the
holy
ghoost
/
and
that
she
knewe
well
.
Thenne
somme
of
the
saddest
of
hyr
susters
axyd
hyr
pryuely
and
wysely
how
she
knewe
that
the
mayde
was
holy
/
and
what
tokens
she
hadde
therof
.
She
answerd
stedfastly
wyth
a
feruent
spyryt
that
she
knewe
neuer
afore
what
was
swetnesse
of
the
soule
and
ghoostly
comfort
vnto
the
tyme
she
sawe
thys
holy
mayde
afore
hyr
transfygured
or
transformed
&
ouercouered
with
an
vnspekable
lyght
.
Eftesones
thenne
hyr
susters
axyd
hyr
/
whether
she
saw
that
syght
wyth
hyr
bodely
eyen
.
But
she
coude
not
telle
it
wyth
noo
thyng
the
fayrenes
of
that
lyght
/
and
the
swetnesse
that
she
felte
in
hyr
sowle
for
that
tyme
.
Thenne
the
holy
maydens
name
began
to
encreace
vertuously
ouer
all
/
for
there
the
fende
was
aboute
to
dysceyue
/
and
to
hynder
hyr
name
/
there
the
holy
ghoost
enhauncyd
hyr
name
vertuously
.
But
in
all
thys
ryght
as
she
was
neuer
the
sonner
throwe
doun
by
an
euyll
fame
/
ryght
so
she
was
neuer
the
more
enhauncyd
in
hir self
by
elacyon
for
suche
a
good
name
She
contynued
euer
forthe
in
hyr
holy
seruyse
and
dyd
hyr
besynesse
/
euer
for
to
knowe
hyr
self
that
she
was
nought
/
but
yet
hyr
ghoostly
enemy
the
fende
cessyd
neuer
for
to
lette
hyr
/
eftesones
he
tempted
hir
in
hir
holy
minystracion
by
squey
mousnes
of
the
stomake
.
In
a
tyme
whanne
thys
holy
mayde
wesshyd
hyr
seek
susters
horryble
wounde
/
there
cam
suche
a
sauour
out
therof
that
she
was
in
poynte
to
caste
out
all
that
was
in
hyr
body
.
Thenne
she
rose
ageynst
hyr
self
&
so
moche
the
more
vyolently
that
she
had
the
vyctorye
of
another
temptacyon
by
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
and
sayde
to
hir self
thus
Trewly
wretche
thou
that
hast
so
moche
abhomynacyon
thou
shalte
receyue
it
wythin
the.
Anone
she
toke
all
the
wesshyng
of
that
wounde
/
with
the
matter
&
fylthe
and
went
asyde
/
and
dranke
it
of
preuely
/
whanne
she
hadde
so
do
all
hir
temptacyon
of
abhominacion
cessyd
This
was
tolde
afterward
to
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
in
hir
presence
to
whome
she
addyd
&
sayd
pryuely
/
that
srth●n
she
was
borne
in
thys
worlde
/
she
etc
neuer
ne
dranke
so
swete
ne
so
good
a
sauour
of
noo
maner
mete
ne
drynke
.
After
thys
gloryous
vyctorye
that
same
nyght
suyng
our
lord
Jhesu
cryst
/
appyred
to
that
holy
mayde
/
shewyng
to
hir
hys
fyue
blessyd
woundes
/
the
whiche
he
suffred
for
our
helthe
and
sayd
thus
De
re
doughter
many
bateylles
thou
hast
ouerpassyd
for
me
&
by
my
helpe
thou
hast
one
coome
them
/
yet
hyther
to
/
for
the
whiche
vyctoryes
thou
art
to
me
ryght
welcome
/
but
specyally
yester
day
thou
plesyst
me
gretely
in
that
/
that
thou
dyspysedest
thyne
owne
nature
&
kinde
for
my
loue
thou
receyuest
a
drynke
the
whiche
was
abhomynable
and
dedely
.
Therfore
ryght
as
in
that
thou
pass●st
thy
kynde
and
thy
nature
Ryght
so
shall
I
gyue
thou
a
drynke
that
passyth
the
custome
and
the
kynde
of
man
Wyth
that
he
helde
hys
arme
of
her
necke
&
brought
hyr
mouth
to
hys
blessyd
wounde
in
hys
syde
/
and
sayd
to
hi●
thus
.
Drynke
doughter
out
of
my
●y
●
the
drynke
of
helthe
/
by
the
whiche
thy
soule
shall
be
fulfylled
wyth
so
moche
swetenesse
that
it
shall
●●boūde
in
to
thy
body
the
whiche
thou
hast
so
meruayllously
despysed
for
my
loue
.
Thenne
thys
holy
mayde
sowked
out
of
the
pype
of
lyf
comyng
out
of
hys
blessyd
wounde
wyth
hyr
mouth
of
hyr
bodye
/
but
moche
more
wyth
the
mouth
of
hyr
sowle
/
longe
tyme
to
gyder
full
plentuou●ly
an
vnspekable
drynke
of
euer
lastyng
helthe
.
At
the
lost
by
the
ordynaunce
of
our
lord
she
cessyd
and
yet
thursty
not
withstondyng
she
had
ynough
.
Now
maydens
I
praye
you
consydereth
mekely
thys
vertues
acte
of
thys
blessyd
mayde
.
Beholdeth
I
beseche
you
the
rote
of
hir
charyte
/
where
with
she
was
moeued
to
take
vpon
hit
folowely
a
seruyse
for
to
serue
seek
folke
▪
Also
beholdeth
how
long
she
contynued
in
that
seruyse
/
not
wythseondyng
the
grete
lettyng
that
she
had
by
abhomynacyon
of
nature
.
Behelde
also
the
grete
stedfastenes
that
she
hadde
in
abydyng
not
wythstondyng
the
foule
sclandres
the
whiche
were
put
vpon
hyr
/
and
at
the
last
she
beholde
a
notable
conclusyon
/
how
after
tyme
she
hadde
receyued
that
holsom
drynke
out
of
our
lordes
syde
.
She
was
fulfylled
wyth
so
moche
habundaunce
of
grace
that
she
etc
neuer
ne
myght
etc
afterward
in
suche
a
wyse
as
she
dyd
afore
as
it
shall
be
declared
more
clerely
wythin
forthe
.
For
as
touchyng
this
chapytre
I
shall
make
an
ende
There
is
no
thynge
wryten
ne
reherced
in
thys
chapytre
/
but
suche
as
mayster
Reymond
thys
holy
maydes
confessour
knewe
it
out
hyr
by
confessyon
of
hyr
/
or
as
he
founde
by
wrytyng
of
hyr
confessour
that
was
afore
him
/
or
of
certeyn
of
hir
sustres
/
the
whiche
were
trewe
&
sadde
of
leuyng
.
¶
Of
hyr
synguler
maner
of
lyuyng
/
&
how
they
were
dysceyued
/
that
grutched
wyth
hyr
meruayllous
fastyng
.
Ca
V
AFter
tyme
our
lord
Jhesu
the
endeles
spouse
of
thys
holy
mayde
had
proued
hir
in
the
ouen
of
manyfolde
trybulacyons
/
&
also
had
taught
hyr
to
ouercome
hyr
ghostly
enemy
the
fende
by
dyuers
bateyll
/
it
were
ryght
semely
that
he
shold
reward
hyr
in
thys
lyf
wyth
somme
specyall
gyfte
of
grace
But
by
cause
that
soules
as
longe
as
they
ben
in
the
body
may
not
fully
receyue
the
fruyte
of
vertue
/
as
it
is
had
in
blysse
endelesly
Therfore
it
is
full
nedefull
as
for
the
fulfyllyng
of
the
dyuyne
prouydence
of
our
lord
that
euery
chosen
spouse
of
hys
in
erthe
shold
yet
dwelle
in
erthe
/
&
neuerthelesse
yet
shall
be
endowed
with
som
specyal
reward
of
mede
for
this
cause
/
it
was
that
our
sauyour
wouchesauf
to
begynne
in
his
spouse
&
in
his
handemayde
Katheryne
/
this
wretched
lyf
a
maner
of
an
heuenly
lyuyng
.
And
wyth
that
maner
of
lyuyng
he
wolde
assocye
hyr
to
erthely
folke
Therfore
whiche
suche
a
maner
of
reuelacyon
he
enfourmed
hyr
.
It
be
fyll
in
a
tyme
that
this
holy
mayde
prayed
in
hyr
chambre
/
where
our
lord
apperyd
to
hyr
&
sayd
in
this
wyse
/
wete
ryght
well
dere
beloued
doughter
that
thyne
abydynge
in
erthe
shal
be
fulfylled
with
so
many
meruayllous
gyftes
of
my
grace
/
that
it
shall
be
cause
of
studieng
&
Incredulyte
to
many
mannes
hertes
/
&
specyally
to
flesshely
mennys
hertes
/
that
knowen
not
the
maner
of
my
gracyous
gyftes
.
And
also
many
that
louen
the
/
they
shall
be
in
thought
and
suppose
that
my
passyng
loue
the
whiche
werche
in
that
shold
be
dysceyte
For
I
shall
gyue
so
grete
habundaunce
of
grace
in
thyn
sowle
/
that
it
shall
meruayllously
rebounde
in
to
thy
body
/
by
the
whiche
thy
body
shall
receyue
and
haue
a
meruayllous
maner
of
lyuyng
/
the
whiche
hath
selde
be
herde
afore
Ferthermore
thyn
herte
shall
be
soo
gretely
kyndelyd
to
helthe
of
soules
/
that
thou
shalt
forgete
in
maner
thyn
owne
kynde
&
chaunge
althy
fyrst
conuersacyon
.
For
thou
shalt
not
eshewe
&
shun
the
company
of
men
and
wommen
as
thou
were
wonte
to
do
but
rather
for
theyr
soule
helthe
thou
shalt
put
the
to
all
maner
of
laboure
to
thy
power
and
myght
.
Of
thys
maner
of
lyuyng
many
one
shold
be
sclaundred
/
and
so
of
many
thou
shalt
be
ageyn
sayd
that
the
thoughtes
of
theyr
hertys
may
be
knowen
by
theyr
wordes
/
but
loke
thou
be
in
no
wyse
aferde
ne
troubled
/
for
I
shall
euer
be
wyth
the
&
delyuer
thy
sowle
from
treucherons
tonges
and
lyers
.
Therfore
werke
myghtely
that
the
holy
ghoost
shall
teche
the
/
for
by
that
I
shall
delyuere
mannes
sowle
out
of
the
fendes
power
/
and
by
mediacion
of
my
specyall
grace
I
shallede
them
to
heuen
.
Whanne
our
lorde
had
sayd
thyse
wordes
/
and
often
tymes
had
rehersed
to
hyr
the
same
comfortably
as
touchyng
that
poynte
.
Where
our
lord
sayd
to
hyr
that
she
sholde
not
be
a
ferdene
troubled
She
answerd
as
she
beknewe
afterward
in
contessyon
Thou
a●t
my
lord
&
my
god
/
and
I
thy
wretched
seruaunt
/
euer
more
thy
wyll
be
done
/
but
haue
mynde
of
me
good
lorde
god
after
thy
grete
mercy
&
helpe
me
/
and
thus
vanysshed
&
cessyd
this
vysyon
.
Thys
holy
mayde
bethought
hyr
&
kepte
well
in
hyr
herte
wha
this
gracyous
chaungyng
sholde
be
in
tyme
comyng
.
Fro
that
tyme
afterward
fro
day
to
day
/
the
grace
of
oure
lord
Jhesu
encreced
in
hyr
herte
/
&
the
holy
ghost
habounded
in
hyr
so
moche
/
that
she
hyr
self
was
astoned
therof
/
&
wext
feble
in
body
&
sayd
as
the
propheet
sayd
thyse
wordes
Deficit
caro
mea
et
corpus
me
um
deus
cordis
mei
et
ꝑs
mea
deus
inete●nū
That
is
my
body
&
my
flesshe
sebled
&
de●ailleth
/
but
good
lord
by
the
gouernour
of
myn
herte
&
my
parte
wythoutenende
And
eftesones
she
sayd
as
the
same
ꝓpheet
sayd
in
another
place
.
Memor
fui
dei
et
drlectata
sum
&
exercitata
sum
/
et
deficit
spiritus
meus
That
is
I
haue
mynde
of
my
lord
god
/
&
haue
therin
grete
delyte
/
&
I
haunce
me
in
the
ghostly
delyte
/
&
therfore
my
spyrytes
&
strengthes
of
my
body
wexen
feble
and
defayllen
This
mayde
wext
seek
in
body
for
the
loue
of
our
lord
/
and
hir
sekenes
had
no
remedy
but
by
weping
&
waylyng
/
&
therfore
she
wept
&
wayled
euery
day
/
&
yet
by
suche
wepyng
and
waylyng
she
myght
not
socour
hyr
sekenes
Than
our
lord
put
in
hyr
herte
that
it
sholde
be
good
for
hyr
as
for
a
souereyn
cemedye
to
hir
sekenes
oft
tymes
to
be
housled
/
that
so
she
myght
receyue
that
lord
that
she
loued
/
by
sacrement
of
the
autre
.
Of
whom
she
myght
not
yet
be
fulfylled
fully
in
thys
lyf
/
as
she
shold
be
in
heuen
blysse
And
netheles
that
was
cause
of
more
loue
&
encrece
of
gretter
sekenes
.
But
yet
for
a
tyme
it
made
satys
faccyon
by
the
vertue
of
the
feyth
to
the
ser●yse
of
hyr
charyte
/
that
brenned
contynuelly
in
hyr
herte
by
in
sufflacyon
of
the
holy
ghoost
.
After
tyme
she
had
in
custome
to
be
comuned
&
houseled
as
it
were
euery
day
/
all
be
it
though
she
were
oft
tymes
lette
by
sekenes
of
body
/
and
soo
for
besynes
that
she
had
of
mennes
soules
She
had
suche
a
desyre
ofte
for
to
be
house
led
/
that
but
yf
she
were
hyr
body
sholde
su●●●●
grete
peyne
/
&
in
maner
it
sholde
feble
&
defayll
&
right
as
the
body
had
par●●
of
the
haboundaunce
of
the
spyryte
by
affluence
that
habounded
fro
wythin
forth
Ryght
so
it
myght
not
be
but
yf
it
had
be
per●eyner
of
the
anguysshe
&
dysease
that
the
spyryt
suffred
Thys
mater
shall
be
de
da●d
more
largely
by
the
helpe
of
god
afterward
.
For
now
I
shall
tell
you
of
the
meruayllous
lyuyng
/
that
she
leued
as
touchyng
hyr
body
/
mayster
Reymond
recordeth
thus
of
this
holy
mayde
/
as
he
knewe
well
by
hyr
confessyon
&
also
by
wrytyng
of
hyr
confessour
afore
hym
/
that
after
tyme
she
was
vysyted
by
the
forsayd
vysyon
/
she
had
so
moche
plente
of
graces
&
ghoostly
comfortes
/
and
namely
whan
she
had
receyued
our
lord
Jhesu
in
the
blessyd
sacrement
of
the
autre
/
that
it
reboundyd
in
to
hyr
body
by
a
copyous
affluence
/
that
the
kyndly
consumpcyon
of
dygestyon
in
hyr
body
had
no
place
/
but
it
chaungyd
so
the
kynde
of
hir
stomake
that
the
receyuyng
of
mete
was
not
now
nedfull
to
hyr
/
for
she
myght
not
receyue
mete
wythout
grete
torment
of
the
body
/
&
yf
she
shold
algates
●te
hir
body
suffred
ryght
gret
peyne
/
for
it
myght
haue
no
kyndely
dygestion
/
but
nedys
it
must
by
vyolence
come
out
ageyne
that
she
etc
ther
that
it
went
June
.
It
is
not
lefull
to
wryte
wyth
a
penne
how
ofte
&
how
many
peynes
this
holy
mayde
suffred
for
receyuynge
of
bodely
metes
This
maner
kynde
or
condycyon
of
lyuyng
in
the
begynnyng
was
to
many
folke
/
bothe
to
them
of
the
houshold
&
to
other
that
were
conuersaunt
wyth
hyr
so
Incredyble
that
they
named
this
synguler
gyfte
of
god
eyther
a
temptacyon
or
ellys
a
sottyll
dysceyte
of
the
deuyll
.
In
to
this
errour
fyll
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
as
other
dyd
that
wende
she
had
be
disceyued
of
hyr
enemy
the
whiche
oftymes
transfygured
hym self
to
an
aungell
of
lyght
for
to
deceyue
soules
▪
And
therfore
he
bad
hyr
etc
hir
mete
euery
day
/
&
gyue
no
credens
to
suche
desceyuable
vysyons
that
wold
lett
hyr
fro
hyr
mete
.
Thenne
sayd
this
holy
mayde
to
hyr
confessour
that
she
founde
well
by
experyence
that
she
was
more
hole
in
body
whan
she
receyued
no
bodely
mete
/
than
whanne
she
receyued
it
.
Yet
for
all
suche
excusacyons
he
wold
not
cesse
of
his
precepte
/
but
badde
&
commaunded
hir
that
she
shold
ete
.
Thenne
she
as
a
trewe
doughter
of
obedyence
obeyed
to
his
byddyng
/
&
ete
hir
mete
vnto
the
tyme
bi
sekenes
she
was
almost
dede
.
Thenne
she
called
hyr
confessour
mayster
Reymond
and
sayd
to
him
thus
.
Fader
yf
I
be
to
moche
fastyng
were
I
cause
of
myn
one
deth
/
were
I
a
sleer
of
myn
one
body
/
he
answered
&
sayd
yes
Thenne
she
askyd
eftesones
whether
it
be
grete
synne
to
be
dede
bi
etyng
or
by
abstinence
/
he
sayd
by
etyng
.
Thenne
she
sayd
sythen
it
is
so
that
ye
see
me
wexe
feble
and
nere
to
the
dethe
by
etyng
as
ye
knowe
well
by
experyence
:
why
wyll
ye
not
fobede
me
etinge
as
ye
wolde
forbede
me
fastyng
in
suche
a
caas
:
To
this
reson
he
coude
not
answere
/
but
by
cause
he
perceyued
that
she
was
nyghe
to
deth
by
euydent
tokens
/
he
sayde
to
her
doughter
:
doo
as
our
lord
taught
the
/
For
they
ben
merueylous
thynges
to
me
that
I
see
our
lord
werke
in
the
/
Many
grutchynges
ther
was
in
the
housholde
agaynste
her
for
this
merueylous
lyuyng
by
cause
they
knewe
not
the
gracious
werkynge
of
god
in
her
/
And
therto
also
they
stered
her
confessour
mayster
Reymound
to
repreue
her
albe
it
:
it
was
of●●
tymes
agaynst
his
wyll
/
and
what
grete
dysese
she
suffred
of
other
there
can
none
tongue
tell
by
cause
she
was
soo
obedyent
and
soo
grounded
in
mekenes
that
coude
nother
excuse
her self
ne
wythstond
the
wyll
of
her
confessonr
what
that
euer
●●
badde
her
doo
for
one
or
other
/
she
wyst
well
that
the
wyll
of
god
was
contrarye
agaynst
all
their
domes
And
on
the
other
syde
she
was
aferd
for
the
dred
of
god
to
forsake
obedyence
that
she
was
bode
by
her
confessour
/
And
therto
she
was
lothe
to
notefye
the
trouthe
to
them
carnell
pepse
by
cause
the
coude
not
sauore
suche
a
ghostely
trouthe
:
therfore
what
she
sholde
doo
she
wyst
neuer
/
Thus
she
suffred
moche
angwyshe
in
this
conflycte
/
But
amonges
alle
thyse
conflictis
she
ran
to
her
praye
:
and
for
a
souerayn
remedy
/
she
wepte
plentuously
afore
oure
forde
teres
of
sorowe
and
of
hope
besechyng
hym
mekely
wyth
moche
instaunce
that
he
wolde
vouchesaf
to
shewe
hys
wyll
to
all
tho
that
were
contrary
againste
her
maner
of
lyuyng
/
And
specyafly
to
her
confessour
whom
she
was
moste
lothe
to
offende
/
She
wolde
not
reherce
the
worde
of
the
Appostles
that
they
sayde
to
prynces
of
the
lawe
whan
they
sayde
thus
/
¶
Oportet
obedire
deo
magis
quam
homini
b●
.
That
is
we
sholde
rader
obeye
to
god
than
to
man
:
But
for
to
seye
so
she
was
lothe
lest
it
sholde
haue
be
answerd
her
that
the
fende
trans●igureth
hym
ofte
tymes
in
an
angell
of
lyght
/
And
therfore
she
sholde
gyue
none
credens
to
euery
spyrit
Ne
sholde
not
leue
to
moche
to
her
owna
wytte
but
to
doo
after
counseyll
:
¶
In
this
deuout
prayer
oure
lord
herd
her
graciously
as
he
dyde
in
many
other
and
ofte
tymes
illumyned
her
confessour
his
sowle
and
chaunged
his
counseyll
/
But
now
I
shalt
sece
of
this
mater
and
procede
in
the
processe
of
this
holy
maydens
lyuyng
/
The
fyrst
tyme
that
this
speciall
grace
befyll
her
she
was
soo
full
of
the
holy
ghoste
that
fro
the
begynnyng
of
lenton
in
to
Ascencīon
off
oure
lorde
she
was
wythout
bodely
mete
or
drynke
euer
glad
and
mery
/
This
was
none
merueyle
for
the
fruyte
of
the
spyryte
is
charyte
ioye
and
peas
/
as
saynt
pouse
sayth
.
And
as
our
lord
sayth
hym self
/
A
man
lyueth
not
alwaye
wyth
bodely
sustynaunce
:
but
wyth
the
worde
that
cometh
out
of
goddes
mouth
And
for
as
holy
wryt
sayth
:
Juseus
exside
viuit
/
That
is
the
ryghtwysman
lyueth
by
the
fayth
/
On
the
ascencion
day
our
lorde
graunted
her
that
she
sholde
ete
as
she
tolde
afterward
preuely
to
her
confessour
.
And
soo
she
dyde
for
she
ete
bred
&
potage
of
wortes
&
other
rawe
herbes
&
also
other
lenton
metes
/
for
that
merueylous
body
about
kynde
myght
not
recey●ue
none
delycat●
metes
.
After
that
day
she
tournyd
agayn
to
her
symple
faste
that
she
hadde
begunne
afore
/
&
soo
by
lytyll
and
lytill
she
tournyd
that
symple
faste
in
to
a
costome
contynuelly
that
was
neuer
herd
in
to
tho
dayes
/
Her
confessour
mayster
Reymound
berith
record
and
sayth
that
ofte
tymes
he
knewe
that
her
body
was
not
comforted
by
none
bodely
mete
ne
drynke
/
but
only
with
colde
water
vnto
the
tyme
she
was
brought
to
suche
a
febylnesse
that
hym
thought
and
other
moo
that
she
was
almost
dede
/
But
assone
as
she
herd
saye
of
ony
nede
that
shold
be
done
to
mannis
soule
.
/
she
caught
strengthe
sodenly
wythouten
ony
bodely
comforte
that
she
was
able
to
goo
as
mightely
as
euer
she
was
wythout
ony
greuauuce
a
boue
the
commune
strengthe
or
of
other
the
whiche
folowed
her
and
neuer
wae
wery
.
Wherof
came
this
grace
trowe
ye
/
but
only
of
the
spryte
that
comforteth
and
quickeneth
the
body
merueylously
aboue
kynde
namely
of
suche
a
body
that
is
subiecte
to
the
spyryte
in
alle
ghostely
werkes
/
By
this
may
euery
ghostely
man
vnderstonde
that
alle
thys
holy
maydens
lyf
was
aboue
kinde
and
full
of
myracle
/
¶
In
a
tyme
whan
she
hadde
faste
soo
longe
and
lyued
without
mete
and
drinke
/
Her
confessour
mayster
Reymound
asked
her
wheder
she
had
ony
tyme
ony
maner
of
appetyte
to
mete
or
drynke
/
To
whom
she
answerd
thus
/
I
haue
so
grete
swetnes
that
our
lord
gaue
me
by
receyuing
of
that
blessyd
sacrament
off
the
aulter
his
owne
precio●
flesh
&
blod
that
in
noo
wyse
I
myght
desyre
none
maner
bodely
sustynaunce
of
mete
or
drynke
.
Thenne
her
confessour
asked
eftsones
whether
she
had
ony
appetyte
to
mete
the
day
that
she
was
not
hosylyd
/
She
said
nay
for
whan
it
happed
that
she
was
not
hose
lyd
/
the
presence
and
the
syght
of
that
blessyd
sacrament
&
not
only
the
sight
of
the
blessyd
sacrment
but
also
the
presens
of
that
presie
the
whiche
she
knewe
welle
hadde
that
day
sayd
masse
&
I
touched
that
blessyd
sacrament
comforted
her
in
suche
wyse
that
she
hadde
none
mynde
of
bodely
mete
/
¶
This
holy
mayde
stode
bothe
full
and
fastyng
wythoutforth
fastynge
/
and
wythinforth
full
/
wythoutforth
drye
:
and
wythinforth
moyste
with
flodes
of
quyk
water
and
in
alle
manes
of
chaunces
she
was
euer
glad
and
iocunde
/
But
the
fende
myght
not
suffre
this
that
the
she
shold
thus
be
endowed
by
suche
gracious
gyftes
.
but
by
his
venyms
woodnes
of
malycious
enuye
/
he
steryd
bothe
spyrytuall
folke
and
temperall
folke
/
Relygious
and
seculer
againste
her
/
for
that
syuguler
gyfte
of
fastynge
/
merueyle
not
though
he
styred
ghostely
folke
and
relygyous
agaynst
her
/
for
in
suche
but
yf
theyr
owne
loue
of
theym self
were
fully
quenched
by
grace
regnid
more
perylous
enuye
than
in
other
/
and
namely
whan
they
see
another
doo
the
whiche
them
thynketh
is
vnpossybyle
theym
for
to
do
/
Serche
wisely
now
and
aspye
whether
this
was
not
soth
amonges
the
holy
faders
dwellyng
in
thebayde
/
there
was
a
seculer
man
that
came
to
the
grete
congregacion
where
:
Phatomye
was
abbot
for
to
receyue
the
habyte
amonges
theym
/
And
whan
he
was
receyued
to
the
habyte
to
the
holy
congregacion
the
couent
sawe
how
merueylously
he
lyued
/
And
they
myght
not
doo
as
he
dyde
/
They
came
alle
wyth
one
voyce
gretelysteryd
agaynste
Phatomye
/
and
bad
hym
eyther
put
out
of
the
congregacion
that
newe
monke
/
or
ellis
thei
wolde
not
abyde
wyth
hym
/
Loo
yf
suche
enuye
regned
thenne
in
tho
dayes
amonges
suche
that
were
holde
ryht
●fyght
folk
/
What
enuye
tro
we
ye
myht
regne
amonges
our
ghostely
folke
that
lyuen
in
thyse
dayes
/
it
is
none
wonder
therfore
thou
ghostely
folke
grutched
with
this
holy
maydes
fastyng
/
For
somme
there
were
that
said
there
is
none
lyuyng
gretter
than
our
lord
/
for
oure
lorde
yet
ete
&
dranke
whiles
he
lyued
in
erthe
and
his
blessyd
gloryous
moder
oure
gloryous
lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
marye
and
alle
his
appostles
/
and
also
whom
our
lorde
bad
that
they
shold
ete
and
drynke
that
was
set
afore
theym
/
and
soo
they
dyde
:
How
is
that
that
now
is
lyuyng
in
erthe
that
myght
passe
theym
or
to
be
lyke
to
theym
.
I
trowe
none
/
Somme
ther
were
also
that
sayde
and
afermed
that
saintes
afore
vs
taught
by
worde
and
by
dede
that
there
shold
none
take
vpon
theym
a
synguler
lyuyng
passyng
other
but
all
shold
lyue
a
common
perfyght
lyuyng
Somme
there
were
also
that
were
preuy
bachyters
and
saide
that
the
ende
of
that
fastynge
sholde
be
vicious
:
And
therfore
they
gaue
counseyll
to
other
for
to
take
none
ensample
of
her
for
she
is
deceyued
There
were
also
other
carnal
people
and
open
bacbyters
that
sayde
her
fastynge
was
but
a
fayned
thynge
for
to
wynne
therby
veyn
glory
/
and
therfore
it
semed
to
other
that
she
fasted
but
preuyly
she
ete
/
All
this
was
no
thynge
but
enuye
agaynst
whos
fals
doers
and
fals
opynyons
:
I
purpos
to
reple
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
As
for
the
fyrste
there
we
somme
a
legged
for
theym
oure
lord
/
and
our
blessyd
lady
gracious
virgyn
mary
and
all
the
appostles
that
they
lyued
a
common
lyuyng
wythout
ony
grete
fastynge
.
then
ne
sholde
it
sywe
that
saint
Johan
baptyste
was
more
holy
than
our
lord
Jhesu
Cryste
/
for
our
lord
sayde
hym self
of
saynt
Johan
that
he
was
come
and
neuer
ete
ne
dranke
but
fasted
/
But
the
sone
of
man
is
come
that
bothe
ete
and
dranke
/
The
same
also
shold
sywe
that
saynt
Anthony
macharye
/
Illarion
/
Scrapion
and
many
other
holy
faders
:
the
whiche
vses
many
merueylous
fastynges
aboue
the
common
lyf
of
the
appostles
shold
be
gretter
thenne
the
appostlis
.
Ouermore
yf
thyse
forsayde
grutchers
wyll
reple
agaynst
me
and
sayde
that
saynt
Johan
in
wyldernes
&
thyse
hooly
faders
of
Egypte
fasted
not
symply
without
mete
&
drynke
/
but
somtyme
they
ete
/
what
wolde
they
saye
than
of
mary
Magdalene
the
whiche
lyued
in
a
roche
of
the
see
xxx
/
yere
togyder
wythout
mete
bodely
or
drinke
as
her
story
maketh
mencyon
of
the
same
place
there
she
lyued
in
it
sheweth
into
this
daye
/
that
neuer
myght
come
thyder
man
ne
woman
to
brynge
her
mete
ner
drynke
whether
she
was
gretter
than
our
blyssed
gloryous
vyrgyn
lady
gloryous
virgyn
Mary
that
neuer
fasted
so
ne
lyued
in
suche
a
roche
.
What
wyll
they
also
saye
of
many
other
holy
faders
that
lyued
here
many
yeres
wythout
mete
or
drynke
&
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
and
enspeciall
of
one
we
rede
that
whan
he
had
receyued
the
blessyd
sacrament
of
the
aulter
wythout
ony
other
bodely
sustynaunce
of
mete
and
drinke
he
lyued
many
yeres
/
Therfore
yf
suche
grutchers
neuer
lerned
.
lete
theym
lerne
now
that
the
gretenesse
&
lytylnesse
of
holynes
is
not
mesured
ne
demed
only
by
fastynge
but
by
charite
.
thus
lete
them
lerne
neuer
to
make
them
Juges
of
thynges
that
they
knowe
not
:
In
a
lyke
maner
somme
sayde
off
saynt
Johan
whan
he
came
and
fasted
that
he
had
a
deuyll
wythin
hym
/
And
whan
oure
lorde
was
come
that
fasted
/
not
they
sayde
to
hym
that
he
was
a
deuourer
of
mete
and
drynke
.
and
a
grete
wyne
drynker
/
this
laste
sentence
is
suffyciant
ynow
to
stoppe
the
mouthes
off
suche
grutchers
/
The
seconde
grutchers
the
whiche
hate●
syngularyte
of
lyuyng
/
it
may
lyghtely
and
es●y
be
answerd
and
thus
it
is
though
a
man
sholde
not
take
vppon
hymself
ony
newe
synguleryte
that
neuer
was
held
afore
.
yf
that
god
werke
in
hym
/
hemaye
not
refuse
but
nedes
muste
werke
it
and
vse
it
wyth
thankynges
ellys
t●e
synguler
yeftes
of
oure
lorde
sholde
vtterly
be
despysed
/
¶
Holy
wryte
sayth
that
a
ryght
wyse
man
sholde
not
serche
ne
seke
curyousey
hyghe
thynges
aboue
hym
and
anone
afterward
it
folowed
this
that
many
thynges
benshewed
to
a
ryght
wyse
man
aboue
his
wytte
.
What
is
all
this
to
mene
▪
nothynge
ellys
but
a
man
shold
not
seke
by
hym selfe
but
yf
our
lorde
aboue
hym
and
shewed
to
him
many
grete
merueylous
thynges
that
he
sholde
resceyue
and
vse
wyth
thankynges
/
therfore
as
this
holy
mayde
dede
/
who
may
sey
that
she
dyde
it
of
synguleryte
of
her selfe
to
whom
oure
lorde
vouchesaf
to
gyue
her
the
gyfte
by
his
synguler
ordynaunce
.
In
suche
maner
of
wyse
this
holi
mayde
answerd
whan
she
was
I
asked
why
she
ete
not
as
other
dyde
/
all
be
it
that
she
answerd
in
other
termes
I
coueryd
with
mekenes
/
whan
she
was
asked
why
she
ete
not
as
other
dyde
/
She
sayde
that
oure
lorde
hadde
smyte
her
for
her
synnes
by
a
synguler
passyon
of
infirmytes
:
wherefor
she
was
let
to
ete
her
mete
as
other
dyde
:
Gladly
she
sayd
that
she
sholde
ete
but
she
myght
not
/
therfore
she
sayde
I
praye
you
pray
for
me
/
that
he
vouchesaf
to
forgyue
me
myn
sinnes
wherfor
I
suffer
all
thyse
sykenesses
/
As
though
she
hadde
sayd
thus
/
god
doth
this
in
me
&
not
I
in
myn
self
/
And
also
less
ony
maner
of
spyce
of
pryde
sholde
appyre
in
her
euer
she
sayde
she
suffred
that
infirmyte
for
her
synnes
:
And
yet
she
sayde
not
agaynst
conscience
:
for
she
supposed
stedfastely
that
oure
lorst
hadde
suffred
her
to
falle
in
to
the
grutchynge
of
men
for
to
punysshe
her
synnes
/
For
what
maner
of
euyll
be
fyll
to
her
/
She
wyted
it
her
synnes
and
what
good
that
euer
was
wrought
in
her
she
put
it
to
oure
lord
/
¶
This
same
sentence
is
a
good
answere
to
the
thrydde
preuy
bacbyters
that
sayden
and
euer
conseylde
to
other
for
to
be
ware
of
the
ende
of
suche
synguler
fastyng
/
For
the
ende
muste
nedes
be
vycious
the
whiche
is
not
of
god
/
How
may
the
ende
of
this
holy
maydes
fastyng
bee
vycious
the
whiche
come
of
god
and
not
of
her self
as
it
is
clerly
declared
afore
/
Also
there
that
they
sayde
that
she
was
dysceyued
of
the
fende
/
how
may
that
be
that
soo
ofte
ouercome
the
dysceytes
of
the
fende
/
But
now
I
sette
caas
that
she
myght
so
be
dysceyued
of
the
fende
what
was
he
than
that
helde
and
kepte
her
body
in
suche
kyndely
strengthe
perauenture
they
wolde
saye
the
fend
.
Thenne
wolde
I
wett
yf
he
kepte
her
soule
in
suche
ghostely
gladnes
and
peas
/
sythe
it
soo
was
depreuyd
fro
all
maner
symple
delyte
or
delectacion
/
This
fruyte
of
the
holy
ghost
may
not
be
in
none
deuyll
ys
power
to
gyue
:
for
the
appostle
sayth
that
the
fruyt
off
the
holy
gost
is
charyte
/
ioye
&
peas
I
wolde
not
suppose
that
all
this
shold
be
directed
to
the
fende
/
Therfore
all
suche
sclaunders
&
bacbyters
of
vertu
shold
be
answerd
rather
by
silence
than
by
word
/
Euery
virtuons
man
shold
eschewe
them
&
suppose
that
they
ben
vnwurthy
to
haue
an
answere
/
This
holy
mayde
dyd
what
she
coude
euery
daye
to
stoppe
her
mouthes
lest
they
sholde
be
sclaundred
in
her
/
In
that
that
she
came
to
mete
euery
day
to
the
meyne
of
the
houshold
therbi
for
to
know
whether
she
myght
or
not
as
other
dyde
/
And
yet
otherwhyle
she
wolde
assaye
for
to
ete
/
&
it
was
soo
grete
payne
to
her
that
alle
that
sawe
her
hadde
compassyon
of
her
/
For
her
stomake
myght
not
defye
her
mete
&
the
kyndly
consumpcion
of
naturall
dygestyon
had
none
vse
in
her
:
But
alle
that
entryd
in
her
in
to
the
stomake
come
out
agayn
by
the
same
waye
there
it
wente
in
/
This
caused
in
her
many
dyuerse
passyons
/
For
all
be
it
that
this
holy
mayde
receyued
not
in
her
stomak
ony
mete
the
whiche
was
mete
wurthy
as
for
that
tyme
:
yet
she
spet
out
fro
her
grete
mater
off
flewme
as
other
folke
dyde
the
whiche
myght
not
bee
by
nature
:
But
yf
the
stomake
hadde
receyued
somme
substaunce
afore
/
and
thrfoere
our
lord
wrought
merueylously
in
her
aboue
nature
/
Also
as
for
drynkynking
of
colde
water
she
receiued
it
gladly
to
refresshe
her
chykes
and
her
throte
:
This
maner
of
lyf
she
lyued
vnto
her
laste
ende
for
grutchers
and
for
theym
that
were
slaundred
by
her
fastinge
/
Her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
perceyued
how
grete
peyne
she
suffred
by
vndygestyon
of
her
stomake
and
all
for
to
stoppe
grutchers
/
he
conforted
her
for
compassyon
that
he
hadde
vppon
her
that
she
sholde
leue
and
ete
nomore
rather
than
for
to
suffre
suche
a
payne
/
And
lete
theymgrutche
ynow
To
whom
she
answerd
smylyngly
fader
is
better
for
meto
suffrein
this
lyfefor
my
synnes
thanne
for
to
suffre
payne
endelesly
/
Her
grutchyng
is
to
me
profytable
by
cause
I
shall
be
delyuerd
of
payne
wythouten
ende
for
the
payne
that
I
suffre
in
this
lyf
sholde
I
fle
the
ryghtwysnes
of
god
/
Nay
god
forbede
it
oure
lord
doth
to
me
grete
grace
by
cause
he
giueth
me
myn
payne
in
this
lyf
/
Soo
her
confessour
coude
nomore
answere
to
her
but
helde
his
peas
in
this
/
wyse
¶
Of
alle
her
enemyes
she
had
the
maistry
what
soo
in
maner
of
the
fende
and
of
grutchers
/
&
so
she
taughte
other
to
do
euery
daye
:
So
that
in
a
tyme
whan
she
comynyd
wyth
her
confessour
of
the
gracious
gyftes
of
our
lord
/
She
sayd
who
soo
coude
vse
the
grace
of
oure
lorde
He
sholde
euer
haue
the
vyctorye
of
all
thynges
that
fallen
to
hym
/
And
thenne
she
tourned
to
her
confessour
and
sayde
to
hym
.
soo
I
wolde
that
ye
dyde
as
ofte
as
ony
newe
thynge
byfalleth
to
you
be
it
prosperyte
or
aduersyte
thynketh
with
in
your self
and
sayth
ofte
this
/
I
wyll
wanne
somwhat
and
ye
doo
soo
ye
sholde
soone
be
ryche
in
vertu
.
¶
Loo
maydens
haue
mynde
of
thysnotable
doctryne
for
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
/
The
wytnes
of
all
thynges
.
the
whiche
ben
wryte
therin
/
Is
this
holy
mayde
eyther
by
her
opyn
dedes
or
ellis
by
her
wordes
.
And
also
her
confessour
the
whiche
was
a
fore
maister
Reymound
.
¶
Of
the
wounderfull
rauysshyng
and
excesse
of
her
mynde
for
her
bodely
wyttees
/
And
of
grete
reuelacions
I
shewed
to
her
of
oure
lorde
/
Capitulum
vj
rIght
as
oure
lorde
graunted
to
his
spouse
this
holy
mayde
a
synguler
lyuyng
as
touchyng
her
body
▪
ryght
soo
he
vysyted
her
soule
wyth
grete
merueylous
confortes
of
reuelacions
/
Fyrst
for
the
grete
haboundant
graces
with
her
come
that
bodely
strengthe
that
she
had
aboute
kynde
.
Wete
ye
right
wel
that
fro
the
tyme
that
this
holy
mayde
had
I
dronke
of
oure
lordes
syde
the
drynke
of
lyf
as
it
is
rehersid
a
fo●●
/
many
grete
graces
were
haboundant
in
her
that
ofte
times
&
ofte
times
as
it
had
be
in
maner
contynuabyl
/
She
was
occupyed
in
actuell
contemplacion
and
her
spyryte
was
lowyd
to
our
lord
that
for
the
more
parte
she
by
lefte
wythout
felyng
in
her
bodely
wyttes
/
Soo
that
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
fyrst
party
her
armes
were
founde
ofte
times
soo
styf
in
tyme
of
suche
actuell
contemplacion
that
rather
they
sholde
breke
thenne
bowe
/
Her
eyen
were
all
closed
her
eres
herde
none
noyse
were
it
neuer
so
grete
and
her
bodely
wyttes
for
that
tyme
were
sequestred
fro
her
owne
werkynge
¶
This
sholde
be
none
merueyle
to
noman
yf
they
wolde
take
hede
to
that
syweth
Oure
lorde
began
to
bee
soo
homely
with
her
and
brennyd
her
sowle
wyth
soo
moche
haboundante
fyre
of
loue
not
oonly
in
pryuy
places
/
but
also
in
open
places
as
well
stondyng
as
goyng
/
that
she
the
whiche
hadde
thyse
grete
graces
by
knewe
it
playnely
to
her
confessour
she
coude
fynde
none
wordes
for
to
telle
expressely
the
grace
that
she
felte
/
¶
For
in
a
tyme
whan
she
prayed
to
oure
lord
feruentely
wyth
the
Prophete
Dauyd
seyeng
deuoutly
thyse
wordes
/
¶
Cor
meum
crea
in
me
deus
/
et
spiritum
rectum
innoua
in
visceribus
meis
/
That
is
prayng
our
lorde
specially
that
he
wolde
take
awaye
her
herte
&
her
owne
wyll
and
gyue
her
a
newe
herte
after
his
wyll
/
She
hadde
suche
a
comforte
that
her
semed
that
our
lord
Jhesu
come
to
her
and
opened
her
lyft
side
and
toke
out
her
herte
and
went
his
waye
:
and
belyfte
her
with
out
her
owne
herte
:
¶
Afterward
it
befyll
that
she
commynyd
wyth
her
confessour
/
and
amonges
all
thynges
she
sayde
that
she
had
none
herte
in
her
body
/
the
whiche
wordes
her
confessour
s●●rned
her
in
a
maner
and
blamed
her
for
she
sayde
soo
/
Thenne
she
rehersed
eftsones
and
confermed
her
wordes
trewely
fader
as
moche
as
I
maye
fele
/
yet
after
the
felyng
of
myn
body
me
semeth
I
lacke
myn
herte
for
oure
lorde
apperyd
to
me
and
opened
myn
leste
syde
and
toke
out
myn
herte
and
went
his
way
/
Thenne
the
confessour
sayde
that
it
was
vnpossyble
that
she
shold
lyue
with
out
an
herte
.
she
sayde
naye
there
is
nothynge
vnpossyble
to
god
.
And
therfore
she
bad
hym
gyue
credens
that
it
is
so
For
ofte
tymes
after
ward
she
rehersed
that
she
lyued
without
herte
with
in
a
fewe
dayes
afterward
it
befyll
that
she
wente
to
a
chapell
of
the
fryers
where
susters
of
penaunce
were
wonte
to
knele
/
And
whan
all
were
goo
home
it
befil
that
she
contynued
in
her
prayers
so
that
she
was
fro
her self
by
rauysshyng
and
at
the
laste
she
awoke
of
her
rauysshyng
and
went
homward
/
And
as
she
wente
by
the
waye
sodenly
a
lyght
of
heuen
bicliped
her
:
And
in
that
lyght
aperyd
our
lord
holdyng
in
his
honde
a
reed
shining
herte
in
lykenes
of
a
mannys
herte
/
At
the
commyng
of
thys
heuenly
lyght
she
was
aferde
that
she
fyll
doune
vppon
the
grounde
/
Thenne
came
our
lorde
to
her
&
openyd
her
lyftesyde
eftsones
and
pure
in
her
body
that
herte
the
whiche
he
hylde
in
his
hondes
seyng
to
her
thus
/
¶
Loo
dere
doughter
as
I
toke
awaye
thyn
herte
the
laste
daye
/
ryght
soo
now
I
giue
the
myn
herte
wherby
thou
mayst
lyue
endelesly
:
&
whan
he
hadde
so
doo
he
closed
the
wounde
agayn
that
he
made
open
in
the
flesshe
/
Neuerthelesse
there
by
left
a
merueylous
marke
in
the
lykenes
of
a
wounde
heled
in
the
same
place
euer
afterward
/
where
as
her
felawes
tolde
her
confessour
Mayster
Reymound
for
ofte
tymes
they
sawe
it
as
she
coude
not
forsake
it
to
hym
whan
he
askid
it
of
her
whether
it
were
soo
or
not
.
Out
of
that
meruayllous
gracyous
herte
that
was
so
I
gyuen
hyr
of
our
lord
came
out
many
meruayllous
werkys
And
yet
many
moo
meruayllous
reuelacyons
haboundeth
wythin
forth
.
She
came
neuer
afterward
for
to
be
hoseled
/
but
that
ther
was
shewed
to
hyr
many
synguler
gyftes
of
grace
.
Oft
tymes
she
sawe
a
lytell
chylde
in
the
prestys
handys
/
and
other
whyle
a
well
growen
chylde
/
&
other
whyle
an
hote
brennyng
ouen
of
fyre
.
And
whan
the
preste
receyued
that
blyssed
sacrament
/
it
semed
to
hyr
that
the
fyre
entred
in
to
hym
.
But
whan
she
shold
be
houseled
ofte
tymes
she
tastyd
so
grete
an
odour
of
that
blyssed
sacrament
that
almost
hyr
body
defaylled
.
Euermore
also
whether
she
sawe
or
receyued
the
blyssed
sacrament
She
receyued
with
all
a
newe
ioye
in
hir
soule
/
so
that
many
tymes
she
sholde
daunce
in
hir
body
for
ioye
/
makyng
a
noyse
that
hyr
felawes
myght
here
hyr
/
the
whiche
tolde
it
afterward
to
hyr
confessour
/
and
he
enquyred
the
trouthe
whether
it
were
so
/
and
founde
it
trewe
and
soo
wrote
it
for
a
perpetuell
recorde
.
That
sowne
and
that
noyse
was
not
lyke
other
maner
comyn
sownes
of
men
/
but
as
it
hadde
be
a
noyse
aboue
comyn
cours
of
kynde
what
meruayll
was
that
though
she
made
a
ioyfull
noyse
aboue
kynde
.
Syth
it
so
was
that
she
hadde
receyued
an
herte
aboue
kynde
For
after
tyme
that
she
hadde
receyued
that
newe
herte
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
she
semed
that
she
was
not
the
same
that
she
was
afore
/
&
ofte
tymes
she
sayd
to
hyr
confessour
.
See
ye
not
fader
that
I
am
not
the
same
that
I
was
afore
/
but
rather
chaunged
in
to
another
persone
.
O
wolde
god
fader
ye
knewe
that
I
fele
/
for
I
trewe
veryly
yf
a
creatour
knewe
that
I
fele
in
my
sowle
/
he
sholde
be
resolued
&
made
ryght
esye
were
he
neuer
so
harde
.
For
my
sowle
is
full
of
melodye
and
ioye
.
And
it
is
meruayll
to
me
how
it
may
abyde
in
the
body
.
There
is
also
grete
hote
brennyng
of
dyuyne
loue
therin
/
that
thys
outward
materyall
fyre
semeth
me
in
comparyson
of
that
fyre
rather
colde
than
hote
.
Also
of
that
ghoostly
hote
is
kynde
led
in
my
sowle
as
me
semeth
soo
grete
a
loue
of
my
neghbours
that
my
thynketh
I
myght
gladdely
suffre
for
them
bodely
deth
wyth
grete
ioye
.
And
ouermore
out
of
that
ghoostly
hote
is
come
to
my
soule
a
renewyng
of
purytee
and
mekenes
/
in
so
moche
that
me
semeth
I
am
brought
to
the
same
purytee
and
mekenes
/
that
a
chylde
of
foure
or
a
fyue
yere
age
is
Inne
All
this
she
tolde
to
hir
confessour
preuely
and
to
none
other
.
After
tyme
that
thys
holy
mayde
was
thus
fulfylled
in
hyr
sowle
of
suche
plente
of
newe
gracys
that
were
many
notable
vysyons
shewed
to
hyr
/
of
whom
somme
I
shall
reherce
by
the
grace
of
god
.
¶
Fyrste
our
lord
Jhesu
&
hys
blessyd
Moder
and
Marye
magdalene
appyred
to
gydres
to
hir
and
comforted
hyr
in
hir
holy
purpose
/
whome
our
lord
axed
and
sayd
.
Doughter
what
desyrest
thou
/
She
wyth
wepyng
chere
answerd
&
sayd
Lorde
thou
knowest
what
me
nedeth
better
than
I
/
for
I
haue
no
wyll
but
thyne
/
ne
none
herte
but
thyn
hert
.
Thenne
came
to
hyr
mynde
how
Marye
magdalene
commytted
hyr
self
fully
to
our
lorde
whan
she
satte
&
wepte
at
his
fete
.
Wyth
that
she
felte
the
same
swetenesse
of
loue
that
Marye
magdalene
felte
that
tyme
whan
she
wepte
.
Wherfore
she
behelde
Marye
magdalene
.
Our
lord
perceyued
that
and
for
to
fulfyll
hyr
desyre
he
sayd
.
Loo
dere
doughter
for
thy
more
solace
and
conforte
I
gyue
the
Marye
magdalene
to
be
thy
moder
.
To
whome
thou
mayst
trustely
go
to
and
be
comforted
/
for
to
hir
specyally
I
commytte
thy
gouernaunce
For
this
grete
gyfte
this
holy
mayde
thanked
our
lord
wyth
gpete
mekenes
&
reuerently
&
deuoutly
she
comended
hyr
ghoostly
gouernaunce
to
Marye
magdalene
prayng
hyr
that
she
wolde
wouchesauf
to
take
hyr
vnder
gouernaunce
.
Syth
our
lord
had
specyally
commytted
hyr
to
her
.
Fro
that
houre
euer
afterward
the
holy
mayde
called
Marye
magdalene
hyr
moder
/
the
whiche
was
not
doo
wythout
grete
mysterye
as
me
semeth
.
for
as
Marye
magdalene
lyued
xxxiij
yere
in
a
●oche
wythout
bodely
mete
/
and
all
that
tyme
was
I
occupyed
in
contemplation
.
Ryght
so
this
holy
mayde
fro
that
tyme
that
she
was
endowed
wyth
these
newe
graces
vnto
the
age
of
xxxiij
yere
afterward
/
whiche
yere
she
passyd
out
of
thys
worlde
.
She
was
so
occupyed
in
dyuyne
contemplacyon
that
she
hadde
neuer
nede
all
the
tyme
of
bodely
mete
And
yet
as
Marye
magdalene
was
take
vp
in
to
the
ayre
by
aungels
seuen
tymes
in
the
day
/
where
she
herde
the
pryuetees
of
god
Ryght
so
this
holy
mayde
for
the
more
partye
all
hir
yeres
she
was
rauysshed
fro
hyr
bodely
wyttes
by
strengthe
of
the
sowle
that
was
occupyed
in
contemplacyon
of
heuenly
thynges
/
and
so
praysed
our
lord
wyth
aungels
/
in
so
moche
that
often
tymes
hyr
body
was
lyfte
vp
in
to
the
ayre
/
of
the
whiche
many
men
&
wommen
that
sawe
hyr
for
that
tyme
bare
recorde
Ouermore
in
that
rauyssheng
she
sawe
many
meruayllous
thynges
&
spake
preuely
in
tyme
of
hyr
rauysshyng
many
hygh
wordes
of
contemplacion
/
of
the
whiche
som
I
shall
tell
you
afterward
Hyr
confessour
saw
hyr
ones
in
a
tyme
rauysshed
fro
hyr
bodely
wyttes
in
the
same
wyse
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
and
he
herde
hyr
speke
preuely
/
thenne
he
came
nere
for
to
lysten
clerely
what
she
sayd
/
and
he
herde
that
she
sayd
formably
thyse
wordes
in
latyn
.
Vidi
archana
dei
.
And
that
was
sayd
often
tymes
/
other
wordes
sayde
she
none
but
thoo
Whanne
she
was
restoryd
ageyne
to
hyr
bodely
wyttes
/
she
cessyd
not
to
reherse
these
same
wordes
contynuelly
/
and
it
is
nomore
for
to
say
/
but
I
haue
seen
the
pryuetres
of
god
.
Thenne
hyr
confessour
desyryng
for
to
knowe
why
she
rehersed
tho
wordes
so
ofte
/
axyd
hyr
in
thys
maner
of
wyse
.
Good
moder
why
rehersed
ye
soo
ofte
the
wordes
&
wyll
not
tell
me
what
ye
mene
as
ye
were
wonte
to
do
.
She
answerde
I
may
not
say
none
other
wyse
.
Hyr
confessour
axed
hyr
why
/
and
what
is
the
cause
/
ye
were
wont
to
declare
me
many
thinges
that
our
lord
hadde
shewed
to
you
/
why
wyll
ye
not
do
so
now
/
thenne
she
sayde
.
I
sholde
haue
as
grete
conscyence
therof
yf
I
sholde
declare
to
you
that
I
haue
seen
wyth
my
langage
that
is
soo
vnperfyte
/
as
I
sholde
haue
yf
I
blasfemed
our
lord
/
or
Inhonoured
hym
/
for
there
is
a
grete
dyffrence
bytwene
the
vnderstondyng
or
intellecte
of
the
sowle
Illumyned
of
god
/
&
the
expressyng
of
wordes
they
seme
contrary
eche
to
other
/
therfore
as
for
this
tyme
I
can
not
tell
you
what
I
haue
saye
/
for
they
ben
vnspekable
For
this
skylle
me
thynke
that
she
was
well
commytted
by
the
dyuyne
prouydence
of
our
lord
to
Marye
magdalene
/
that
a
faster
shold
be
knytte
to
a
faster
/
and
a
louer
to
a
louer
.
And
she
that
had
so
hygh
contemplacyon
to
hyr
that
was
soo
hyghe
in
contemplacyon
.
Also
hir
confessour
rehersed
of
hir
/
that
after
tyme
she
saw
that
vysyon
of
our
lord
&
hys
blessyd
mo●
and
Saynt
/
mary
magdalene
/
that
for
that
tymeit
semed
hyr
that
hyr
herte
went
Inne
by
the
syde
of
our
lorde
in
to
his
herte
and
was
made
bothe
one
/
so
that
she
felte
hyr
soule
/
all
for
melte
&
relented
by
the
/
strengthe
of
hys
dyuyne
loue
/
&
that
she
:
●●yed
in
hyr
soule
&
sayd
.
¶
Lorde
thou
/
hast
wounded
myn
herte
lorde
thou
hast
wounded
myn
herte
.
¶
And
this
was
on
saynt
margaretes
day
as
she
tolde
to
hyr
confessour
in
preuytee
.
¶
Hyt
befell
also
in
/
another
tyme
the
morowe
after
Saynt
.
Laurence
daye
that
this
holy
mayde
cam
to
the
chyrche
for
to
here
masse
/
&
kneled
nexte
to
the
auter
as
she
was
wonte
for
/
to
do
/
for
to
see
the
blessyd
sacrement
&
because
that
she
sholde
not
lette
the
preste
at
theautre
by
hyr
grete
sobbynghir
confessour
came
to
hyr
&
warned
her
that
she
/
shold
constreyne
hir
asmoche
as
she
mighte
fro
suche
grete
sobbynges
/
lest
the
prest
were
lette
by
hyr
.
¶
Th●nae
anone
she
mekely
as
trewe
obedyent
mayden
satte
ferther
fro
the
aulter
&
prayed
to
oure
lorde
that
he
wold
vouchesauf
to
Illumyne
hir
confessour
that
he
myght
see
and
knowe
/
whether
suche
sterynges
of
the
spyryte
of
god
myght
be
mesured
of
man
.
¶
Thenne
by
vertu
of
that
prayer
hyr
contessoure
/
hadde
so
perfyte
knoleche
of
feuoure
of
/
deuocyon
by
experience
that
he
knewe
fully
by
that
/
that
suche
feruoures
of
the
soule
myght
not
be
kepte
wythin
/
but
nedes
.
by
strenthe
of
dyuyne
loue
yt
muste
breke
out
.
¶
Ferthermore
oftyme
whan
she
:
was
not
houseled
she
desyred
in
hyr
sowle
for
to
receyue
the
blyssed
sacramet
of
/
the
aulture
¶
And
oftymes
she
wold
breke
out
and
say
deuoutly
thus
.
¶
I
wolde
.
receyue
my
lorde
Jhesu
crystys
body
/
wyth
that
our
lorde
wolde
appyre
to
hyr
as
he
was
wont
to
doo
/
and
to
fulfylle
hyr
desyre
/
he
toke
the
maydens
mouthe
&
put
it
to
hys
blessyd
wounde
of
hys
syde
and
bad
hyr
receyue
of
●s
flesshe
and
of
.
hys
bloode
as
moche
as
she
lyst
.
¶
Thenne
she
receyued
plentuously
of
our
lorde
breste
/
that
she
semed
for
pure
loue
she
/
sholde
hadde
dyed
/
by
cause
of
the
grete
/
swetnes
that
she
felte
in
her
herte
.
¶
Hyt
befyll
also
vpon
Sanyt
●●exis
day
/
that
this
holy
mayde
prayed
to
our
lorde
deuoutly
that
he
wolde
vouchesauf
to
graunte
hyr
brennyng
desyre
for
to
receyue
hys
:
flesshe
and
hys
blood
¶
Wyth
that
she
had
d●a
reuelacyon
that
she
sholde
be
houseled
/
on
the
morowe
doubteles
/
for
it
was
forbeden
hyr
of
the
freres
that
she
sholde
not
so
ofte
be
houseled
.
¶
Thenne
whane
she
hadde
thys
confortable
reuelacyon
.
She.
prayed
our
lord
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
to
clenie
hir
herte
agaynst
the
tyme
she
shold
receyue
hym
that
she
myght
the
more
worthely
receyue
hym
.
¶
In
tyme
that
she
/
prayed
thus
/
she
felte
a
reyne
comenge
/
doun
in
to
hyr
soule
in
maner
of
a
grete
.
haboundant
flood
/
not
of
water
or
of
suche
other
lyquore
/
but
onely
of
blood
medelyd
wyth
fyre
the
whiche
as
hyr
semed
purgyd
&
clensed
so
myghtely
●●
rsowie
.
that
by
strengthe
of
that
tyre
it
re●o●ded
/
in
to
the
body
and
clensed
also
hyr
body
.
¶
After
thys
on
the
morowe
she
was
●oseek
that
by
no
waye
it
semed
to
hyr
she
/
myght
not
goo
one
foot
.
¶
Neuertheless
she
doubted
no
thyng
of
the
ꝓmysse
o●
our
:
lord
/
but
trustyng
to
hym
fully
began
to
:
go
to
chyrche
.
And
whan
she
was
come
/
thyder
/
she
knelyd
doun
in
a
chapell
besyde
an
aulter
¶
Thenne
came
to
hyr
mynde
how
she
was
enfourmed
/
that
she
myght
:
not
be
houseled
of
what
prest
she
lyst
/
but
of
suche
that
ben
assygned
to
hyr
▪
¶
wyth
that
she
desyred
hyr
confessour
sholde
say
a
masse
at
that
same
aulter
:
Anone
oure
/
lorde
gaf
hyr
comforte
that
he
sholde
sing
there
.
Sodeynly
our
lord
thenne
touched
the
herte
of
hyr
confessonr
wyth
deuocion
that
he
sholdesaye
a
masse
that
day
/
for
he
was
in
no
wyll
for
to
syng
that
day
/
ne
/
he
wyste
not
that
the
holy
mayde
was
come
to
chyrche
.
¶
Thenne
at
the
steryng
of
our
lorde
he
dysposed
him
to
masse
/
&
wente
to
the
same
aulter
there
the
holy
mayde
was
and
abode
our
lordes
behest
/
at
whiche
aulter
also
he
was
neuer
wont
to
synge
¶
And
whanne
he
came
he
founde
there
this
holy
mayde
axyng
for
to
be
houseled
for
charyte
¶
Thenne
he
rceyued
that
it
was
the
wyll
of
god
he
sholde
syng
that
day
.
¶
He
sayd
masse
/
and
at
the
ende
of
the
masse
/
as
the
maner
is
he
came
for
to
housele
hyr
this
holy
mayde
at
the
aulter
ende
where
she
was
redy
for
to
receyue
/
that
blessyd
sacrament
.
¶
Hyr
confessour
behelde
and
sawe
hyr
vysage
all
shynyng
rede
/
&
al
for
wepre
wyth
terys
/
the
whiche
was
to
him
a
grete
meruayll
/
and
Wuth
that
deuocion
she
receyued
that
blissed
sacrament
.
¶
And
after
tyme
she
was
houseled
/
she
was
so
plenteuously
replete
of
our
lorde
/
that
all
that
day
she
myght
speke
no
worde
to
noo
creature
.
¶
On
the
morowe
hyr
confessour
axed
hyr
what
/
hir
eyled
/
and
what
nowe
grace
she
receyued
the
other
day
afore
/
by
cause
she
was
/
so
shynnyng
rede
whan
she
receyued
that
blyssed
sacrament
/
she
answorde
thus
.
¶
Fader
of
what
colour
I
was
that
tyme
I
wote
nere
/
but
thys
I
knowe
well
whan
I
vnworthy
wretche
receyued
that
/
blyssed
sacrament
of
your
hondes
/
it
drewe
me
som
to
it
that
alle
other
thyng
saue
that
allone
wexed
to
me
lothesom
not
onely
temporall
thynges
&
dylectacyons
.
of
the
worlde
/
but
also
other
comfortes
&
pleysaunces
/
were
they
neuer
so
ghostly
/
wherfore
I
desyred
&
prayed
that
all
suche
ghostly
comfortes
sholde
be
sequestryd
frome
/
so
that
I
myght
pleese
god
and
ende
lesly
be
I
knytte
to
hym
And
also
I
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
take
away
my
wyl
&
gyue
me
hys
wyll
/
and
so
he
dede
right
mercyably
and
sayd
to
me
thus
.
¶
Loo
/
dere
doughter
now
I
gyue
the
my
wyll
bi
the
whiche
thou
shalte
be
soo
strong
that
what
euer
happe
to
the
fro
thys
tyme
for
the
warde
thou
shalt
neuer
be
chaunged
/
nestyred
&
ryght
so
it
was
/
¶
She
was
.
euer
afterwarde
dyspysed
and
sette
lytell
by
of
alle
folke
/
and
was
neuer
the
more
/
styred
ne
troubled
ageynsthem
.
¶
Ouermore
yet
this
holy
mayde
sayd
to
her
confessour
.
Fader
well
wyll
ye
wete
how
/
our
lorde
serued
me
.
Trewely
as
a
moder
serued
hyr
lytell
soukyng
chylde
whome
she
loueth
tenderly
.
¶
A
moder
suffred
/
other
while
hir
childe
stonde
a
ferre
from
hyr
whyle
she
sheweth
hym
hirtete
of
hir
breste
/
and
suffred
hym
to
wepe
longe
tyme
after
hit
/
but
all
that
tyme
the
lawhed
¶
At
the
last
whan
she
hath
suffred
it
to
/
wepe
long
tyme
/
she
gothe
ther
to
wyth
a
lawhyng
there
and
beclypped
it
in
her
armes
and
kyssed
it
and
soo
gyueth
it
hyr
/
breste
or
she
tete
.
¶
Ryght
so
ferde
our
lorde
wyth
me
/
that
day
he
shewed
me
hys
/
blessyd
wounde
in
his
syde
stondyng
all
.
a
ferre
from
me
.
¶
And
I
for
desyre
that
I
hadde
ther
to
putte
my
mouth
to
that
/
blessyd
wounde
and
wepte
haboundantly
¶
Thenne
our
lorde
sayd
after
tyme
that
he
hadde
so
suffred
me
to
wepe
/
he
came
to
me
gladdely
and
tooke
my
sowle
in
hys
.
armes
and
putte
my
mouthe
to
his
wounde
.
¶
And
thenne
my
sowle
for
that
grete
desyre
entred
all
hole
in
to
hys
blessyd
wounde
/
where
I
founde
moche
swetnesse
and
knowleche
of
hys
godhede
¶
And
yfye
wystye
wold
meruayll
that
myn
/
herte
for
gretnesse
of
that
ioye
and
loue
.
to
barst
not
.
And
ye
wolde
be
astonyed
how
I
myght
lyue
in
this
lyf
wyth
suche
a
grete
passyng
hete
of
loue
.
Also
another
thynge
befyll
hyr
the
next
yere
se
wyng
vpon
the
same
day
as
she
was
a
boute
to
receyue
the
blyssed
sacrament
of
the
aulter
/
whanne
the
prest
helde
the
blessyd
sacrament
in
hys
handes
afore
hyr
/
and
taught
hyr
for
to
say
thus
.
Lorde
I
am
not
worthy
that
thou
sholdest
entre
in
me
.
Thenne
whan
she
had
de
receyued
hym
/
hyr
semed
that
as
a
fysshe
entred
in
to
the
water
/
and
the
water
in
hym
/
ryght
so
hyr
sowfe
entred
in
god
and
god
in
hir
And
soo
she
felte
hyr
self
all
I
drawe
in
to
our
lord
/
that
vnnethe
she
myght
come
home
to
hyr
chambre
/
And
whan
she
was
come
home
/
she
layde
hyr
doune
vpon
hir
harde
bedde
/
leyng
long
tyme
styll
and
moeuyd
not
.
At
the
last
hyr
body
was
take
vp
in
to
the
ayre
and
stode
there
a
whyle
to
gyder
as
thre
wytnessys
bereth
recorde
/
the
whiche
names
I
shall
tell
you
afterward
.
Thenne
afterward
she
came
doun
and
lay
vpon
hyr
bedde
alle
weyke
and
feble
/
and
spake
softely
many
blessyd
swete
wordes
.
And
hye
contemplatyf
wordes
that
it
steryd
hyr
felawes
to
wepe
the
whiche
herde
them
.
And
amonges
thoo
swetr
wordes
she
prayed
for
many
folke
/
and
for
some
specyally
by
name
/
namely
for
hyr
confessour
that
was
that
same
tyme
in
the
same
momente
in
the
chyrche
/
and
thought
for
that
tyme
on
no
thynge
that
sholde
styre
hym
to
deuocyon
But
sodeynly
by
hyr
prayer
he
felte
a
meruayllous
deuocyon
/
that
neuer
he
assayed
afore
/
consyderyng
and
meruayllyng
how
that
newe
grace
camto
hym
soo
sodeynly
/
that
houre
whyle
he
thought
thus
/
sodeynly
came
to
hym
one
of
this
holy
maydens
felawes
and
sayd
Trewely
fader
Katheryne
hath
moche
prayed
for
you
this
day
suche
an
houre
.
Thenne
anone
he
knowe
that
suche
a
newe
denocyon
came
to
hym
at
that
houre
by
Katherynes
prayer
.
And
he
axed
of
hyr
felawe
what
she
prayed
/
&
she
tolde
him
that
she
prayed
for
him
and
for
other
that
oure
lorde
wolde
wouchesauf
to
graunte
them
euerlastyng
lyf
/
and
that
she
putt
forth
hyr
honde
and
prayed
hym
for
to
graunte
that
.
Thenne
she
took
doune
hyr
honde
ageyne
semyng
to
hir
al
sore
/
and
wyth
grete
syghenge
she
sayde
thus
.
A
lord
worshypped
mote
thou
be
/
for
that
was
euer
a
comyn
terme
in
hyr
mouthe
for
to
saye
whan
she
was
seek
&
sore
trauaylled
.
Whanne
hyr
confessour
herde
this
/
he
wente
to
her
and
prayed
hir
tille
hym
all
hyr
vysyon
.
She
as
meke
obedyent
mayde
tolde
him
all
the
hole
bysyon
as
it
is
sayd
afore
/
and
whanne
she
came
to
that
mater
where
she
prayed
for
specyall
frendes
she
sayd
to
hym
.
Fader
whanne
I
prayed
for
you
and
for
other
/
that
our
lord
wolde
wouchesauf
to
graun
te
you
euerlastyng
lyf
/
with
that
I
hadde
a
comforte
that
it
sholde
so
be
/
and
forthwyth
I
asked
a
token
of
our
lord
/
that
I
myght
knowe
it
sholde
be
so
/
not
for
none
Incredulyte
/
but
rather
for
a
notable
memorye
.
Thenne
he
prayed
me
that
I
sholde
stoetche
out
myn
honde
/
I
dyde
so
/
and
he
putte
in
my
honde
a
nayle
and
closed
the
nayle
soo
faste
wyth
Inne
myn
honde
.
Thenne
I
felte
a
grete
peyne
in
myn
honde
as
though
an
yren
naylle
hadde
be
smyten
thorugh
myghtely
wyth
an
hamour
/
soo
that
me
semed
to
mynowne
syght
/
thought
it
be
Jnuysyble
to
other
/
I
haue
a
marke
of
Crystys
woundes
in
myn
honde
.
¶
Also
for
contynuance
of
mater
I
shall
tell
you
another
meruayllos
thyng
lyke
to
thys
that
befylle
in
the
Cytee
of
Pyse
As
mayster
Reymond
hyr
last
confessour
bereth
recorde
.
In
a
tyme
thys
holy
mayde
came
to
the
Cyte
of
Pyse
/
and
other
many
wyth
hyr
/
amonges
whome
mayster
Reymond
was
one
the
whyche
holy
mayde
was
receyued
in
to
a
worthy
mannes
place
of
the
same
Cyte
besyde
a
chappell
of
Saynt
Crystyane
.
In
the
whyche
chappell
mayster
Reymond
sayde
masse
at
the
holy
maydes
prayer
/
and
ther
he
houseled
hyr
after
hyr
desyre
/
as
she
vsed
to
be
contynuelly
whanne
she
hadde
receyued
that
blyssed
sacramente
she
was
anone
rauysshed
fro
hyr
bodely
wyttes
/
and
all
that
tyme
mayster
Reymond
and
other
moo
abode
tyll
she
hadde
do
/
for
to
here
of
hyr
somme
ghoostly
comforte
as
they
were
wonte
to
do
after
suche
rauyssheng
.
Sodeynly
as
they
behelde
hyr
/
the
body
that
laye
prostratr
vpon
the
grounde
was
reysed
vp
/
and
she
kneled
vpon
hyr
knees
stretchyng
vp
hyr
armes
&
hyr
hondes
wyth
a
clere
shynyng
vysage
.
Whanne
she
had
so
long
kneled
wyth
closyng
and
styf
armes
/
at
the
laste
she
fyll
doun
sodeynly
as
though
she
hadde
be
dedly
wounded
/
and
anone
sone
after
she
was
restoryd
ageyne
to
hyr
bodely
wyttes
.
Thenne
she
sente
after
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
and
sayde
to
hym
preuely
thys
wordes
.
Fader
I
do
you
well
to
wete
that
by
the
mercy
of
god
I
here
now
in
my
body
the
markys
of
the
blessyd
woundes
of
oure
lorde
.
mayster
Reymone
thenne
axed
hyr
how
that
myght
be
and
how
it
stode
with
hir
in
tyme
of
hir
rauyssheng
/
she
answerde
and
sayde
.
I
sawe
our
lord
fastned
vpon
the
crosse
comyng
a
doune
and
beelyppyng
me
wyth
a
grete
lyght
By
the
whyche
gracyous
vysyon
the
sowle
was
so
gretely
steryd
to
me
wyth
my
lorde
that
the
body
was
constreyned
by
strengthe
of
the
spyryte
to
aryse
.
Thenne
out
of
the
holes
of
hys
holy
woundes
I
sawe
fyue
rede
bemys
come
doune
from
hym
&
fastned
vpon
my
body
/
and
was
cause
why
that
my
body
was
all
forstoeyned
.
Wyth
that
I
cryed
to
our
lord
and
sayde
.
A
a
lorde
god
I
beseche
the
that
these
woundes
appyre
not
in
me
to
the
syght
of
men
outward
.
Thenne
sodeynly
whyle
she
sayde
thyse
wordes
er
thenne
thoo
rede
bemys
were
fully
come
doune
to
the
body
changed
hir
colours
out
of
rede
in
to
a
meruayllous
bryghtnesse
/
and
in
lykenes
of
a
pure
lyght
they
restyd
in
fyue
placed
of
my
body
/
that
is
vpon
the
hondes
/
the
feet
/
and
the
herte
.
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
axed
hir
whether
ony
of
the
bemys
come
to
the
ryghte
syde
.
She
sayde
nay
/
but
onely
vpon
the
lyfte
syde
vpon
my
herte
/
mayster
Reymond
axed
hyr
eftesones
felyst
thou
ony
maner
of
sensyble
pryne
in
thoo
places
.
She
answerd
wyth
a
grete
sygheng
&
sayde
/
I
suffre
soo
grete
a
sensyble
sorowe
in
all
tho
fyue
places
and
specyaly
in
my
herte
/
that
but
god
shewe
a
newe
myracle
it
is
Impossyble
to
me
for
to
lyue
longe
tyme
to
gydres
in
this
body
This
worde
marked
well
mayster
Reymond
hyr
confessour
and
espyed
where
he
coude
see
in
hir
ony
maner
tokenes
of
peyne
Whan
she
had
told
that
she
wold
say
they
depted
a
sonder
out
of
that
chappell
/
&
they
went
to
gyders
home
to
theyr
Inne
/
&
the
holy
mayde
went
to
hir
chambre
&
ther
she
lay
doun
femyng
to
all
that
euer
were
aboute
hyr
drawyng
to
the
deth
.
Thenne
was
mayster
Reymond
called
&
other
of
hys
feleshyp
for
to
see
the
wound
thyng
/
whan
they
were
come
/
they
wepte
sore
by
cause
they
wend
she
shold
had
depted
from
them
for
they
saw
hir
ne●
so
feble
nygh
so
to
the
deth
¶
Neuertheles
within
a
whyle
after
she
resorted
agayn
to
more
strengthe
and
receyued
mete
and
thenne
she
spake
eftsones
to
maister
Reymound
and
sayde
to
hym
as
she
sayd
afore
that
she
may
not
longe
lyue
/
but
yf
god
shewe
a
newe
miracle
.
Thenne
Mayster
Reymound
called
to
gyders
all
her
chyldren
both
men
&
wymmen
prayng
theym
wyth
wepyng
there
that
they
wold
all
wyth
one
voyce
praye
to
our
lord
that
he
wolde
vochesaf
to
graunte
vs
this
holy
mayde
katherin
our
ghostely
vertuous
Moder
and
oure
maystres
the
whiche
lythe
in
passing
/
for
to
abyde
wyth
vs
a
whyle
in
thys
lyf
&
for
to
conferme
vs
in
more
vertue
:
Alle
they
graunted
with
one
voyce
that
they
soo
wold
/
than
they
wente
all
wyth
Mayster
Reymound
to
this
holy
mayde
●yeng
in
transyte
sayeng
suche
wordes
weylyng
and
wepyng
:
Moder
we
wete
well
that
thou
desyrest
to
bee
wyth
thyne
spouse
wyth
our
lorde
Jhesu
cryst
/
but
thy
mede
and
thy
rewarde
is
reserued
fro
the
all
auf
haue
rewthe
on
vs
whome
thou
forsakest
moder
And
leue
vs
not
so
freell
wythout
better
enformacion
of
vertu
in
this
wretchyd
worlde
/
We
knowe
well
also
thy
well
byloued
spouse
whom
thou
louest
wyth
soo
grete
a
desyre
wylle
nothynge
denye
the
that
thou
askest
/
therfore
we
beseche
the
praye
to
hym
that
he
vouhesauf
graunte
the
to
vs
for
a
tyme
lest
thou
passe
fro
vs
.
And
we
no
thynge
or
lytyll
edefyed
by
thy
good
lyuyng
For
though
we
praye
as
wel
as
we
coude
/
We
drede
vs
lest
he
wyll
not
here
vs
for
oure
wretchyd
lyuynge
for
certayne
we
ben
ryght
vnwurthy
to
be
herd
Thenne
therfore
that
hast
louyd
oure
helthe
/
and
that
soo
tenderly
and
feruently
/
praye
the
for
vs
and
wynne
our
lord
that
we
mowe
not
leue
that
in
this
lyf
tyll
we
ben
more
edefyed
in
ghostely
vertu
many
suche
wordes
they
sayde
amonges
theim
wyth
grete
wepynge
/
To
whom
this
holy
maide
answerd
/
ye
knowe
well
that
I
haue
forsake
myn
owne
wyll
/
ne
I
desyre
neuer
but
that
/
that
were
to
goddes
wyl
/
&
all
be
it
I
haue
desyred
your
helthe
wyth
all
myn
herte
/
yet
I
knowe
well
that
he
that
whiche
is
your
helthe
and
myn
/
can
better
ordeine
for
you
than
one
creature
can
praye
for
you
/
his
wyll
therfore
bee
done
in
all
thynges
:
Neuertheles
yet
I
shall
praye
gladly
that
he
vouchesaf
for
to
do
that
hym
semeth
beste
/
Whan
she
hadde
sayd
this
word
we
wente
a
syde
for
a
tyme
beyng
in
grete
sorowe
vnto
the
tyme
we
knowe
an
answer
/
The
next
day
afterward
she
called
mayster
Reymounde
to
her
&
sayd
/
me
semeth
fader
that
our
lord
hath
condescendyd
to
your
prayers
/
and
I
hope
ye
shold
soone
haue
your
wylle
&
entent
▪
as
she
sayd
so
it
was
sone
after
/
For
vpon
the
morowe
the
whiche
was
vpon
a
sonday
she
receyued
crystis
body
in
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
of
her
confessour
his
hondes
/
&
ryght
as
in
the
sondaye
bifore
she
was
brought
in
greate
febylnes
by
her
rauysshyg
after
tyme
she
hadde
receyued
that
blessyd
sacrament
/
Ryght
so
in
this
sonday
she
was
gretly
strengthed
by
her
rauysshyng
after
that
blessyd
sacrament
the
whiche
was
grete
merueyle
to
all
that
were
aboute
her
/
To
whom
Mayster
Reymound
said
:
I
hope
that
oure
lord
hath
accepted
our
teres
&
condescendyd
to
our
prayers
though
thei
ben
vnwourthy
Thenne
wythin
a
litil
time
afterward
she
was
so
quikly
reuiued
that
none
of
them
all
was
in
doubte
but
that
she
shold
lyue
/
&
that
god
had
graunted
fulli
her
desire
/
O
almyghti
god
fader
of
mercy
what
wylt
thou
do
for
thyn
trewe
seruaunt
&
welbeloued
children
thou
cōdescendist
so
benigly
to
thyn
synfull
seruauntis
:
mayster
Reymound
thenne
asked
her
for
the
more
sykernes
wheder
the
passyon
of
the
woundes
contryned
alway
as
they
dede
in
her
body
/
She
answerd
in
this
wise
:
Oure
lord
●hu
hath
herd
your
prayers
and
thefore
tho
woundes
tourment
not
now
my
body
as
they
●yde
/
but
rather
they
comforte
me
and
strengthe
me
/
Loo
maidens
here
now
ye
knowe
what
evcellent
of
grace
this
holy
maide
hadde
/
and
also
ye
mowe
lerne
that
oure
lord
vochesaf
to
here
synnes
whan
thry
asked
ony
thyng
that
longeth
to
sowle
helthe
:
¶
Yet
shall
I
telle
you
another
merneylous
thyng
that
as
me
semeth
it
passeth
all
other
that
I
haue
rehersed
yet
/
And
so
shall
I
make
an
ende
of
this
Chapytre
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
¶
After
tyme
that
our
lord
hadde
receyued
her
soule
in
to
his
blyssyd
wound
off
his
syde
and
there
shewed
her
the
mystery
est
of
the
gloryous
trynyte
/
thenne
came
our
glorious
lady
his
gloryous
moder
gloryous
vyrgin
marye
and
fulfylled
her
wyth
the
gloryous
mylke
of
her
gloryous
brestes
and
tetes
/
After
came
mary
magdalene
and
comynyd
wyth
her
ful
homely
of
her
reuelacions
that
she
hadde
whan
she
was
in
desert
and
other
while
thyse
thre
come
togydre
and
gaue
her
many
blessyd
comfortable
wordes
/
Yet
wanted
she
not
the
comforte
of
other
saytes
and
the
apperyng
and
namely
of
saynt
poule
the
Appostle
and
saynt
Johan
theuangelyst
and
saint
domynyke
and
saint
Thomas
dalquino
/
And
oftetymes
saint
Agnes
of
whom
she
hadde
onys
a
reuelacion
that
sholde
be
her
felawe
in
the
kyngdom
of
heuen
as
it
shall
be
declared
afterward
by
the
helpe
of
god
But
now
I
shal
telle
you
two
notable
poyntes
that
befyll
to
this
hooly
mayde
whan
she
hadde
any
vysyons
of
saynt
poule
the
apostle
it
befil
in
the
fest
con●sacion
of
saint
poule
that
this
holy
mayde
was
so
merueylously
rauysshed
out
of
her self
/
That
her
thought
that
her
spyryt
was
drawe
vp
to
heuen
/
soo
ferforth
that
thre
dayes
and
thre
nyghtes
she
was
vnmeuable
wythout
bodly
felyng
soo
that
it
semed
that
she
was
fully
dede
/
But
there
were
somme
that
vnderstode
better
her
condycion
and
sayde
that
they
supposed
she
was
rauysshed
wyth
saint
poule
in
to
the
thirde
heuen
/
At
the
laste
by
the
thre
dayes
ende
she
was
reforted
to
her
bodly
feling
But
the
spyryte
was
so
comforted
with
that
reuelacions
that
she
stoode
longe
▪
tyme
afterward
as
she
hadde
be
half
a
slepe
:
and
yet
she
slepte
not
:
In
the
mene
whyle
Fryer
Thomas
her
fyrst
confessour
and
another
felowe
of
his
whiche
was
called
fryer
donat
of
Flerence
hadde
a
desyre
to
goo
for
to
vysyte
an
hooly
here
myte
in
deserte
:
but
fyrst
or
than
they
wente
thei
come
to
this
holy
mayde
hou●●
and
founde
her
in
on
holy
sompnolente
/
and
by
cause
they
wolde
excite
her
they
asked
her
whether
she
wolde
go
wyth
them
to
deferte
for
to
vysyte
that
holy
man
.
She
answerd
to
theym
in
the
same
hooly
slepe
and
sayde
ye
/
notwythstondyng
that
she
wyst
not
what
she
sayd
by
cause
that
she
was
not
fully
evcyted
/
But
anone
as
she
perceyued
that
worde
she
hadde
suche
a
reuerse
of
conscience
off
that
lesynge
/
that
for
sorowe
the
whiche
she
toke
therof
/
She
was
restoryd
fully
to
her
bodely
wyttes
/
And
as
many
dayes
and
nyghtes
as
she
stood
afore
in
rauysshyg
/
so
longe
after
she
wayled
and
wepte
vncessabyly
that
sy●e
/
&
sayd
to
her self
:
O
wycked
woman
hast
thou
soo
well
bee
feed
wyth
the
infinite
goodnes
of
god
that
thou
muste
now
make
a
lesyng
:
bee
thyse
trenthe●●
that
thou
haste
lerned
in
heuen
/
is
this
.
the
doctryne
that
thou
art
taught
of
the
holy
ghoste
for
to
make
lesynges
.
¶
Thenne
:
wyst
thou
ryght
well
that
thou
woldeste
/
not
goo
wyth
tho
fryers
/
And
yete
thou
.
saydest
thou
woldest
/
and
soo
madest
a
/
lesyng
to
thyn
confessour
&
to
thyn
ghostely
faders
/
O
meost
wycked
synne
:
ce
/
ye
not
maydens
the
meruaylous
wayes
and
maners
of
our
lordis
prouydence
/
Loo
leste
her
reuelacyons
sholde
haue
by
/
cause
of
pryde
to
her
Our
lorde
suffred
her
for
to
falle
in
to
suche
a
lesyng
/
yf
it
may
/
be
callyd
a
lesyng
/
for
there
was
none
●ntencion
of
deceyte
/
and
soo
by
that
mekenes
and
lownes
oure
lorde
couered
her
/
vertu
that
the
fend
shold
not
entre
for
to
destroye
theym
/
But
tho
thinges
that
the
sawe
for
that
tyme
in
her
reuelacyons
she
tolde
not
to
her
confessour
as
she
was
/
wonte
to
doo
of
other
reuelacyons
/
for
as
she
sayd
her selfe
she
coude
fynde
none
languege
that
myght
expresse
tho
reuelacyons
by
wordene
it
is
not
lefull
to
noo
man
for
to
speke
of
hem
wyth
tongue
as
the
/
same
appostle
sayth
hym
felt
/
Nonlicet
/
hōiloqui
:
/
¶
Eut
the
feruoure
of
her
herte
the
besynes
of
her
prayer
▪
and
her
holy
exortacyons
shewed
openly
ynowe
that
she
sawe
the
preuytes
of
god
/
¶
The
whiche
may
not
be
commynyd
but
:
theym
that
sawe
theym
.
Ouermore
another
tyme
saint
poule
the
appostle
arpperid
to
her
and
warned
her
that
she
shold
giue
her
besely
to
prayer
the
whiche
she
tolde
/
afterward
to
her
confessour
/
And
therfore
that
she
vsed
moche
/
Thenne
it
befyll
/
afterwarde
whyles
she
prayed
in
the
chyrche
on
the
vygylle
of
Saynt
Domynyke
:
many
reuelacyons
were
shewed
to
her
of
saynt
Domynyke
/
and
of
other
sayntes
¶
She
was
soo
oft
occupyed
wyth
reuelacyons
the
same
tyme
whan
she
wold
speke
to
her
confessour
she
hadde
reuelacions
/
Thenne
in
the
nexte
day
afterward
of
saynt
Domynyke
a
lytyl
:
afore
euen
/
songe
tyme
whyles
she
was
occupyed
/
wyth
reuelacions
sodenly
entred
in
to
the
chirche
a
fryer
whiche
was
Bartylmeus
her
confessours
felawe
in
whom
she
/
trusted
as
moche
as
in
her
confessour
for
▪
he
was
her
confessour
absens
of
her
goostely
tader
/
¶
Whan
●he
perceyued
that
that
he
was
come
she
ar●os
and
wente
/
agayst
hym
and
sayd
to
hym
that
she
/
wolde
speke
wyth
hym
of
certeyn
reuela
/
c●ons
.
Theune
they
satte
doun
bothetegyders
in
the
chyrche
and
she
began
to
reherce
how
many
reuelacyons
our
lorde
had
/
deshewed
her
of
saynt
Domynyke
at
the
laste
she
sayd
/
loo
fader
I
see
now
myn
▪
holy
fader
Saynt
Domynyke
as
I
see
▪
you
nowe
/
And
yet
he
is
more
nerer
me
/
than
ye
be
/
¶
And
thenne
she
procedyd
forth
of
many
merueylous
reuelacyons
wythin
a
/
whyle
after
it
befyll
that
her
yong
brother
that
was
called
also
Bartylmeus
/
went
by
her
/
And
sodenly
she
caste
her
eye
a
lytyll
a
syde
and
behylde
her
brother
and
left
of
the
syght
of
saynt
Domynyke
for
that
lytyll
tyme
and
thenne
contynued
forth
in
her
tyste
mater
/
But
for
that
/
dede
she
made
moche
sorowe
/
whan
she
ꝑ
ceyued
what
she
had
I
doo
/
that
longe
after
she
helde
her
peas
&
spake
nomore
but
alwaye
wepte
for
that
trespaas
/
Whan
/
she
had
longe
contynued
in
wepyng
/
at
:
the
laste
Fryer
Bartylmewe
prayed
her
/
to
procede
forth
as
she
began
/
but
she
migte
not
for
sobbyng
vnnethe
speke
one
worde
.
¶
Yet
as
she
myght
speke
she
sayde
.
¶
O
what
wretche
am
I
And
he
shall
/
doo
me
vengeaunce
for
my
synnes
/
¶
Fryer
Bertylmewe
/
What
synne
myght
that
be
/
thenne
she
sayde
/
Sawe
ye
not
how
I
bowed
awaye
/
mynhede
&
myn
eyen
for
to
beholde
my
:
broder
that
went
ryght
now
by
/
the
whiles
our
lorde
she
wed
me
many
merueylous
thynges
/
Fryer
Bertyimewe
say
:
nay
he
coude
not
perceiue
that
she
bowed
in
ony
wyse
her
hede
and
her
eyen
a
syde
:
¶
Thenne
she
sayde
fader
yt
ye
wyste
/
how
our
blessyd
gloryous
lady
gloryous
:
virgyn
mary
repreuyd
me
ryght
now
/
for
that
synne
:
Ye
woide
wepe
also
fore
/
as
I
and
soo
she
spake
nomore
of
that
/
ma●ie●
of
reuelacyons
/
but
euer
contynued
in
wepyng
vnto
the
tyme
she
had
made
/
her
con●e●ion
/
and
thene
she
wente
home
to
the
chamber
/
where
saynt
poule
appleryd
to
her
as
she
to
tolde
afterwarde
to
her
confessour
and
repreuyd
her
sharpely
off
the
lokyng
of
that
tyme
whan
she
tourned
her
hede
soo
a
syde
in
so
ferforthe
she
sayd
that
it
hadde
be
more
leuer
for
her
/
to
be
shamed
of
all
the
worlde
than
onys
:
●stsones
to
suffre
that
shame
:
the
whyche
she
had
of
saynt
poule
whan
he
repreuyd
he●
/
Thene
she
sayd
to
her
confessour
fader
bethynke
you
what
repreuynge
of
cryste
shall
be
at
the
day
of
dome
to
all
synners
/
yt
the
cepreuynge
of
one
of
hys
appostles
is
now
soo
sharpe
and
make
me
/
soo
moche
aferd
/
She
sayd
also
but
yf
/
she
had
/
hadde
comforthe
of
a
fayr
lambe
that
stode
besyde
her
whiles
the.
Appostle
repreuyd
her
/
She
sholde
haue
deyed
for
sorowe
as
her
semed
wherefore
euer
after
warde
she
was
she
more
meker
●
her
reuelacyons
:
Loo
maydens
how
our
lorde
suffred
her
to
falle
for
her
more
mekenes
/
But
now
shall
I
telle
you
what
the
▪
reuelacyons
was
the
whyche
she
had
ofsaynt
Domynyke
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
comyned
&
spake
wyth
Freyer
bertylmewe
of
hyr
reuelacyons
:
she
sayd
that
she
sawe
in
dede
by
a
vysyon
of
imaginacion
allmyghty
god
the
fader
brenging
forth
as
her
semed
out
of
his
mouthe
our
lorde
thūcryste
his
endeles
sone
the
whiche
apperid
openly
to
hyr
in
lykenes
of
mankynde
:
On
the
lodersyde
the
blessed
:
Patryarch
Saynt
Domynyke
comyng
out
of
the
/
brest
of
almyghcy
god
the
fader
shynnyng
all
in
●y●ht
/
¶
And
the
herde
of
the
mouthe
of
a●●myghty
god
the
fader
thyse
wordes
:
dere
doughter
I
haue
brought
/
forthe
thyle
chyldren
/
the
one
kyndely
&
/
naturall
beyng
the
second
persone
in
intrynyte
:
The
oder
louyngly
and
swetely
by
adopcion
/
Thenne
this
holy
made
hadde
grete
meruayle
of
suche
comparyson
bytwene
/
the
sone
of
god
and
saynte
Domynyke
.
¶
But
almyghty
god
the
fader
to
put
/
awaye
that
grete
meruayle
expownyd
/
thyse
wordes
and
sayde
/
Dere
doughter
:
ryght
as
here
mynowne
sone
whom
I
/
brought
forth
of
me
naturally
and
eternaly
was
euer
pertyghtly
obedyent
to
me
vnto
the
dethe
by
takyng
vpon
hym
mankynde
:
Ryght
soo
the
dedes
of
Domynyk
myn
sone
by
adopcyon
what
that
euer
/
wrought
fro
hys
chyldehode
in
to
the
enof
hys
bodely
lyf
were
reuled
:
¶
After
the
obedyence
of
myn
commaunde
t
ys
and
neuer
brake
onys
ony
maner
of
:
precepte
of
myn
for
the
virgynyte
ofthis
:
body
and
soule
and
the
grace
of
hys
baptyme
he
kepte
euer
to
me
vndefoylyd
:
¶
And
also
ryght
as
here
myn
/
eternall
and
naturall
sone
the
endeles
/
worlde
of
my
mouthe
tolde
and
spake
openly
to
all
the
worlde
that
I
badde
hym
say
:
And
therto
bare
wyttenes
of
trouthe
/
Ryght
soo
Domynyke
myn
sone
by
adopcyon
preche
my
trouthe
openly
to
the
/
worlde
/
as
Welle
Amonges
heretykes
as
amonges
faythfus
peple
/
&
not
onli
bi
himself
but
also
bi
other
of
him
&
not
only
▪
whyles
he
lyued
in
erthe
amonges
you
/
But
also
bi
his
successours
bi
whom
yet
they
precheth
and
shalle
preche
for
ryght
as
my
naturall
and
eternall
sone
sente
his
dyscyples
for
to
preche
ryght
soo
Domynyk
myn
sone
by
a
dopcion
sente
his
fryers
/
And
also
ryght
as
myn
naturall
sone
and
eternall
is
myn
word
/
ryght
Domynyke
myn
sone
by
adopcion
is
the
prechour
aboute
of
myn
word
/
wherfore
of
myn
synguler
gyfte
it
is
gyue
to
hym
and
to
his
fryers
for
to
vuderstonde
the
trouthe
of
min
wordes
&
not
for
to
passe
therfro
/
Also
ryght
as
myn
naturall
sone
and
eternall
ordeyned
and
dysposyd
all
his
lyff
and
his
dedes
by
doctrynes
and
ensample
to
helthe
off
mannys
soule
/
ryght
Domynyke
myn
sone
by
adopcion
put
all
his
besynes
to
delyuer
out
soules
of
the
sorowe
of
errour
and
of
synne
/
And
that
was
his
pryncipall
entent
/
Whan
he
began
his
ordre
/
that
is
for
to
say
for
helthe
of
soules
therfore
he
may
well
be
lyked
to
min
natural
and
eternall
sone
sone
Ihesu
Criste
/
This
was
the
reuelacioy
the
whiche
she
comynyd
to
fryer
Bertylmewe
▪
whan
that
sodeyn
caas
of
lokyng
asyde
byfyll
to
her
as
it
is
rehersyd
afore
/
Now
I
shall
procede
forth
of
the
remenaunt
of
the
lyf
of
this
holy
mayde
in
reuelacions
and
visyons
▪
but
fyrst
I
wolde
ye
knewe
maydens
that
for
the
grete
haboundance
of
greces
and
open
reuelacions
and
visyons
and
for
the
gre●enes
of
loue
therwyth
/
The
whiche
this
holy
maydes
soule
was
fulfylled
/
She
was
ryght
syke
in
her
body
/
and
euer
encresid
in
sekenes
more
and
more
for
loue
soo
that
she
roo●
nomore
out
of
her
bedde
but
laye
styll
euer
newyng
the
loue
of
her
spose
seyng
thus
/
Aswete
louely
lord
goddes
sone
:
and
the
sone
of
a
mayden
▪
wyth
suche
many
louyng
▪
wordes
she
praised
oure
lorde
and
her
spouse
:
She
beleft
wythout
bodely
mete
and
therto
her
spouse
Jhesu
Cryste
the
whiche
gyuen
her
that
fyre
of
loue
by
cause
it
sholde
brenne
more
stōgely
/
he
apperyd
to
her
ofte
tymes
/
Then
ne
sayd
she
to
hym
that
was
so
febyll
off
the
fyre
of
loue
Good
louely
lord
thou
sufferest
me
so
longe
abyde
in
this
wretched
body
and
wylt
not
take
me
to
thyn
endeles
presence
/
I
haue
none
Joye
now
off
this
wretchid
lyf
but
only
all
myn
ioye
is
for
to
seke
the
/
For
I
loue
the
Ihesu
and
none
wythout
the
:
for
what
that
euer
I
loue
lord
it
is
for
the
why
am
I
ther
for
delayed
soo
longe
▪
fro
thyn
endeles
presence
/
¶
Ha
ha
mekest
and
myldest
lorde
delyuer
myn
soule
out
of
this
pryson
and
out
of
this
dedely
lif
:
To
thise
wordes
that
were
sayd
soo
weylyngly
/
oure
lord
answerd
/
Dere
doughter
whan
I
liued
in
erthe
amonge
men
I
besyed
me
neuer
for
to
fulfylle
myn
owne
wyll
but
myn
faders
and
albe
it
that
I
desyred
to
ete
the
laste
paske
wyth
myn
dysciples
for
to
be
wyth
myn
fader
as
they
herd
me
ofte
tymes
saye
/
yet
I
suffred
paciently
the
tyme
that
was
ordeined
off
myn
fader
/
soo
must
thou
doo
/
though
thou
desyre
feruently
to
be
onyd
to
me
perfightely
in
the
blesse
of
heuen
/
yet
thou
muste
abyde
the
tyme
that
I
haue
ordeyned
:
Theenne
she
sayd
to
our
lord
/
louely
lord
sythe
it
soo
is
that
it
is
not
kynde
to
me
as
yet
to
passe
out
of
this
lyff
/
thyn
wyl
be
done
:
Fiat
voluntas
tua
/
But
one
thinge
I
beseche
the
whyles
I
lyue
in
this
erthe
that
sythe
I
may
not
yet
be
onyd
to
that
in
blysse
▪
graunte
me
as
longe
as
I
lyue
in
this
lyf
to
be
onyd
to
the
&
with
the
bi
parte
taking
of
thy
blessyd
passion
the
whiche
was
graunted
to
her
:
¶
For
as
she
asked
/
soo
she
hadde
/
fro
that
tyme
forward
she
hadde
so
moche
experiens
euery
day
in
her
herte
&
īher
body
of
the
passions
of
our
lorde
as
she
tolde
afterward
preuyly
to
maister
Reymound
that
she
neuer
felte
suche
a
soor
and
that
was
in
this
wyse
/
Ofte
tymes
she
wolde
sytte
&
talke
with
mayster
Reymound
and
teche
hym
of
the
passyon
of
criste
affermyng
myghtely
that
our
lorde
Jhesu
cryste
fro
the
tyme
of
his
gloryous
concepcion
in
to
the
tyme
of
the
ende
of
his
blyssyd
passyon
he
bare
euer
the
crosse
of
his
deth
in
hys
soule
▪
for
the
grete
passyng
desyre
that
he
hadde
for
the
helthe
of
mannys
sowle
/
For
whan
he
was
conceyued
he
was
ful
of
grace
and
of
wysdome
and
of
charyte
/
And
it
was
none
nede
to
hym
for
to
encrece
in
hym
afterward
for
he
was
perfyght
ynow
in
theym
at
the
begynnyng
/
Therfore
sythe
it
so
was
that
he
loued
so
perfyghtly
god
the
fader
and
mankynde
in
herte
seyng
and
consyderyng
god
the
fader
in
trinite
in
maner
depryued
of
his
honour
.
And
also
mankynde
depryuyd
f●o
his
blessyd
ende
/
he
was
soo
tourmented
wyth
compassyon
in
hym self
vnto
the
tyme
that
he
myght
restore
by
his
passyon
the
dewe
honour
to
god
the
fader
in
T●inyte
and
endeles
helthe
to
mankynde
▪
Also
she
sayde
the
affliction
of
his
holy
desyre
was
none
lytyll
payne
/
But
it
was
a
grete
payne
:
And
thefore
it
was
that
he
sayde
to
hys
dyscyples
on
schherthursday
at
the
soper
/
Deside●io
desideraui
manducare
vobiscum
hoc
pascha
/
¶
That
is
I
haue
desyred
wyth
a
grete
desyre
longe
afore
thys
tyme
to
ete
with
you
this
paske
/
and
the
cause
was
for
he
gaue
theym
in
that
soper
an
speciall
ernest
of
helthe
the
whiche
he
wolde
werke
er
thenne
he
purposed
to
ete
wyth
theym
eftsones
/
And
therfore
she
alleggid
for
her
the
wordys
of
our
sauyour
where
he
sayth
in
another
place
.
Pater
transfer
calicem
hunc
a
me
/
That
is
fader
put
awaye
this
passion
fro
me
that
I
shall
now
drynke
/
the
whiche
wordes
she
expownyd
thus
and
sayde
/
Perfyght
folke
sholde
not
vnderstonde
thyse
wordes
as
symple
folke
done
/
that
our
sauyour
asked
of
his
fader
to
put
awaye
and
remeue
hye
paynefull
passion
But
thus
fro
the
begynnyng
of
his
gloryous
concepcton
vnto
that
tyme
of
his
deth
he
dranke
euer
of
that
paynfull
passyon
by
the
grete
desyre
that
he
had
off
mannys
helthe
/
And
thenne
the
more
he
drawe
nere
to
the
deth
▪
the
more
gredyly
he
desyred
that
drynke
▪
he
asked
therfore
that
it
shold
soone
be
fulfylled
the
whiche
he
hadde
soo
longe
tyme
desyred
for
the
helthe
of
mannys
soule
/
that
the
dryke
the
whiche
he
hadde
drunke
soo
longe
afore
sholde
thenne
be
ended
▪
And
thus
this
was
not
for
to
aske
a
remeuyng
awaye
of
his
deth
/
but
rader
an
hasti
ende
of
his
deth
:
the
whiche
our
sauyour
declared
full
openly
afterward
whan
he
sayde
to
Judas
/
Quod
facis
fac
cicius
/
That
is
frend
that
thou
shalt
doo
/
doo
it
anone
/
¶
Neuertheles
though
it
soo
were
that
the
forsayd
paynes
full
drynke
of
his
desyre
were
to
hym
ryght
greuous
for
to
drynke
/
yet
as
ryght
an
obedyent
chylde
to
the
fader
he
sayde
thus
/
Veruntamen
non
sicut
ego
volo
sed
sicut
tu
:
Fader
I
desyre
that
myn
wyll
be
not
fulfilled
but
thy
wyll
offeryng
hym self
redy
by
th●se
wordes
for
to
suffre
dayly
of
his
payne
full
desyre
as
longe
as
it
lyked
to
hys
fader
soo
that
the
fyrst
wordes
where
he
sayd
/
Transfer
hunc
calitem
&c.
Fader
a
voyde
this
paynfull
fro
me
/
he
vnderstode
not
for
to
haue
a
voyded
his
passyon
that
was
to
come
/
But
the
passyon
of
hys
desyre
afore
by
suffryng
the
deth
for
helthe
of
mannes
sowle
for
to
be
endyd
.
Thenne
sayd
mayster
Reymond
.
Moder
comynly
after
exposicion
of
doctours
our
lord
sayd
tho
wordes
as
a
veray
man
and
hede
of
all
hys
chosen
bothe
f●eel
and
strong
/
whos
sensualyte
naturelly
drede
the
deth
/
that
he
myght
by
example
to
all
bothe
to
freel
folk
and
to
strong
folk
/
that
they
dyspeyre
not
/
all
be
it
they
felte
theyre
sensualyt●e
kyndely
dredyng
the
deth
.
Here
to
this
holy
mayde
answerd
and
sayd
/
that
the
actes
&
the
dedys
of
our
sauiour
yf
they
ben
wysely
consydered
/
euery
creature
after
hys
consyderacyon
may
fynde
in
them
ghostly
felyng
/
as
it
is
spedefull
to
hys
helthe
.
And
therfore
syth
it
is
soo
that
feble
&
freall
creatures
fynden
in
tho
wordes
comfort
ageynst
theyr
feblenesse
/
it
were
ryght
necessary
thenne
that
perfyt
folk
&
myghty
shold
fynde
also
ther
Jnne
confyrmacyon
of
theyr
strengthe
/
the
whiche
myght
not
be
but
by
thys
exposycyon
afore
▪
Therfore
it
is
better
that
it
be
expowned
in
many
maners
so
that
al
may
be
comforted
ther
by
/
thenne
in
a
maner
of
wyse
for
one
maner
of
folk
allone
Whanne
mayster
Reymond
herde
this
he
helde
hys
peas
/
meruayllyng
of
hyr
grete
wysdom
&
grace
that
she
had
/
for
he
herde
neuer
that
exposycyon
afore
.
¶
Another
exposycyon
of
the
same
wordes
by
the
same
holy
mayde
.
Mayster
Reymond
founde
wryten
in
a
book
that
hir
fyrst
confessour
wrote
&
they
ben
these
In
a
tyme
whan
she
was
rauysshed
she
lerned
of
our
lord
that
the
prayer
the
whiche
he
made
a
fore
hys
passyon
whan
he
●watt
bothe
blood
&
water
seynge
thus
Transfer
hunc
calicem
&
●
.
That
is
fader
remoue
this
peynfull
passion
fro
me
He
prayed
thenne
for
them
whome
he
sawe
afore
that
wolde
haue
no
parte
of
his
passion
/
the
whiche
was
to
him
peynfull
passyon
.
And
by
cause
he
loued
ryghtwysnesse
/
he
put
a
condycyon
and
sayd
.
Veruntamen
non
mea
voluntas
That
is
neuthelesse
fader
be
not
my
wyll
fulfylled
/
but
thy
wyll
/
and
yf
he
had
not
put
to
suche
a
condycyon
/
it
wolde
haue
folowed
ther
on
she
sayd
that
all
folk
shold
haue
be
saued
.
After
tyme
thenne
that
he
had
thus
prayed
/
he
was
herde
as
saynte
Poule
sayd
for
hys
reuerence
.
Exauditus
est
ꝓpter
suam
reuerenciā
In
exposycion
of
this
wordes
of
saynt
Poule
comynly
doctours
vnderstonden
the
same
It
had
be
ellys
meruaylle
but
that
the
same
sone
of
god
sholde
haue
be
herde
.
Also
she
sayd
another
tyme
to
mayster
Reymond
&
taught
hym
that
the
passyons
whiche
our
our
lord
god
Jhesu
Cryst
ve
ray
god
and
man
suffred
for
the
helthe
of
mankynde
were
so
myghty
/
that
it
were
impossyble
ony
man
in
erthe
for
to
suffre
but
that
he
sholde
dye
&
it
were
possyble
many
tyme
yf
that
he
suffred
them
.
For
ryght
as
his
loue
that
he
had
thenne
/
&
hath
yet
to
mankynde
vnestymable
/
&
vncomperable
.
Ryght
so
hys
passyon
that
he
suffred
by
constreynyng
of
loue
allone
was
vnestymable
.
Who
wolde
beleue
that
the
thornes
of
hys
crowne
sholde
perysshe
in
to
the
brayne
.
Or
that
the
bones
of
a
quyk
man
sholde
be
drawe
out
of
theyre
ioyntes
For
the
ꝓphete
sayd
of
our
lordes
passyon
thus
.
Dinumerauerunt
omnia
▪
ossa
mea
.
That
is
they
tolde
&
nombred
all
the
bones
of
my
body
So
thenne
it
may
be
proued
that
the
pryncypall
cause
of
hys
passyon
was
loue
/
the
whiche
he
shemed
for
mankynde
And
it
myght
not
be
shewed
more
conuenyently
than
by
hys
passyon
.
By
this
it
semed
that
the
naylles
helde
hym
not
vpon
the
crosse
/
but
hys
loue
onely
.
Ne
the
strengthe
of
man
ouercame
hym
●ot
/
but
loue
.
How
were
men
so
stronge
for
to
holde
hym
/
that
at
a
worde
of
hys
mouthe
they
fyll
doune
to
the
grounde
whan
they
came
for
to
take
hym
Suche
hyghe
wordes
&
conuenyent
wordes
of
our
lordes
passyon
this
holy
mayde
commyne
wyth
mayster
Reymond
.
And
yet
she
sayd
more
that
she
had
experyence
in
hyr
body
of
som
maner
of
passyon
that
Cryst
suffred
on
the
crosse
▪
Of
all
she
wold
not
say
for
that
was
Impossyble
to
ony
erthely
creature
.
But
specyally
by
cause
of
the
grete
loue
that
she
had
to
our
lord
&
to
his
passyon
the
most
peyne
that
she
suffred
was
in
hyr
herte
/
soo
that
it
semed
to
hyr
other
whyle
that
hyr
herte
was
to
braste
&
cutt
a
sondre
fro
that
one
ende
to
that
other
.
And
for
thys
grete
peyne
of
loue
/
she
was
oftymes
dede
to
all
mennys
syght
.
Of
thys
bare
wytnes
many
one
/
the
whiche
were
presente
whanne
she
dyed
for
the
loue
of
Crystys
passyon
allone
.
Here
of
was
mayster
Reymond
in
grete
doubte
.
But
for
to
put
awaye
that
doubte
/
he
thought
to
comen
wyth
this
holy
mayde
&
serche
the
sothe
of
hyr
whether
it
were
so
or
no.
Whanne
he
axed
hyr
this
.
She
for
grete
wepyng
coude
gyue
none
answer
long
tyme
to gydre
/
but
at
the
last
she
sayde
.
Fader
wolde
ye
not
haue
grete
pyte
&
compassyon
of
a
sowle
that
were
delyuered
out
of
a
derke
pryson
to
lyght
/
and
after
tyme
it
had
see
so
mery
a
lyght
/
eftesones
to
be
reclused
ageyn
in
the
same
derke
prysone
.
I
am
that
same
wretche
that
thus
happed
me
by
the
ordynaunce
of
god
for
my
synnes
.
Then
ne
mayster
Reymond
axed
hir
where
hir
sowle
was
fully
departed
fro
the
body
.
To
whome
she
answerd
&
sayd
thus
.
That
the
feruent
fyre
of
dyuyne
loue
&
of
ghoostly
desyre
was
so
moche
in
hyr
herte
for
to
lyue
with
our
lord
endelesly
whom
she
loued
.
That
though
hyr
herte
hadde
be
of
stone
or
of
yren
it
must
nedys
to
breste
.
Therfore
fader
vnderstondeth
thys
for
trouthe
that
myn
herte
of
myn
body
was
thenne
vndo
&
opened
fro
the
ouermost
partye
to
the
nether
/
onely
by
the
strengthe
of
pure
loue
/
so
that
me
semeth
yet
I
fele
the
markys
of
that
syssure
in
myn
herte
.
By
this
ye
may
knowe
that
the
sowle
was
fully
for
that
tyme
departed
fro
the
body
/
and
sette
in
the
presence
of
god
/
where
I
sawe
the
preuyt●es
of
god
/
that
is
vn●efull
for
to
speke
to
ony
man
on
erthe
For
ther
is
no
speche
in
erthe
that
can
expresse
the
preuytees
in
ony
mannis
tongue
.
But
this
wote
I
well
as
ofte
as
I
here
of
that
mater
I
am
tourmented
so
gretly
in
my
sowle
consyderyng
where
I
was
thenne
&
where
I
am
now
/
that
I
can
not
tell
my
sorowe
but
wyth
wepynge
&
sobbyng
.
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
prayed
hyr
to
tell
him
how
that
all
this
began
in
hyr
.
She
answerd
&
sayde
.
After
tyme
that
I
was
fedde
and
comforted
wyth
many
vysyons
&
reuelacyons
by
our
lordes
mercy
/
I
fell
seek
for
pure
loue
&
laye
doun
in
myn
bedde
where
I
prayed
our
lorde
Jhesu
that
he
wolde
delyuer
me
out
of
this
wretchyd
worlde
/
and
oned
me
perfytely
to
him
The
whiche
for
that
tyme
he
wolde
not
graunte
me
.
But
he
graunted
therfore
as
long
as
I
lyued
in
this
lyf
/
shold
be
partyner
of
his
passyon
/
in
asmoche
as
it
is
possyble
a
dedly
body
for
to
suffre
/
and
soo
she
tolde
hym
all
that
/
that
is
rehersed
afore
.
And
more
ouer
she
sayd
/
loo
fader
by
suche
experyence
of
hys
passyon
/
I
am
made
so
seke
by
the
strengthe
of
loue
/
that
my
sowle
desyred
no
thyng
ellys
but
for
to
be
delyuered
out
of
this
world
And
the
same
fyre
so
encrecyd
in
my
sowle
that
my
herte
often
tymes
defayled
&
departed
a
sonder
and
my
soule
was
vtterly
delyuered
out
of
the
body
Neuerthelesse
it
was
but
a
lytell
tyme
&
that
was
my
sorowe
.
Then
ne
eftesones
mayster
Reymond
axed
hir
how
long
tyme
hyr
sowle
was
out
of
the
body
.
She
sayd
as
they
that
kepte
hyr
&
were
aboute
to
haue
beryed
hyr
foure
houres
or
thenne
she
reuyued
ageyn
Yet
he
axed
hyr
what
she
sawe
for
that
tyme
/
&
why
came
the
soule
ageyne
to
the
body
she
answerd
thus
Fader
that
tyme
my
sowle
sawe
&
vnderstode
ioye
of
blessyd
sowles
/
and
peynes
of
synners
.
And
as
myn
mynde
wold
suffre
me
&
wordes
wolde
suffyce
to
expresse
them
/
I
shall
tell
you
.
My
sowle
sawe
the
diuyne
essencyall
beyng
of
god
/
and
that
is
the
cause
why
I
am
soo
lothe
&
vnpacyent
to
lyue
in
this
worlde
/
and
had
not
be
the
loue
of
hym
&
the
loue
of
crysten
people
/
for
whiche
my
sowle
was
restoryd
to
the
body
ageyne
/
I
sholde
had
defaylled
&
dyed
for
sorowe
.
The
hyghest
comfort
that
I
haue
is
whan
I
suffre
ony
dysease
/
for
that
I
haue
the
perfyte
vysyon
of
god
/
therfore
trybulacyons
ben
not
heuysom
to
me
/
but
comfortable
as
ye
may
knowe
/
&
other
that
ben
conuersaunt
wyth
me
I
sawe
also
the
peynes
of
dampned
sowles
/
and
peynes
of
sowles
that
ben
in
purgatory
/
the
whiche
I
can
not
expresse
perfytely
wyth
no
maner
of
wordes
.
For
yf
wretched
synners
sawe
the
leste
peyne
that
is
there
/
they
had
leuer
chese
bodely
deth
an
hondred
tymes
yf
it
were
possyble
/
thenne
for
to
suffre
o
daye
the
leste
peyne
that
is
there
.
But
specially
I
sawe
hem
ponys
shed
syngulerly
that
had
synned
in
matrymony
/
the
whiche
hadde
not
kepte
hem
to
gyder
honestly
as
they
sholde
do
/
but
folowed
the
dylectacions
of
theyr
lustys
Of
this
mayster
Reymond
hir
confes
sour
axed
hyr
why
that
synne
in
specyall
was
more
greuously
punysshed
thenne
other
synnes
/
syth
it
so
is
that
it
is
not
the
most
greuous
synne
She
sayd
for
this
skylle
.
For
they
had
not
soo
grete
conscyence
of
that
synne
ne
so
grete
contrycyon
as
they
had
of
other
synnes
/
but
rather
they
offended
in
that
synne
thenne
in
ony
other
That
synne
the
whiche
a
synner
chargeth
not
for
to
remoue
/
by
penaunce
is
a
grete
synne
be
it
neuer
soo
lytell
.
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
proceded
forthe
in
hyr
mater
&
sayd
thus
also
.
Fader
whanne
I
had
seen
all
thyse
ioyes
and
thes
peynes
wenyng
my self
that
I
hadde
fully
be
delyuered
out
of
this
body
.
Oure
lorde
sayde
to
me
/
seest
thou
not
doughter
what
ioye
they
lacke
and
what
peyne
they
haue
that
offenden
me
.
Torne
ageyn
therfore
to
thy
body
&
tell
to
the
peple
theyr
errour
and
theyr
peryll
.
And
wyth
that
worde
I
was
astonyed
for
to
torne
ageyne
to
the
body
and
sore
aferde
.
Thenne
our
lord
sayd
to
me
/
it
is
profyte
to
mennys
soules
that
thou
torne
ageyne
/
and
thou
shalte
not
lyue
the
lyfe
that
thou
hast
lyued
afore
ne
kepe
the
solytarie
allone
in
chambre
/
but
thou
shalte
goo
a
brode
to
wynne
sowles
/
I
shall
euer
be
wyth
the
/
and
goo
wyth
the
bothe
goyng
and
comyng
.
Thou
shalte
bere
the
worshyp
of
my
name
and
of
ghoostly
doctryne
afore
grete
and
smale
&
laye
people
and
clerkys
and
afore
Relygyous
folk
also
I
shall
gyue
the
bothe
mouth
and
wytte
for
to
speke
that
none
may
wythstande
the.
I
shall
also
bryng
the
afore
bysshoppys
and
curates
of
sowles
for
to
confounde
there
pryde
.
Whyles
our
lorde
spak
thyse
wordes
sodeynly
my
soule
was
restored
ageyne
to
my
body
.
And
whanne
I
perceyued
that
I
hadde
grete
sorowe
/
that
I
wepte
thre
dayes
and
thre
hyghtes
to
gyders
wythout
cessyng
And
yet
I
can
in
no
wyse
absteyne
ne
refreyne
me
ther
fro
/
whanne
it
cometh
to
my
mynde
how
sodeynly
I
was
come
fro
the
grete
ioye
vnto
this
prysone
of
the
body
What
wonder
is
it
therfore
fader
though
myn
herte
to
brest
euery
day
consyderyng
the
grete
excellent
ioye
that
tyme
that
I
hadde
/
the
whiche
now
it
is
ferre
fro
me
/
but
all
is
done
for
the
sowle
he
le
Therfore
ther
shall
no
man
meruayle
though
I
loue
them
passyngly
to
whome
our
lord
hath
bede
me
warne
them
of
theyr
synfull
lyuyng
/
for
I
haue
lefte
for
them
a
grete
ioye
for
a
certeyn
tyme
I
wote
not
how
long
.
Therfore
as
saynt
Poule
seyth
.
They
ben
now
my
glorye
my
crowne
&
my
ioye
.
All
thys
I
saye
to
you
fader
&
to
all
other
for
to
putte
out
of
youre
hertes
the
passyon
of
grutchyng
in
tyme
comyng
whan
I
shall
be
homely
amonges
all
men
.
Whan
mayster
Reymond
herde
all
this
&
vnderstode
them
/
after
the
grace
that
was
gyue
hym
/
he
perceyued
in
hys
herte
/
that
for
the
incredulytee
and
blyndnes
of
men
/
all
that
she
sayde
sholde
not
be
publysshed
.
Wherfore
he
for
bade
bothe
the
freres
&
the
sustres
/
that
all
the
whyle
this
holy
mayde
lyued
in
erthe
they
sholde
not
pupplysshe
that
matree
.
He
perceyued
also
of
somme
that
folowed
fyrst
hyr
doctryne
/
how
they
wente
backward
/
for
they
coude
not
ne
myghte
not
take
hyr
wordes
But
leste
he
sholde
offende
god
yf
he
hadde
hydde
it
hymself
wythout
wrytyng
/
he
wrote
it
for
a
perpetuell
recorde
after
hyr
dyssece
/
&
not
whyle
she
lyued
Now
maydens
for
to
knowe
veraly
that
al
this
is
sothe
I
shall
tell
you
wytnes
of
recorde
that
were
present
wyth
this
holy
mayde
whan
all
thyse
thynges
befyll
hyr
In
that
same
tyme
whan
this
holy
mayde
drewe
nye
to
the
deth
as
it
semed
&
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
.
There
drewe
aboute
hyr
wymmen
and
other
ghoostly
doughters
of
herys
/
&
they
sent
after
hyr
fyrst
confessour
frere
Thomas
for
do
be
present
at
hyr
passage
by
prayers
&
other
holy
exercyses
in
commendyng
of
hyr
sowle
to
god
.
He
came
&
thre
freres
wyth
hym
mo
to
be
present
att
the
passyng
of
this
holy
mayde
.
But
whan
she
was
passyd
as
it
semed
.
One
of
the
freres
took
so
grete
sorowe
therfore
that
by
vyolence
of
hys
wepyng
/
a
veyne
of
hys
brest
was
all
for
brosyd
/
where
wyth
he
caught
a
coghe
&
spatte
gebettes
of
blood
.
Thenne
was
that
another
sorowe
to
them
that
stode
aboute
/
for
bothe
they
wepte
for
the
holy
mayde
that
was
so
passyd
.
And
also
for
hir
brother
the
whiche
was
not
shappely
to
lyue
long
after
in
that
payne
.
Thenne
sayde
frere
Thomas
hir
fyrst
confessour
to
that
seek
frere
wyth
grete
feyth
and
trust
.
Brother
I
wote
well
this
holy
mayde
is
in
grete
reputacyon
afore
god
for
hyr
good
lyuyng
.
Therfore
take
hyr
honde
and
putte
in
the
same
place
of
thy
sekenes
.
And
I
doubte
not
but
that
thou
shalte
be
hole
.
And
anone
forth
wyth
he
dyd
so
and
so
he
hadde
helthe
/
the
whiche
he
tolde
afterward
to
al
that
wolde
here
if
Ther
was
also
a
ghoostly
doughter
of
herys
that
was
present
thenne
/
the
whiche
was
called
Alyxa
/
&
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
sone
afterward
Moother
were
that
came
Inne
for
to
see
whether
she
was
passed
or
not
/
and
ther
was
none
that
coude
suppose
otherwyse
There
were
also
two
other
specyall
wyttenessys
/
that
were
aboute
for
to
ordeyne
for
the
body
that
it
sholde
be
beryed
.
And
bothe
were
susters
of
penaunce
of
Saynt
Domynyk
/
that
one
was
called
Katheryne
as
she
was
/
the
whiche
was
hyr
felawe
longe
tyme
afore
.
And
that
other
was
hyr
cosyn
Lysa
/
and
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
thys
chapytre
.
¶
Of
somme
myracles
wrought
gracyously
by
thys
holy
mayde
aboute
the
helthe
of
sowles
.
Capitulum
vij
YF
I
sholde
reherce
alle
the
myracles
that
our
lord
shewed
by
this
holy
mayde
/
I
myght
rather
make
a
grete
book
of
them
than
for
to
comprehende
hem
in
oo
chapytre
.
But
by
cause
I
wolde
put
awaye
dulnesse
of
them
that
sholde
rede
or
here
this
legende
of
this
holy
mayde
I
am
aboute
asmoche
as
I
may
vnder
fewe
wordes
for
to
comprehende
them
in
one
chapytre
/
that
they
myghte
knowe
vnder
fewe
wordes
how
grete
they
ben
the
whiche
I
passe
ouer
lyghtely
.
therfore
in
as
moche
as
the
sowle
passeth
the
body
in
worthynesse
.
I
shall
begynne
of
the
myracles
the
whiche
were
shewed
of
our
lord
by
hyr
aboute
mennys
sowles
/
and
after
that
of
the
bodyes
As
touchyng
for
the
fyrst
whan
that
Jamys
or
Jacob
/
the
fader
of
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
hys
doughter
Katheryne
was
alle
gyuen
to
serue
and
to
please
our
lord
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
fyrste
partye
of
thys
legende
/
euer
he
loued
&
tretyd
hyr
reuerently
and
louyngly
/
for
bedyng
all
folk
of
hys
housholde
that
none
be
soo
hardy
for
to
lette
Katheryne
hys
doughter
in
ony
maner
wyse
/
what
that
euer
she
wyll
haue
done
Thys
is
a
grete
cause
why
that
the
doughter
loued
the
fader
.
And
therfore
she
commended
specyally
hyr
faders
helthe
oft
tymes
to
oure
lord
.
And
he
had
suche
a
truste
in
hys
doughters
prayers
/
that
he
supposed
well
she
myght
haue
of
god
what
she
wold
for
hys
helthe
Sone
after
the
fader
sykened
&
laye
doune
in
hys
bedde
all
seek
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
hys
doughter
perceyued
that
/
anone
she
prayed
to
oure
lorde
hyr
spouse
for
the
helthe
of
hyr
fader
.
And
it
was
answerd
to
hyr
of
our
lorde
/
that
the
ende
of
hys
dayes
of
this
worlde
were
come
/
and
that
it
were
not
spedefull
for
hym
for
to
abyde
lenger
in
this
lyf
.
Then
ne
she
wente
to
hyr
fader
&
vysyted
hym
and
examyned
hym
how
he
was
dysposed
in
hys
sowle
/
and
founde
redy
&
wylfully
to
passe
out
of
this
worlde
/
hauyng
no
luste
for
to
abyde
lenger
/
wherefor
she
thanked
our
lord
hyghly
But
thenne
she
prayed
our
lord
eftesones
/
that
syth
it
so
is
that
he
hadde
gyuen
hyr
fader
so
grete
grace
for
to
passe
out
of
this
worlde
wythout
synne
/
that
he
wolde
wouchesauf
to
graunte
hym
also
for
to
flee
to
heuen
/
wythout
payne
of
purgatory
.
Of
this
she
hadde
an
answere
in
this
wyse
/
that
ryghtwysnesse
must
nedys
be
kepte
/
and
therfore
it
were
no
ryght
/
but
Impossyble
a
sowle
to
haue
the
clerenesse
of
endeles
ioye
wythout
perfyte
purgacyon
afore
.
For
all
be
it
thy
fader
hath
ben
in
hys
dayes
of
good
lyuyng
among
alle
other
wedded
folke
/
&
also
do
many
good
thynges
that
I
am
well
pleased
wyth
/
and
specyally
as
touchyng
the
Yet
neuerthelesse
it
may
not
be
sauyng
my
ryghtwysnesse
.
But
that
hys
sowle
must
be
purged
by
the
fyre
for
to
brenne
out
the
duste
of
erthely
conuersacyon
/
the
whiche
is
hardened
&
endured
in
his
soule
Thenne
sayde
this
holy
mayde
to
our
lord
thus
My
dere
welbeloued
lord
what
may
I
suffre
that
my
fads
sowle
by
whom
I
haue
be
so
tenderly
nourysshed
/
&
haue
had
so
many
confortes
in
hys
lyf
/
that
it
be
not
tormented
in
suche
paynes
.
I
praye
the
lord
for
the
goodnesse
that
euer
thou
shewdest
to
man
kynde
/
suffre
not
hys
sowle
to
goo
out
of
hys
body
vnto
the
tyme
it
be
perfytly
purged
oo
waye
or
other
that
it
nede
not
in
no
wyse
the
payne
of
purgatory
After
suche
wordes
/
our
lorde
shewed
hys
mercy
meruayllously
/
as
though
he
had
obeyed
to
the
voyce
of
hys
mayden
.
All
be
it
that
the
bodely
strengthes
of
hir
fader
Jamys
beganne
for
to
defaylle
more
&
more
to
the
deth
warde
Yet
hys
soule
passed
neuer
out
of
his
body
vnto
the
tyme
that
holy
&
dysputacion
betwene
our
lord
alledgyng
for
hym
ryghtwysnesse
.
And
the
holy
made
axyng
grace
&
mercy
▪
And
at
the
laste
after
long
dysputacion
/
the
holy
mayde
sayd
to
our
lord
.
My
welbeloued
lord
yf
thys
grace
may
in
no
wyse
be
goten
or
graunted
without
som
maner
of
ryghtwysnesse
/
suffre
that
ryghtwysnesse
fall
on
me
/
for
I
am
redy
to
suffre
al
maner
of
peyne
what
euer
thy
goodnesse
wyll
ordeyne
for
delyueraunce
of
my
fads
sowle
.
Thenne
our
lord
graunted
hyr
grace
&
sayd
.
Loo
doughter
for
the
loue
that
thou
hast
to
me
I
shall
graunte
the
thyne
axyng
/
&
I
shall
delyuer
thy
faders
soule
fully
out
of
payne
But
thou
shal
be
suffre
a
payne
for
hym
as
long
as
thou
lyuest
/
the
whiche
I
shall
assygne
the.
This
holy
mayde
thanked
our
lord
and
sayde
.
Good
blessyd
lorde
be
it
to
me
as
thou
haste
ordeyned
.
After
that
she
wente
to
hyr
fader
as
he
laye
a
deieng
/
&
she
comforted
hym
meruayllously
of
hys
endeles
helthe
that
he
was
ryght
ioyefull
/
&
she
went
not
from
hym
vnto
the
tyme
he
was
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
And
whan
the
sowle
was
passyd
out
of
the
body
/
anone
forth
wyth
this
holy
mayde
was
payned
wyth
a
sekenes
in
the
syde
/
the
whiche
is
called
Ilica
passyo
/
that
neuer
went
from
hir
in
to
the
tyme
she
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
And
ther
was
neuer
tyme
afterward
but
she
had
the
payne
as
she
sayde
/
&
other
bare
recorde
ofte
tymes
to
mayster
Reymond
.
But
the
vertue
of
hyr
pacyence
wythout
ony
com●yson
passyd
hyr
sekenes
/
as
I
shall
declare
by
the
helpe
of
god
afterward
in
the
last
chapytre
of
the
thrydde
ꝑtye
Whan
hyr
faders
soule
was
delyuered
out
of
the
body
/
this
holy
mayde
smyled
full
manerly
&
sayd
/
now
wold
god
I
were
as
ye
ben
.
And
all
that
tyme
other
wepte
/
she
shewed
gladnesse
of
chere
for
she
myght
none
other
wyse
do
For
she
sawe
hys
blessyd
sowle
whan
it
passed
out
of
the
body
/
how
it
was
receyued
in
to
endelesse
blysse
wythout
ony
taryeng
of
the
whiche
she
was
ryght
gladde
a
lytell
afore
/
she
had
exꝑyence
of
the
same
ioye
/
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
chapytre
afore
this
See
ye
not
maydens
how
wysely
the
prouydence
of
our
lord
was
wrought
in
this
maydens
fader
.
Our
lord
myght
yf
he
had
wold
/
haue
purged
his
soule
in
many
maner
of
wyses
/
&
made
hym
able
Inough
to
ioyes
/
as
he
dyd
to
the
thefe
that
hang
on
hys
ryght
syde
/
but
he
wold
not
wythout
som
payne
that
this
mayde
sholde
suffre
as
she
axed
for
hir
encrece
of
hir
more
ioye
/
the
whiche
payne
was
euer
afterward
swete
to
hyr
as
hyr
semed
/
not
wythout
cause
for
she
wyst
well
that
hir
swetenesse
shold
euer
encrece
aftward
hyr
by
grace
/
&
in
blysse
by
ioye
/
and
therfore
she
myght
in
no
wyse
calle
the
payne
of
Ilica
passio
but
a
swete
peyne
This
holy
mayde
tolde
puely
to
mayster
Reymond
that
by
long
tyme
aft
hir
fads
deth
/
his
soule
appyred
oftymes
to
hir
/
thankyng
hir
for
hir
grace
that
he
receyued
by
hir
/
&
also
tolde
hir
many
puy
thinges
/
&
gaue
hir
warnyng
of
the
assaillyng
of
hir
enemy
/
&
therto
kepte
hir
from
al
ghostly
euelys
.
Ryght
as
I
haue
tolde
you
maydens
of
a
myracle
shewed
to
a
ryghtwysmannys
soule
.
So
shall
I
tell
you
now
a
myracle
shewed
to
a
synfull
mannes
sowle
.
¶
There
was
a
man
dwellyng
in
the
cyte
of
Sene
the
whiche
was
called
Andrewe
a
full
ryche
man
of
oute
worldely
thynges
of
the
world
/
but
full
poure
off
inwardly
heuenly
thynges
he
was
a
vitious
man
/
for
he
neyther
dred
ne
loued
god
But
an
hasarder
and
a
cursed
blasphemer
or
a
swerer
of
god
and
of
his
sayntes
/
wythin
a
while
afterward
that
man
was
take
wyth
a
sykenes
and
lay
done
in
his
bedde
soo
seke
that
euery
man
and
leche
sayde
he
was
deed
:
That
perceyued
hys
curat
and
come
to
hym
for
to
comforte
hym
that
he
sholde
beshryue
and
take
penaunce
and
make
his
testament
as
the
maner
was
in
the
countre
/
whan
he
hadde
herdde
how
the
preeste
counseylled
hym
.
he
despysed
bothe
hym
and
his
counseyll
:
his
wyf
consydered
/
that
hauynge
zele
and
loue
to
his
soule
/
she
wente
after
all
maner
relygyous
folke
both
men
and
wymmen
for
to
stere
hym
to
god
:
But
yet
for
all
her
counseyll
they
myght
not
bowe
hym
to
confession
and
contrycion
of
his
synnes
/
neyther
wyth
thretinge
of
endeles
paynes
ne
wyth
rewardes
of
endeles
ioyes
.
Thenne
eftsones
his
curate
came
to
hym
dredyng
lest
he
sholde
haue
deyed
for
defaulte
of
counseyll
and
sayde
to
hym
as
he
sayd
fyrste
addynge
therto
many
more
holsom
wordes
/
Yet
alwaye
that
wretched
man
dispised
hym
afterward
as
he
dyde
afore
bothe
hym
&
his
wordes
/
¶
At
the
last
he
fyll
in
despeyre
and
in
to
the
synne
of
the
hooly
ghost
▪
and
so
he
drewe
faste
to
the
deth
:
This
was
afterward
tolde
to
Frier
thomas
this
holy
maydes
fyrst
▪
confessour
And
he
wente
to
this
holy
mayde
hous
pursuyng
for
to
constrayne
her
by
al
the
vertu
of
obedyens
and
of
charyte
for
to
praye
to
our
lorde
that
he
wolde
vochesaf
to
socour
the
wretched
soule
that
it
bee
not
dampned
wythouten
ende
/
¶
But
whan
he
came
to
this
holy
maides
hous
he
founde
her
rauysshyd
fro
her
bodly
wyttes
and
as
longe
as
she
was
so
occupyed
:
he
durste
not
occupye
her
/
ne
durst
not
long
abyde
out
of
his
hous
by
cause
that
myght
drewe
fast
vpon
hym
wherfore
he
charged
a
felowe
of
here
that
was
that
tyme
wyth
her
:
the
whiche
was
called
katheryn
as
she
was
for
to
charge
that
holy
mayde
in
goddes
behalue
and
his
/
whan
she
were
restorid
agayn
to
her
bodely
wyttes
that
she
wolde
praye
for
suche
a
mannys
sowle
that
lyeth
in
passyng
/
she
sayd
she
wolde
so
:
whan
the
holy
mayde
herde
that
she
had
soo
greate
compassyon
of
his
soule
/
that
she
prayed
our
lord
▪
anone
deuoutly
besechyng
hym
entyerly
that
the
soule
shold
not
perysshe
whiche
he
boughte
wyth
his
precious
blode
/
To
whom
our
lord
answerd
&
sayde
thus
his
wyckednes
hathe
asserued
payne
as
an
horrybly
blasphemie
For
he
hath
not
only
blasphemid
me
and
myn
sayntes
wyth
his
mouth
/
But
also
he
hath
throwen
a
table
in
to
the
fyre
for
despyte
of
me
in
the
whiche
was
paynted
the
ymage
of
myn
passyon
/
And
the
ymage
of
myn
blessyd
gloryous
moder
/
and
of
other
sayntes
:
And
therfore
it
is
worthy
by
ryghtwysnes
that
he
brenne
in
endeles
fyre
/
¶
Thenne
she
fyll
downe
prostrate
with
wepyng
to
the
feet
of
our
lorde
:
and
sayde
lord
yf
thou
wylt
consydere
narowe
to
the
synnes
of
men
/
who
may
escape
endeles
dampnacion
/
wherfore
comest
thou
downe
to
be
born
of
a
gloryous
mayde
&
for
to
suffer
tourment
of
cruell
deth
only
for
to
wayte
after
mennys
synnes
:
and
to
punysshe
theym
horrybly
to
endeles
payne
/
why
tellest
thou
me
this
and
the
synnes
of
a
lost
man
that
barest
vppon
thyn
sholders
all
maner
of
synnes
whether
I
am
come
to
the
now
for
mercy
or
for
ryghtwysnes
haue
myn
lord
blesfulle
what
thou
saydest
to
me
whan
thou
puttest
me
forthe
for
the
helthe
of
many
mennys
sowles
:
I
haue
none
other
refresshinge
in
this
lyf
:
But
for
to
see
myn
neybours
tourned
to
the
/
And
for
the
alone
I
suffer
paciently
thyn
absence
/
yf
thou
gyue
me
not
this
ioye
what
shall
I
than
doo
Good
meke
lord
put
me
not
awaye
fro
the
/
yelde
me
myn
brother
graciously
that
is
now
obstynat
in
herte
:
¶
Thus
she
prayed
contynuelly
fro
the
begynnyng
of
the
nyght
vnto
the
graye
mornynge
all
that
tyme
wepyng
wythout
ony
slepe
dysputyng
wyth
our
lorde
alwaye
for
the
helpe
of
that
sowle
/
Oure
lord
aledgyng
ryghtwysnes
to
gyue
to
hym
vengeaunce
for
his
synnes
/
And
the
hooly
mayde
asking
mercy
at
the
last
our
lord
of
his
endeles
mercy
gaue
her
an
answere
and
sayde
/
dere
doughter
I
shall
shewe
hym
myn
grace
for
whom
thou
hast
prayed
to
Andrewe
and
sayde
/
Dere
chylde
whi
wylt
thou
not
beshreue
of
the
trespas
that
thou
hast
done
to
me
/
loke
thou
beshryue
for
I
am
redy
for
to
forgyue
the
thyn
synnes
/
Thenne
was
his
harde
herte
souple
by
grace
that
he
cryed
wyth
a
grete
voyce
to
his
meyny
aboute
hym
&
sayde
/
sende
for
the
preste
for
I
wyll
byshryue
/
For
my
lord
Jhesu
crist
hath
warned
me
that
I
shold
beshryuen
/
¶
Whan
his
meynye
perceyued
that
/
anone
they
went
for
the
preste
/
the
preste
came
and
he
was
perfyghtly
confessyd
to
hym
:
and
made
his
testament
wyth
greate
contrycion
he
passyd
out
of
thys
worlde
to
our
lord
Ihesu
cryste
:
¶
O
fader
of
endeles
mercy
how
mercy
able
ben
thy
werkes
/
and
how
profounde
ben
thyn
prouydence
whos
gracyous
werk
is
ben
vnscrutable
vnto
man
/
thou
suffredest
that
man
to
be
hardyd
in
hys
synnes
vnto
the
laste
ende
femyng
that
thou
haddest
none
torce
of
hym
/
But
yet
at
the
laste
thou
prouydest
for
his
helthe
/
thin
seruaunt
came
to
hym
for
to
stere
hym
to
grace
:
And
yet
al
her
counseylles
myght
not
auayle
to
the
meke
prayers
of
thy
meke
mayde
thou
condescendyst
mekely
and
mercyabyly
:
And
who
gaue
her
that
boldenes
of
herte
:
but
thou
who
gaue
her
fyre
of
compassyon
in
herte
for
her
brother
but
thou
/
who
gaue
her
the
meke
teres
that
bowed
to
thy
mercy
/
tre
wely
none
but
thou
Thou
aryssydyst
vp
to
thy
spouse
that
she
sholde
bowe
the
to
her
:
Lord
thyse
ben
thy
werkes
that
gloryfyest
thyn
saintes
:
What
is
he
that
wyll
not
be
coplued
to
the
in
loue
seyng
thy
mercy
soo
plentuous
▪
Loo
maydens
what
mercy
our
lorde
shewed
for
meke
teres
/
yet
shall
I
telle
you
a
merueylous
myracle
/
¶
It
befyll
also
another
tyme
in
the
same
Cyte
of
Seene
that
there
were
two
famous
thefes
and
ryght
peryllous
the
whiche
were
take
and
brought
byfore
a
temporall
Juge
for
to
bee
dampned
to
the
payne
for
the
mysdedes
:
and
soo
thei
were
put
to
a
cruell
tourmente
that
was
called
the
tourmente
of
the
hote
yron
and
that
was
in
this
wyse
.
They
were
put
in
a
Carte
and
tourmentours
were
redy
wyth
hote
yrous
for
to
breune
them
now
in
one
place
now
in
another
of
her
body
/
And
therto
the
thefes
were
soo
obstynat
that
neyther
in
pryson
ne
out
of
pryson
there
myght
none
creature
stere
them
to
be
shryue
&
take
penaunce
for
her
trespaas
/
And
as
they
were
ledde
by
the
cyte
for
to
make
other
aferd
:
they
blasphemed
god
&
all
his
saintis
and
specyally
whan
they
felte
brennynge
they
cursed
the
magnyfycence
of
our
lorde
/
soo
as
it
semed
by
thei
payne
of
that
temperall
fyre
that
the
drewe
faste
to
the
endeles
fyre
Thenne
oure
lorde
Ihesu
of
his
endeles
goodnes
the
whiche
wold
none
body
were
dampned
but
all
saued
he
thought
he
wolde
lete
tho
wretched
sowlis
by
medyacion
of
his
spouse
katheryn
out
of
dampnacion
soo
that
by
the
ordenaunce
of
hym
that
this
hooly
mayde
for
her
more
quyete
was
that
same
daye
in
her
felawes
hous
whom
she
loued
vertuously
the
whiche
was
Alixa
whos
hous
stood
by
the
same
waye
where
that
this
dampned
wretches
shold
passe
by
.
Sondenly
on
the
morowe
Alyxa
herde
a
merueylous
voyce
comyng
by
her
hous
/
wyth
that
she
loked
out
of
the
wyndowe
and
sawe
all
a
fyre
two
men
the
whiche
were
dampned
to
the
hote
yrens
/
thenne
she
wente
in
agayne
&
tolde
this
holy
mayde
and
sayde
/
O
yren
/
Whan
this
holy
mayde
herde
this
she
wente
to
the
wyndowe
and
loked
and
tourned
in
agayn
to
her
prayers
she
sawe
as
she
sayde
afterward
to
mayster
Reymound
her
confes
:
sour
a
grete
multytude
of
wycked
spirytes
aboute
theym
that
brennyd
her
sowles
wythin
moche
more
than
the
tourmentours
dyde
the
body
wythout
/
And
therfore
she
was
stered
with
double
compassyon
for
to
praye
for
them
to
our
lord
for
to
helpe
the
wretched
sowles
out
of
payne
seyeng
thus
/
Ha
ha
mekest
lord
Ihesu
why
settest
thou
soo
lytyl
by
thy
creatures
whom
thou
madest
to
thyn
lykenesse
And
boughtest
wyth
thy
precious
blood
that
aboue
all
her
bodely
torment
thou
suffrest
theym
to
be
cruelly
tormentyd
of
spyrytes
wythinforth
in
her
sowles
whan
thou
illumynyst
soo
graciously
that
theef
that
henge
on
the
ryght
syde
/
al
be
it
that
he
toke
his
tourment
of
the
crosse
wurthely
as
he
hadde
deserued
that
he
knowleched
the
very
god
and
man
in
all
his
tourmente
/
where
in
the
appostles
were
in
doubte
:
wherfore
he
deserued
for
to
here
thyn
blessyd
voyce
whan
thou
saydest
thus
/
Hodie
mecum
eris
in
paradiso
/
That
is
▪
to
daye
thou
shalt
be
wyth
me
in
paradyse
:
why
dedyst
thou
this
lorde
▪
trewely
for
nothynge
ellys
:
but
for
thou
woldest
graunte
forgyfnes
to
suche
as
were
lyke
to
hym
/
thou
despysyd
not
mary
magdalene
that
grete
synner
but
thou
drewest
her
to
the
graciously
/
Thou
puttest
not
fro
the
puplycane
ne
the
woman
of
Cananye
ne
the
prince
of
pupplycanis
zacher
But
rather
thou
calledest
theym
to
the
:
therfore
by
all
thy
mercies
I
beseche
the
that
thou
helpe
mercyabyly
the
soules
of
the
synners
that
been
now
lad
to
tourment
.
Thenne
oure
lorde
bowed
his
mercy
to
the
wretches
&
graunt
this
holy
maide
suche
gra●e
that
she
wente
wyth
theym
in
spyryte
wepyng
and
weylyng
for
to
stere
theym
the
sonner
to
repentaunce
/
whan
the
fendes
sawe
that
they
cryed
alowde
vppon
her
and
sayde
katheryne
but
yf
thou
wylt
leue
of
thyn
ghostely
besynes
in
prayng
for
thyse
men
we
sholde
soo
werke
agaynste
the
that
thou
shalt
trauayle
wyth
a
wycked
spyryte
:
To
whom
she
answerd
again
:
what
that
that
god
wyll
I
wyll
and
therfore
I
shal
not
leue
of
that
I
haue
bygonne
whan
thyse
wretches
were
outward
att
the
gates
of
the
Cyte
our
lord
Ihesu
cryst
appyred
to
theym
wyth
his
blyssyd
blody
woundes
steryng
theym
to
be
tournyd
/
&
therto
byhete
theym
forgyfnes
:
and
soo
they
been
of
dyuyne
light
entryd
in
to
her
hertes
/
and
they
asked
apreste
wyth
grete
instaunce
for
to
beshryue
:
and
after
tyme
they
were
shryuen
/
They
turnyd
there
blasphemynge
in
to
praysyng
of
our
lord
euer
accusyng
theym selfe
seyeng
that
they
were
wurthy
tho
paynes
and
more
gretter
paynes
and
soo
wyth
grete
gladnes
they
went
to
her
deth
as
they
hadde
gon
to
a
grete
feste
/
This
consyderyd
all
tho
that
stode
about
merueylyng
gretely
of
that
changynge
perceyuyng
euermore
in
grete
deuocion
of
the
tourmentours
that
they
durst
nomore
brenne
than
where
they
thanked
our
lord
of
his
grete
mercy
/
For
there
was
none
that
knewe
how
and
in
what
wise
and
bi
whos
prayers
this
mercy
was
gyuen
/
¶
Neuertheles
a
deuout
preste
the
whiche
her
confessour
commaund
afterward
wyth
this
holy
maydes
confessour
merueylynge
of
the
grete
mercy
of
god
that
so
soone
tourned
theym
to
grace
/
Thenne
her
confessour
asked
afterward
Alixa
this
holy
maydes
felawe
how
thys
holy
mayde
was
occupyed
whan
the
man
were
ledde
to
the
deth
/
Thenne
Alixa
tolde
hym
all
the
processe
as
it
is
sayd
afore
:
&
he
founde
well
by
record
of
her
that
the
same
hour
katherin
lefte
her
prayer
:
tho
men
dyed
and
passed
out
of
thys
world
:
the
whiche
he
knewe
more
perfyghtly
afterward
bi
preuy
reuelacion
of
the
same
holy
mayde
/
¶
After
yet
certen
dayes
after
they
were
passey
.
some
of
her
felawes
herd
her
saye
wyth
a
full
voyce
in
time
of
her
prayer
thyse
wordes
lord
Ihesu
I
thanke
the
that
thou
hast
delyuerd
theym
out
of
the
second
prison
it
was
asked
her
afterward
what
she
ment
therby
/
She
sayd
that
the
sowles
of
the
theefes
ben
restored
to
paradyse
/
For
albe
it
they
went
to
purgatory
after
tyme
they
passed
:
yet
she
secid
neuer
by
prayer
vnto
the
tyme
they
were
fully
delyuerd
out
of
payne
/
Parauēt
now
somme
ther●en
that
set
lityl
by
this
myracle
by
cause
if
was
inuisybyll
/
but
yf
they
take
hede
inwardly
of
the
wordes
of
saynt
augustyn
and
saynt
Gregory
/
they
shold
fynde
well
that
this
was
more
myracle
/
than
yf
the
bodyes
hadde
ben
reysed
from
deth
to
lyue
/
For
saint
gregory
sayd
thus
that
in
the
bodely
resurrexcion
the
flesshe
is
reysed
the
whiche
shal
deye
eftsones
/
and
whan
the
soule
is
reysed
/
it
shall
lyue
wythouten
ende
/
yet
shall
I
telle
you
another
synguler
gyfte
of
conuersacion
of
thys
hooly
mayde
wan
of
god
/
There
was
one
the
whiche
was
called
●abes
amonges
whom
there
was
one
chylde
of
his
that
was
called
James
or
Jacob
&
he
was
a
synfull
lyuer
full
of
pryde
and
of
creuelte
/
soo
that
yet
beyng
yonge
in
age
he
kyllyd
two
men
ful
cruelly
that
euery
man
that
knewe
hym
was
aferd
of
hym
ne
loued
hym
not
:
But
euery
day
he
lyued
werse
and
werse
/
and
had
a
suster
that
was
called
Shy
nochya
the
whiche
was
fully
gyuen
to
vanyte
of
the
world
in
passyng
outrages
aray
of
her
body
albe
it
she
was
a
mayde
of
her
bodi
:
Her
moder
●abes
had
therof
grete
forowe
lest
they
shold
be
dampned
for
ther
mysbelyuyng
she
wente
to
this
foly
mayde
and
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
vochesaf
to
speke
somwhat
of
soule
he
le
wyth
her
to
her
doughter
Fracisca
and
Shynochya
but
specyally
wyth
shynochya
/
this
holy
mayde
as
she
hadde
euer
to
sowles
grete
compassyon
graunted
her
that
she
wolde
gladly
and
soo
she
dyde
:
For
what
prayer
and
monycions
of
our
lord
Ihesu
Cryste
was
soo
grounded
in
the
soule
that
Shynochya
that
sodenly
she
put
awaye
fro
her
all
the
vanyte
of
the
world
that
she
vsed
in
pompous
araye
/
And
kyt
awaye
her
heer
of
her
hede
:
wherof
she
was
woute
be
proude
of
/
And
tooke
vppon
her
the
habyte
of
Saynt
Domynyk
and
so
was
made
a
suster
of
penaunce
.
And
euer
afterward
she
lyued
in
prayers
&
medytacyons
&
in
grete
sharpe
penaunce
Sone
after
came
hir
suster
Francysca
and
took
vpon
hyr
the
same
abyte
/
&
lyued
to
gyder
ryght
deuoutely
.
Of
this
herde
James
or
Jacob
her
brother
that
was
not
the
same
tyme
in
Sene
whanne
his
sustren
were
torned
/
he
came
to
the
Cyte
ward
wyth
a
yong
brother
of
hys
cursyng
&
thretnyng
wyth
a
grete
pryde
all
tho
that
excyted
hys
susters
to
that
abyte
.
Seynge
&
cryeng
wyth
a
bolde
spyryte
that
he
wolde
tere
awaye
that
abyte
fro
their
back
&
breng
theim
to
hys
hows
there
he
dwelled
To
whome
hys
yonger
brother
the
whiche
came
with
hym
sayd
/
trewely
James
yf
thou
come
to
Sene
/
thou
shalt
be
torned
also
/
and
be
shryuen
of
thy
synnes
/
with
that
he
cursed
hys
brother
bytterly
&
sayde
/
that
he
had
leuer
flee
bothe
freres
&
prestys
thenne
he
wolde
be
shryuen
to
ony
of
hem
all
The
chylde
oftymes
rehersed
hys
ꝓphecyes
/
&
as
ofte
he
cursed
:
So
that
at
the
last
he
entred
in
to
the
Cyte
as
a
wood
man
/
&
forthe
he
wente
to
hys
faders
hows
thretnyng
that
he
wold
do
grete
horryble
thynges
/
but
yf
his
sustren
specyally
Ethynoccyam
wolde
do
awaye
hyr
abyte
&
come
home
to
hym
All
this
was
not
vnknowen
to
this
holy
mayde
/
but
she
knowe
it
neuer
by
creature
on
erthe
/
but
by
god
.
In
the
mene
whyle
his
moder
Rabes
stylled
and
peased
hym
/
prayng
hym
that
he
wolde
abyde
tyll
the
morow
:
On
the
morow
she
sente
to
this
holy
maydes
confessour
frere
Thomas
that
he
wolde
wouchesauf
come
&
speke
with
hir
sone
James
And
counseyll
hym
for
hys
sowle
helthe
He
came
&
wyth
hym
a
felawe
frere
Bartholomew
&
spake
to
hym
:
But
all
their
speche
as
them
semed
myght
not
profyte
in
him
All
that
same
tyme
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
prayed
to
our
lorde
for
hys
conuersyon
/
whiles
frere
Bartholomew
spak
to
hym
:
And
thenne
sodeynly
oure
lorde
touched
Jamys
herte
to
contrycyon
/
and
he
sayde
to
frere
Bartholomew
that
he
was
well
apayed
of
hys
suster
that
she
sholde
serue
god
:
But
also
he
prayed
hym
of
confessyon
wyth
grete
contrycyon
/
that
he
myght
be
shriuen
of
hys
synnes
and
serue
god
also
:
He
was
thenne
so
perfytely
shreuen
That
somme
synnes
whiche
he
wold
neuer
be
knowe
ne
confessyd
to
noo
man
/
he
was
confessyd
to
hym
:
Soo
that
wyth
Inne
a
lytell
tyme
after
of
a
wolfe
he
was
made
a
lambe
/
and
of
a
lyon
a
whelpe
:
That
all
folk
that
knewe
hym
were
amerueylled
of
hys
sodeyne
tornyng
:
His
moder
Rabes
was
a
meruaylled
and
alle
hyr
meyne
/
and
thanked
oure
lorde
for
that
specyall
grace
:
Frere
Thomas
and
frere
Bartholomew
also
ioyed
in
oure
lorde
and
wente
for
to
tell
alle
this
to
this
holy
mayde
/
the
whiche
was
doune
/
whanne
they
were
come
to
here
hows
they
founde
hyr
yet
in
rauyssheng
/
and
hyr
felawe
was
that
tyme
in
hyr
chambre
wyth
hyr
/
As
sone
as
she
was
cessyd
of
hyr
rauyssheng
/
and
restoryd
to
hyr
bodely
wyttes
/
hyr
felawe
came
doune
out
of
the
chambre
from
hyr
and
welcomed
hyr
confessour
:
Thenne
sayde
hyr
confessour
to
hyr
felawe
:
We
ben
come
for
to
tell
Katheryne
that
she
sholde
thanke
our
lord
god
:
For
James
that
is
torned
trewely
to
god
/
and
is
shreuen
of
alle
hys
synnes
thys
morowe
tyde
to
frere
Bartholomew
:
To
whome
sayde
hyr
felawe
/
ryght
nowe
Katheryne
tolde
me
the
same
that
ye
say
:
And
whan
they
were
were
come
vp
to
katheryne
she
sayde
to
theym
wyth
grete
sadnes
in
this
wyse
/
Faders
we
been
moche
bounde
to
thanke
our
sauyour
that
neuer
dyspsed
the
prayer
of
his
seruauntis
:
For
the
same
desyre
the
whiche
he
enspyred
theym
wyth
:
he
fulfylled
in
theym
/
The
fende
wende
he
shold
haue
hadde
awaye
fro
vs
our
lytill
shepe
.
But
our
fader
of
mercy
hath
byreiued
away
from
hym
his
pray
:
he
wende
to
had
away
from
Cryst
Shynochia
/
But
he
hath
lost
James
that
he
helde
soo
stronge
in
his
bondes
.
For
so
it
happeth
euer
to
hym
whan
he
reyseth
vp
his
hede
of
pryde
agaynst
Crystis
chosen
/
Afterward
that
mayde
Shynochya
euer
contynued
in
prayers
and
holy
medytacions
to
her
last
daye
.
And
wyth
a
grete
ghostely
ioye
by
dyuerse
sekenes
the
whiche
our
lord
gaue
her
/
She
passeth
to
our
lord
out
of
this
worlde
/
Thenne
her
suster
francisca
that
lyued
but
lytyl
while
after
folowed
her
in
good
lyuing
and
wyth
a
mery
smylyng
there
she
passed
also
to
god
out
of
this
world
:
¶
Ferdermore
the
sayd
James
her
broder
wythin
a
lytyll
tyme
after
forsoke
perfyghtly
the
worlde
and
was
made
a
fryer
prechours
and
lyued
deuoutly
euer
after
/
All
thyse
thynges
were
wrought
by
the
holy
ghost
and
by
his
spouse
Katheryne
graunted
his
grace
to
alle
tho
that
she
prayed
for
/
¶
Ouermore
I
shalle
telle
you
another
merueylous
thynge
that
Mayster
Reymound
bereth
recorde
of
hym self
/
In
the
same
Cyte
of
Seene
there
was
a
greate
man
the
whiche
was
called
Nannes
&
he
a
wounder
worldely
wyse
man
more
enclynyng
to
euyll
than
to
good
/
that
man
ofte
tymes
bycause
of
hys
greate
sotyll
wytte
he
loued
soo
moche
therto
that
he
made
party
in
the
same
Cyte
and
grete
enstaunce
bytwene
neyghbore
and
nyghbore
/
wherof
came
a
grete
enmyte
&
preuy
morderyng
the
whiche
came
by
hym
slyly
and
by
his
mayntynaunce
/
At
the
last
mene
persons
came
bytwene
for
to
make
peas
/
but
he
answerd
euer
soo
wylyly
that
he
rought
neuer
whether
there
were
peas
or
none
as
it
semed
to
theym
that
herd
hym
/
and
alwaye
he
was
glad
to
make
vnpeas
that
he
myght
and
to
be
avengyd
after
his
desyre
/
That
herd
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
she
desyred
to
speke
wyth
him
for
to
sece
that
euyll
hatered
but
he
fledde
her
assone
as
he
knewe
that
she
came
to
hym
/
Ryght
as
the
serpent
wolde
flee
from
hym
that
sholde
charyne
hym
:
At
the
laste
an
holy
man
the
whiche
was
called
Fryer
wyllyam
of
Englond
a
fryer
austyn
he
spake
soo
to
hym
that
he
graunt●
hym
that
he
wolde
gladly
speke
wyth
that
hooly
mayde
and
here
her
/
But
he
sayd
he
wolde
nothyng
doo
as
she
wolde
counseylle
hym
/
Soo
thenne
he
kep●…
his
promys
and
he
went
to
the
holy
maydes
hous
the
same
tyme
that
mayster
Reymound
was
there
/
But
that
holy
mayde
was
not
therin
by
cause
she
was
gone
a
lytyll
byfore
to
procure
the
helthe
of
soules
:
In
the
mene
whyle
that
mayster
Reymound
was
therin
/
there
came
a
messanger
to
hym
&
sayd
that
Nannes
was
at
the
dore
and
wolde
speke
wyth
katheryn
wherof
mayster
Reymound
was
glad
for
he
knewe
well
that
the
holy
mayde
had
ofte
tymes
desyred
that
/
And
wyth
that
he
went
and
welcomed
hym
and
tolde
hym
that
she
was
out
/
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wold
not
thynke
longe
for
she
wolde
come
anone
/
And
thenne
thei
went
to
this
holy
maydes
chapel
whan
they
hadde
sytte
a
whyle
there
he
thought
longe
and
sayd
to
mayster
Reymond
.
Thus
I
behete
frere
Wyllyam
/
that
I
sholde
come
hyder
&
here
this
holy
lady
Katheryne
speke
/
therfore
syth
she
is
out
&
occupyed
/
I
may
nought
abyde
here
wherfore
I
pray
you
excuse
me
to
hyr
/
for
I
haue
moche
thyng
to
do
/
mayster
Reymond
was
heuy
here
wyth
that
she
was
so
long
/
for
to
occupye
the
tyme
tyll
she
came
/
he
axed
hym
of
the
maner
of
pees
the
whiche
he
knewe
To
whome
this
Nannes
answerd
▪
Syre
I
shall
tell
you
the
sothe
/
for
to
thou
that
ben
a
prest
&
a
relygyous
man
/
and
to
this
holy
mayde
/
of
whome
I
here
a
grete
name
of
holynesse
.
I
shall
not
lye
but
saye
the
sothe
.
Therfore
what
that
euer
I
saye
to
you
I
am
not
in
wyll
to
do
by
your
counseyll
.
Sothe
it
is
that
I
am
he
the
whiche
that
letteth
the
pees
bytwene
him
&
him
and
that
pees
&
that
pees
.
And
yet
it
semed
by
my
dedys
that
it
am
not
I
that
lette
it
by
cause
it
is
done
by
other
/
but
I
maynteyn
them
pryuely
ther
to
/
for
yf
I
allone
wold
consente
to
haue
pees
/
al
shold
be
well
cessyd
But
I
purpose
in
no
wyse
for
to
consente
therto
/
wherfore
it
nedeth
not
for
to
counseyll
me
&
preche
me
/
for
I
shall
not
consente
in
ony
maner
wyse
Loo
now
I
haue
tolde
you
that
I
haue
hydde
from
other
/
tarye
me
no
lenger
and
holde
you
apayed
/
yet
mayster
Reymond
prayed
him
to
reherce
it
ageyne
/
for
to
occupye
the
tyme
/
and
he
wolde
not
/
at
the
last
by
the
dysposycyon
of
god
the
holy
mayde
was
come
Inne
.
Whan
that
Nannes
sawe
hyr
/
he
was
ryght
sory
But
mayster
Reymond
was
gladde
As
soone
as
she
sawe
that
erthely
man
/
she
toke
him
wyth
an
heuenly
charyte
&
sat
doun
to
gydres
/
and
axed
him
the
cause
of
hys
comyng
.
Thenne
he
rehersed
to
hyr
all
that
euer
he
sayd
to
mayster
Reymond
wyth
the
last
negacyon
.
This
holy
mayde
beganne
thenne
to
shewe
him
what
peryll
he
stode
Inne
soo
that
she
touched
hym
ouer
all
/
but
as
a
deef
serpent
he
stoppyd
the
erys
of
his
herte
that
he
wold
not
here
hyr
counseylles
/
that
consydered
this
holy
mayde
anone
.
She
sat
styll
&
torned
Inward
&
prayed
our
lord
in
hyr
herte
&
axed
hys
gracyous
helpe
Whan
mayster
Reymond
aspyed
how
ghoostly
she
was
occupyed
for
hym
.
He
occupyed
hym
wyth
somme
wordes
hopyng
in
the
mene
whyle
of
som
helpe
of
oure
lorde
by
hir
prayers
/
wythin
a
whyle
aft
Nannes
sayd
to
them
bothe
thus
.
Loo
I
wyll
not
be
so
vnkynde
/
but
that
I
wyll
do
nye
all
that
euer
ye
wyll
byd
me
/
but
somwhat
I
shall
graunte
/
and
thenne
wyll
I
goo
fro
you
.
I
haue
made
foure
debatys
whiche
contynued
yet
Of
that
oo
debate
I
wyll
gyue
you
leue
do
wi●h
all
as
ye
will
&
cesse
it
as
ye
wyll
/
with
that
he
roos
vp
&
wold
haue
go
out
/
and
in
the
rysyng
he
sayd
to
him self
thus
O
lord
what
comfort
may
this
be
/
that
I
fele
now
in
my
soule
of
that
worde
that
I
spak
of
pees
/
and
soone
after
he
sayd
more
A
a
lord
god
what
vertue
&
strengthe
may
that
be
that
holdeth
me
and
drawed
me
now
/
I
may
not
go
hens
/
ne
I
may
not
denye
no
thynge
O
who
is
that
/
that
constreyneth
me
now
.
O
who
is
that
/
that
holdeth
me
now
wyth
this
he
wept
sore
&
sayd
I
am
ouer
come
&
I
may
not
wythstonde
it
.
Thenne
he
kneled
doun
on
his
knees
to
the
holy
mayde
and
sayd
wyth
wepyng
chere
.
Holy
mayde
I
shall
do
what
euer
thou
bydde
me
do
:
Not
onely
of
this
mater
but
also
of
all
other
what
that
euer
it
be
.
I
knowe
well
now
that
the
deuyll
hath
hadde
me
bounde
in
hys
chayne
hyder
to
/
but
now
I
shall
do
what
euer
ye
counseyl
me
to
do
/
counseyll
my
soule
how
it
may
be
deliuerd
out
of
the
fendes
poure
I
praye
you
.
Att
these
wordes
the
holy
mayde
torned
to
hym
&
sayde
.
I
thanke
god
brother
that
thou
hast
perceyued
what
peryll
thou
stodest
Inne
of
the
mercy
of
our
lord
/
wherof
I
spake
fyrst
to
the
/
but
thou
●ettys●
lytell
therby
And
thenne
I
spak
to
our
lord
/
&
he
herde
my
prayers
.
Therfore
now
good
brother
do
penaunce
for
thy
synnes
by
tymes
/
leste
a
sodeyne
trybulacyon
fall
vpon
the
Thenne
anone
wyth
grete
contrycion
he
was
shryuen
of
mayster
Rymond
of
all
his
synnes
/
&
afterward
by
helpe
of
this
holy
mayde
he
made
pees
wyth
all
folk
/
&
also
wyth
god
by
counseyll
of
mayster
Reymond
.
But
wythin
a
fewe
dayes
after
he
was
take
by
the
Justyce
of
the
Cyte
&
put
in
a
streyte
pryson
/
and
it
was
a
comyn
saynge
that
he
sholde
be
behedyd
.
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
herde
that
/
he
came
to
this
holy
mayde
wyth
a
sorowfull
che●e
/
and
sayd
Loo
moder
all
the
whyle
Nannes
serued
the
fende
/
he
had
no
dysease
/
but
alwaye
●speryte
And
after
tyme
now
he
is
torned
to
god
/
all
the
world
is
ageynst
hym
where
of
I
am
a
ferde
by
cause
he
is
yette
but
a
yong
braunche
/
lest
he
be
all
for
broke
by
this
tempest
/
and
so
fall
in
despeyre
.
I
praye
you
therfore
praye
for
hym
to
god
/
that
he
whom
ye
haue
delyuered
from
the
deuelys
poure
by
your
prayers
/
helpe
him
also
&
defende
hym
from
his
aduersaryes
Thenne
she
sayde
to
mayster
Reymond
why
be
ye
sory
for
him
for
whome
ye
sholde
be
gladde
.
Now
be
ye
seker
that
our
lord
spareth
him
&
wyll
relesse
hym
from
endeles
payne
by
that
temporall
payne
.
Fyrst
whan
he
was
in
the
worlde
/
the
worlde
loued
that
was
hys
And
now
he
is
passyd
out
of
the
worlde
/
the
worlde
begynneth
to
hate
hym
.
Fyrst
our
lord
reserued
for
him
endeles
payne
/
but
now
of
hys
mercy
he
hath
chaunged
hys
endeles
payne
in
to
temporall
payne
And
of
hys
desperacyon
be
thou
noo
thynge
in
doubte
/
for
he
that
hath
delyuered
hym
of
helle
/
wyll
delyuer
hym
gracyously
out
of
thys
peryll
/
and
as
she
sayde
soo
it
was
/
For
wythin
a
whyle
after
he
was
delyuered
out
of
pryson
/
though
he
hadde
grete
losse
of
hys
temporall
goodys
/
where
of
thys
holy
mayde
was
no
thyng
sory
/
but
was
ioyefull
and
sayde
that
our
lord
of
hys
mercy
hath
do
awaye
fro
hym
the
poyson
that
he
was
poysoned
wyth
.
And
at
the
last
he
had
so
many
trybulacyons
/
and
hys
deuocyon
encrecyd
so
moche
that
he
gaf
to
this
holy
mayde
a
fayre
paleys
of
his
vnder
his
letter
and
seale
that
was
two
myle
wythout
the
Cyte
.
Of
the
whiche
paleys
she
sholde
make
a
monastery
of
sustres
of
penaunce
.
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
by
specyall
lycence
and
auctoryte
of
hyr
holy
fader
the
pope
Gregory
the
xj
made
there
a
monasterye
in
the
worshyp
of
our
lady
to
all
hyr
ghostly
doughters
and
called
the
monasterye
the
monasterye
of
our
lady
.
And
Nannes
that
man
the
whyche
this
holy
mayde
conuerted
was
gouerned
ghoostly
by
mayster
Reymond
and
lyued
after
a
blyssed
lyf
.
Abouen
all
these
maters
yf
I
wolde
reherce
all
the
conuersyons
of
euell
lyuers
/
all
the
roburacyons
and
the
strengthes
of
seek
folke
All
the
comfortes
of
desolate
folke
or
them
that
were
in
trybulacyons
/
all
the
exortacyons
of
them
that
were
in
ghoostly
perellys
/
the
whiche
our
lorde
hath
meruayllously
wrought
by
hys
spouse
this
holy
made
.
I
myght
make
many
grete
bokes
.
Who
coude
telle
how
many
wretched
synfull
lyuers
she
hath
delyuered
out
of
the
fendes
bondys
/
How
many
obstynate
folke
she
hath
brought
ageyne
to
theyr
owne
knowleche
.
How
many
she
had
made
forsake
and
despysed
the
worlde
And
how
many
tempted
folk
in
fonle
synnes
she
hath
delyuerd
out
of
the
fendes
daunger
by
hyr
prayers
and
doctrynes
.
Neuerthelesse
ye
shall
saye
as
saynt
Jerome
sayd
comendyng
our
lady
/
I
myght
say
that
yf
all
the
membrys
and
lym̄ys
of
my
body
were
torned
in
to
tongues
/
they
sholde
not
suffyce
for
to
tell
all
the
fruyte
of
soules
/
that
this
holy
mayde
hath
purposed
to
heuen
by
the
helpe
of
almyghty
god
/
mayster
Reymond
bereth
this
trewe
recorde
/
that
he
sawe
a
thousand
or
moo
bothe
of
men
and
wymmen
comyng
doun
fro
the
mounteynes
and
other
vyllages
longyng
to
the
shyre
of
the
Cyte
of
Sene
/
comyng
for
to
see
and
here
this
holy
mayde
as
though
they
hadde
be
called
by
an
Inuysyble
trompe
/
the
whiche
not
onely
by
hyr
wordes
/
but
also
by
hyr
lokyng
were
styred
to
compunccyon
for
to
be
confessyd
of
all
theyr
synnes
wyth
grete
contricyon
/
&
so
theyr
went
two
confessours
of
whome
mayster
Reymond
was
one
as
he
seyth
hym self
/
and
they
confessyd
hyr
synnes
wyth
so
grete
contrycion
that
eche
man
myght
well
knowe
that
there
was
grace
gyuen
of
god
in
her
hertes
/
&
that
was
not
onys
ne
twyes
but
oftymes
.
Wherfore
the
forsayd
Pope
Gregorye
that
was
that
tyme
hadde
soo
grete
ioye
/
and
delyte
of
the
wynnyng
of
soo
many
soules
that
he
graunted
by
bull
to
mayster
Reymond
and
to
hys
felawes
/
that
all
thoo
the
whiche
wolde
come
and
vysyte
this
holy
mayde
/
and
after
desyren
for
to
be
shreuen
/
they
sholde
here
them
&
assoylle
them
as
moche
as
the
bysshop
of
the
dyocyes
myght
do
.
Therfore
mayster
Reymond
bereth
recorde
and
seyth
/
that
there
came
many
synfull
wretches
to
hym
and
to
hys
felawes
/
the
whiche
were
neuer
shreuen
afore
of
the
synnes
/
the
whiche
they
were
shreuen
to
hym
and
to
them
.
And
they
stode
ofte
tymes
fastyng
fro
the
morow
tyll
euen
/
by
cause
of
grete
concours
of
people
/
and
yet
they
myght
not
suffyce
for
to
here
all
that
wold
be
shryuen
All
that
tyme
this
holy
mayde
prayed
and
thanked
our
lord
ioyefully
that
the
fende
hadde
loste
hys
prayer
.
There
is
no
penne
that
can
expresse
the
ioye
of
hir
herte
that
she
had
that
tyme
of
wynnyng
of
soules
.
Thus
moche
is
rehersed
in
this
chapytre
of
the
ghostly
meruayllous
thynges
that
our
lord
wrought
by
hys
spouse
.
This
holy
mayde
Katheryne
aboute
the
helthe
of
mannes
soules
.
¶
Now
shall
I
tell
you
in
the
next
chapytre
what
god
wrought
for
hyr
aboute
the
helthe
of
bodyes
/
&
so
shall
I
make
an
ende
of
the
next
chapytre
.
The
wyttenesse
that
nedeth
to
be
rehersed
in
the
ende
of
this
chapytre
/
ben
rehersed
afore
in
the
same
chapytre
/
and
that
suffyceth
ynough
.
¶
Of
somme
myracles
done
in
hyr
lyfe
by
hyr
aboute
the
lyf
and
helthe
of
mennys
bodyes
.
Capitulum
viij
I
Shall
tell
you
maydens
a
wonder
meruayllous
thyng
.
And
yette
it
is
lyght
and
esye
to
them
Inough
/
wyth
whome
is
founde
none
vnpossybylyte
.
Lapa
this
holy
maydes
moder
was
a
womman
of
grete
symptenesse
and
Innocencye
.
Yet
she
hadde
for
that
tyme
lytell
affeccyon
to
Inuysyble
thynges
.
And
therfore
she
was
sore
aferde
to
dye
and
passe
out
of
this
worlde
.
She
caught
a
bodely
sykenes
/
and
it
encreced
day
by
day
more
and
more
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
this
vnderstode
.
She
prayed
to
our
lord
deuoutely
for
hyr
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
to
socour
hyr
moder
wyth
helthe
/
that
brought
hyr
forth
and
nouryshed
hyr
.
She
hadde
an
answer
anone
from
heuen
that
it
was
beste
for
hyr
for
to
passe
now
out
of
this
worlde
/
or
thenne
she
haue
more
aduersytees
that
ben
to
come
.
As
soone
as
she
wyste
this
/
she
went
to
hyr
moder
and
sayde
to
hyr
wyttely
suche
swete
wordes
.
Moder
yf
our
lord
swete
Ihesu
wyll
calle
you
to
hym
out
of
this
worlde
/
dyspose
you
to
be
confourmyd
to
his
blyssed
wyll
/
and
beth
noo
thyng
sory
.
¶
Thenne
the
moder
desyryng
not
for
to
deye
/
prayed
hyr
doughter
to
praye
for
hyr
that
oure
lorde
wolde
wouchesauf
to
graunte
hyr
bodely
he
le
/
and
speke
nomore
to
hyr
of
hyr
deth
.
Thys
holy
mayde
prayed
thenne
our
lord
hertely
and
feruentely
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
take
hir
nought
out
of
this
worlde
in
to
the
tyme
she
knewe
that
hyr
wylle
were
more
confourmed
to
hys
wyll
.
¶
Our
lorde
graunted
hyr
/
hyr
axynge
and
suffred
hyr
moder
to
be
seek
for
a
tyme
/
and
not
for
to
drawe
to
the
passage
of
deth
.
And
thenne
this
holy
mayde
was
made
mene
betwene
god
and
hyr
moder
for
to
praye
that
one
/
and
exhorte
that
other
.
Our
lord
she
prayed
that
he
wolde
not
take
hyr
ageynst
hyr
wyll
.
And
hyr
moder
she
exorted
and
admonysshed
wyth
swete
wordes
that
she
sholde
confourme
hyr
and
consent
to
the
wyll
of
god
.
Neuerthelesse
though
in
maner
she
bowed
our
lord
to
hyr
prayers
yet
she
myght
not
enclyne
hir
moder
wyll
by
hyr
exortacyons
.
¶
Thenne
our
lord
spake
to
hys
spouse
Katheryne
and
sayde
.
Telle
thy
moder
that
she
hath
now
no
nede
to
passe
out
of
this
worlde
/
but
tyme
shall
come
that
she
shall
desyre
for
to
deye
/
and
thenne
she
shal
not
haue
it
/
and
that
was
sothe
.
¶
Hyt
befyll
that
she
lyued
in
to
a
grete
age
/
and
sawe
many
aduersytres
in
hyr
dayes
/
as
well
of
persones
as
of
theyr
goodys
/
in
so
moche
that
she
sayde
ofte
tymes
in
heryng
of
many
folke
suche
wordes
.
Whether
our
lord
Ihesu
hath
put
a
soule
in
my
body
/
that
it
shall
neuer
be
delyuered
thens
So
many
chyldren
and
doughters
grete
and
smale
yong
and
olde
ben
dede
/
and
I
may
not
deye
¶
Now
I
shall
cesse
of
this
mater
and
procede
forthe
in
the
fyrst
mater
that
I
began
Lapa
this
holy
maydes
moder
was
of
so
harde
herte
that
she
wolde
in
no
wyse
dye
ne
by
confessyd
/
ne
thynke
in
noo
wyse
on
hyr
soule
he
le
.
¶
Thenne
oure
lorde
for
to
appyre
more
meruayllously
in
hys
spouse
Katheryne
denyed
in
maner
as
it
semed
hys
fyrste
graunte
.
And
suffred
Lapa
to
drawe
fast
toward
the
deth
wythout
confessyon
Whan
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
/
she
lyfte
vp
hyr
eyen
to
heuen
wyth
wypyng
terys
&
sayd
to
our
lord
thus
.
A
a
lord
god
ben
thise
thy
behestys
that
thou
hast
graunted
me
/
that
none
of
my
faders
houshold
shold
perysshe
/
is
this
thy
mercyable
byheste
that
saydest
my
moder
sholde
not
passe
hens
ageynst
hyr
wyll
.
I
see
well
now
that
she
shall
dye
wythout
sacramentys
of
holy
chyrche
Therfore
I
beseche
the
by
alle
thy
mercyes
that
thou
suffre
me
not
to
be
deceyued
/
and
that
I
goo
not
hens
a
lyue
vnto
the
tyme
thou
haste
yolde
to
me
my
moder
reuyued
in
soule
and
body
.
¶
These
wordes
and
these
meruayllous
cause
herde
thre
wimmen
of
Sene
that
were
present
.
¶
Whan
hyr
moder
as
it
semed
by
syghte
and
felyng
was
dede
/
soo
that
they
were
aboute
for
to
go
home
ageyne
to
theyr
howses
leuyng
Lapa
there
for
dede
/
yf
it
had
not
ben
that
the
holy
mayde
prayed
as
she
dyd
/
and
therfore
they
abode
the
lenger
.
Of
the
maners
of
these
wymmen
I
shall
tell
you
afterward
.
¶
Thys
holy
mayde
contynued
long
in
prayers
/
at
the
last
our
lord
herde
hyr
prayers
gracyously
/
and
quyckened
the
soule
and
the
body
ageyne
of
Lapa
/
that
she
lyued
afterward
vnto
the
tyme
she
was
foure
score
yere
of
age
and
nyne
wyth
grete
torment
of
herte
for
many
aduersytres
that
she
suffred
as
it
was
prophecyed
to
hyr
afore
by
hyr
doughter
this
holy
mayde
.
¶
Of
this
myracle
were
wytnesse
one
Katheryne
and
Angelyna
sustres
of
penaunce
/
and
also
Lysa
this
holy
maydes
cosyn
they
were
present
whan
Lapa
was
leyde
forthe
for
dede
and
herden
how
this
holy
mayde
prayed
to
oure
lorde
thus
.
Lorde
ben
these
thy
behestys
that
thou
behote
me
as
it
is
sayd
afore
.
Of
the
remeynaunt
of
hyr
age
/
whan
she
was
restoryd
ageyne
to
lyf
/
bare
wyttenes
many
one
.
Lo
ye
maydens
here
may
ye
knowe
of
what
meryte
this
holy
mayde
was
wyth
our
lord
Ihesu
that
delyuered
hyr
faders
soule
out
of
purgatory
/
and
reduced
hyr
moders
soule
in
to
hir
body
ageyne
meruayllously
.
¶
Another
meruayllous
thyng
shall
I
tell
you
.
It
happened
that
ther
was
a
comyn
pestylence
of
bocchys
reygnyng
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
/
soo
that
it
oppressyd
bothe
men
and
wymmen
/
yong
and
olde
to
the
deth
/
that
comynly
they
dyed
wythin
two
dayes
or
thre
at
the
ferthest
/
the
whiche
sekenes
feryd
many
a
man
.
¶
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
wente
aboute
to
vysyte
seek
folke
/
and
comforted
them
in
god
no
thyng
chargyng
of
the
Infeccyon
of
that
pestylence
touchyng
hys
bodely
deth
/
soo
that
he
myght
wynne
soules
.
Whanne
he
hadde
so
vysyted
them
for
werynes
that
he
had
in
goyng
aboute
/
he
restyd
hym
in
a
chyrche
of
our
lady
/
where
to
he
hadde
a
grete
deuocyon
/
and
namely
for
the
persone
of
the
same
chyrche
was
a
blessyd
lyuer
and
well
knowen
wyth
thys
holy
mayde
Katheryne
/
the
whiche
persone
was
called
Syr
Mathewe
.
¶
It
befyll
fewe
dayes
after
that
mayster
Reymond
wente
out
by
the
morowe
for
to
vysyte
seek
folke
as
he
was
wonte
And
as
he
came
by
the
chyrche
of
our
lady
for
deuocyon
that
he
hadde
to
our
lady
in
that
place
/
and
also
for
affeccyon
that
he
hadde
to
the
persone
syr
Mathewe
/
he
wente
for
to
loke
how
he
ferde
.
Sodeynly
whan
he
was
entred
in
to
the
chyrche
/
he
sawe
syr
Mathewe
bere
vp
in
to
hys
chambre
semynge
as
he
hadde
be
dede
by
vyolence
of
that
pestylence
For
he
hadde
lost
bothe
colour
of
hys
face
and
strengthe
of
hys
body
/
and
also
hys
speche
.
¶
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
axed
of
other
aboute
what
hym
eyled
.
They
answerde
and
sayd
/
that
the
nyght
afore
aboute
one
after
mydnyght
/
he
was
vppe
for
to
vysyte
a
seek
body
And
wyth
Inne
lytell
tyme
afterward
he
was
take
wyth
the
pestylence
Here
of
was
mayster
Rymond
ryght
sorye
&
folowed
hym
vp
to
his
chambre
as
other
dyd
and
then
ne
satte
doun
by
hym
.
Wythin
a
whyle
after
whan
he
was
layde
in
hys
bedde
/
he
recouered
his
spyrytes
ageyne
and
callyd
mayster
Reymond
to
hym
prayeng
hym
of
confessyon
/
and
so
was
shryuen
clene
of
hys
synnes
as
he
was
ofte
wonte
to
do
.
After
tyme
that
he
was
assoylled
mayster
Reymound
axed
how
it
stode
wyth
hym
/
and
he
answerd
and
sayd
ageyne
/
that
it
greued
hym
so
sore
in
hys
grynde
or
in
the
flanke
/
that
it
semed
to
hym
/
his
thygh
wolde
falle
awaye
/
and
not
onely
the
thygh
/
but
also
the
hede
fareth
as
though
it
were
departed
in
foure
partyes
/
by
payne
and
ache
that
he
suffred
ther
Inne
.
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
touchyd
&
tastyd
hys
pounse
and
founde
well
that
he
hadde
a
passyng
feuer
Wherfore
he
had
hys
menye
that
they
sholde
bere
hys
water
to
leches
and
so
they
dyd
But
mayster
Reymound
folowed
soone
after
to
knowe
verayly
what
the
leches
wolde
saye
.
To
whome
the
leche
sayde
thus
.
Thys
man
is
take
wyth
the
pestylence
/
and
therfore
I
drede
me
that
the
hows
of
our
lady
shall
wante
and
lacke
a
good
persone
.
¶
Thenne
axed
mayster
Reymond
/
whether
he
myght
be
holpe
by
ony
maner
remedye
of
medycynes
/
he
sayd
that
he
sholde
assaye
.
But
he
hadde
no
grete
trust
in
noo
medycynes
by
cause
the
sykenes
was
ryght
greuous
.
Thus
mayster
Reymond
departed
from
hym
wyth
grete
sorowe
euer
prayeng
by
the
waye
to
our
lord
in
hys
soule
/
that
he
wolde
wouchesauf
to
saue
hys
bodely
lyf
Yet
a
whyle
for
hys
example
to
many
:
¶
In
the
mene
whyle
this
holy
mayde
herde
saye
that
syr
Mathewe
was
seek
/
whome
she
loued
tenderly
for
hys
vertuous
lyuyng
.
Anone
she
wente
home
to
hym
/
and
as
soone
as
she
sawe
hym
she
cryed
to
hym
and
sayd
.
¶
Aryse
vp
syr
Mathewe
/
aryse
vp
for
shame
/
is
it
now
tyme
to
lye
a
bedde
.
Sodeynly
thenne
atte
hyr
callyng
/
the
feuer
and
the
bocche
wente
away
fro
hym
as
though
he
hadde
neuer
hadde
hem
/
and
thenne
he
roos
vp
wythout
ony
taryeng
goodly
/
soo
that
in
hys
rysyng
he
sayde
smylyngly
and
ioyefully
/
that
the
vertue
of
god
restyd
in
that
holy
mayde
.
¶
Thenne
the
holy
mayde
wente
awaye
and
fledde
the
preysyng
of
men
.
But
as
she
went
out
of
the
hows
/
the
mette
wyth
mayster
Reymond
.
To
whome
mayster
Reymond
sayd
full
sorowfully
.
¶
Moder
whether
thou
wylte
suffre
this
man
to
dye
/
that
is
so
dere
and
profytable
to
vs
.
Alle
be
it
that
she
wyst
well
ynough
what
she
hadde
to
done
/
yette
she
sayde
to
hym
of
mekenes
suche
wordes
.
Fader
what
wordes
be
these
/
whether
ye
wene
I
am
god
/
that
may
delyuer
men
fro
deth
.
¶
Thenne
sayde
mayster
Reymond
to
hyr
ageyne
wyth
a
grete
spyryte
for
sorowe
that
he
hadde
of
hys
deth
Saye
this
to
whome
that
thou
lust
/
but
to
me
tell
no
suche
thynges
that
knoweth
how
our
lorde
dothe
wyth
the.
I
knowe
well
that
what
that
euer
thou
axyste
of
god
thou
shalte
haue
.
¶
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
bowed
hyr
hede
to
hym
and
smyled
.
And
at
laste
she
loked
vp
wyth
a
gladde
chere
vpon
hym
and
sayd
.
Be
of
good
chere
fader
/
for
he
shall
not
dye
at
thys
tyme
.
¶
Wyth
that
was
Mayster
Reymound
gladde
/
he
knewe
well
that
god
hadde
gyue
hyr
grete
grace
/
&
soo
he
departed
from
hyr
and
wente
to
syr
Mathewe
for
to
loke
how
he
ferde
.
Whome
he
founde
syttyng
in
hys
bedde
/
and
wyth
gretr
ioye
rehersyng
the
myracle
of
the
holy
mayde
.
¶
To
whome
Mayster
Reymound
sayde
in
confortynge
of
hym
that
the
holy
mayde
tolde
hym
.
Syr
Mathew
sayd
thenne
to
mayster
Reymond
.
What
trowe
ye
she
hath
do
/
he
sayd
he
wyst
ne●
for
she
tolde
him
no
worde
therof
.
Syr
Mathew
wyth
that
aroos
vp
out
of
his
bedde
&
sat
doune
by
mayster
Reymound
and
tolde
hym
all
the
hole
gladly
how
the
holy
mayde
was
there
and
sayde
to
hym
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
Soone
after
syr
Mathew
ete
and
dranke
none
seke
mannis
mete
/
but
hole
mannys
mete
/
and
that
was
a
grete
merueyle
/
he
was
mercy
and
gladde
that
vnne
the
he
myght
speke
a
worde
that
same
daye
in
the
morowe
/
Of
this
myracle
were
wytnesse
:
one
Fryer
Nychol
that
came
wyth
Mayster
Reymound
and
other
prestes
and
clerkes
of
the
hous
of
our
glorious
Lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
Mary
xx
.
or
there
aboute
/
But
now
I
praye
you
maydens
taketh
hede
that
infydelyte
off
curyous
hertes
dysceyue
you
not
in
this
myracle
/
Somme
wyll
saye
to
you
perauenture
that
it
is
none
greate
merueyle
though
a
man
be
helyd
of
suche
a
comyn
sekenes
as
is
the
feueres
and
pestylence
for
all
day
suche
a
thynge
happeth
/
To
whom
it
may
be
asked
agayn
what
merueyle
that
was
whan
our
lord
heled
petre
his
wyffes
moder
of
the
feuers
/
al
day
it
happeth
that
men
ben
delyuered
of
the
feuers
be
it
neuer
soo
greuous
:
why
is
it
than
of
petris
wyffes
moder
rehersed
for
a
myracles
in
the
gospell
.
But
now
taketh
hede
ye
curyous
vntrowyng
hertes
take
hede
whether
it
be
not
he
the
whiche
heled
this
man
Mathewe
that
heled
petris
wyffes
moder
:
In
helyng
of
petre
wyffes
moder
he
commaunded
that
her
feuers
sholde
goo
fro
her
/
and
soo
it
dyde
anone
wythout
ony
taryeng
▪
And
she
thenne
arose
vp
and
mynistred
our
lord
at
mete
¶
Ryght
soo
in
this
miracle
it
was
the
same
lorde
that
spak
in
the
holy
maydes
breste
the
whiche
heled
petrys
wyffes
moder
/
and
soo
syr
mathewe
was
bothe
off
the
fruers
and
also
of
the
pestylence
/
What
was
the
cause
trowe
you
/
trewely
for
the
mynystracion
that
he
sholde
shewe
to
our
lorde
in
tyme
comynge
for
wynnyng
of
soules
/
soo
thenne
the
entent
folowyng
is
cause
of
the
miracle
that
goth
byfore
/
&
therto
he
was
made
so
perfyghtly
hole
that
he
ete
forwyth
hole
mete
and
mennys
mete
as
thought
he
hadde
not
be
seke
afore
now
I
sythe
I
haue
tolde
you
of
the
myracle
done
to
the
helthe
off
bodyes
.
I
shall
telle
you
a nother
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
¶
A
lytyl
beside
the
Cyte
of
Sene
there
was
a
deuoute
woman
that
was
one
of
the
susters
of
penaunce
of
saint
Domynyke
the
whiche
herd
and
sawe
moche
off
the
vertuous
lyuyng
of
this
holy
mayde
/
she
drewe
moche
to
her
afterward
and
was
vnder
the
counseyll
of
this
holy
mayde
/
&
dyde
her
reuerence
as
to
her
moder
After
it
befyll
on
a
day
that
this
deuout
suster
was
on
hye
on
a
solier
of
her
hous
for
certayn
thynges
that
she
hadde
to
do
And
sodenly
the
solyer
fyll
doune
&
the
woman
vndernethe
▪
alle
the
raftre
treys
brosed
so
her
that
she
was
drawe
out
halfe
ded
or
soone
after
to
be
deed
/
At
the
laste
by
the
helpe
of
god
she
was
broughte
to
bedde
and
began
to
reuyue
and
felte
that
payne
of
her
herte
brosour
:
&
complayned
her
sore
wyth
wepyng
and
weylyng
/
Leches
than
were
sought
to
do
the
besynes
for
to
hele
her
▪
but
yet
for
all
her
lechecraf
she
myght
not
tourne
her
in
her
bede
without
helpe
of
other
:
Whan
the
holy
mayde
katheryn
herde
therof
/
she
had
compassion
in
herte
of
the
suster
and
came
to
her
and
comforted
her
in
penaunce
and
in
her
dysese
/
But
whan
she
perteyued
that
her
dysese
was
soo
passyng
payne
to
her
She
touched
the
places
of
her
body
that
were
paynefull
as
though
she
wolde
anoynted
theym
wyth
her
hondes
:
Of
the
whiche
touchyng
the
suster
was
well
apayed
supposyng
faythfully
by
the
mercy
of
god
that
it
sholde
bee
to
her
grete
ese
/
She
hadde
not
so
soone
touched
her
syde
but
that
she
was
all
hole
as
though
she
hadde
felt
afore
none
payne
/
Thenne
the
seke
suster
prayed
her
that
▪
she
wolde
touche
the
oder
syde
as
she
dyde
the
syde
by
cause
the
holy
mayde
thenne
supposed
that
it
was
ese
to
her
/
She
dyde
soo
as
she
badde
her
&
in
the
same
wyse
her
dysese
went
a
waye
in
that
place
after
her
touchyng
as
it
was
in
the
other
syde
:
soo
thenne
at
the
laste
the
holy
mayde
touchyd
ouer
all
her
body
there
she
felte
dysese
/
and
all
dysese
was
clene
a
voyded
/
At
the
laste
whan
she
was
alle
hole
she
tourned
her
aboute
by
her self
wythouten
ony
helpe
that
all
myght
see
verely
by
her
tokens
that
she
was
fully
hole
:
Neuertheles
yet
she
helde
her
peas
tyll
tfe
hooly
mayde
was
a
goo
leste
she
sholde
haue
troubled
her
mekenes
yf
she
hadde
tolde
it
her
in
presence
/
but
afterward
she
told
it
bothe
to
leches
&
to
neyghbours
and
sayde
thus
katheryne
the
doughter
of
Lapa
hath
heled
me
by
her
touchyng
/
All
they
hadde
me
rueyle
therof
and
thanked
god
that
hadde
gyue
suche
gracious
vertues
to
the
holy
mayde
katheryne
/
For
they
wyste
ryght
well
that
the
holynes
might
not
come
but
of
god
&
therfore
they
thanked
hym
/
This
myracle
Mayster
Reymound
knewe
by
tellyng
of
other
:
But
now
I
shall
tell
you
of
anther
that
mayster
Reymound
him self
knewe
and
sawe
it
¶
In
that
tyme
whan
the
greate
pestylence
contynued
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
:
there
was
an
holy
recluse
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
and
was
called
Scuns
that
louyd
the
whiche
was
touched
wyth
that
same
pestylence
:
whan
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
she
ordeyned
that
he
sholde
be
brought
to
the
hous
of
our
gloryous
lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
mary
the
whiche
was
called
also
the
hous
of
mercy
where
she
her self
wyth
her
felawes
vysyted
hym
and
ordeyned
for
althynge
that
was
nedefull
for
hym
in
his
sekenes
and
at
the
laste
she
came
to
him
her self
and
tolde
hym
preuyly
in
hys
ere
and
sayde
thus
/
Fader
drede
you
not
for
thou
shalt
not
deye
for
this
sekenesse
att
this
tyme
/
but
she
wolde
telle
not
thyng
of
this
to
Mayster
Reymound
and
to
her
felawes
the
whiche
prayed
her
to
praye
for
hym
that
he
sholde
lyue
/
For
it
semed
to
them
that
she
was
in
doubte
off
his
lyf
as
well
as
they
were
/
and
therfore
she
ordeyned
for
hym
medycins
for
to
be
heled
by
:
wherfore
Mayster
Reymaūd
and
alle
her
felawes
were
sory
by
cause
all
they
louyd
that
holy
man
for
his
gode
lyuyng
:
Thenne
at
the
laste
his
sekenes
encresed
more
and
more
and
drewe
faste
to
the
deth
as
it
semed
:
wherby
al
that
sawe
hym
supposed
he
shold
deye
and
prayed
for
the
good
passage
of
his
soule
:
And
also
the
holy
man
wende
he
sholde
haue
deyed
right
anone
/
In
that
same
poynt
of
deth
this
holy
mayde
came
and
rouned
in
his
ere
&
saide
to
him
the
second
tyme
/
fader
drede
you
not
for
thou
shalt
not
deye
at
this
tyme
for
this
sekenes
he
vnderstod
her
wel
all
be
it
that
his
wyttes
were
in
party
dystraught
&
alienyd
fro
hym
for
the
greuousnes
of
the
payne
&
he
gaue
more
credence
to
her
wordes
thenne
he
dyde
to
his
actuall
payne
of
deth
/
&
so
it
fyll
afterward
that
the
holy
maydes
wordes
o●came
the
dedes
of
kynde
&
nature
/
Neuertheles
he
contynued
in
suche
transite
passyng
the
comyn
tyme
of
other
mani
dayes
to
gyder
/
but
at
the
last
as
the
spirite
was
in
passyng
as
it
semed
/
The
holy
mayde
came
and
sayde
nowe
the
thyrde
tyme
in
the
seke
mannys
ere
thus
I
charge
the
spyryte
in
the
name
of
oure
lorde
Thesu
Cryst
that
thou
passe
not
/
Anon
the
spyryte
resorted
quycly
agayn
to
the
body
/
And
thenne
the
holy
man
toke
strengthe
to
hym
:
and
ros
vp
and
asked
mete
soo
wythin
a
lytyll
time
he
was
all
hole
and
lyued
/
Afterward
that
the
holy
mayde
was
passyd
out
off
this
world
many
yeres
that
holy
man
that
was
called
Scuns
bothe
in
name
and
in
dede
/
After
tyme
he
was
hole
he
tolde
to
Maister
Reymound
and
to
other
more
what
the
holy
mayde
sayd
to
hym
in
tyme
of
his
sekenes
preuyly
in
his
ere
/
And
he
felte
the
myght
of
her
vertuous
wordes
wherby
the
spyryte
was
called
a
gayn
that
was
in
the
poynt
of
passyng
And
he
afermed
it
to
all
folke
that
it
was
none
naturall
cause
that
restoryd
hym
agayn
to
his
lyf
but
only
the
myght
of
god
I
shewed
by
his
spouse
katheryn
/
To
whom
folke
gaue
credence
by
cause
he
lyued
in
grete
vertu
of
holynesse
and
was
knowen
a
famous
man
in
the
Cyte
of
Seene
by
xxxvj
yere
.
to
gyder
wythout
ony
repreue
in
hys
lyuyng
:
¶
Ferthermore
maydens
I
shalle
telle
you
of
another
myracle
that
this
hooly
mayde
wrought
in
mayster
Reymound
After
tyme
that
the
grete
pestylence
was
soo
breme
in
the
Cyte
of
Seene
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
that
alle
folke
fledde
by
cause
that
it
was
soo
infectyf
.
Soo
that
men
and
wymmen
deyed
,
wythout
comforte
and
counseyll
and
kepyng
mayster
Reymounde
bythought
hym
that
he
was
bounde
to
loue
mennis
soule
castyng
none
peryll
for
his
one
bodely
dethe
by
enfection
of
that
pestylence
purposed
hym
to
goo
aboute
the
Cyte
and
vyseted
seke
folke
and
comforted
theym
and
dyde
it
in
dede
/
Neuertheles
by
cause
he
was
alone
in
party
in
so
grete
a
Cyte
for
to
visyte
and
comforte
the
seke
/
that
vnethes
he
myght
haue
tyme
or
space
for
to
ete
&
to
reste
.
He
was
soo
sente
after
fro
one
hous
to
another
/
¶
Soone
after
in
a
nyght
it
befyll
he
toke
his
reste
and
was
wakyng
at
a
certayn
hour
for
to
serue
god
:
He
felte
a
greuaunce
of
a
pestilence
both
in
hys
grynde
or
flancke
:
and
for
fere
he
durst
not
aryse
but
lay
styll
and
by
thought
hym
off
the
passage
out
of
this
worlde
/
he
desyred
gretely
that
it
hadde
be
daye
that
he
myght
goo
and
speke
wyth
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
or
thenne
he
were
more
seke
.
In
the
mene
whyle
he
hadde
a
feuer
and
the
hede
ache
as
the
maner
was
off
that
pestylence
sekenes
soo
that
he
was
gretely
payned
and
tourmentyd
/
But
yet
he
sayde
his
matyns
as
he
myghte
:
whan
it
was
daye
he
called
to
hym
hys
felawe
and
wente
to
gyder
as
he
myght
to
the
holy
maydes
hous
and
founde
her
not
at
home
for
she
was
out
to
vysyte
a
seke
body
/
¶
In
the
mene
whyle
hym
thought
she
was
soo
longe
and
he
so
seke
that
he
myght
no
thynge
doo
/
but
lay
doune
there
in
a
lytyll
bedde
/
prayeng
all
tho
that
weren
in
the
hous
that
they
sholde
sende
for
her
assone
as
they
myght
/
She
was
sent
after
and
came
anone
and
perceyued
that
he
was
sore
seke
/
she
knyled
doune
afore
his
bedde
and
crossed
hym
on
the
forhede
wyth
her
honde
:
And
thenne
she
began
to
praye
as
she
was
wont
to
done
in
her
soule
/
Mayster
Reymound
behelde
how
she
was
rauysshed
a
fore
hym
hopynge
of
some
synguler
grate
for
the
prouffyte
of
his
soule
or
of
his
body
abode
her
long
as
him
semed
/
within
a
half
an
houre
afterward
or
there
aboute
he
felte
all
his
body
sterid
to
avomite
:
wening
that
he
sholde
haue
caste
.
But
yet
was
it
not
soo
/
but
hym
thought
that
out
of
euery
▪
parte
of
his
body
was
pulled
out
wyth
a
maner
of
vyolence
somme
maner
of
corrupcion
/
And
so
began
to
wexe
better
at
ese
than
he
was
/
yet
or
than
the
holy
mayde
was
fully
restoryd
agayn
to
her
bodely
wyttes
he
was
all
hole
saue
a
lytyl
fevylnes
bylefte
in
hym
/
After
tyme
thys
holy
mayde
hadde
purchased
of
our
lord
that
grace
of
the
helthe
she
se●yd
of
that
rauyshyng
and
badde
her
felawes
shold
ordeyne
somme
mete
for
hym
/
whan
he
had
receyued
mete
of
her
holy
hondes
she
badde
hym
lye
doun
and
●este
a
whyle
he
dyde
soo
as
she
badde
hym
:
And
whan
he
awoke
/
he
was
as
stronge
as
though
he
hadde
not
be
seke
/
Thenne
the
holy
mayde
sayde
vnto
hym
/
fader
gooth
and
laboureth
now
for
the
helthe
of
sowles
thanketh
almyghty
god
that
hathe
delyuered
you
fro
this
parylle
:
he
went
forthe
to
his
custumably
besynes
and
thanked
god
that
hadde
gyue
suche
vertu
to
hys
blyssyd
mayde
/
Suche
a
lyke
myracle
our
lorde
wrought
by
this
holy
mayde
to
Fryer
Bertylmewe
in
time
of
the
same
pestylence
/
But
yet
that
myracle
was
the
more
bi
cause
her
long
time
was
oppssid
in
that
sekenes
than
Mayster
Reymound
And
by
cause
it
was
in
all
wyse
lyke
ellys
/
therfore
I
passe
ouer
and
reherce
it
not
:
But
I
wolde
ye
vnderstood
may
dens
that
this
holoy
mayde
shewed
not
oonly
the
dyuyne
myracle
of
curacion
in
tyme
of
pestylence
but
also
in
other
tymes
/
and
yet
not
only
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
but
also
in
other
places
But
therfore
one
I
shall
declare
at
this
tyme
wherby
ye
may
vnderstonde
all
other
yf
ye
take
hede
wytely
therto
¶
It
befyll
soone
after
that
the
general
pest●lence
the
whiche
is
rehersed
afore
/
the
many
folke
both
men
and
wymmen
as
well
relygyous
and
seculer
/
But
specyally
certayn
mynchis
of
the
Cy●●
of
●yse
herde
of
the
famous
name
of
this
holy
mayde
katheryn
desyreden
to
see
her
and
here
her
speke
/
And
by
cause
it
was
notlefull
for
theym
to
goo
oute
and
seke
her
therfore
they
prayed
her
as
well
by
lettres
as
by
messengers
that
she
wolde
vouches
●f
to
come
to
●yse
seyeng
to
her
that
there
she
myght
wynne
many
a
soule
the
whiche
sholde
be
to
oure
lord
greate
worshyppe
/
Albe
it
that
this
holy
mayde
eschewed
alwaye
for
to
go
fer
about
the
contre
/
yet
she
was
soo
ofte
prayed
wyth
soo
many
messengers
or
messages
that
she
was
almoste
constr●yned
therto
by
prayer
of
lettres
&
messages
:
Thenne
she
had
a
recource
to
prayer
as
she
was
wont
to
done
and
asked
our
lorde
mekely
declaracion
of
that
doubte
that
she
stode
in
and
what
she
sholde
doo
/
somme
off
theym
that
were
counseyllers
to
her
saide
that
it
was
best
for
her
to
goo
:
and
some
sayde
nay
:
wythin
a
fewe
dayes
afterward
she
had
an
answere
of
our
lord
as
she
beknewe
afterward
to
mayster
●eymound
that
she
shold
not
tarye
:
but
algatys
she
sholde
goo
to
speke
wyth
hys
seruauntys
and
his
spouse
dwellyng
in
the
same
Cyte
of
Pyse
:
Thenne
as
a
t●ewe
obedyencer
by
leue
of
Mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
she
wente
to
Pyse
whome
folowed
afterward
Mayster
Reymound
wyth
a
certeyn
of
hys
bredren
for
to
here
confessyons
:
For
many
ther
were
that
came
to
her
whan
they
herde
her
speke
soo
feruent
wordes
of
loue
/
were
steryd
therby
to
contrycion
/
And
le●t
they
sholde
be
lette
fro
trewe
conuersacyon
&
falle
agayn
in
to
the
fendes
snares
after
suche
cōpuccion
she
wold
beidde
theim
go
to
confession
&
be
shryue
without
ony
taryeng
/
And
by
cause
her
confessyon
was
ofte
tymes
delayed
for
defaute
of
confessours
/
therfore
ofte
tymes
she
desyred
that
she
myght
haue
confessours
by
her
to
whom
she
myght
sende
suche
repentaunce
:
And
therfore
Maister
Reymound
and
his
two
felawes
hadde
power
of
the
pope
by
bull
for
to
here
and
assoyle
all
tho
that
were
endu●ed
to
confessyon
by
this
holy
mayde
:
Whan
she
came
to
Pyse
she
was
receyued
in
a
burgeys
hous
that
was
called
Gerardus
the
whiche
Gerad
vpon
a
daye
brought
wyth
him
a
yonge
man
of
xx
yere
of
age
alle
seke
of
the
feuers
to
this
holy
mayde
besechinge
her
that
she
wolde
praye
for
his
helthe
for
he
tolde
her
that
he
was
vexid
.
xviij
/
monethes
to
gyders
wyth
the
feuers
soo
that
it
was
none
daye
but
that
he
hadde
it
/
And
therto
it
was
so
myghty
to
him
that
it
hadde
brought
hym
soo
lowe
/
and
that
is
well
sene
by
hys
chekes
and
by
hys
body
:
And●●
myght
neuer
by
none
medecyn
be
made
hoole
/
Thenne
the
holy
mayde
hadde
grete
compassyon
in
herte
of
that
yonge
man
/
she
asked
hym
how
longe
it
was
a
goo
that
he
was
shryue
of
hys
synnes
and
toke
penaunce
/
he
sayd
not
many
a
yere
/
therfore
it
is
sayde
she
that
our
lord
hath
yeue
the
this
●oorge
for
thou
hast
not
purged
thy
soule
by
holy
confessyon
soo
longe
tyme
.
Therfore
sone
goo
forthe
anone
to
confession
and
cast
out
that
venim
the
whiche
enfecteth
alle
thy
body
:
whan
he
was
confessyd
and
●ame
to
her
agayne
she
put
her
holy
honde
vpon
his
sholders
and
sayd
to
hym
thus
.
Goo
sone
in
pee●
of
our
lord
●hesu
cryst
for
it
is
his
wyll
that
thou
be
nomore
vexed
wyth
the
feuers
as
she
sayd
it
was
fro
that
time
forward
he
was
not
vexed
therwyth
.
Within
fewe
dayes
after
he
came
again
to
the
holy
mayde
/
and
thanked
her
of
her
curacion
and
sayde
openly
afore
a●
folke
that
he
hadde
neuer
the
feuers
sythe
she
a
voyded
it
by
the
vertu
of
our
lord
/
●ff
this
bereth
wytnes
Mayster
Reymound
for
he
sawe
that
myracle
:
And
other
wytnesse
there
were
ynow
by
Gerad
&
the
childes
moder
and
many
other
afterward
the
yonge
man
puplychid
that
miracle
by
all
●●e
contree
suche
another
byfyll
in
the
Cyte
of
Seene
/
but
moche
more
▪
merueylous
by
cause
the
sikenes
was
more
perylous
/
¶
There
was
a
suster
of
penaunce
of
saynt
Domynyke
in
the
same
●yte
off
Seene
that
was
called
Gemina
the
whiche
loued
well
this
holy
mayde
:
she
had
a
sekenes
of
hir
throte
the
whiche
was
called
the
s●ynce
/
by
contynaunce
of
tyme
the
sekenes
encresyd
soo
that
it
made
her
throte
soo
streyght
that
vnethe
she
might
drawe
her
brethe
▪
but
almoost
ofte
tymes
was
strangelyd
/
Thenne
she
wente
to
this
holy
mayde
&
prayed
her
as
she
myght
speke
seyenge
thus
/
moder
I
shaldeye
but
ye
helpe
me
/
this
holy
maide
hadde
soo
grete
compassyon
of
her
that
she
toke
her
holy
honde
and
crossed
her
throte
▪
¶
And
anone
wythout
ony
taryenge
t●e
sekenes
avoyded
:
and
soo
she
that
come
wyth
grete
sorowe
:
went
home
wyth
grete
gladnesse
/
And
tolde
it
soone
after
to
her
confessour
/
But
by
cause
somme
what
I
haue
tolde
you
of
curacions
done
to
the
body
by
this
holy
mayde
to
diuerse
persones
therfore
I
shall
telle
you
now
of
a
grete
notable
myracle
that
our
lorde
wrought
●i
this
blessyd
holy
mayde
/
¶
It
befyll
that
this
holy
mayde
wente
in
a
tyme
fro
Pyse
to
Auyoun
wyth
whome
wente
two
good
deuoute
yonge
men
that
wrote
the
lettres
that
this
holy
Mayde
wolde
sende
:
The
one
was
called
Neryus
that
afterward
●as
a
deuoute
recluse
.
And
the
other
was
ca●led
Stephene
that
was
afterward
a
monke
of
the
charterhous
/
And
a
good
vyrtuous
lyuer
therto
/
to
the
same
●yte
of
auyoun
wente
als●
mayster
Reymound
¶
It
happed
whan
they
were
entred
in
to
the
Cyte
of
auyoun
the
forsayd
Neryus
was
seke
wyth
a
merueylou●
sykenes
in
his
bowellis
that
he
myght
haue
none
reste
/
neyther
nyght
ne
daye
/
But
cryed
and
wayled
ofte
tymes
and
he
might
not
lye
in
his
bedde
but
creped
about
on
hondes
and
on
feet
and
sought
reste
/
and
yet
myght
none
fynde
This
was
tolde
to
the
holy
maide
and
she
badde
mayster
Reymound
sende
afleches
to
helpe
hym
:
For
other
comforte
wolde
she
none
gyue
mayster
Reymound
dyde
soo
:
and
there
was
none
leche
that
myght
ese
him
but
rather
he
was
the
more
payned
/
I
trowe
for
that
ende
allone
by
cause
our
lord
wolde
worke
that
myrarle
in
his
spouse
katheryn
/
At
the
last
leche
said
to
maister
Reymound
that
they
myght
not
prouffyte
in
hym
/
And
therfore
they
hadde
none
truste
in
his
lyffe
/
¶
Whan
Mayster
Reymound
hadde
tolde
this
to
his
companye
as
they
satē
at
the
mete
Stephene
the
felowe
of
Neryus
roos
vp
wyth
a
grete
spyryte
&
went
to
the
holy
maydes
chambre
sytyng
doune
on
his
knees
and
prayed
her
mekely
that
she
wyll
not
suffre
his
felowe
Neryus
to
deye
in
suche
a
straunge
contree
:
To
whom
this
holy
mayde
answerde
thus
/
sone
why
art
thou
heui
thou
sholdest
not
be
sory
for
thy
felawe
/
For
our
lorde
wyll
rewarde
hym
in
blysse
for
his
pacyence
in
sufferyng
of
that
sekenes
/
Thenne
he
sayd
agayn
/
dere
moder
yett
here
myn
prayer
at
this
tyme
and
helpe
hym
for
I
wote
well
ye
may
and
ye
wyll
/
Thenne
she
sayd
well
sone
I
see
well
that
thou
art
not
in
will
to
conforme
the
to
the
wil
of
god
as
I
haue
tolde
the
/
Therfore
sythe
I
see
that
thou
art
soo
tourmentyd
for
hym
/
come
to
me
to
morowe
whan
I
go
to
here
masse
and
be
houselyd
and
reduce
this
mater
to
myn
mynde
/
And
I
shall
sende
vp
thyn
prayer
to
god
/
And
thou
shalt
praye
for
me
that
I
maye
be
herde
Thenne
stephen
was
well
apayed
wyth
this
vyheste●erly
/
on
the
morowe
/
he
mette
wyth
this
holy
mayde
goyng
for
to
here
masse
/
Assone
as
he
aspyed
her
/
he
fyldoune
on
his
knees
and
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
not
forgete
hym
of
that
he
spake
to
her
the
day
afore
.
After
tyme
whan
she
was
ho●elyd
she
was
rauysshed
from
her
bodely
wyttes
and
prayed
our
lord
for
that
seke
man
:
Soone
after
she
was
restoryd
ayen
to
her
bodely
wyttes
and
came
to
the
same
Stephene
smylyng
the
whiche
abode
her
there
of
an
answere
and
sayde
vnto
hym
thus
:
Sone
thou
hast
the
grace
that
thou
hast
asked
/
Thenne
he
asked
her
whether
Neryus
shold
be
deliuerd
of
his
sekenes
She
sayd
ye
:
wyth
that
he
wente
gladly
to
his
felawe
and
badde
hym
be
of
good
there
for
he
shall
be
hole
/
and
soo
he
was
full
tendaunt
aboute
for
to
recouer
hym
/
In
tyme
of
his
mynystracion
aboute
him
it
happed
the
same
Stephene
to
be
seke
&
lay
doune
in
his
bedde
of
a
passyng
feuer
/
Whan
the
holy
mayde
knewe
that
she
hadde
grete
sowwe
and
went
to
hym
and
asked
hym
what
sekenes
he
hadde
:
And
she
perceyued
by
touchynge
of
hys
ponse
that
he
was
vexed
wyth
a
strong
feuer
:
Anone
wyth
a
greate
feruour
o●●
spyryte
she
sayde
thus
/
I
charge
the
feuer
by
the
vertu
of
obedyence
that
tho●
goo
out
of
this
man
/
thenne
went
the
feuer
a
waye
and
he
wos
vp
all
hole
with
out
ony
taryeng
/
and
thanked
oure
lorde
of
his
grete
grace
that
he
shewed
to
hys
spouse
Katheryne
.
Another
notable
myracle
I
shall
telle
you
of
a
suster
of
penaunce
/
the
whiche
was
called
Johan
dwellyng
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
In
a
tyme
that
our
holy
fader
pope
Gregory
that
lyued
that
tyme
was
in
the
cyte
of
Sene
at
the
byddyng
of
our
holy
fader
Gregorye
/
this
holy
mayde
was
sent
to
Florence
to
make
pees
betwene
hym
&
his
rebell
children
of
florence
/
the
whiche
mat
is
to
longe
to
tell
here
But
this
mater
shall
hau●
a
chapytre
by
hit
self
afterward
by
the
helpe
of
god
And
whan
she
was
come
to
Florence
/
&
wyth
hyr
a
felawe
of
heres
/
the
whiche
was
called
Johan
/
for
to
trete
for
the
pees
betwene
our
oure
holy
fader
/
and
that
rebell
people
.
The
people
sette
lytell
by
hyr
wordes
/
but
s●laundred
hyr
meruayllously
&
set
hyr
at
nought
.
Then
ne
she
was
counseylled
for
to
withdrawe
hyr
a
whyle
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
were
cessyd
of
theyr
malyce
.
She
dyd
so
/
but
yet
she
sayd
/
that
she
wold
neuer
passe
out
of
that
cyte
in
to
the
tyme
they
were
accorded
/
and
pees
were
cryed
thorugh
out
all
the
cyte
of
Florence
/
&
as
she
sayde
so
it
was
.
Thenne
she
wente
a
syde
&
was
lodgyd
a
lytell
besyde
the
cyte
/
where
sodeynly
hir
suster
Johan
was
seek
in
hyr
foot
/
so
that
hyr
foot
was
all
forswo●land
ther
wyth
for
payne
of
hyr
foot
/
she
had
a
grete
●eruent
axes
/
and
so
she
was
in
double
wyse
tormented
that
she
myght
not
goo
wyth
hyr
.
Thy●
holy
mayde
was
heuy
therof
&
wolde
in
no
wy●e
leue
hyr
behynde
/
le●t
s●launder
sholde
spryng
She
prayed
to
our
lord
for
helpe
/
that
he
wold
wouche●auf
mercyably
to
helpe
hyr
fel●we
/
all
the
whyle
that
she
prayed
hyr
suster
was
a
slepe
And
whan
she
awoke
she
was
all
hole
as
though
she
had
I
had
no
sykenes
.
Anone
she
arose
vp
&
went
wyth
this
holy
mayde
as
quykly
as
euer
she
dyd
afore
.
¶
Of
this
myracle
many
one
thanked
our
lord
that
sawe
it
/
the
whiche
had
wrought
soo
gracyously
by
hys
spouse
Katheryne
.
Yette
shall
I
tell
you
another
meruayllous
thynge
that
our
lord
wrought
by
hyr
in
the
cyte
of
Tholetane
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
was
entred
in
to
the
Cyte
of
Tholetane
/
she
took
hir
Inne
/
and
anone
she
wente
in
to
hir
chambre
as
she
was
wonte
to
do
In
to
the
whiche
mayster
Reymond
was
come
on
the
popes
message
.
Sodeynly
thenne
he
herde
in
the
stretys
of
the
Cyte
of
wymmen
/
that
an
holy
womman
was
come
&
entred
in
to
the
Cyte
Then
ne
soone
after
cam
men
/
and
after
wymmen
to
hyr
Inne
&
axed
where
thys
holy
mayde
was
.
They
of
the
Inne
myght
not
hyde
hyr
/
but
they
suffred
wymmen
onely
to
goo
in
to
hyr
&
speke
wyth
hyr
.
Thenne
ther
was
one
of
the
wommen
that
hadde
a
lytell
chylde
/
whos
whombe
was
meruayllously
swolle
.
And
they
prayed
this
holy
mayde
that
she
wold
take
that
childe
in
hyr
armes
/
at
the
begynnyng
she
refused
it
/
by
cause
of
vayn
glorye
/
but
at
the
●ast
she
was
ouercome
by
pyte
/
and
dyd
as
they
had
hyr
/
as
soone
as
she
took
that
chylde
in
hir
hondes
/
anone
the
childe
deliuered
from
him
moche
wynde
/
so
that
at
last
hys
bely
aswagyd
/
and
was
as
small
as
euer
it
was
/
&
soo
the
chylde
was
hole
.
All
be
it
that
mayster
Reymond
sawe
not
this
myracle
/
yet
ther
was
so
open
speche
therof
in
the
Cyte
of
Tholetane
that
it
came
to
the
bysshopys
ere
/
and
sent
after
mayster
Reymond
&
prayed
hym
that
he
myght
speke
wyth
the
holy
mayde
/
for
the
childe
was
neuewe
to
a
vycary
of
hys
.
And
than
this
holy
mayde
came
&
spake
wyth
the
bysshop
of
many
vertuous
maters
.
Many
moomeruayls
our
lord
wrought
by
this
holy
mayde
that
ben
not
wryten
in
this
book
.
But
these
fewe
I
haue
wryten
to
you
maydens
by
cause
that
ye
shall
the
sonner
gyue
credence
that
our
lord
Jhesu
Cryste
dwellyd
in
this
holy
maydens
soule
/
the
whiche
principally
wrought
all
thyse
meruayllous
werkys
/
wytnes
of
the
maters
the
whiche
ben
reherced
in
this
chapytre
ben
reherced
afore
in
tho
places
where
these
my
racles
were
shewed
/
and
thus
endeth
this
chapytre
.
¶
Of
myracles
wrought
by
thys
holy
mayde
a
boute
the
delyueraunce
of
them
whiche
were
encombred
and
vexyd
wyth
fendes
.
Capitulum
lx
Owre
lorde
all
myghty
Ihesu
cessyd
not
to
shewe
outward
the
Fertue
that
he
gaue
Inwarde
to
hys
spouse
Katheryne
by
many
meruayllous
werkes
.
The
vertue
therfore
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
angmented
so
myghtly
in
the
brest
of
this
holy
mayde
/
that
not
onely
it
was
shewed
to
seek
bodyes
as
it
is
reherced
afore
/
but
also
it
was
shewed
in
voydyng
of
wycked
spyrytes
as
it
shall
be
declared
in
this
chapytre
by
the
helpe
of
god
.
Ther
was
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
a
man
/
the
whiche
was
called
mychael
that
vsed
the
craft
of
wrytyng
/
whan
he
was
passed
in
yeres
of
age
by
consent
of
hys
wyf
/
he
was
in
purpose
to
leue
the
worlde
/
&
serue
our
lord
more
specyally
thenne
he
was
wonte
.
And
also
for
to
make
two
doughters
of
hys
mynchyns
in
a
monasterye
in
the
same
Cyte
of
Sene
endowed
in
worshyp
of
saynt
Johan
the
Enange
lyst
&
so
hys
lyst
was
fulfylled
.
And
at
the
last
by
a
pryue
dome
of
god
/
one
of
his
doughts
the
whiche
was
made
a
myn
then
that
was
called
Laurencyana
of
vill
yere
of
age
or
there
aboute
/
was
vexed
with
a
fende
so
that
all
the
monasterye
was
vnquyeted
by
hyr
vexacyon
.
And
at
the
last
by
comyn
assent
they
sent
after
hyr
fader
&
delyuered
ageyne
hys
doughter
/
for
they
wold
nomore
haue
hyr
in
the
monasterye
as
long
as
she
was
so
vexed
.
Whan
she
was
take
out
of
the
monasterye
/
the
fende
spak
wythin
hir
by
the
childys
mouth
many
wondre
thynges
&
all
in
latyn
wordes
/
so
many
herde
questyons
&
ther
to
pupplysshed
many
pryue
synnes
in
sclaunder
of
many
folke
/
by
the
whiche
it
myght
well
be
vnderstond
that
he
was
no
good
spyryte
Of
this
vexacyon
hyr
fader
&
moder
and
other
of
hir
frendes
were
ryght
sory
/
&
wente
aboute
to
dyuerse
relyques
of
sentes
for
to
seke
helpe
&
grace
that
her
doughter
myght
be
delyuerd
of
that
spiryte
And
specyally
they
trusted
gretely
in
the
relyques
of
saynt
Ambrose
the
whiche
was
a
frere
prechour
/
to
whome
our
lord
graunted
a
synguler
gyfte
/
to
put
awaye
wycked
spyrytes
/
soo
that
hys
cope
yf
it
had
be
layde
vpon
ony
creature
that
had
be
vexed
wyth
a
wicked
spiryte
it
sholde
be
auoyded
/
where
fore
the
same
chylde
was
brought
to
the
frere
prechours
&
leyde
vpon
a
tombe
of
saint
ambrose
/
&
hys
clothes
were
leyde
to
the
childe
/
and
the
fader
&
the
mod
prayed
in
the
mene
whyl
the
helpe
of
god
&
of
the
sente
that
the
chylde
myght
be
socourre
.
But
yet
for
that
tyme
were
they
not
herde
.
Not
for
no
synne
that
euer
they
dyd
But
I
trowe
be
cause
that
the
syguler
remedyes
was
reserued
to
this
holy
mayde
.
Thenne
was
it
counseylled
to
the
fad
&
mod
for
to
presente
hyr
doughter
to
Pratheryne
the
holy
mayde
/
they
sent
to
the
holy
mayde
prayenge
hyr
that
she
wolde
helpe
theyre
doughter
.
And
she
sent
ageyn
answer
&
sayd
/
that
often
tymes
defayled
&
departed
a
sonder
and
my
soule
was
vtterly
delyuered
out
of
the
body
Neuerthelesse
it
was
but
a
lytell
tyme
&
that
was
my
sorowe
.
Then
ne
eftesones
mayster
Reymond
axed
hir
how
long
tyme
hyr
sowle
was
out
of
the
body
.
She
sayd
as
they
that
kepte
hyr
&
were
aboute
to
haue
beryed
hyr
foure
houres
or
thenne
she
reuyued
ageyn
Yet
he
axed
hyr
what
she
sawe
for
that
tyme
/
&
why
came
the
soule
ageyne
to
the
body
she
answerd
thus
Fader
that
tyme
my
sowle
sawe
&
vnderstode
ioye
of
blessyd
sowles
/
and
peynes
of
synners
.
And
as
myn
mynde
wold
suffre
me
&
wordes
wolde
suffyce
to
expresse
them
/
I
shall
tell
you
.
My
sowle
sawe
the
diuyne
essencyall
beyng
of
god
/
and
that
is
the
cause
why
I
am
soo
lothe
&
vnpacyent
to
lyue
in
this
worlde
/
and
had
not
be
the
loue
of
hym
&
the
loue
of
crysten
people
/
for
whiche
my
sowle
was
restoryd
to
the
body
ageyne
/
I
sholde
had
defaylled
&
dyed
for
sorowe
.
The
hyghest
comfort
that
I
haue
is
whan
I
suffre
ony
dysease
/
for
that
I
haue
the
perfyte
vysyon
of
god
/
therfore
trybulacyons
ben
not
heuysom
to
me
/
but
comfortable
as
ye
may
knowe
/
&
other
that
ben
conuersaunt
wyth
me
I
sawe
also
the
peynes
of
dampned
sowles
/
and
peynes
of
sowles
that
ben
in
purgatory
/
the
whiche
I
can
not
expresse
perfytely
wyth
no
maner
of
wordes
.
For
yf
wretched
synners
sawe
the
leste
peyne
that
is
there
/
they
had
leuer
chese
bodely
deth
an
hondred
tymes
yf
it
were
possyble
/
thenne
for
to
suffre
o
daye
the
leste
peyne
that
is
there
.
But
specially
I
sawe
hem
ponysshed
syngulerly
that
had
synned
in
matrymony
/
the
whiche
hadde
not
kepte
hem
to
gyder
honestly
as
they
sholde
do
/
but
folowed
the
dylectacions
of
theyr
lustys
Of
this
mayster
Reymond
hir
confessour
axed
hyr
why
that
synne
in
specyall
was
more
greuously
punysshed
thenne
o
ther
synnes
/
syth
it
so
is
that
it
is
not
the
most
greuous
synne
She
sayd
for
this
skylle
.
For
they
had
not
soo
grete
conscyence
of
that
synne
ne
so
grete
contrycyon
as
they
had
of
other
synnes
/
but
rather
they
offended
in
that
synne
thenne
in
ony
other
That
synne
the
whiche
a
synner
chargeth
not
for
to
remoue
/
by
penaunce
is
a
grete
synne
be
it
neuer
soo
lytell
.
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
proceded
forthe
in
hyr
mater
&
sayd
thus
also
.
Fader
whanne
I
had
seen
all
thyse
ioyes
and
thes
peynes
wenyng
my self
that
I
hadde
fully
be
delyuered
out
of
this
body
.
Oure
lorde
sayde
to
me
/
seest
thou
not
doughter
what
ioye
they
lacke
and
what
peyne
they
haue
that
offenden
me
.
Torne
ageyn
therfore
to
thy
body
&
tell
to
the
peple
theyr
errour
and
theyr
peryll
.
And
wyth
that
worde
I
was
astonyed
for
to
torne
ageyne
to
the
body
and
sore
aferde
.
Thenne
our
ford
sayd
to
me
/
it
is
profyte
to
mennys
soules
that
thou
torne
ageyne
/
and
thou
shalte
not
lyue
the
lyfe
that
thou
hast
lyued
afore
ne
kepe
the
so
lytarie
allone
in
chambre
/
but
thou
shalte
goo
a
brode
to
wynne
sowles
/
I
shall
euer
be
wyth
the
/
and
goo
wyth
the
bothe
goyng
and
comyng
.
Thou
shalte
bere
the
worshyp
of
my
name
and
of
ghoostly
doctryne
afore
grete
and
smale
&
laye
people
and
clerkys
and
afore
Relygyous
folk
also
I
shall
gyue
the
bothe
mouth
and
wytte
for
to
speke
that
none
may
wythstande
the.
I
shall
also
bryng
the
afore
bysshoppys
and
curates
of
sowles
for
to
confounde
there
pryde
.
Whyles
our
lorde
spak
thyse
wordes
sodeynly
my
soule
was
restored
ageyne
to
my
body
.
And
whanne
I
perceyued
that
I
hadde
grete
sowwe
/
that
I
wepte
thre
dayes
ende
of
this
chapite
/
It
nedeth
not
for
to
reherce
the
wytnesses
of
euery
acte
that
was
done
in
this
chapytre
/
for
it
is
made
mencion
of
forthwyth
at
euery
acte
in
the
same
chapytre
/
¶
Of
myracles
whiche
our
lord
wrought
by
this
holy
mayde
in
breed
/
wyne
.
herbes
▪
and
other
thinges
that
had
none
lyff
:
Capitulum
xj
BY
cause
at
the
begynnyng
whan
Adam
was
made
our
lord
ordeyned
a
rewle
to
all
tho
that
obeye●
to
hym
perfyghtly
/
that
all
thynges
sholde
obeye
to
them
.
Therfor
maydens
in
this
nexte
chapytre
I
shall
telle
you
how
to
this
holy
mayde
obeyden
alle
creatures
by
cause
she
obeyed
perfyghtly
to
god
:
In
the
tyme
that
this
holy
mayde
lyued
in
the
Cyte
of
Seene
:
it
befyll
that
there
was
a
wedowe
a
yonge
woman
called
alixe
the
whiche
wyth
a
greate
fauoure
drewe
to
this
holy
mayde
/
soo
that
she
thought
she
hadde
soo
grete
affectyon
●o
her
▪
that
as
her
semed
she
myght
not
liue
without
her
:
And
therfore
she
toke
the
habite
of
the
susters
of
penaunce
and
for
soke
her
owne
hous
/
And
hyred
her
an
hows
by
syde
the
hooly
maydes
hows
that
she
myght
the
more
ofte
bee
conuersaunt
wyth
her
.
Whan
she
hadde
do
thus
the
hooly
mayde
was
ofte
tymes
in
her
hous
wyth
her
/
and
fledde
for
a
tyme
her
faders
hous
/
It
happed
afterward
in
the
same
yere
that
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
there
was
a
grete
sharsyte
of
breed
corn
soo
the
stynkyng
whete
was
drawen
out
of
the
erthe
and
out
of
dyches
the
whiche
was
bought
of
Cytezynes
of
the
same
Cyte
as
that
tyme
for
good
where
by
cause
there
myght
none
other
begoten
for
none
pryce
/
Of
the
whiche
stynkyng
whete
/
Alyxe
the
sorsayde
wedowe
must
nedes
be
ye
/
or
ellys
she
shold
be
wythout
br●d/Neu●rtheles
in
as
moche
as
it
was
nyghe
the
tyme
of
herwest
her
olde
whete
was
fayled
and
brought
to
the
marcat
Alixe
wyst
therof
that
newe
whete
was
comen
she
purpose
to
cast
awaye
the
olde
s●ynkyng
whete
and
beye
newe
:
but
bycause
the
hole
Mayde
was
in
her
hous
she
wolde
nothyng
doo
wythout
counseyll
of
her
wherfore
she
opened
her
purpos
to
her
semyng
thus
/
moder
sythe
our
lord
heth
do
mercy
wyth
vs
in
syndyng
of
newe
whete
I
am
in
wyll
to
throwe
myn
olde
s●inkyng
whete
▪
To
whom
this
holy
mayde
answerd
thus
/
yf
ye
wyll
not
ete
of
that
olde
corn
/
gyue
it
ellys
to
poure
folke
that
hauen
none
▪
Alixe
sayd
than
that
she
sholde
haue
greate
conscitence
for
to
gyue
the
poure
folke
soo
stynkyng
whete
she
hadde
leuer
for
to
gyue
theim
of
the
beste
whete
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
badde
her
ordeyne
water
and
bryng
to
her
that
stinkyng
whete
that
she
purposed
to
caste
awaye
for
she
sayde
that
she
wolde
make
brede
therof
for
poure
folke
/
as
she
sayde
soo
it
was
/
Fyrst
she
made
her
dowe
&
after
she
molded
loues
of
that
lytyll
quantyte
of
whete
:
And
it
encresyd
soo
plentuously
in
the
moldyng
that
both
Alyxe
and
her
seruaunt
weren
gretely
astonyed
that
sagen
suche
multyplycacion
of
loues
For
as
theym
thought
soo
many
loues
myght
not
be
made
of
suche
foure
lytyll
quantyte
of
whete
as
thys
hooly
mayde
made
and
sette
forthe
for
to
be
bake
/
and
also
there
was
none
stynche
of
tho
loues
as
it
was
of
the
other
that
were
made
of
the
same
whete
afore
/
whan
thei
were
bake
they
were
sette
fourth
on
the
table
for
to
be
eten
:
&
in
the
etyng
there
was
founde
none
bitternes
no
stynche
/
but
as
thei
saide
that
eten
therof
/
they
eten
neuer
betyr
brede
.
This
Alexe
sent
fo●
her
confessonr
&
he
came
wyth
certain
of
his
bretheren
for
to
see
▪
that
myracle
and
lyke
as
it
was
sayd
to
hym
in
quantyte
encresyng
and
in
qualyte
ryght
well
amendyd
:
To
thyse
two
my●acles
/
the
thyrde
was
addyd
to
and
that
was
this
/
the
breed
was
largely
gyuen
to
poure
folke
and
to
other
that
wolde
ete
therof
and
yet
was
it
neuer
the
lasse
in
nombre
/
but
alwaye
was
it
founde
ynow
in
the
breed
hutche
:
were
not
this
trewely
thre
fayr
myracles
/
for
fyrste
she
put
awaye
the
stynche
of
that
corn
:
and
afterward
encresyd
the
loues
in
the
muldyng
/
and
at
the
laste
she
multyplyed
the
loues
in
etyng
of
the
breed
:
in
soo
moche
that
they
myght
vnnethe
be
distribued
bi
many
wekes
togyders
neended
/
soo
that
xx
yere
after
or
moo
there
were
somme
that
kepte
of
that
breed
for
a
relyke
:
¶
Thenne
mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
asked
her
how
the
myracle
was
done
/
She
answerd
and
sayde
that
she
hadde
soo
grete
zele
or
loue
to
pour
folke
lest
they
shold
spylle
for
defaulte
and
soo
tender
loue
to
our
lord
lest
his
gyfte
sholde
be
dyspysed
that
she
went
wyth
a
grete
feruour
for
to
make
breed
of
that
stynkyng
whete
:
¶
And
thenne
our
blessyd
gloryous
lady
gloryous
virgyn
Mary
wyth
a
multytude
of
angelis
stood
by
her
and
helpe
her
to
molde
/
by
vertu
of
her
holy
gloryous
hondes
she
trowed
that
the
loues
encresed
/
for
tho
loues
that
oure
gloryous
Lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
Mary
molded
/
she
delyuerd
to
this
holy
mayde
/
And
she
to
Alixe
and
to
her
seruaunt
for
to
be
put
in
to
the
ouen
:
what
meruayle
is
it
maidens
though
tho
loues
were
swete
sythe
the
hooly
gloryous
hondes
of
oure
blessyd
gloryous
lady
gloryons
virgin
Mary
molded
theym
/
consydereth
therforre
good
maydens
and
taketh
good
heede
of
what
meryte
this
holy
mayde
was
to
whom
vouchesaf
our
blessyd
glorious
lady
gloryous
vyrgyn
mary
stonde
by
her
and
helpe
her
in
that
myracle
for
to
make
vs
vnderstonde
that
ryght
as
bodely
lyuelode
encresed
in
that
hooly
maydens
hondes
/
Ryght
soo
ghostely
liuelode
sholde
encrese
by
her
blessyd
exortacion
:
¶
Now
sythe
I
haue
begonne
of
breed
multyplyed
by
myracle
therfore
I
shall
contynue
forth
in
suche
in
suche
in
suche
a
lyke
myracle
was
done
in
the
laste
ende
of
her
lyff
whan
she
lyued
here
in
erthe
:
Of
the
whiche
myracle
were
wytnesses
lysa
her
cosyn
and
a
suster
of
penaunce
the
whiche
was
called
Johan
for
bothe
they
were
wyth
her
whan
she
was
sente
after
by
our
holy
fader
pope
vrbane
the
vj
to
the
courte
of
Rome
/
And
whan
she
was
come
to
the
Cyte
she
r●sted
there
wyth
a
certayn
nombre
of
her
ghoostely
chyldren
that
she
hadde
noryssched
in
vertu
the
whiche
folowed
her
fro
the
partyes
of
Tuskan
in
maner
agaynst
this
hooly
maydes
wyll
/
some
for
prechyng
of
ghostely
grace
of
our
holy
fader
/
and
somme
for
pylgrymage
and
visitacions
of
saintes
the
whiche
desyred
to
go
specyally
in
this
holy
Maydes
companye
by
cause
they
myght
be
fedde
wyth
the
swetnesse
of
her
blessyd
conuersacion
/
¶
Thenne
this
holy
mayde
hadde
made
an
ordynaunce
amonges
them
that
they
sholde
not
haue
aboute
them
neyther
golde
ne
syluer
.
But
oonly
they
sholde
lyue
of
poure
almesse
/
And
that
they
sholde
be
herbourd
in
an
hospytall
/
¶
And
also
the
wymmen
eueryche
off
theym
a
weke
sholde
mynys●re
lyflod
suche
as
they
hadde
receyued
of
almesse
to
all●
her
felawes
that
other
myghten
bee
occupyed
in
the
mene
whyle
in
prayers
/
and
in
holy
contemplacyons
and
aboute
theyr
pylgrymages
/
wherfore
they
were
come
to
the
Cyte
Whan
this
ordynaunce
was
made
/
soone
after
it
happed
that
this
Johan
/
the
whiche
is
reherced
afore
mynystred
to
other
as
for
hyr
weke
.
In
whos
weke
it
befyll
casuelly
that
she
lacked
brede
whan
hyr
felawes
sholde
go
to
mete
/
and
thenne
badde
this
holy
mayde
here
afore
/
that
whan
she
lackyd
brede
she
shold
warne
hir
ouer
euen
that
she
myght
goo
&
make
somme
ordynaunce
.
But
Johan
had
forgete
that
/
whan
hyr
felawes
were
come
to
mete
Johan
wolde
haue
sette
brede
afore
them
/
and
she
founde
nomore
but
a
cantell
that
wolde
vnnethe
se●ue
foure
to
theyr
mete
/
and
ther
were
in
nombre
of
persones
xvj
Thenne
Johan
wente
to
this
holy
mayde
&
knowleched
hyr
neglygence
all
sory
&
shamefast
/
seyeng
that
ther
was
no
brede
but
a
lytell
that
vnnethes
wolde
suffyse
to
foure
/
eche
of
them
to
resteyne
a
lytell
.
To
whome
this
holy
mayde
sayd
A
suster
god
for
gyue
it
you
/
why
haue
ye
so
neglygently
brought
vs
to
this
last
nede
/
myght
ye
not
haue
warned
me
as
I
bad
you
/
well
we
ll
byd
goddes
seruauntes
go
sytte
doun
Thenne
sayde
the
mynyster
that
ther
was
but
a
lytell
brede
/
yet
byd
them
sytte
doun
sayd
this
holy
mayde
to
hir
/
and
serue
them
wyth
that
lytell
/
and
bydde
them
begynne
wyth
that
lytell
tyll
that
god
ordeyne
more
.
After
thyse
wordes
the
holy
mayde
prayed
whyle
they
et●
.
Johan
fulfylled
hir
byddyng
&
deuyded
to
euery
man
a
lytell
/
and
they
as
hongry
folke
&
gredy
by
long
fastyng
ete
fast
/
wenyng
that
they
sholde
nomore
mete
haue
.
And
also
the
suposed
that
that
lytell
brede
sholde
soone
be
do
But
alwaye
they
hadde
ete
ynough
/
and
yet
the
brede
myght
not
defaylled
And
thenne
they
axed
what
the
holy
mayde
dyd
/
it
was
tolde
that
she
prayed
Thenne
they
sayd
all
by
vertue
of
hyr
prayer
our
lorde
fedde
them
as
he
fedde
fyue
thousand
men
wyth
fyue
louys
/
and
so
they
thanked
god
.
Whan
they
hadde
all
ete
/
yet
ther
was
suche
plente
lefte
that
poure
folke
had
ynough
.
¶
Now
yette
shall
I
tell
you
of
another
myracle
that
mayster
Reymond
bereth
recorde
of
/
the
whyche
was
done
after
tyme
that
this
holy
mayde
was
passed
out
of
this
worlde
in
to
the
blysse
of
heuen
.
In
a
tyme
hit
happed
mayster
Reymond
by
counseyll
of
the
Pryour
of
the
freres
and
the
couent
/
wolde
doo
somme
solempne
reuerence
to
the
hede
of
Saynt
Katheryne
this
blyssed
virgyne
/
after
tyme
that
it
was
translated
out
of
the
Cyte
of
Rome
to
the
freres
that
dwelled
at
Sene.
He
sette
a
daye
and
bad
to
mete
all
hyr
ghostely
chyldren
that
she
had
nourysshed
in
vertue
.
In
the
whyche
day
the
freres
were
fully
auysed
to
gyue
hyr
a
solempne
reuerence
/
and
also
to
fede
that
day
all
hyr
ghoostly
chyldren
.
Whan
the
day
was
comen
and
the
solenpne
was
done
.
The
frere
that
kepte
the
botrye
of
the
couent
loked
what
brede
he
hadde
for
the
Couent
/
and
for
the
gestys
/
and
he
founde
scarsely
ynough
for
half
the
Couent
And
thenne
were
there
in
Couent
fyfty
or
there
aboute
and
of
gestys
twenty
/
whan
the
Pryour
herde
here
of
he
was
sory
.
Neuerthelesse
yet
he
serued
the
gestyn
fyrst
wyth
that
lytell
/
and
thenne
the
Couent
wyth
a
lytell
quantyte
among
them
all
/
and
yet
belefte
ynough
Soo
thenne
eueryche
of
the
Couent
and
of
the
gestys
hadde
plenteuously
ynough
/
of
that
vnnethe
as
them
semed
that
lytell
nombre
of
louys
myght
hadde
suffysed
fyfe
afore
.
Whan
they
had
all
eten
/
the
Pryour
and
the
Couent
came
thyder
ther
mayster
Reymond
satte
wyth
the
ghoostly
chyldren
of
that
holy
mayde
Saynt
Katheryne
/
and
rehersed
a
fore
them
all
that
myracle
.
Thenne
sayde
mayster
Reymond
these
wordes
.
Loo
frendes
this
holy
mayde
Saynt
Katheryne
in
the
day
of
hyr
solempnyte
wyll
not
leue
vs
wythout
somme
myracle
/
wyth
whome
she
was
so
famylyer
whyles
she
lyued
in
erthe
.
Ofte
tymes
whan
she
was
wyth
vs
lyuyng
in
this
lyf
she
shewed
this
myracle
among
vs
And
therfore
for
to
shewe
vs
that
she
now
accepteth
oure
obseruaunce
this
daye
done
to
goddes
worshyp
and
to
herys
/
she
hadde
shewed
the
same
myracle
eftesonys
after
hyr
passyng
/
wherfore
yelde
we
thankyng
te
almyghty
god
.
Yet
furthermore
our
lord
shewed
meruayllous
thynges
by
his
spouse
Katheryn
in
vnlyfely
thynges
/
as
in
floures
where
in
she
hadde
ofte
tymes
grete
delyte
by
cause
she
florysshed
in
vertue
hyr
self
.
And
in
other
vesselles
of
houshold
that
were
lost
&
destruyed
and
of
thoo
meruayllous
thynges
I
shall
tell
you
.
¶
Thys
holy
mayde
was
somme
tyme
in
the
Cyte
of
pyse
/
herborowed
in
a
worthy
mannes
hows
of
the
same
Cyte
/
the
whiche
man
loued
well
this
holy
mayde
.
After
tyme
she
was
ther
a
whyle
/
she
was
gretely
feblyd
in
body
by
ofte
excesse
of
spyryt
in
rauyshyng
/
so
that
as
it
semed
mayster
Reymond
and
other
moo
that
sawe
hyr
.
She
was
brought
nye
to
the
deth
/
wherfore
mayster
Reymond
was
sore
aferde
lest
she
sholde
haue
dyed
/
he
bethought
hym
what
remedye
he
myght
ordeyne
for
to
restore
hyr
to
lenger
lyf
/
and
he
wyst
neuer
what
he
myght
ordeyne
for
hyr
as
for
egges
and
wyne
/
and
also
other
letuaryes
he
knewe
welle
that
she
myght
not
ete
.
Thenne
he
came
to
hyr
and
prayed
hyr
that
she
wolde
receyue
a
lytell
suker
in
hyr
water
that
she
drynketh
/
to
whome
she
answerd
thus
.
Fader
I
see
well
that
ye
wyll
take
awaye
fro
me
that
lytell
lyf
/
the
whiche
is
left
in
me
by
suche
swete
drynkes
/
for
I
doo
you
well
to
wete
that
all
swete
thingi●
to
me
dedly
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
and
the
souerenys
of
the
hows
bethought
hem
to
gydres
what
remedye
they
myght
ordeyne
ageynst
hir
feblynes
At
the
last
it
came
to
mayster
Reymond
mynde
that
he
hadde
see
that
ofte
tymes
feble
folke
hadde
be
wesshen
/
somme
tyme
wyth
vernage
aboute
the
temples
in
the
pouses
of
the
body
/
and
so
were
restored
of
strengthe
and
gretly
comforted
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
sayde
to
the
souereyne
of
the
hous
thus
.
Syr
sethe
it
is
soo
that
we
may
not
putte
noo
comfortable
remedye
wythin
hyr
body
/
lete
vs
▪
vse
somme
remedye
wythout
on
hyr
body
.
Thenne
sayde
the
souerayne
of
the
hows
/
that
he
had
a
lytell
besyde
hys
hows
a
neyghboure
that
hadde
a
vessell
of
vernage
/
to
whome
he
sayde
/
he
wolde
sende
to
for
to
haue
a
botell
full
therof
/
for
he
knewe
well
that
he
sholde
haue
it
full
gladly
.
A
messenger
was
sent
to
hym
/
and
tolde
him
how
this
holy
mayde
was
feble
/
wherfore
he
praied
in
his
maystrys
behalf
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
to
sende
hyr
a
botell
of
vernage
.
To
whome
the
neyghboure
answerd
thus
that
he
wolde
sende
hym
all
redy
/
but
certeyn
he
sayde
hys
vessell
was
emptyd
/
and
therfore
he
prayed
hym
to
holde
hym
excused
/
for
I
wote
well
in
all
my
hows
is
no
drope
of
wyne
/
and
that
I
am
ryght
sory
fore
.
Neuerthelesse
to
be
seker
come
and
see
/
and
thenne
bere
wytnesse
of
the
trouth
to
my
frende
as
thou
seest
.
Thenne
forthwyth
he
took
the
messenger
wyth
him
all
ageynst
the
messengers
wyll
/
and
brought
hym
to
hys
wyne
seler
/
and
shewed
hym
that
same
vessell
of
vernage
/
the
whiche
vessell
semed
by
outwarde
tokenys
that
it
was
voyde
many
day
afore
/
yet
neuerthelesse
the
good
man
dyd
more
for
to
see
the
trouthe
that
it
was
voyde
/
he
drewe
out
the
spygot
/
that
was
in
the
vessell
/
and
drewe
it
out
in
hys
presence
/
that
he
sholde
see
that
there
was
noo
wyne
Inne
.
As
soone
as
he
hadde
done
soo
/
the
vernage
came
out
and
ranne
vpon
the
grounde
plentuously
/
he
was
sore
astonyed
and
stopped
the
vessell
ageyne
/
and
callyd
all
hys
meyne
/
and
axed
of
them
whether
they
hadde
putte
ony
▪
wyne
of
vernage
in
that
vessell
.
All
they
sayde
naye
/
they
knewe
no
wyne
there
in
thre
monthys
afore
and
more
.
And
it
hadde
be
a
grete
meruayll
that
wythoute
them
ony
lyquor
had
be
putte
ther
Inne
.
Thys
was
af●…rward
notefyed
to
the
neghboures
aboute
/
and
all
they
sayde
it
was
a
myracle
as
it
was
The
messenger
came
ageyne
wyth
a
grete
meruayll
gladdenes
bryngyng
wyth
hym
a
botell
of
vernage
/
and
tolde
all
the
myracle
as
it
was
/
soo
that
all
thoo
that
herde
it
thanked
our
lord
that
wrought
suche
a
myracle
in
hys
holy
mayde
Katheryne
/
and
many
one
aftward
whan
this
holy
mayde
was
hole
/
came
for
to
see
hyr
/
seyeng
wyth
grete
meruaylle
suche
wordes
/
how
may
this
be
that
drynketh
noo
wyne
by
myracle
.
By
suche
wordes
of
the
people
/
this
holy
mayde
caught
grete
sorowe
in
hir
herte
as
she
knowleched
afterward
to
mayster
Reymond
.
And
wyth
suche
sorowe
and
waylyng
/
she
prayed
to
our
lord
in
hyr
sowle
more
thenne
in
hyr
mouthe
seyeng
suche
wordes
:
A
good
lord
why
suffrest
thou
me
to
be
so
tormented
in
herte
that
I
shall
be
to
all
folke
shame
and
reproue
.
All
other
seruauntes
of
thyne
may
lyue
among
the
people
saue
I
allone
.
O
good
lord
who
axed
of
thy
myldenes
wyne
.
I
by
Inspyracyon
of
thi
grace
haue
kept
me
fro
wine
long
tyme
And
now
I
am
made
to
all
people
for
wyne
in
s●orne
and
reproue
/
I
praye
the
lord
for
thy
grete
pyte
/
make
that
wyne
for
to
vanysshe
awaye
/
that
this
same
whiche
is
deuulgyd
amonges
men
now
cesse
.
Our
lord
of
hys
mercy
herde
hyr
prayer
and
made
the
vessell
of
wyne
to
decrece
/
so
that
sodeynly
ther
it
semed
full
to
all
mennes
drynkyng
the
whiche
drank
therof
of
deuocyon
by
cause
of
the
myracle
it
was
decrecyd
to
the
lyes
/
and
so
all
tho
that
praysed
it
afore
for
myracle
/
helde
ther
pe●s
afterward
for
shame
▪
And
mayster
Reymond
and
other
moo
of
hyr
ghoostly
chyldren
were
ashamed
of
theyr
grete
praysyng
afore
.
But
the
holy
mayde
was
Jocunde
and
gladde
thankyng
our
lord
hyr
spouse
that
hadde
delyuered
hyr
of
suche
open
praysyng
of
men
.
¶
Now
I
praye
you
maydens
taketh
he
de
how
oure
lorde
kepte
this
holy
mayde
from
vayne
glorye
/
and
sette
hyr
in
a
perfyte
grounde
of
mekenesse
by
thyse
two
myracles
.
By
the
fyrst
he
gaue
hyr
mater
to
worshyp
him
that
wrought
that
myracle
wythout
hyr
wetyng
in
that
/
that
he
fylled
the
vessell
of
wyne
.
By
the
secounde
he
gaue
hyr
mater
to
folowe
hym
in
mekenes
/
in
puttyng
awaye
of
vayne
glorye
/
the
whiche
was
putte
vpon
hyr
.
By
the
fyrst
our
lord
shewed
what
vertue
of
myracle
she
was
endowed
wyth
By
the
secounde
he
shewed
what
wysdome
she
was
fulfylled
wyth
.
For
there
that
mekenes
is
/
there
is
wysdom
.
Neuertheles
yet
the
secounde
myracle
in
emptyng
of
the
vessell
was
gretter
thenne
the
fyrst
in
fyllyng
of
the
vessell
/
&
that
semed
well
by
a
simylytude
that
Saynt
Gregorye
makyth
in
hys
dyaloges
betwyne
the
vertue
of
pacyence
&
shewyng
of
myracles
/
whether
he
seyth
that
the
vertue
of
pacyence
passeth
shewyng
of
myraclee
.
Why
thenne
may
not
the
vertue
of
trewe
mekenes
/
the
whiche
is
neuer
wythout
wysdom
passe
with
out
ony
comparyson
shewyng
of
myracles
/
the
whiche
come
as
well
by
pryde
as
by
mekenes
.
A
bestely
man
may
in
no
wyse
perceyue
this
/
and
that
is
no
meruaylle
.
For
Saynt
Poule
sayde
that
prudence
of
the
flesshe
is
in
no
wyse
subiecte
to
god
.
Loo
maydens
now
haue
I
tolde
you
what
myracles
our
lord
shewed
by
his
spouse
Katheryne
in
vnlyfly
creatures
/
and
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
The
wytnesse
of
this
chapytre
also
ben
expressyd
afore
wyth
Inne
this
chapytre
there
that
the
myracles
ben
declared
.
¶
Of
the
ofte
receyuyng
of
the
holy
sacrament
of
the
aulter
/
and
of
the
meruaylles
whiche
our
lord
dyd
to
hyr
touchyng
the
holy
sacrament
/
and
other
relyques
of
sayntes
.
Capitulum
xij
IT
was
knowen
to
all
that
knew
this
holy
mayde
whyle
she
lyued
in
erthe
/
what
excellent
loue
she
hadde
in
reuerence
and
deuocyon
aboute
the
worshypfull
sacrament
of
the
aultre
.
Oure
lorde
hys
flesshe
and
hys
blood
so
that
for
the
often
receyuyng
therof
/
hit
was
a
comyn
seyeng
among
the
people
that
Katheryne
the
holy
mayde
was
houselyd
euery
day
and
lyued
ther
by
allone
wythout
ony
bodely
mete
.
And
all
be
it
that
they
sayd
not
alwaye
trouthe
/
yet
I
suppose
they
tolde
it
mekely
gyuynge
honour
to
god
that
euer
apperyth
meruaylous
to
hys
chosen
Neuertheles
be
cause
she
receyued
it
so
ofte
/
all
be
it
that
it
were
not
euery
daye
/
yet
ther
were
somme
that
grutched
wyth
all
/
ageynst
whome
may
be
brought
wytnes
ynough
of
holy
faders
that
they
dyd
the
same
.
But
fyrst
I
shall
tell
you
what
the
vse
was
of
holy
chyrche
in
olde
tyme
.
Saynt
Denys
seyth
in
a
book
that
he
made
de
ecclesiastica
Jerarchia
/
that
in
the
begynnyng
of
holy
chyrche
/
the
feruoure
of
the
holy
ghoost
was
so
haboundaunt
in
the
hertes
of
feythfull
creatures
bothe
men
and
wommen
/
that
they
receyued
the
sacramente
of
the
aulter
euery
daye
Furthermore
the
doctryne
of
holy
chyrche
techeth
this
/
that
euery
feythfull
man
is
bounde
in
no
dedely
synne
yf
he
haue
actuell
deuocyon
/
it
is
not
only
lefull
for
hym
/
but
also
merytorye
for
to
receyue
that
excellent
worshypfull
sacramente
Whoo
thenne
durst
forbede
suche
a
feythfull
persone
and
suche
an
holy
lyuer
in
ony
maner
wise
for
to
wynne
so
ofte
grete
mede
in
receyuyn●…
of
that
worshypfull
sacramente
.
Trewely
I
doubte
not
therof
/
but
that
suche
a
creature
had
grete
wrong
yf
it
be
denyed
whan
it
is
mekely
vxed
.
But
yf
they
wolde
say
vtterly
/
that
it
is
not
lefull
to
no
creature
be
he
neuer
so
feythfull
/
ne
neuer
soo
perfyte
ne
deuote
for
to
receyue
that
blyssed
sacramente
ofte
.
To
this
I
shall
tell
you
what
answere
this
holy
mayde
gaue
to
a
bysshop
in
presence
of
mayster
Reymond
that
sayd
these
wordes
aforsayd
to
hyr
.
Alledgyng
for
hym
the
wordes
of
Saynt
Austyn
where
he
seyth
thus
.
Euery
day
for
to
receyue
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
nother
I
prayse
ne
blame
it
▪
to
this
obyeccyon
answerde
this
holy
mayde
in
this
wyse
to
the
bysshoppe
.
Fader
yf
Saynt
Austyn
blame
it
not
.
Ye
alledge
that
holy
doctour
ageynst
youre selfe
.
Ouermore
now
shall
I
tell
you
what
Saynt
Thomas
A●uyne
seyth
of
thys
doubte
/
whether
it
be
spedefull
to
a
crysten
man
ofte
tymes
or
euery
day
for
to
receyue
the
sacrament
of
the
aulter
.
He
answereth
thus
therto
/
that
ofte
receyuyng
of
that
blyssed
sacrament
/
encrecyth
the
deuocyon
of
hym
that
receyueth
it
/
but
it
lessyth
other
whyles
hys
reuerence
that
he
sholde
haue
to
that
blyssed
sacramente
.
Therfore
euery
feythfull
Crysten
man
sholde
haue
bothe
reuerence
and
deuocyon
to
that
blyssed
sacramente
And
whan
he
feyleth
that
hys
reuerence
is
lessened
by
ofte
receyuyng
of
that
blyssed
sacramente
/
he
sholde
absteyne
a
whyle
/
that
he
myght
go
therto
afterward
wyth
more
reuerence
.
And
yf
he
fele
hys
reuerence
euer
hole
and
neuer
lessened
/
but
〈…〉
encrecyd
wyth
deuocyon
/
as
o●…
euer
he
receyueth
it
.
Thenne
he
may
sekerly
receyue
it
.
For
truely
wythout
ony
doubte
suche
a
sowle
well
dyspesed
wynneth
moche
mede
in
the
receyuyng
of
that
blyssed
sacramente
.
Thys
holsom
doctryne
of
this
deuoute
and
holy
doctoure
Saynt
Thomas
kepte
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
For
ofte
tyme
she
receyued
that
blyssed
sacramente
.
And
somme
tyme
she
absteyned
hyr
ther
fro
.
All
be
it
that
she
hadde
euer
desyre
to
be
knytte
to
hyr
spouse
by
medytacyon
of
the
blyssed
sacrament
/
for
the
brennyng
charyte
where
by
she
was
drawe
to
hym
/
in
so
moche
other
whyle
she
desyred
to
be
houseled
.
That
but
she
hadde
receyued
that
day
whan
she
desyred
that
blyssed
sacrament
she
shold
haue
a
passion
of
syknes
in
hir
body
/
as
though
she
hadde
be
vexyd
long
tyme
afore
wyth
a
contynuell
sekenes
of
feuer
/
and
all
that
sykenes
of
the
body
came
fro
the
passyon
of
the
soule
.
Many
tymes
she
was
thus
vexed
whanne
she
was
letted
from
houselyng
/
other
whyle
by
the
Pryoure
of
the
freres
/
and
other
whyle
by
the
Pryoresse
of
theyr
ordre
of
hir
susters
.
Neuertheles
by
cause
she
sholde
not
be
lette
/
our
holy
fader
the
pope
Gregorye
the
xj
for
hyr
more
comforte
graunted
hyr
by
bull
that
what
preest
h●rde
hyr
confessyon
myght
housell
hir
in
what
place
that
he
wolde
say
masse
wythoute
ony
leue
of
ony
souereyne
.
¶
Of
one
meruayllous
thyng
now
shall
I
tell
you
that
befyll
to
mayster
Reymond
this
holy
maydes
confessour
.
In
a
tyme
whan
mayster
Reymond
came
from
Auyon
to
the
Cyte
of
Sene
/
and
thoughte
to
loke
how
this
holy
mayde
ferde
/
he
entred
in
to
hyr
hous
aboute
none
dayes
and
founde
hyr
in
hir
oratorye
.
And
this
was
on
Saynt
Markys
day
the
Euangelyst
/
as
soone
as
she
sawe
hym
she
rose
ageynst
hym
and
sayd
to
hym
these
wordes
.
O
wolde
god
fadre
ye
wyst
how
hongry
my
soule
is
▪
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
answerd
hyr
/
for
he
wyst
well
ynough
what
she
mente
.
And
sayde
moder
it
is
now
all
most
paste
tyme
of
syngyng
/
and
I
am
soo
wery
that
vnnethe
I
may
dyspose
me
to
syng
Wyth
that
she
helde
hyr
pees
a
lytell
whyle
.
And
soone
after
she
brack
out
ageyne
the
same
wordes
and
sayd
/
she
was
sore
an
hongred
.
Thenne
mayster
Reymond
wente
to
masse
in
hyr
owne
chapell
that
she
hadde
by
lycence
of
the
pope
/
and
sayd
masse
of
Saynt
Marke
.
And
whan
he
hadde
vsed
he
torned
for
to
gyue
this
mayde
generall
absolucyon
/
as
the
maner
of
holy
chirche
axeth
.
He
sawe
hyr
face
lyke
the
face
of
an
angell
sendyng
out
bemys
of
bryghtnesse
/
in
soo
moche
that
he
meruaylled
and
sayd
in
hym self
to
ou●e
lord
thus
.
Thys
is
not
Katheryns
face
.
But
certeyne
lorde
this
is
thy
dere
spouse
/
wyth
that
he
torned
hym
to
the
aulter
/
and
sayde
thys
wordes
to
oure
lorde
in
hys
soule
.
Come
lorde
to
thy
spouse
/
anone
as
he
had
sayd
that
in
hys
thought
sodeynly
wyth
the
same
thought
/
the
oste
rose
vp
hym self
and
came
to
hys
hondes
¶
Another
meruayllous
thynge
of
this
blyssed
sacramente
I
shall
tell
you
/
that
befyll
to
the
same
mayster
Reymond
.
He
was
in
a
tyme
in
the
Cyte
of
Sene
for
certeyne
thynges
that
he
hadde
to
done
/
and
as
soone
as
he
hadde
done
/
he
wente
for
to
speke
wyth
this
holy
mayde
and
founde
hyr
syke
of
a
sykenes
in
hyr
syde
the
whiche
was
callyd
Ilica
passio
/
and
of
other
gret●
infyrmytees
of
hyr
body
/
desyryng
that
same
day
to
be
houseled
yf
hyr
sykenes
hadde
be
cessyd
.
And
after
tyme
mayster
.
Reymond
hadde
commyned
wyth
hyr
of
the
grete
excellence
of
the
blyssed
sacrament●
of
the
aulter
/
he
went
home
to
hys
Couent
for
to
say
masse
And
as
he
made
hym
redy
to
masseward
/
this
holy
mayde
sente
to
hym
by
a
felawe
of
heres
/
and
prayed
him
to
abyde
a
whyle
/
for
she
wolde
be
houseled
that
day
whan
hyr
sykenesse
were
passyd
awaye
from
hyr
.
He
dyd
so
and
abode
hyr
leysyr
tyll
it
was
aboute
none
tyme
/
this
holy
mayde
was
esyd
and
came
to
chirche
for
to
be
houselyd
.
But
hyr
felawes
consydered
that
the
tyme
was
late
for
to
be
houseled
/
thenne
by
cause
she
hadde
it
in
custome
for
to
abyde
afterward
thre
houres
or
foure
to
gyders
in
rauysshynge
or
more
So
that
the
chirche
dores
most
all
that
tyme
stooden
open
/
of
the
whiche
custome
many
of
the
freres
grutcheden
/
therfore
they
counseylled
hyr
not
for
to
be
houseled
for
grutchyng
of
somme
of
the
freres
.
To
the
whiche
counseyll
this
holy
mayde
mekely
and
obedyently
conc●tyd
But
for
hyr
grete
desyre
that
she
had
to
that
blyssed
sacramente
/
and
myghte
not
receyue
it
she
prayed
oure
lorde
deuoutely
in
the
ferrest
place
of
the
chirche
/
vnknowyng
to
mayster
Reymond
that
she
was
come
/
and
there
she
prayed
in
this
wyse
.
Lorde
Thesu
endeles
mercy
as
thou
hast
gyue
me
gracyously
this
desyre
.
Soo
I
beseche
the
perfou●me
it
by
thyself
/
syth
I
may
not
perfourme
my
desyre
by
noo
preest
.
Thenne
almyghty
god
that
neuer
despyseth
the
desyre
of
his
seruauntes
/
herde
hys
spouse
Katheryne
not
onely
mercyably
.
But
also
meruayllously
as
I
shall
tell
you
.
Whan
she
hadde
comforte
of
oure
forde
/
she
sente
to
mayster
Reymond
by
one
of
hyr
susters
and
prayed
hym
to
goo
to
masse
whan
it
lyked
hym
/
for
she
myght
nott
be
houselyd
that
day
.
Thenne
he
wente
to
masse
supposyng
that
she
hadde
be
at
home
at
hyr
hows
/
and
not
in
the
chyrche
.
And
whan
he
hadde
sacred
/
and
wolde
make
the
fraccyon
afore
Agnus
dei
in
thre
partys
as
holy
chyrche
hath
ordeyned
.
Meruayllously
as
he
wende
to
haue
made
iij
partycles
/
he
founde
foure
partycles
.
And
that
fourthe
partycle
skypped
aboue
the
Chaleys
and
come
doune
be
it self
/
and
layde
it self
vpon
the
corporas
/
as
it
semed
to
mayster
Reymond
.
But
he
coude
neuer
fynde
it
afterward
.
For
many
tymes
he
sought
ther
after
bothe
that
same
tyme
/
and
also
whanne
masse
was
doune
/
wherfore
he
made
grete
sorowe
in
hys
hert●
.
Whanne
he
hadde
soo
dylygent●ly
sought
it
ouer
alle
aboute
the
aulter
besyde
the
aulter
and
vpon
the
grounde
At
the
last
he
bethought
hym
to
aske
counseyll
of
the
pryour
of
the
place
herof
/
the
whiche
pryour
loued
and
dred
our
lorde
god
right
moche
/
couering
in
the
mene
tyme
the
aulter
that
none
body
shold
come
there
vnto
the
tyme
he
sholde
come
agayn
.
But
sodenly
as
he
was
goyng
to
the
pryour
come
to
hym
a
speciall
frende
of
his
a
pryour
of
the
chaterhous
preyng
hym
he
myght
speke
wyth
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
for
certayne
maters
.
Thenne
Mayster
Reymound
prayed
hym
for
to
abyde
a
lityll
tyme
tyll
he
hadde
spoke
wyth
the
pryour
of
his
couent
.
And
he
wolde
come
anone
agayn
He
sayde
he
myght
not
tary
by
cause
it
was
a
solempne
daye
amonges
theym
and
nedes
he
must
be
at
home
at
the
mete
and
therto
he
hadde
a
myle
home
wherfore
he
prayed
hym
for
goddes
loue
to
tary
hym
not
for
his
conscience
constreyned
hym
to
speke
wyth
this
hooly
mayde
katheryne
/
Thenne
of
charyte
he
lefte
his
owne
nede
and
wyth
his
speciall
frende
to
thys
holy
mayde
katheryns
hous
wenyng
that
he
sholde
haue
founde
her
there
:
but
her
felawes
answerd
hym
that
longe
a
go
she
went
to
chirche
and
come
not
home
yet
/
¶
Whan
mayster
Reymond
herde
thys
he
was
admerueylyd
and
came
agayn
to
chyrche
wyth
his
frende
and
founde
her
there
in
a
corner
of
the
chirche
knelyng
&
rauysshed
as
she
was
wount
to
be
/
and
somme
of
her
felawes
wyth
her
/
Off
whom
he
asked
how
longe
that
holi
mayde
katheryne
hadde
be
there
:
they
saide
alle
this
masse
tyme
and
more
that
he
prayed
theym
for
to
excite
her
assone
as
they
myght
for
hys
frendes
is
come
for
to
speke
wyth
her
/
And
he
myght
not
tarye
/
Whan
she
was
cesyd
of
her
rauysshyng
/
mayster
Reymound
toke
her
asyde
and
tolde
her
of
his
dysese
vnder
fewe
wordes
by
cause
the
other
man
his
frende
sholde
not
be
lette
/
Anone
she
smylyd
vppon
mayster
Reymound
and
askyng
hym
thus
gladly
/
Fader
sought
ye
not
all
aboute
/
he
sayde
yes
/
Thenne
she
sayde
why
haue
ye
soo
grete
sow
we
therfore
:
And
wyth
that
she
smiled
●ft/●●is
&
went
soo
forth
for
to
speke
wyth
the
pryour
off
the
charterhous
:
In
the
mene
tyme
mayster
Reymound
abode
somwhat
I
comforted
/
but
not
fully
vnto
the
tyme
he
wyst
how
it
myght
be
soo
awaye
:
Whan
she
hadde
full
doo
wyth
the
Pryour
of
the
Charterhous
and
delyuerd
hi
of
an
answer
that
he
came
for
.
She
tourned
her
to
mayster
Reymounde
agayne
/
Thenne
Mayster
Reymound
sayd
to
her
thus
/
Moder
I
too
we
it
be
ye
that
hath
awaye
that
partycule
of
the
holy
hoste
:
she
wyth
smyling
saide
nay
but
it
was
another
that
toke
it
awaye
from
you
&
therfore
be
ye
nomore
sory
therfore
/
ne
for
it
ne
seke
nomore
for
it
for
I
telle
you
ye
shall
neuer
fynde
it
:
Thenne
Mayster
Reymond
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
tell
hym
al
hole
how
it
myght
be
:
To
whom
she
sayde
thus
/
Fader
take
nomore
sorowe
for
that
partycle
for
yf
I
shall
&
sholde
saye
the
soth
to
you
as
to
myn
confessour
&
myn
ghostely
fader
that
partycule
was
brought
to
me
&
I
receyued
it
by
the
reuerend
hondes
of
our
reuerend
lord
almyhty
god
swete
gloryous
Jhesu
cryst
And
I
shal
tell
you
the
cause
why
/
This
daye
I
was
in
purpos
wyth
a
grete
desyre
for
to
be
houseled
/
but
myn
felawes
gaue
me
counseyll
for
to
cese
that
I
shold
not
be
hoseled
in
as
moche
as
some
grutched
wyth
all
:
After
whos
counseyll
I
wrought
&
was
purpos
for
to
cese
/
but
myn
desyre
was
so
grete
therto
/
that
I
prayed
our
lord
almighty
god
of
helpe
/
&
he
in
his
own
reuerend
persone
aperit
to
me
&
gaue
me
that
partycle
wyth
his
▪
owne
reuerend
hondes
:
And
therfore
fader
bee
not
sory
there
is
none
necligence
in
you
as
for
that
pertycule
/
After
this
reuelacion
Mayster
Reymound
was
ryght
ioyefull
by
cause
the
thaghte
of
his
concience
was
put
awaye
from
hym
:
Suche
myr●c●e
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
shewed
in
the
reuerend
holy
sacrament
of
the
au●ter
by
the
merytes
of
his
honde
mayde
holy
katheryne
of
Sene
/
Also
there
were
many
other
feythfull
folke
and
trewe
that
sayde
▪
thei
●awe
ofte
tymes
whan
Mayster
Reymo●de
houselyd
this
hooly
mayde
kathery●e
of
Sene
the
swete
holi
ghooste
flede
out
of
his
hondes
in
to
her
mouth
the
whiche
Mayster
Reymound
perceyued
neuer
saue
this
he
perceyued
that
/
The
swete
reuerende
hoste
made
anoyse
in
her
mouth
whan
she
had
receyued
it
/
a●
though
a
stone
hadde
bee
caste
in
her
mouth
from
a
ferre
contree
/
¶
Now
thus
shall
I
make
an
ende
off
the
grete
merneylousnes
of
that
reuerende
swete
holy
sacramente
of
the
aulter
&
telle
you
of
dyuerse
myracles
that
befylle
to
this
holy
mayde
saynt
katheryne
of
sene
aboute
certayn
relykes
of
sayntes
.
¶
This
holy
mayde
katheryne
of
Sene
hadde
onys
a
reuelacion
as
she
tolde
pryuely
to
Mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
that
she
sholde
be
sette
in
the
same
degre
of
ioye
in
the
blysse
of
heuen
/
And
be
felawe
wyth
saint
Agnes
the
whiche
was
a
suster
of
the
mount
of
Pollycita
/
Wherfore
this
holy
mayde
katteryn
of
sene
desyred
ofte
tymes
wyth
alle
her
herte
for
to
bysyte
the
relykes
of
saint
Agnes
¶
But
now
ye
maydens
by
cause
ye
shall
knowe
how
bertuous
a
lyuer
that
saint
Agnes
was
whan
she
was
here
in
erthe
/
I
shall
tell
you
shortely
vnder
fewe
wordes
:
This
holy
mayde
Saynt
Agnes
suster
of
the
mount
of
polly●yta
the
same
tyme
that
she
sholde
be
borne
off
her
moder
there
was
in
the
chambre
there
her
moder
chylded
a
greate
merneylous
lyght
that
all
th
o
the
whiche
were
in
the
same
chambre
myght
clerly
see
it
/
And
whan
she
was
born
it
cesyd
By
this
ye
may
knowe
of
what
merite
she
shold
be
in
the
syght
of
our
reuerende
lord
almighty
god
afterward
that
soo
soone
in
the
begynnyng
receyued
the
merueylous
light
of
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
:
After
tyme
she
was
born
she
encresyd
vertuously
more
and
more
in
al
tyme
of
the
yeres
and
at
the
laste
she
made
two
monasteryes
of
maydens
and
lyeth
berye●…
in
the
toun
/
in
the
whiche
is
shewed
by
our
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
in
her
continuelly
many
wounderful
miracles
And
amonge
all
other
myracles
whan
she
was
passid
out
of
this
worlde
her
body
was
not
buryed
but
lefte
vpon
erthe
all
hooll
wythout
ony
corrup●ion
:
Wherfore
other
deuout
folke
that
knewe
her
by
her
ly●●e
consyderyng
how
many
merneylous
thynges
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
shewed
in
her
/
wold
haue
bawmed
her
swete
body
/
that
it
myght
so
be
k●pte
vpon
the
erthe
wyth
miracles
&
whan
thei
cam
to
bawme
it
/
they
sawe
how
there
came
out
of
the
toes
of
the
feet
and
of
the
fyngers
of
the
hondes
droppes
of
bawme
/
the
whiche
bawme
is
kepte
yet
in
to
this
daye
for
a
relyke
amonges
the
susters
of
the
same
place
/
This
myracle
was
shewed
for
this
cause
/
that
alle
folke
sholde
knowe
that
she
hadde
none
nede
for
to
be
bawmed
outward
whan
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
hadde
bawmed
her
wythin
forth
/
Ferthermore
the
same
hour
that
she
passed
out
of
this
worlde
in
the
tyme
of
the
nyghte
infantes
both
mayde
chyldren
and
other
as
they
laye
in
her
moders
beddes
cryeden
and
sayeden
that
now
suster
agnes
is
passeth
out
of
this
world
and
is
a
saint
in●heuen
:
On
the
morowe
thyse
in
fantes
drewe
theym
togyder
in
a
companye
and
wolde
suffer
none
corrupte
child
come
amonges
theym
and
wente
eche
of
theym
as
in
pro●●ssyon
wyth
candeles
in
her
handes
to
this
monastery
wher
su●ter
Agnes
passed
out
of
this
world
ofofferyng
to
that
mayde
maydenes
oblacion
/
Many
moo
myracles
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
shewed
by
that
holy
Mayde
saint
Agnes
in
the
syght
of
alle
peple
/
wherfore
she
is
had
euery
yere
in
grete
reuerence
wyth
deuoute
oblacion
of
many
brennyng
tapres
for
to
see
that
holy
maydes
body
/
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
of
Sene
toke
leue
of
her
confessour
as
as
chylde
of
obedyens
and
wente
to
that
monastery
there
she
laye
/
whom
folowed
her
susters
and
Mayster
Reymound
for
to
see
what
myracle
our
lord
and
almyghty
god
wolde
shewe
in
metyng
to
gyder
of
peas
two
gloryous
vyrgyns
&
maydens
and
his
chosen
spouses
:
Whan
she
was
come
to
the
monastery
she
wente
to
the
same
place
there
she
laye
&
knelyd
doune
/
and
began
to
bowe
her
hede
for
to
kysse
that
holy
vyrgyns
feet
:
wyth
that
bowyng
doun
the
holy
vyrgyns
body
off
gloryous
Agnes
lyfte
vp
by
myracle
her
owne
foote
as
hye
that
the
holy
mayde
katheryn
of
Sene
shold
kysse
it
wythout
ony
bowyng
of
her
body
or
hede
/
This
myracle
sawe
all
the
susters
of
the
same
monasteryeland
also
the
susters
off
penaunce
wyth
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
of
Sene.
Whan
the
holy
mayde
katheryne
of
Sene
perceyued
this
/
she
was
the
more
meke
:
and
bowed
the
lower
/
And
than
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
saint
Agnes
drewe
doune
her
legge
agayn
&
her
fete
and
layde
it
as
it
was
fyrste
:
Another
tyme
this
holy
mayde
katherin
of
Sene
came
agayn
to
vysyte
the
swete
holy
body
of
this
holy
mayde
saynt
Agnes
and
brought
wyth
her
two
cosyns
of
heres
yonge
mayde
chyldren
for
to
make
thē●usters
in
that
monastery
:
there
for
to
serue
oure
lord
almyghty
god
/
And
whan
she
was
come
▪
to
the
monasterye
:
She
went
there
the
swete
holy
body
lay
of
gloryous
saint
Agnes
/
and
knelyd
not
at
the
feet
as
she
dyde
the
fyrst
tyme
/
but
at
the
holy
hede
eschewyng
mekely
as
it
semed
the
eleuacion
of
her
holy
feet
as
it
was
doo
fyrst
/
And
as
she
knelyd
at
her
hede
she
layde
her
cheke
to
the
swete
cheke
of
this
holy
mayde
gloryous
Agnes
longe
tymes
to
gyders
/
But
whan
she
had
so
longe
taryed
/
she
tourned
her
to
her
cosyn
Lysa
the
whiche
came
wyth
her
and
other
moo
of
her
susters
and
saide
in
this
wyse
:
Lysa
why
perceyue
ye
not
the
gyfte
off
our
reuerende
lord
almyghty
god
hath
gyue
to
vs
out
of
heuene
/
why
bee
ye
soo
vnkynd
wyth
that
Lysa
and
other
susters
of
heres
loked
vp
/
and
sawe
manna
reyne
doun
out
of
heuen
couerynge
both
gloryous
saynt
Agnes
and
the
holy
mayde
katheryn
of
Sene
And
also
other
that
stode
aboute
/
Soo
that
Lysa
fylled
her
hondes
wyth
that
same
whyte
seed
of
manna
.
¶
This
myracle
appieryd
not
wythout●n
cause
/
For
gloryous
saynt
Agnes
whan
she
lyued
in
erthe
was
wounte
to
haue
that
token
out
of
heuen
whan
she
prayed
to
our
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
/
Soo
that
somme
of
her
susters
sawe
●er
mantell
alle
whyte
whan
she
wos
vp
fro
her
prayer
and
vnknowyng
what
it
myght
be
and
wold
haue
shake
it
awaye
from
her
mantyll
and
she
forbode
it
theym
full
esely
/
And
also
it
was
doo
for
another
mystery
▪
Glorious
saynt
Agnes
knewe
well
that
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
of
Sene
sholde
be
felawe
wyth
her
in
heuen
:
And
therfore
she
began
to
felyshyppe
wyth
her
in
erthe
and
worshyppe
her
also
wyth
that
token
that
was
wonte
to
appere
to
her
whan
she
lyued
in
her
body
.
By
that
manna
is
vnderstonde
puryte
and
mekenes
for
by
wytnes
of
that
manna
is
vnderstonde
puryte
and
clennes
of
maydenhede
:
&
by
the
lytelnesse
of
greyne
of
that
manna
is
vnderstonde
of
the
mekenes
of
maydens
that
they
sholde
haue
/
That
puryte
and
that
mekenesse
was
ryght
haboundaunt
in
thyse
two
maydens
saynt
Agnes
and
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
off
Sene
/
As
for
that
wytnesse
of
the
myracles
I
shewed
in
this
chapytre
was
Lysa
and
other
susters
of
hers
and
also
susters
of
the
same
monasterye
where
thyse
myracles
weren
shewed
/
Ouermore
as
for
wytnesse
touchyng
the
myracles
off
the
hooly
sacrament
of
the
aulter
was
mayster
Reymond
her
confessour
/
and
another
mayster
of
dyuynyte
the
whiche
was
called
Berthylmewe
and
other
mo
many
moo
myracles
our
glorious
lord
almyghty
god
shewed
by
his
holy
mayde
katheryne
and
by
this
holy
mayde
saynt
Agnes
whyles
they
lyued
here
in
erthe
the
whiche
ben
not
writen
in
this
boke
but
that
is
wryten
herinne
/
is
wryten
to
the
worshyppe
of
our
gloryous
lord
god
and
helthe
of
soulys
:
And
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
chapytre
of
this
hooly
legende
of
this
holy
mayde
glorious
saint
Katheryne
of
Seene
to
the
honour
worshyppe
and
glorye
of
all
the
gloryous
trinyte
:
Cui
referantur
laudes
honor
et
gloria
in
secula
seculorum
Amen
/
¶
Explicit
secunda
pars
gloriosissime
vite
gloriosissime
virginis
Katerine
de
Seene
:
¶
Here
begynneth
the
thyrde
boke
and
party
wherin
is
rehersed
the
deyenge
off
this
holy
mayde
gloryous
saynt
katheryne
of
Sene
and
of
her
myracles
that
were
shewed
after
her
dethe
/
And
fyrst
of
all
of
the
wytnesse
whiche
were
present
at
her
passyng
and
enformed
the
auctor
of
this
boke
whiche
and
what
they
were
/
Capitulum
Primum
WHan
this
hooly
mayde
katherine
of
Sene
was
sente
to
the
Cyte
of
Florens
by
our
holy
Fader
Gregory
xj
/
the
whiche
was
that
tyme
pope
off
Rome
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
in
the
seconde
party
for
to
make
peas
betwyne
oure
hooly
fader
the
pope
and
his
children
of
Florence
:
she
founde
theym
vnobedyent
&
rebell
where
&
amonges
whom
she
suffred
moche
persecucion
in
soo
moche
that
one
of
them
drewe
his
swerde
&
wolde
haue
smyten
of
her
hede
so
woode
he
was
wyth
her
all
be
it
thought
he
were
letted
by
the
vertu
of
our
glorious
lord
almighti
god
And
yet
notwythstondyng
suche
persecucion
she
wolde
neuer
goo
thens
vnto
the
tyme
that
peas
was
cryed
thorugh
out
all
the
Cyte
of
Florence
/
And
that
was
not
by
pope
gregorys
dayes
for
he
dyed
in
the
mene
tyme
▪
but
it
was
by
pope
vrbans
tyme
&
dayes
the
whiche
was
pope
after
hym
in
whos
tyme
the
peas
was
made
/
And
after
tyme
the
pope
was
made
she
went
home
agayne
to
the
Cyte
off
Seene
/
And
bylefte
in
her
owne
hous
ful
dylygently
aboute
the
making
of
a
certayn
boke
the
whiche
the
swte
gloryous
holy
ghoste
endyted
by
her
mouth
in
her
owne
langage
.
She
prayed
her
wryters
the
whiche
wrote
the
boke
that
thei
sholde
consydere
besely
that
she
telleth
them
in
tyme
of
her
rauysshyng
&
soo
she
bad
theym
wryte
/
Thenne
she
wente
and
prayed
/
and
sone
after
she
was
rauysshed
from
her
bodely
wyttes
and
in
that
rauisshyng
she
spake
many
swehe
wordes
:
the
whiche
wordes
the
wryters
wrote
as
she
spake
and
soo
compyled
a
boke
full
off
profytable
sentence
as
our
swete
gloryous
for
almyghty
god
tolde
her
/
In
the
whiche
endytyng
one
special
thynge
and
a
merueylous
was
shewed
/
And
alle
that
was
comprehended
and
wryten
in
the
boke
was
endyted
by
her
by
dyuerse
times
in
tyme
of
her
rauysshyng
and
neuer
ellys
soo
that
in
that
same
tyme
that
she
was
soo
rauysshed
she
sawe
none
bodely
syght
wyth
her
eyen
ne
herde
wyth
her
eeres
/
ne
swellyd
wyth
her
nose
/
ne
none
of
her
bodely
wyttes
/
neyther
hadde
her
bodely
workynge
for
that
tyme
that
she
was
in
that
rauysshyng
/
By
this
ye
may
consydere
and
vnderstonde
that
the
boke
was
not
endyted
by
none
naturall
kyndely
wytte
/
But
only
by
the
infusyon
of
the
swete
gloryous
holy
ghoste
/
ne
I
doubte
not
that
all
tho
the
whiche
bee
vnderstondyng
men
and
dylygently
serche
the
sentences
shall
rede
that
boke
and
of
that
boke
they
shullen
say
the
same
that
I
saye
After
tyme
she
had
made
that
boke
/
oure
holy
fader
pope
vrbane
the
vj
:
that
knewe
this
holy
mayde
in
auyoun
and
had
grete
deuoucion
in
her
wordes
and
in
her
vertuous
lyuyng
sent
to
Mayster
Reymound
her
confessour
that
he
sholde
stere
her
to
come
to
Rme
for
to
vysyte
the
sain●●s
that
ben
there
/
Mayster
Reymounde
dyde
soo
:
but
she
was
soo
full
of
dyscrecion
that
she
answerd
agayn
in
this
wyse
Fader
many
of
this
Cyte
of
Sene
and
also
of
our
owne
susters
by
cause
of
mingoyng
aboute
hider
and
thyder
●en
sklandred
therby
and
seyn
that
it
is
not
semely
to
a
Relyous
mayde
for
to
go
so
aboute
/
all
be
it
I
hope
to
oure
gloryous
lorde
almyghty
god
that
I
haue
not
offedyd
in
myn
goyng
aboute
/
For
by
obedyence
of
our
gloryous
lord
almyghty
god
&
by
his
vycar
in
erther
and
for
the
helthe
of
soule
I
wente
thyder
that
I
went
.
And
therfore
leest
I
ben
to
theym
mater
of
sklander
by
myn
own
wyll
I
purpos
not
to
remeue
out
of
the
Cyte
¶
Neuertheles
yf
the
gloryous
louely
Crystis
vicar
wyll
algatis
that
I
come
his
wyll
be
done
and
not
myn
.
And
therto
I
praye
you
goo
to
hym
and
praye
him
that
he
vouchesaf
to
sende
me
worde
by
you
of
his
wyll
that
they
the
whiche
ben
so
sklandred
by
min
goyng
aboute
/
Now
ye
maye
clerly
knowe
that
I
toke
not
that
iorney
vpon
me
by
min
own
wyll
/
Mayster
Reymound
wente
and
tolde
to
the
pope
all
this
mater
/
&
he
sente
agayn
by
hym
that
she
sholde
come
by
the
vertu
of
obedyens
/
Thenne
assone
as
she
herd
this
comnaundement
as
a
trewe
douhter
of
obediens
she
spedde
her
faste
and
came
to
Rome
with
a
grete
company
both
men
&
wymmen
&
many
moo
wolde
haue
come
had
she
not
forbede
them
/
▪
Whan
oure
holy
fader
the
pope
saw
her
he
was
glad
&
ioyeful
&
he
desyred
that
she
shold
seye
some
word
of
exortacion
to
the
cardinalis
that
weren
there
present
:
namely
for
the
scisme
the
whiche
began
the
same
tyme
/
And
so
she
dyde
full
vertuously
&
made
eche
of
them
stedfastly
stronge
wyth
many
swete
wordes
and
sentences
and
counseylled
them
that
they
sholde
not
drede
for
nothynge
notwythstondynge
the
scisme
the
whiche
began
/
but
to
stand
myghtely
and
drede
noman
/
and
procede
forth
in
thynges
that
longen
to
our
gloryous
lord
/
for
he
is
mighty
ynow
to
mayntene
theym
:
whan
she
had
made
an
ende
of
her
wordes
our
holy
fader
the
pope
was
gladde
and
rehersed
her
wordes
tournyng
to
hys
Cardynales
and
sayde
/
Loo
brederen
the
more
vnfeytfull
we
be
/
the
more
reprouable
we
ben
in
the
syght
of
our
gloryous
lorde
almyghty
god
/
this
woman
hath
shamed
vs
all
.
she
sholde
rather
be
aferd
than
we
by
cause
she
is
a
woman
/
yet
in
that
we
be
aferde
she
is
not
aferde
but
conforted
vs
wyth
her
good
counseyls
:
Certen
we
ought
all
to
be
ashamed
/
wherfor
sholde
our
gloryous
lord
god
Ihesus
Crystus
vicar
be
aferd
▪
Trewele
though
all
the
worlde
were
agaynst
hym
our
gloryous
lord
god
Ihesus
cryste
is
myghtyer
thenne
it
:
And
it
is
not
possyble
that
he
wil
forsake
his
chyrche
/
wyth
suche
wordes
&
many
moo
lyke
thyse
/
our
holy
fader
the
pope
comforted
the
Cardinalis
and
commaunded
this
holy
mayde
in
our
gloryous
lord
god
&
graunted
her
for
her selfe
and
for
her
frendes
many
special
graces
Within
a
fewe
dayes
afterward
it
came
to
our
hooly
faders
mynde
that
he
sholde
sende
this
holy
mayde
katheryne
wyth
a nother
maide
that
was
called
katheryne
and
was
one
of
the
ghostely
doughters
of
saint
Brygytte
of
swethe
/
the
whiche
saint
Brygytte
was
canonysed
by
pope
Bonefas
the
ix
▪
to
dame
Johan
the
quene
of
cycely
that
openly
rebelled
agaynst
hooly
chyrche
and
gaue
greate
fauour
to
Scismatykes
/
that
both
two
maydens
the
whiche
were
well
knowen
wyth
the
quene
of
Cycely
sholde
wythdrawe
her
from
her
errour
/
Thenne
this
holy
maide
katheryn
of
Seene
herde
this
:
she
wolde
in
none
wyse
wythdrawe
her
fro
this
holy
obedyens
but
oblysshed
her self
for
to
goon
¶
The
other
katheryn
of
swethe
in
noo
wyse
wolde
take
that
iournaye
vpon
her
but
refused
it
in
presence
of
mayster
Reymound
/
Thenne
mayster
Reymound
bythought
hym
that
the
fame
of
holy
maydens
is
ryght
tendre
and
a
lytyll
●●otte
of
synne
thought
they
be
not
gylty
therin
Is
sklaunderous
to
theym
/
Also
he
thought
that
she
to
whom
thyse
maidens
sholde
be
sente
myght
by
counseyll
of
her
and
many
aboute
her
to
lye
awayte
in
the
waye
that
thyse
maydens
sholde
not
come
to
her
presens
and
soo
to
be
letted
off
her
purpos
:
And
also
they
maydens
myght
not
escape
wythout
a
grete
sklander
al
be
it
they
myght
be
gyltles
:
thyse
thoughtes
Mayster
Reyymound
tolde
our
holy
fader
/
To
whom
our
holy
fader
answerd
and
sayde
thus
/
thou
seyst
well
mayster
Reymounde
/
It
is
better
they
goo
not
than
goo
/
After
this
tyme
mayster
Reymound
wente
&
tolde
this
to
this
holy
mayde
:
/
Anone
she
tourned
her
to
Mayster
Reymound
and
sayde
thus
wyth
a
myghty
voyce
/
Fader
yf
saint
Agnes
and
saint
Margarete
and
other
maydens
sholde
haue
thought
thus
/
they
shold
neuer
haue
had
the
crowne
of
martyrdome
/
whether
we
haue
not
a
spouse
that
can
delyuer
vs
out
of
the
hondes
of
wycked
men
&
kepe
our
clennesse
amonges
the
fylthy
companye
of
lecherous
meyny
:
all
suche
thoughtes
ben
but
veyn
thoughtes
:
And
come
out
rather
of
the
defaute
of
lytyll
feythe
thenne
of
very
wysdome
:
All
be
it
that
Mayster
Reymound
was
thus
made
ashamed
of
his
imperfection
/
yet
he
hadde
a
grete
gladnes
of
her
perfeccion
consyderyng
and
nothynge
in
his
herte
the
stedfastenesse
and
stabylnes
of
her
faythe
:
Neuertheles
by
cause
that
our
holy
fader
had
ordyned
that
tho
two
maydens
sholde
not
go
on
that
Journay
he
durste
noo
more
meue
to
hym
of
the
mater
.
¶
Loo
maydens
this
is
rehersed
here
by
cause
ye
shold
know
how
stedfastly
this
holy
maydes
foot
was
set
in
the
feyth
of
perfeccion
¶
Furthermore
whan
our
holy
tader
had
ordeyned
that
these
maydens
sholde
nott
go
/
he
ordeyned
that
mayster
Reymonde
sholde
goo
to
Fraunce
.
Supposyng
that
he
myght
torne
kyng
Charles
out
of
hys
errour
by
enbassatour
bytwene
/
but
yere
myght
he
not
.
For
the
kynges
herte
was
so
enduratin
malyce
/
&
wolde
not
torne
/
for
he
beganne
to
be
auctor
and
begynner
of
that
scysme
.
After
tyme
mayster
Reymond
knewe
the
wyll
&
entent
or
our
tader
/
he
came
to
aske
counseyll
of
this
holy
mayde
what
were
best
for
hym
to
do
thenne
all
be
it
that
she
was
lothe
to
wante
hys
/
presence
/
yet
she
gaue
him
coun●eylitor
to
obeye
to
the
byddyng
of
oure
holy
fader
:
And
among
all
other
thynges
she
sayde
:
thus
to
hym
¶
Fader
vnderstondeth
his
for
treuthe
.
This
pope
Urbanis
veray
Crystys
vycarye
in
er●he
/
and
for
d●●ence
of
this
treuth
preceth
&
putteth
you
●orth
as
ye
wolde
for
the
feyth
of
holy
chyrche
.
¶
All
be
it
that
mayster
Reymond
vnderstode
this
well
afore
/
yet
she
made
hym
the
strenger
and
more
stedfast
in
his
laboure
for
whan
he
was
moost
in
dys●ase
he
had
hyr
wordes
in
mynde
/
and
so
he
tooke
the
holy
obedyence
vpon
hym
.
But
a
latell
afore
that
he
went
/
this
holy
mayde
commyned
wyth
hym
&
tolde
hym
foure
houres
.
or
fyue
to
g●ds
of
the
reuelacyons
&
comfortes
that
oure
lorde
shewed
to
hyr
but
a
lytell
afore
/
and
whan
she
had
do
▪
she
sayde
this
wordes
.
¶
Fader
now
goth
&
our
.
lord
spede
you
for
I
trowe
we
shal
neuer
in
this
lyf
speke
so
moche
to
gyder
as
we
haue
do
nowe
.
And
lyke
as
she
sayd
so
it
/
was
.
For
or
thenne
mayster
Reymonde
came
ageyne
/
she
was
passed
out
of
this
/
world
/
furthermore
by
cause
that
she
wolde
fully
take
hyr
leue
of
hym
she
went
personally
to
the
same
place
/
there
he
shold
take
hys
Galey
.
¶
And
whan
they
began
/
to
rowe
she
kneiyd
doune
&
prayed
/
and
/
afterward
blyssed
the
Galey
wyth
wepyng
chere
/
and
sayd
pryuely
that
other
/
herde
to
mayster
Reymond
¶
Thou
lone
shalt
go
saue
/
for
the
crosse
shall
kepe
the
but
thou
shalt
neuer
see
thy
moder
in
this
lyf
.
¶
And
as
she
ꝓphecyed
soo
it
was
for
ther
were
many
enemyes
in
the
●ee
&
yet
they
went
saue
awaye
from
them
and
also
in
the
mene
tyme
that
he
was
oute
.
this
holy
mayde
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
¶
But
fyrst
or
that
I
tell
of
hyr
blyssed
passyng
out
of
this
world
/
I
shall
reherce
to
you
the
wytnes
whiche
were
att
hyr
passyng
/
and
knewe
of
the
myracles
:
that
our
lord
shewed
here
in
hyr
passyng
¶
The
names
of
the
wymmen
that
were
most
contynuell
wyth
hyr
bēthy●e
.
¶
Allexe
of
Sene
syster
of
penaunce
of
S●ynt
.
Domynyk
/
the
whiche
was
a
perfyte
dyscyple
of
this
holy
maydes
/
&
folowed
hyr
in
all
as●yte
of
penaunce
/
as
nygh
as
she
/
coude
/
so
that
this
holy
mayde
or
thenn●
he
sholde
passe
tolde
hyr
alle
hyr
preuytees
/
&
ordeyned
hyr
for
to
be
a
moder
to
other
after
hyr
dyssece
:
¶
Thys
same
Allexe
/
enfourmed
mayster
Reymonde
whan
he
:
was
come
home
/
and
other
of
thys
holy
.
maydes
passyng
/
for
she
lyued
not
longe
.
after
.
¶
The
seconde
wytnes
was
Francysca
of
Sene
this
Francysca
had
a
deuoute
soule
to
god
&
to
this
holy
mayde
/
with
an
hertely
loue
wherfore
whan
hyr
.
husbounde
was
dede
she
toke
the
abyte
of
penaunce
&
was
made
syster
of
Saynte
Domynyk
:
¶
Thys
Francysca
enfourmed
mayster
Raymonde
whan
he
came
/
home
and
many
other
folke
of
this
maydes
passyng
and
thenne
she
deyed
soone
/
after
Allexe
¶
The
thyrde
wytnes
was
.
Lysa
hyr
cosyn
/
the
whiche
I
wyll
notte
commende
/
all
be
it
she
was
ryght
trewe
by
cause
she
was
this
holy
maydes
brothers
wyf
where
by
shold
beholde
suspect
/
in
her
wytnes
amonge
men
.
¶
further
more
there
were
many
men
in
hir
passyng
the
whiche
beren
trewe
recorde
othyr
bussed
ende
¶
But
foure
in
specyall
I
thynke
to
reherse
here
the
whiche
were
ryght
vertuous
men
.
¶
The
fyrst
was
called
frere
Sanctus
/
the
whiche
was
bothe
holy
indede
&
in
name
.
This
holy
man
forsoke
all
hys
kynne
/
and
came
to
Cyte
of
ene
Where
he
lyued
vertuously
xxx
yere
and
more
an
ancheres
lyfe
.
¶
And
when
/
he
herde
speke
of
this
holy
mayde
he
was
styred
to
speke
wyth
hyr
/
and
so
he
dyd
for
to
be
enfourmed
of
hyr
.
¶
And
at
last
he
thou
t
that
it
was
better
to
walke
oute
of
/
his
cell
for
to
wynne
soules
thenne
for
to
be
so
enclosed
.
And
so
he
dyd
by
counseyll
he
went
oute
and
folowed
thys
holy
mayde
and
wan
soules
to
Cryste
/
but
specyally
he
was
presente
wyth
hyr
at
hyr
passyng
¶
Thys
holy
man
enfourmed
mayster
Raymonde
also
whan
he
came
home
of
the
passing
of
this
holy
mayd
/
and
soone
after
he
dyed
.
¶
The
seconde
witnes
of
men
was
a
yong
man
in
age
/
but
he
/
was
olde
in
vertu
/
the
whiche
was
called
Barductyne
.
¶
Thys
yong
man
forsoke
all
hys
kynne
/
and
folowed
this
holy
/
mayde
and
was
with
hyr
tyll
that
she
passyd
/
whome
she
loued
yettenderly
/
by
cause
he
was
a
mayde
&
that
was
no
meruaylle
/
for
it
is
semely
that
oo
mayde
sholde
loue
another
.
¶
To
whome
this
holy
/
mayde
sayd
&
chargyd
hym
that
he
shold
be
gouerned
by
mayster
Raymondis
counseyll
:
¶
For
this
cause
I
trowe
she
did
it
in
as
moche
as
she
knewe
well
of
god
/
that
he
sholde
not
long
lyue
after
hyr
/
soo
that
he
dyde
of
tesyk
/
but
fyrste
he
contynued
longe
therynne
/
and
was
amended
by
medycines
/
but
at
the
last
he
dyde
theron
.
And
by
cause
that
mayster
Raymonde
drede
hym
that
the
ayre
of
Rome
shol●e
enfecte
hym
he
sente
hym
to
Sene
where
he
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
/
and
/
they
bere
wytnes
that
were
at
hys
passynge
that
whan
he
sholde
passe
he
loked
vp
into
heuen
/
and
began
to
smyle
/
&
soo
wyth
that
smylyng
he
passyd
/
So
that
after
tyme
he
was
passyd
/
the
tokens
of
gladnes
appyred
in
hys
face
I
trowe
it
was
therfore
/
by
cause
he
sawe
hyr
whome
he
loued
soo
charytably
come
after
hym
.
¶
This
Barductyne
also
enfourmed
/
mayster
Raymonde
whan
he
came
home
of
th●s
holy
mayde
passage
.
¶
The
thryde
wytnes
of
men
was
also
a
yong
man
:
the
whiche
was
called
Stephen
that
was
one
of
this
holy
maydes
wryters
/
the
why
/
she
wrote
bothe
hyr
letters
that
she
sente
.
and
also
hyrbook
that
the
holy
ghost
endyted
by
hyr
.
The
whiche
yong
man
this
holy
mayde
called
to
hyr
whan
she
sholde
passe
and
sayd
thus
.
Sone
it
is
the
wyll
/
of
god
that
thou
be
a
monke
of
the
Charterhous
/
and
therfore
I
charge
the
that
thou
so
doo
As
she
bad
hym
so
he
dyd
/
and
lyued
euer
afterward
a
perfyt
lyf
for
he
had-no
felawe
of
perfecyon
in
that
Relygyon
/
and
assone
as
he
was
professyd
/
he
was
.
made
Pryor
of
the
same
hous
that
he
was
.
shorne
Inne
.
¶
And
afterward
he
was
made
Pryour
in
another
place
of
the
same
ordre
at
melayne
&
visitour
of
the
ordre
This
yong
man
Stephen
wrote
certeyn
thynges
that
happed
in
the
passyng
of
this
holy
mayde
&
ētfourmed
afterwarde
mayster
Raymonde
of
the
same
/
whan
he
came
home
.
The
fourthe
&
last
wytnesse
of
men
that
were
at
the
passyng
of
this
holy
mayde
was
one
/
the
whyche
was
called
Raynerus
the
sone
of
a
worthy
man
Landocte
of
Sene.
Thys
man
after
tyme
that
this
holy
mayde
was
paste
/
was
a
deuoute
recluse
that
euer
afterward
lyued
a
blyssed
lyf
/
he
was
also
one
of
the
wryters
of
hyr
lettres
/
&
of
hyr
book
that
the
holy
ghoost
endyted
by
hyr
He
was
the
fyrst
of
men
that
forsoke
hys
kynne
&
folowed
this
holy
mayde
/
&
by
cause
he
knewe
hyr
vertuous
lyuyng
of
longe
tyme
/
therfore
mayster
Reymond
called
hym
to
hym
/
and
made
hym
a
specyall
wytnes
in
makyng
of
hyr
Legende
/
&
his
felawe
also
Stephen
pryour
of
the
Charterhous
.
These
men
&
these
wymmen
enfourmed
mayster
Reymond
whan
he
came
home
of
the
thynges
/
whyche
was
done
in
hys
absence
as
well
of
the
thynges
that
she
dyd
or
that
she
paste
as
of
tho
thynges
that
she
shewed
&
dyd
in
hyr
passyng
/
and
thus
endeth
this
chapytre
.
¶
Of
meruayllous
thynges
whyche
befyll
a
yere
&
half
to
fore
the
deth
of
this
holy
mayden
/
&
of
the
martyrdom
that
she
suffred
bodely
of
wycked
fendes
/
where
of
atlast
she
hadde
hyr
bodely
deth
.
Capitulum
secundum
AFter
tyme
the
mayster
Reymond
wente
fro
this
holy
mayde
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
by
the
byddyng
of
our
holy
fader
the
Pope
/
she
belefte
in
the
Cyte
of
Rome
/
and
what
that
our
Lorde
dede
for
hyr
or
that
she
deyed
/
&
shewed
to
other
how
holy
of
lyuyng
she
was
/
and
also
what
ioye
he
gaue
hyr
or
she
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
I
shall
tell
you
.
¶
Leue
it
well
maydens
/
whan
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
that
so
moche
dysease
encrecyd
in
holy
chyrche
by
the
scysme
/
that
was
begonne
/
and
perceyuyng
also
that
Crystys
vycarye
suffred
grete
dysease
/
she
wept
day
and
nyght
/
and
prayed
to
our
lord
for
the
pees
/
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
to
set
pees
in
holy
chyrche
.
Thenne
our
lord
comforted
hyr
in
som
maner
of
wyse
for
the
yere
afore
and
an
half
or
she
dyed
oure
lorde
gaue
double
vyctorye
to
holy
chyrche
/
and
to
Crystys
vycarye
the
pope
as
well
of
the
castell
of
Saynt
Angell
that
was
in
the
Cyte
of
Rome
/
the
whiche
was
in
scysmatykes
hondes
in
to
that
daye
/
as
of
the
people
that
helde
the
castell
in
the
name
of
scysmatykes
/
that
were
the
same
daye
take
/
and
the
castell
yolde
.
After
that
our
holy
fader
the
pope
that
myght
not
dwelle
in
Rome
as
he
was
wonte
by
cause
of
the
enemyes
that
were
in
the
Castell
of
Saynt
Aungell
knowe
this
/
he
cam
to
this
holy
mayde
&
axed
hir
counseyll
what
he
sholde
do
.
Thenne
she
gaue
hym
counseyll
that
he
shold
go
bar-foot
&
all
the
people
of
Rome
wyth
hym
to
the
mynster
of
Saynt
Peter
thankynge
our
lord
god
wyth
good
deuocyon
of
that
grace
/
and
of
that
benefetys
the
whiche
he
had
do
for
them
.
Thus
holy
chyrche
beganne
to
quyken
/
and
the
holy
mayde
hadde
therof
grete
comfort
.
But
soone
after
hir
sorowe
began
to
encrece
eftsonis
for
that
the
fende
myght
not
do
by
strayngers
/
he
assayed
for
to
do
by
them
that
were
of
the
Cyte
of
Rome
.
He
made
a
dysoorde
bytwene
the
people
of
the
Cyte
&
the
pope
.
That
perceyued
this
holy
mayde
she
prayed
to
our
lord
that
he
wolde
wouchesauf
put
to
hys
mercyable
honde
/
and
suffre
not
that
cursyd
synne
be
done
And
as
she
prayed
/
she
sawe
the
Cyte
full
of
fendes
styring
and
excytyng
the
people
to
kylle
theyr
ghoostly
fader
/
and
cryed
horrybly
to
this
holy
mayde
all
the
whyle
she
prayed
/
seynge
to
hyr
thus
Thou
cursed
wretche
thou
arte
aboute
for
to
lette
vs
/
therfore
we
shall
slee
the
wyth
an
horryble
deth
.
To
whome
she
answerd
no
worde
/
but
prayed
more
besyly
and
more
feruently
axyng
of
our
lord
that
he
wold
wouchesauf
for
the
worshyp
of
hys
holy
name
/
and
for
remedye
of
all
holy
chyrche
that
thenne
stood
in
grete
meshyef
/
kepe
hyr
&
hys
vycarye
wythout
harme
/
and
not
for
to
suffre
the
peple
do
suche
a
synne
and
so
to
put
awaye
the
fendes
fro
theyr
purpose
/
the
whiche
steryng
the
people
ther
to
.
She
hadde
an
answere
of
our
lord
/
and
it
was
this
.
Doughter
suff●e
this
peple
/
that
euery
day
blasteme
myn
holy
name
/
for
to
falle
in
to
this
synne
/
that
I
myght
soo
dystruye
them
for
theyr
cursed
wretchydnesse
for
my
ryghtwysnes
axyth
that
I
shold
no
more
suff●e
theyr
wyckydnes
.
Thenne
she
prayed
more
feruently
wyth
suche
wordes
and
sayde
.
Mekest
and
myldest
lord
/
thou
knowest
well
how
thy
spouse
holy
chyrche
is
dyseased
&
tormented
/
almost
thorugh
out
all
the
world
and
that
is
routhe
.
Thou
knowest
well
also
how
sewe
helpers
and
defenders
she
hath
/
and
therfore
now
yf
they
slee
thy
vy
carye
as
they
ben
in
purpose
/
hit
shall
not
onely
be
greuous
to
this
people
of
Rome
but
to
all
Crysten
people
Thempre
therfore
good
blyssed
lorde
thy
ryghtwyse
honde
and
dyspyse
not
thy
people
that
thou
haste
bought
soo
de●
wyth
thy
precyous
blood
/
but
torne
thy
mercyable
honde
&
cesse
this
myshyef
.
In
this
prayer
she
contynued
many
dayes
to
gyder
as
she
wrote
to
mayster
Reymond
by
a
letter
euer
our
lord
alledgyng
his
ryghtwysnes
and
she
axyng
his
mercy
/
and
in
all
that
tyme
the
fendes
cryed
ho●●ybly
vpon
hir
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
so
that
she
was
feble
for
afflyccyon
/
that
but
yf
our
lord
had
kepte
hyr
strengthe
/
hyr
her●e
shold
to
borste
/
at
last
she
sayd
to
our
lord
these
wordes
.
Lorde
syth
it
●●
so
that
this
mercy
may
not
be
graunted
wythout
ryghtwysnes
/
I
beseche
the
despyse
not
my
prayers
/
but
what
maner
of
payne
these
people
sholde
haue
put
it
on
my
body
/
and
I
shall
gladdely
●eceyue
it
for
the
worshyp
of
thy
name
/
and
for
the
sauacyon
of
holy
chyrche
.
Thenne
our
lord
alledged
nomore
hys
ryghtwysnes
/
but
helde
hys
pees
&
gaue
hyr
the
vyctorye
/
and
fro
that
houre
forthward
the
grutchyng
cessyd
of
the
peopl●
by
ly●●ll
and
lytell
/
but
hyr
passyons
encreced
so
ferforth
that
serpentes
of
hell
had
power
of
god
and
t●rmented
hyr
body
cruely
that
it
were
vncredyble
a
man
for
to
byleue
it
but
yf
he
hadde
seen
it
/
as
they
sayden
that
sawe
it
and
were
ther
p●esente
/
whanne
hyr
body
au●tyshed
/
all
be
it
that
they
sawe
not
the
serpentes
.
They
fretted
and
deuoured
so
that
maydens
body
/
that
therin
be
lefte
but
bones
without
skynne
/
as
though
it
had
ben
consumed
and
wasted
by
long
lyeng
in
the
erthe
/
and
yet
neuerthe●●●
she
walked
&
prayde
as
she
was
wonte
/
the
whiche
was
to
many
folke
a
wonder
thyng
/
for
she
semed
rather
a
wonder
thyng
to
loke
vpon
/
then
ne
a
naturell
thyng
Hyr
tormentes
of
payne
encreced
contynually
/
by
the
whyche
she
was
consumed
/
and
yet
she
cessyd
not
from
prayer
/
but
she
prayed
●ore
feruently
and
more
len●er
thenne
she
was
wonte
.
Hyr
ghoostly
chyldren
whom
she
hadde
nourysshed
in
vertue
were
that
same
tyme
/
and
they
sawe
openly
the
markes
of
the
strokes
that
the
●endes
of
helle
gaue
hyr
in
hyr
bodye
/
and
they
myght
do
therto
no
remedy
for
two
skylles
.
One
was
for
they
wyste
well
hit
was
the
wyll
of
god
whome
they
myght
not
wythstonde
.
Another
cause
was
/
for
they
sawe
hyr
gladde
and
ioyfull
in
hyr
paynes
/
and
the
more
that
she
prayed
the
more
was
hyr
bodely
payne
But
yet
wolde
she
not
cesse
therfore
/
and
the
tormentours
of
helle
faylled
not
/
but
that
they
cryed
vpon
hyr
alle
that
tyme
/
and
sayde
to
hyr
thus
.
Cursed
wr●tche
thou
hast
euer
be
ageynst
vs
/
and
therfore
thy
tyme
is
come
we
for
to
be
auenged
vpon
the.
Thou
haste
putte
vs
oft●
tymes
from
our
praye
/
and
therfore
we
shall
neuer
cesse
vnto
the
tyme
thou
arte
oute
of
thys
●yf
.
Thys
she
sente
by
letter
to
mayster
Reymond
/
and
soo
she
contynued
in
that
payne
from
the
sondaye
of
septuagesme
vnto
the
last
daye
of
Apryll
.
saue
one
day
the
whiche
day
she
passed
out
of
this
world
In
the
whiche
tyme
a
meruayllous
thyng
happed
hyr
as
she
sayd
&
wrote
to
mayster
Reymond
.
Cuery
daye
it
befyll
hyr
of
custome
that
she
hadde
the
passyon
on
the
syde
that
is
callyd
●lyca
passio
/
and
other
moo
vnto
none
tyme
/
wherfore
ofte
tymes
she
desyred
heryng
of
hyr
masse
/
and
therfore
euery
daye
by
the
morowe
or
thenne
that
the
payne
came
vpon
hyr
/
she
wente
to
Saynt
Peters
chyrche
thorugh
oute
alle
the
lenten
.
And
soo
herde
hyr
masse
/
and
abode
there
tyll
euensong
and
thenne
came
home
ageyne
and
laye
hyr
doune
in
hyr
bedde
.
In
the
whiche
bedde
whos
hadde
seen
hyr
/
he
wolde
haue
sworne
that
she
myghte
neuer
remeue
hyr
thens
.
Yet
on
the
next●
mo●we
she
wse
vp
and
wente
eftsonys
f●●
a
place
that
is
called
via
pape
in
to
Saynt
Peters
chirche
/
soo
fast
that
hyr
Journey
sholde
haue
made
an
hole
man
wery
.
Thys
she
contynued
all
the
lenten
/
and
wythin
a
fewe
dayes
after
she
laye
styll
in
hyr
bedd●
/
and
myght
not
remeue
hyr
thens
for
feblenes
.
And
at
last
oure
lorde
called
hyr
and
she
passyd
out
of
thys
worlde
.
¶
In
the
same
daye
that
is
rehersed
afore
aboute
none
dayes
/
that
is
the
nyne
and
twenty
daye
of
Apryll
/
the
whiche
was
vpon
a
sondaye
.
The
yere
of
our
lord
a
thousand
thre
hondred
and
foure
s●ore
.
In
the
whyche
daye
the
feste
of
Saynt
Peter
the
martyr
of
the
ordre
of
the
frece
prechours
was
and
is
solempnysed
in
holy
chyrche
.
¶
Many
notable
thynges
were
wroughte
thenne
in
hyr
passyng
/
the
whyche
I
lefte
of
in
this
chapytre
/
for
they
shall
be
declared
openly
ynough
by
the
helpe
of
god
in
the
next
chapytre
/
&
thus
endeth
this
chapytre
.
¶
How
this
mayde
desyred
for
to
be
vnbounde
fro
the
body
/
and
be
wyth
Cryste
and
that
is
prouyd
by
a
deuote
prayer
that
she
made
/
and
is
putte
in
the
ende
of
another
book
whiche
she
mayde
/
and
what
is
in
that
book
generally
and
short●ly
is
wryten
in
this
book
wyth
the
same
oryson
.
Capitulum
●ij
WHanne
the
ende
of
the
bodely
lyf
of
this
blyssed
mayde
Katheryn
drewe
faste
vpon
hyr
/
oure
lorde
shewed
a
ioye
to
hyr
in
hyr
passyng
by
dyuers
tokens
/
by
the
whiche
ioy●
and
glorye
he
purposed
to
rewarde
hys
spouse
after
hyr
labour
and
sykenes
in
heue●
answeryng
to
the
gyftes
of
grace
/
that
she
receyued
in
erthe
.
Among
all
other
tokens
by
the
whiche
he
shewed
the
perfeccyon
of
hyr
●owl●
to
all
thoo
that
wolde
consydere
/
it
was
this
.
That
he
quy●
kened
hyr
desyr●
euery
daye
more
and
more
for
to
desyre
to
be●●
vnbounde
from
the
body
and
be
wyth
Cryst
.
And
for
this
skylle
it
was
that
she
myght
clerely
and
openly
beholde
in
blysse
▪
That
t●●uthe
/
the
whiche
she
sawe
in
this
lyfe
by
a
myrour
of
feyth
.
The
whiche
desyre
soo
moche
the
more
it
encrecyth
in
hy●
herte
/
in
as
moche
as
the
lyght
aboue
kynde
shyned
in
hyr
herde
from
heuen
.
And
therfore
aboute
a
yere
and
a
halfe
afore
or
thenne
she
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
.
Oure
lorde
shewed
to
hyr
suche
a
cle●e
knowyng
of
t●●uthe
/
that
she
was
constreyned
to
shewe
it
openly
oute
by
wrytyng
.
That
was
the
cause
why
she
prayed
wryters
as
it
is
rehersed
afore
/
that
whan
they
sawe
hyr
in
rauysshyng
they
sholde
be
●●dy
to
wryte
that
/
the
whiche
she
sholde
speke
by
the
mouthe
for
that
tyme
/
and
soo
in
a
lytell
tyme
she
compyled
a
book
/
that
conteyneth
a
maner
of
a
dyaloge
/
bytwene
a
soule
axynge
of
oure
lorde
foure
petycyons
.
And
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
answeryng
to
the
same
soule
/
and
enformyng
it
of
many
profytable
trouthys
.
In
the
last
ende
of
whiche
book
two
thynges
ben
sette
that
me
semeth
is
nedefull
for
to
reherse
here
/
as
well
for
the
grete
profyte
that
rederys
sholde
fynde
therin
/
as
for
to
declare
this
blyssed
maydens
desyre
/
that
she
hadde
soo
perfyt●ly
in
hyr
soule
.
¶
Neuerthelesse
by
cause
noo
body
sholde
mysdeme
me
/
wenyng
that
I
wolde
translate
it
other
wyse
thenne
she
sayd
in
hyr
owne
language
/
therfore
I
purpose
to
translate
it
none
other
wyse
thenne
she
sayde
it
worde
by
worde
.
Tho
two
thynges
by
these
.
Fyrst
the
recapytulacyon
of
the
same
book
I
sette
in
the
ende
/
the
whiche
rehersed
shortly
all
tho
thynges
that
ben
dyffusely
sette
in
the
book
afore
.
The
seconde
is
a
prayer
/
the
whiche
this
holy
mayde
made
/
whanne
she
hadde
endyd
hyr
book
/
by
the
whyche
prayer
is
openly
shewed
what
desyre
she
hadd●
to
be
vnbounde
/
and
loosyd
oute
of
hyr
body
and
be
wyth
Cryst
.
Afore
the
recapytulacyon
thys
holy
mayde
reherseth
in
the
ende
of
the
same
●oke
/
that
almyghty
god
the
fader
of
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
spekyth
to
a
soule
atte
●●e
ende
of
the
dyaloges
after
tyme
he
hadde
long
tyme
spoke
afore
of
obedyence
of
perfyte
folke
in
this
wyse
.
¶
Now
my
welbeloued
and
dere
doughter
I
haue
made
a
sythe
to
thy
desyre
●ro
the
begynnyng
to
the
laste
ende
/
the
whiche
I
haue
made
spekyng
of
obedyence
.
For
yf
thou
haue
good
mynde
in
the
begynnyng
/
thou
axest
me
wyth
a
grete
desyre
of
herte
/
as
I
made
the
to
axe
/
that
I
sholde
encrece
the
fyre
of
my
charyte
in
thy
soule
.
Thou
axest
also
foure
petycyons
/
of
the
whyche
one
was
for
thy selfe
.
To
the
whiche
petycyon
I
made
a
sethe
to
the
by
Illumynyng
/
the
whiche
the
lyght
of
my
trouthe
/
and
shewyng
to
the
alle
the
maner
/
by
the
whiche
maner
by
medytacyon
of
the
lyght
of
feyth
wyth
knowele
chyng
of
thy self
/
and
of
me
/
thou
comes●e
to
the
knoweleche
of
the
trouthe
.
The
secounde
petycyon
that
thou
axest
that
I
sholde
to
mercy
wyth
the
worlde
.
The
thrydde
petycion
was
for
my
mystery
all
body
that
is
of
my
spouse
holy
chirche
/
prayng
me
that
I
sholde
wythdrawe
all
derkenesse
of
perfeccyon
from
hyr
that
she
suffreth
.
And
thou
axest
that
I
sholde
punysshe
the
wyckydnes
of
them
vpon
the.
Therfore
it
was
that
I
declared
to
the
that
no
paynes
fynyte
or
gyuen
in
tyme
fynyte
of
it selfe
allone
maye
make
satysfaccyon
for
trespas
doone
ageynste
me
/
the
whiche
am
god
infynyte
/
but
it
maketh
a
seeth
well
yf
it
be
oned
wyth
contrycion
of
herte
and
desyre
of
●oule
:
The
maner
how
it
maketh
dewe
satysfaccion
/
I
declared
to
the
yet
euermore
I
answere
to
the
that
I
wyll
do
mercy
to
the
worlde
shewyng
to
the
that
mercy
is
appropryd
to
me
wherfore
for
the
grete
mercy
and
the
vnestimable
loue
that
I
hadde
to
mankynde
I
sente
myn
only
begoten
sone
for
to
declare
more
openly
to
the
/
I
lykenyd
to
a
brydge
that
stretchy●●
&
atteyneth
from
heuen
to
erthe
and
that
is
from
the
hede
the
whiche
is
made
in
hym
by
dyuyne
nature
and
mankinde
/
Also
for
to
make
the
more
clere
by
the
lyght
of
my
trouthe
I
shewed
the
how
wyth
me
that
may
s●ye
vp
to
the
brydge
that
is
by
/
iij
:
degrees
the
whiche
●en
in
thre
myghtes
of
the
●owle
/
Also
of
this
worde
brydge
I
made
another
lykenes
by
fygure
of
myn
owne
body
:
The
thyrde
for
sayde
degrees
as
thou
knowest
well
:
The
fyrst
in
●●e
feet
wounded
the
seconde
in
the
syde
wounded
/
And
the
thyrde
in
the
blessyd
mouth
:
in
the
whiche
I
putte
thre
states
of
the
soule
:
that
is
vnperfgiht
state
the
perfight
state
:
&
the
most
vnperfyght
state
in
the
whiche
most
perfig●●
state
a
soule
atteyneth
and
comyth
perfyghtly
to
the
excellent
of
the
vnyte
of
loue
shewynge
to
the
/
Also
in
euery
forsayd
a
state
what
thynge
it
is
that
wythdraweth
&
putteth
away
inperfeccion
:
and
by
what
waye
men
maye
goo
therto
/
And
also
I
tolde
the
of
●●e
preuy
deceytes
of
fendes
and
of
properte
of
ghos●●ly
loue
.
spekynge
also
to
the
reprehencions
in
thyse
thre
states
the
whiche
my
mekenes
doth
and
maketh
/
And
the
first
reprehencion
I
put
that
is
done
to
men
in
●er
lyue
or
the
soule
go
out
of
the
body
/
The
second
in
the
deth
as
for
●●eym
●●at
deyen
in
dedely
synne
wy●●out
hope
/
of
whom
I
saide
to
the
that
they
wente
vnder
the
brydge
by
a
way●
of
the
fende
tellyng
to
the
mysery
&
wretchednes
of
suche
dampned
soules
/
The
reprehencion
shall
bedone
in
the
generall
dome
:
And
there
I
tolde
the
somwhat
off
the
paynes
of
dampned
soules
and
off
the
ioye
whiche
blyssed
soules
haue
whan
they
shall
receyue
the●
owne
bodyes
/
Also
I
promytted
to
the
&
eftsones
I
promytte
to
the
that
wyth
moche
sufferaunce
I
shall
reforme
myn
spouse
/
byddyng
you
and
theym
to
suffre
for
her
&
playnyng
wyth
the
of
the
wickednes
of
mineuyll
seruauntes
:
And
s●●wyug
to
the
in
what
excellens
and
wourthines
I
haue
sette
theym
.
and
the
reuerence
that
I
requyre
&
wyl
that
seculers
done
to
them
Shewyng
also
to
the
how
for
defaute
off
theym
the
reuerence
that
ought
to
be
done
to
them
shold
not
be
lesned
:
▪
&
how
suche
lesnyng
of
reuerence
is
●ysplesaūt
and
contrarye
to
myn
wyll
/
And
also
I
spake
to
the
of
the
vertu
of
theym
that
lyuen
vertuously
in
er●●e
as
angellis
/
touchinge
the
also
wyth
that
of
the
excellens
off
the
reuerend
sacrament
of
the
aulter
/
Also
by
cause
I
spake
of
the
fosayd
iij
states
of
the
soule
/
thou
woldest
wete
and
knowe
also
of
the
estate
of
teres
&
from
whens
the
〈◊〉
come
I
tolde
the
for
to
accorde
the
statis
of
●●ris
wyth
the
states
of
the
soule
and
sayde
that
al
〈◊〉
comen
out
of
the
well
of
the
herte
/
and
ordeynatly
I
assygned
to
the
cause
of
suche
teres
&
the
iiij
states
of
●eres
/
&
of
the
firste
state
of
●●r●s
that
causeth
deth
also
I
tolde
/
I
answerd
also
to
thyn
fourthe
petycion
in
the
whiche
petycion
thou
praydest
me
that
I
wolde
prouyde
for
euery
partyculer
cas
that
might
happe
and
I
prouyded
and
purueyde
therfore
as
thou
knowest
well
Aboue
all
this
I
declared
to
the
and
told
the
off
my●
prouydence
as
well
in
generall
as
in
speciall
.
begynnynge
from
the
begynnyng
of
the
creacion
of
mankynde
vnto
the
ende
of
the
worlde
/
how
I
made
alle
thynges
and
make
yet
wyth
hym
dyuyne
pro●ydence
gyuyng
and
promytting
that
what
that
euer
is
gyuen
to
you
bee
it
●●ybulacions
or
ellis
temperall
comfor●●s
o●
spyrytuall
comfortes
all
thynges
is
done
for
your
good
/
that
ye
maye
bee
made
holy
in
me
And
myn
trouthe
may
be
performyd
in
you
/
My
trouthe
was
&
is
this
/
that
I
haue
made
you
of
nought
that
ye
maye
receyue
euerlastyng
●y●●
/
The
whiche
touthe
I
made
open
to
you
by
the
blode
of
myn
only
begoten
sone
/
Also
at
the
laste
I
made
a
seeth
to
thyn
desyre
and
the
promyssyon
that
I
made
to
the
tellynge
to
the
of
the
perfection
off
obedyence
.
And
whens
it
cometh
and
what
it
may
be
that
wythdrawe
you
awaye
from
your
obedyens
/
And
I
put
obedyens
for
a
generall
key
/
and
so
it
is
And
I
tolde
the
also
of
partyculer
obedyens
bothe
of
perfyght
folke
and
of
vnperfyght
folke
as
well
as
wythin
●●lygion
as
wythout
relygyon
spekyng
of
eche
of
theym
dystynctly
And
of
the
●ees
that
obedyens
yeueth
/
and
of
the
wer●●
that
inobedyens
maketh
And
how
moche
an
inobedyent
man
disceyu●th
hym selfe
addyng
and
puttyng
to
that
for
the
inobedyen●
of
Adam
/
●●eth
entred
in
to
alle
the
world
/
Now
I
souerayne
and
the
gloryous
euerlastynge
fader
of
endeles
trouthe
and
veryte
conclude
the
:
that
by
obedyens
of
myn
only
go●●n
sone
/
Ye
shall
haue
euerlastynge
lyff
/
And
ryght
as
ye
all
token
de●●
of
the
fyrst
olde
man
of
synne
soo
alle
ye
that
wyllen
be●●
the
keye
of
obedyens
haue
take
lyf
of
the
newe
man
:
the
whiche
is
swete
Ihesus
●●●st
of
whom
I
haue
made
you
a
bridge
af●
tyme
the
waye
of
heuen
was
booke
that
ye
mowe
goo
by
this
swete
ryght
waye
the
whiche
is
one
ryght
veryte
shynyng
wyth
the
keye
of
obedyens
/
that
ye
maye
passe
the
derkenesse
of
this
worlde
with
outen
offence
:
And
at
the
laste
wyth
the
keye
of
myn
obedyent
sone
ye
maye
op●ne
heuen
/
Now
I
stere
the
and
alle
myn
seruauntes
to
wepe
/
for
wyth
wepyng
&
meke
contynuell
prayer
and
pray●ng
I
wyll
do
mercy
to
the
worlde
:
renued
to
the
worlde
by
this
waye
of
trouthe
/
And
that
thou
shalt
not
afterward
bee
repreuyd
wyth
lyght
steryng
:
for
now
I
shall
aske
mor●
of
the
than
I
haue
doo
afore
sythen
it
is
soo
that
I
haue
shewed
the
myn
selfe
in
myn
trouthe
/
And
take
hede
that
thou
goo
not
out
of
the
celle
of
the
knowlec●●
of
thyn
self
/
But
therin
spende
and
conserue
the
tresour
that
I
haue
gyue
to
the
The
whiche
tresour
is
one
doctryne
of
trouthe
gronuded
vppon
a
stedfaste
:
and
quycke
the
stone
:
the
whiche
is
Ihesu
crys●e
:
That
doctryne
also
is
clothed
wyth
●yght
:
by
the
whiche
derkenesse
ben
destroyed
/
therfore
welbeloued
doughter
bee
arayed
wyth
this
lyght
of
trouthe
:
Thenne
the
soule
of
this
holy
mayde
katheryn
after
tyme
it
sawe
all
this
wyth
the
eye
of
vnderstondyng
and
by
medyacion
of
this
lyght
of
faythe
/
it
knowe
ryght
●o●yly
the
trouthe
and
the
excellens
of
obedyens
/
and
it
herd
it
wyth
ryght
felynge
and
tastyng
it
wyth
affection
and
wyth
an
vnspecabyll
desyre
beholdyng
it
in
the
dyuyne
reuerend
mageste
/
And
it
thanked
hym
sayeng
thus
/
¶
I
thanke
the
gloryous
〈◊〉
fader
almyghty
god
/
For
thou
●aste
not
despysed
me
thyne
hondwerke
/
ne
thou
haste
not
tourned
awaye
thyn
face
●oo
me
ne
despysed
myn
desires
thou
endele●
lygh●
considerest
not
myn
deth
.
ne
thou
leche
despisest
not
mi
gr●●ous
sekenes
.
the
endeles
puryte
despysest
not
me
/
full
of
fylthe
&
moche
wretchednesse
thou
infynmyte
consyderest
me
that
am
fynite
▪
Thou
wysdom
wysdom
beholdest
me
that
am
foly
/
For
thyse
and
other
moo
infynyte
wretchydnesses
and
innumerable
defautes
that
ben
in
me
:
thou
hast
not
despysed
me
:
ne
thyn
wysdom
/
thyn
goodnes
.
thy
mekenes
thyn
endeles
goodnes
hathe
not
dyspysed
me
but
rather
thou
hast
gyue
me
lyght
in
thyn
lyghte
/
In
thy
wysdome
I
haue
knowe
treuthe
/
In
thy
mekenes
I
haue
founde
charyte
of
the
and
loue
off
min
neyghbours
:
who
styred
the
therto
&
her
to
none
vertu
that
is
in
me
/
but
only
thyn
chary●●
:
thyn
loue
alone
cōs●●●yneth
me
to
Illumyne
the
●y●●
of
myn
vnder
stodyng
by
the
lyght
of
●aythe
/
that
I
sholde
vnderstonde
and
knowe
thyn
●●●u
the
the
whiche
thou
hast
made
open
to
me
¶
Good
lord
graunte
me
that
myn
mynde
and
mouth
bee
Capax
catchyng
for
to
helpe
and
conserue
alle
thyne
benefaytes
/
Also
that
myn
wyll
maye
brenne
wyth
the
fyre
of
thyn
charyte
:
the
whiche
fyre
maye
make
myn
body
gyue
out
a
gyfte
of
martyrdome
:
For
the
loue
of
thyn
precyous
blood
:
And
that
I
maye
opene
the
yates
of
heuen
wyth
the
keye
of
obedyens
.
And
that
same
I
aske
for
euery
resonable
creature
as
welle
generalle
as
partyculer
/
And
also
for
the
mysteri
all
body
of
holy
chyrche
/
¶
I
knowlec●●
and
denye
it
not
that
thou
hast
loued
me
fyrste
or
thenne
I
was
.
And
that
thou
louest
soo
vnspecable
thynne
creature
that
thou
art
lykened
in
somme
maner
wy●e
to
a
man
that
is
sat●●d
in
loue
/
O
endeles
eternyte
/
O
god●●de
the
whiche
by
vnyon
of
dyuyne
natri●e
●ast
made
the
bloode
of
thyn
oonly
goten
sone
so
moche
wourthe
in
p●y●e
that
it
suffyseth
do
rawnsome
all
mankynde
/
Thou
endeles
Trynyte
art
a
deepe
see
in
the
whiche
the
more
I
●eke
the
▪
the
more
I
f●nde
/
And
the
more
I
fynde
the
/
the
more
I
seke
the
/
Thou
fulfyllest
in
many
maner
vnsaciabyle
▪
for
in
thyn
depthe
thou
fulfyllest
soo
a
soule
that
euer
she
byleu●th
hongry
and
hongryng
the
endeles
and
gloryous
T●inyte
/
And
desy●eth
to
see
the
lyght
in
thyn
lyghte
/
●yght
as
an
●erte
desyreth
to
a
welle
of
wa●●rs
soo
desyreth
my
soule
to
passe
out
of
this
derke
body
and
see
the
in
the
t●●w●●e
as
thou
art
/
O
how
longe
shalle
thyn
swe●●
louely
face
behyd
from
myn
eyen
/
¶
O
endeles
gloryous
trynyte
&
depthe
of
fyre
of
charyte
/
Dyssolue
I
beseche
the
from
this
tyme
forward
the
clowde
of
myn
dedely
body
for
to
knowlec●●
that
thou
hast
gyue
to
me
of
the
in
thyn
t●●wthe
/
it
coarteth
and
co●streyneth
me
to
desyre
the
deposycion
of
my
greuous
body
And
it
maketh
me
gredy
to
gelde
mxn
lyff
for
the
praysyng
and
ioye
of
thyne
worshypfull
name
:
For
I
haue
tasted
and
seye
wyth
lyght
of
vnderstondynge
by
thyn
lyght
thyn
depthe
endeles
gloryous
trinyte
&
the
fayrenes
of
thyncreature
Goo
whan
I
see
myn
self
in
the
:
I
see
me
lyke
to
thyn
Image
by
the
endeles
gloryous
fader
/
Gyuyng
to
me
of
thyn
myght
and
of
thyn
wysdome
in
myn
vnderstondyng
/
The
whiche
wyssdome
is
apperyd
to
thyn
oonly
begoten
sone
the
holy
ghooste
that
cometh
from
the
gloryous
Fader
&
from
thyn
owne
only
begoten
sone
hath
gyue
me
wyll
by
the
whiche
he
hath
made
me
able
to
loue
:
For
thou
endeles
gloryous
trynyte
art
maker
/
And
I
thyn
honde
werke
wherby
I
haue
knowe
by
the
Illumy●●yng
of
the
in
myn
recreacion
that
thou
dydest
to
me
by
the
precious
blood
of
thyn
onli
begoten
sone
/
that
thou
were
in
maner
I
sotted
wyth
loue
by
the
fayrenesse
off
thyn
creature
/
O
depthe
/
O
endeles
godhede
/
O
depe
see
:
what
myghtest
thou
more
gyue
me
than
thy self
/
thou
art
fyre
that
euer
brennyste
/
And
thou
wastest
neuer
Thou
art
that
fyre
that
consumest
alle
propyr
loue
of
the
soule
by
thyn
heete
/
thou
art
also
that
fyre
that
doost
awaye
all
coldenesse
and
illumyniste
soulys
by
thy
lyght
/
wyth
the
whiche
lyght
thou
hast
made
me
to
knowe
thyn
trouthe
/
thou
art
lyght
aboue
all
lyght
the
whiche
thy
lyghte
gyuest
to
the
hyghenes
of
vnderstondynge
su●
naturall
lyght
in
soo
grete
habundaunce
and
perfyghtnesse
that
also
the
lyght
of
faythe
is
the
more
clarefied
by
it
In
the
whiche
faith
I
see
myn
soule
haue
lyfe
/
And
by
this
lyght
it
hath
receyued
the
lyght
/
Now
in
the
lyght
of
fayth
I
seke
wysdome
of
thyn
only
goten
sone
:
In
the
lyght
of
fayth
I
am
made
stronge
and
stedfast
.
And
am
perseueraunt
in
the
lyght
of
fayth
:
I
seke
hope
that
thou
shalt
not
suffer
me
to
defayle
in
the
waye
/
Also
that
lyght
techeth
me
the
waye
wherby
I
sholde
walke
:
And
wythout
this
lyght
I
sholde
walke
in
derkenes
/
&
therfore
I
haue
asked
the
endeled
gloryous
holy
fader
that
thou
sholdest
Illumyne
me
wyth
the
lyght
of
the
moost
holyest
faythe
/
Trewely
that
lyght
is
a
see
the
whiche
norysshed
a
soule
vnto
the
tyme
it
be
all
in
the
:
O
peasyble
see
endeles
gloryous
holy
Trynyte
/
the
water
of
the
see
is
not
troubled
water
and
therfore
it
gyueth
no
drede
:
but
rather
it
giueth
know
leche
of
trouthe
/
T
is
water
is
dystylled
&
it
maketh
opyn
pryue
thynges
Therfore
where
the
habundaunt
lyght
of
thyn
habundeth
/
a
soule
is
is
in
maner
clarefied
of
the
thynges
that
it
byleueth
.
This
see
is
the
endeles
glorious
holy
Trinite
maketh
me
knowe
as
a
mirrour
the
whiche
all
the
whyle
it
is
holde
wyth
the
honde
of
lou●
afore
the
eyen
of
my
soule
/
it
representeth
me
in
the
that
I
am
thyne
creature
/
In
the
lyght
of
this
myrrour
is
represented
to
me
that
I
knowe
the
moost
hyghest
&
infirmyte
god
and
good
/
Good
aboue
good
/
blessed
good
/
incomprehensybill
good
/
and
vnestymabyll
good
:
Fay●nesse
aboue
all
fayrnesse
wysdom
aboue
all
wysdom
:
For
thou
art
the
same
wysdome
:
thou
art
the
same
angelys
mete
:
hast
gyuen
thyne
self
to
men
wyth
fyre
of
charyt●
:
Thou
clothyng
hast
coueryd
myn
nakednesse
/
And
thou
fydest
vs
hungry
:
of
thyn
swetnesse
:
For
thou
a●t
●●●ete
/
wythout
ony
bytternes
/
O
endeles
swete
gloryous
Trynite
in
thyn
light
that
/
hast
gyue
me
/
I
haue
receyued
by
medytacion
of
that
lyght
the
most
holyest
sight
by
declaracion
:
I
haue
knowe
the
waye
of
thyn
grete
perfe●tion
by
many
and
merueylous
declaracions
that
I
sholde
serue
the
fro
thys
tyme
forward
wyth
lyght
and
not
wyth
derkenes
and
maye
be
a
myrrour
of
good
ensample
&
holy
lyuyng
and
that
I
maye
aryse
out
of
my
wretchyd
lyff
in
the
whiche
hyder
to
alwaye
I
haue
serued
the
in
derkenesse
:
I
haue
not
knowe
thyn
trewthe
afore
And
thefore
I
louy●
it
nought
:
But
why
knewe
I
not
the
/
trewely
for
I
see
the
not
wyth
the
lyght
of
the
most
holyest
&
moost
gloryous
fayth
/
Trewely
for
the
clowde
of
myn
owne
●ou●
hathe
derked
the
eyen
of
myn
vnderstondyng
/
But
thou
endeles
swete
gloryous
holy
Trynyte
with
thyn
lyght
hast
dissoluyd
m●●
derkenesse
/
And
who
may
att●yne
to
the
heyghthe
and
yelde
the
thankyng●●
of
●o
grrte
gyftes
and
soo
large
benefeytis
that
/
thou
hast
gyue
to
me
and
of
thyn
doct●yne
of
treuthe
that
thou
hast
gyue
to
me
nowe
The
whiche
doctrine
is
a
partyculer
grace
aboue
the
generall
grace
that
thougyuest
to
other
creatures
/
Thou
vouchedest
sat
to
condescende
to
myn
necessyte
and
/
to
the
necessite
of
other
creatures
the
whiche
in
that
tyme
comyng
wyll
beholde
in
:
●reuthe
as
in
myrrour
/
¶
Therfore
reuerende
lord
answere
to
thyn
self
for
me
thou
that
haste
gyue
gyftes
and
make
satysfactyon
for
thyn
gyftes
and
answer
for
/
theym
gyuyng
to
me
a
lyght
of
grace
that
thou
maye
yelde
thankynge
to
the
wyth
:
the
same
lyght
of
grace
/
Clothe
me
an
/
make
me
that
I
maye
bee
arayed
wythe
thyn
endeles
trouthe
that
I
maye
renne
this
dedely
waye
wyth
very
obediens
and
wythg
the
lyght
of
the
moost
holyest
teytn
/
Loo
maydens
as
nere
as
I
myght
and
coude
I
haue
translated
/
worde
for
worde
the
wordes
of
the
booke
And
prayer
that
this
holy
mayde
of
the
/
whiche
gyfte
ye
besely
take
hede
ye
maye
wors●ippe
the
excellence
of
thys
blessyd
mayde
/
not
only
as
for
her
maner
of
●yuyng
/
but
also
for
the
doctryne
of
trouthe
the
whyche
is
ryght
meruelous
I
sayde
and
namely
of
a
woman
.
¶
Furthermore
ye
maye
perceyue
by
thyse
wordes
that
she
desyred
gretely
to
bee
vnbounde
of
the
body
and
be
with
cryste
for
she
knewe
and
vnderstoode
well
that
it
was
moche
beter
to
be
wyth
cryst
than
/
to
lyue
in
this
lyf
/
And
therfore
her
desire
euer
encrecyd
vnto
the
tyme
she
had
fulli
her
desire
and
her
full
weddyng
oned
off
the
swete
gloryous
holy
ghost
the
whiche
was
promytted
vnto
her
in
her
yonge
age
whan
she
receyued
of
our
gloryous
/
lorde
almyghty
god
the
rynge
of
spousa●le
as
it
is
rehersyd
afore
in
the
laste
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
party
/
for
in
the
nexte
/
chapytre
shall
be
declared
how
this
holy
/
mayde
and
virgyn
passyd
out
of
this
/
world
¶
Of
the
tyme
whan
this
h●oly
mayde
:
passed
out
of
this
world
and
of
a
sermen
:
that
she
made
to
her
ghoostely
dy●●yples
and
susteren
to
●ore
●er
passyng
:
¶
●nd
how
she
enformed
them
in
generall
and.
enspecyall
how
they
sholde
gouerne
they
:
whan
she
was
goo
/
¶
And
or
a
vy●y●n
whiche
was
shewed
to
a
matrone
in
the
/
houre
of
passyng
Capitu●um
v
WHanne
this
holy
mayde
perceyued
and
vnderstode
by
the
reu●lacy●n
that
the
houre
or
her
dethe
drewe
nygh
She
drewe
to
her
a●
her
ghostely
dyscyples
to
whom
she
spa●e
generally
a
longe
notable
sermon
of
exortacion
to
the
encrece
of
vertu
:
In
the
whyche
exortacyon
she
expressyd
somme
certayn
notabylytes
the
whiche
I
purpos
/
to
wryte
in
this
boke
/
¶
The
●y●●te
notable
doctryne
that
she
taughte
was
thys
/
That
whatso
euer
he
bet
at
cometh
to
the
seruyce
of
god
/
Yf
he
wyll
haue
good
t●e●ely
it
is
nede●ull
for
hym
that
he
make
/
his
herte
naked
from
all
sensyble
loue
.
not
out
of
certayn
persones
but
of
euery
creature
what
that
euer
he
be
&
than
he
hold
stretche
vp
his
soule
to
our
reuerend
lord
&
maker
symply
wyth
alle
his
desyre
o●●
/
his
herte
for
an
herte
may
not
holy
be
yeuen
to
god
but
it
be
fre
fro
all
other
loue
:
opyn
&
symple
wythout
doub●lnesse
&
soo
she
affermed
of
her selfe
that
it
was
alle
her●
principall
labour
&
besynes
fro
her
yong
age
vnto
the
tyme
euer
for
to
come
to
that
:
perfection
also
she
sayd
she
knewe
well
that
to
suche
a
state
of
perfection
in
the
whiche
al
the
herte
is
gyue
to
our
gloryous
lord
almyghty
god
a
soule
may
not
come
ꝑfyghly
:
whyles
she
answerd
/
&
other
whyles
she
smyled
as
though
she
hadde
soorned
the
wordes
that
she
herde
of
hyr
enemyes
/
&
other
whyles
she
was
enflammed
in
loue
of
the
holy
ghost
/
but
one
worde
they
marked
well
that
herde
hyr
whan
she
spak
in
this
ghoostly
batayll
After
tyme
she
had
be
styll
a
cert●yn
tyme
hering
as
it
semed
the
wordes
that
were
put
ageynst
hyr
of
hyr
enemyes
/
wyth
a
gladde
chere
she
answerd
thus
.
Mayne
glorye
neuer
but
ve
ray
&
trowe
glorye
&
honour
of
my
forde
Jhesu
cryst
it
was
.
These
wordes
by
the
dysposycyon
of
oure
forde
were
not
sayde
wythout
cause
/
for
ther
were
many
ghoostly
men
&
wymmen
wened
that
for
the
grete
graces
that
our
lord
had
gyuen
hir
/
she
had
sought
praysyng
of
the
peple
/
or
ellys
that
she
had
som
maner
dylectacyon
there
Inne
/
&
therfore
they
sayd
she
desyred
to
be
conuersaunt
among
men
/
in
so
moche
that
som
wold
saye
to
mayster
Reymond
hir
confessour
thus
/
why
●enneth
this
womman
thus
about
yf
she
desyre
to
serue
god
Why
abydeth
she
not
at
home
in
hyr
celle
herto
it
may
be
answeryd
as
she
answeryth
afore
to
hyr
ghoostly
enemyes
in
hir
passyng
/
thus
vayne
glory
neuer
but
ve
ray
&
trewe
glory
of
my
lord
Ihesu
cryst
it
was
/
as
though
she
myght
answere
thus
.
I
ranne
not
aboute
/
ne
dyde
none
other
maner
ghostly
werke
for
vayne
glorye
/
but
for
the
honour
&
glory
of
my
lord
Ihesu
crystis
name
.
That
it
was
so
the
/
mayster
Reymond
bereth
recorde
of
treuthe
that
herde
hyr
confessyon
bothe
generall
&
specyall
/
wherfore
he
recordeth
for
a
sothe
that
all
that
euer
she
dyd
/
hit
was
done
for
the
worthyp
of
god
/
and
not
for
praysyng
of
men
/
in
so
moche
that
she
thou●t
on
noo
man
as
for
the
tyme
/
but
whan
she
prayed
for
them
/
so
ordeyned
for
theyr
bodely
nede
So
that
it
myght
be
veryfyed
of
hyr
the
wordes
of
the
apostle
where
he
seyth
thus
.
Nostra
conuersatio
in
celis
est
.
That
is
oure
conuersacyon
is
in
heuen
/
so
she
what
that
euer
she
dyd
in
erthe
/
hyr
con●sacion
was
in
heuen
After
tyme
thenne
she
had
long
contynued
in
that
long
ghostely
batayll
wyth
hyr
enemyes
/
she
resorted
ageyne
to
hyr
self
/
&
made
a
generall
confessyon
openly
/
the
whiche
is
callyd
the
confytro●
axyng
forgyuenes
eftsonys
●o
lowyng
of
doctryne
&
exsample
of
saynt
Martyne
Saynt
Jerom
&
Saynt
Austyn
/
that
shewed
bothe
in
hyr
dedys
&
in
hyr
wordes
/
that
be
a
man
neuer
so
excellent
in
vertue
in
this
lyf
/
he
shold
not
passe
out
of
this
world
wythout
waylyng
&
hertely
penaunce
for
hys
synnes
.
In
token
here
of
Saynt
Austyn
in
hys
last
ende
whan
he
shold
passe
out
of
this
worlde
he
ordeyned
for
to
wryte
to
hym
the
seuen
psalmes
of
penaunce
/
&
for
to
be
sette
vpon
the
wall
/
that
he
myght
see
tho
psalmys
as
he
laye
in
hys
bedde
.
The
whiche
psalmes
he
radde
ofte
&
wepte
plenteuously
in
seyeng
of
them
Also
Saynt
Jerom
whan
he
sholde
be
dede
/
he
made
a
generall
&
an
open
confessyon
of
hys
synnes
and
defautes
Saynt
Martyne
also
in
his
laste
ende
/
taught
hys
dyseyples
/
that
a
crysten
man
shold
not
deye
but
in
asshys
&
in
heyre
in
token
of
meke
hertety
penaunce
/
whom
this
holy
mayde
folowed
in
all
maner
of
tokenes
/
by
shewyng
of
hertely
penaunce
&
axyng
mekely
many
tymes
&
oft
absolucyon
bothe
of
hyr
synnes
and
paynes
.
Thenne
soone
after
she
beganne
to
wexe
more
febler
and
febler
/
but
yette
she
cessed
neuer
of
holy
exhortacyon
to
all
hyr
dysciples
bothe
to
them
that
were
presente
/
and
to
them
that
were
absent
And
specyally
that
same
tyme
/
she
charged
all
hyr
dysciples
to
axe
counseyll
of
mayster
Reymond
/
what
doubte
that
euer
they
hadde
.
And
furthermore
she
had
them
saye
to
him
whan
he
came
home
/
that
he
faylle
not
ne
be
not
aferde
for
noo
thyng
that
shall
falle
/
but
euer
contynue
vertuously
for
she
sayd
that
she
wolde
be
wyth
hym
/
and
delyuer
hym
from
all
peryll
.
And
whan
he
doth
ony
thyng
that
he
sholde
not
do
I
shall
gyue
hym
warnyng
she
sayde
for
to
amende
.
Thyse
wordes
she
sayd
often
tymes
to
tha
last
ende
of
hir
passyng
but
the
last
worde
that
she
sayd
was
this
Domine
in
manus
tuas
comnendo
spiritum
meum
.
And
so
that
blyssed
soule
paste
out
of
the
body
/
and
was
&
is
complyd
&
knytte
to
hir
spouse
Ihesu
/
whom
she
loued
so
hyghly
wyth
an
Indyuysyble
and
perpetuell
on
hede
or
vnyon
The
yere
of
our
lord
a
thousand
threhondred
&
foure
soore
the
nyne
and
twenty
daye
of
Apryll
/
the
whiche
was
in
the
cyte
of
Rome
and
fyll
vpon
a
sonday
about
the
houre
of
tyerce
/
that
same
and
the
same
houre
the
sowle
of
this
holy
mayde
appyred
to
mayster
Reymond
that
was
that
tyme
in
ferre
contreys
/
and
not
by
open
bodely
apparycyon
/
but
by
mentall
apparycyon
seyng
to
hym
in
his
soule
suche
wordes
of
comfort
.
Drede
the
not
for
I
am
here
for
the
/
I
am
in
heuen
where
I
may
helpe
the
and
defende
/
be
seker
therfore
&
drede
not
for
I
am
here
for
the
Wyth
the
whiche
confortable
wordes
mayster
Reymond
was
in
maner
astonyed
&
ameruaylled
what
it
myght
be
/
wenyng
that
this
comforte
hadde
come
from
oure
blyssed
lady
moder
of
mercy
/
by
cause
he
stood
a
fore
an
ymage
of
heres
and
sayd
an
Aue
maria
But
yet
neuertheles
he
was
aferde
to
thinke
so
/
by
cause
him
thought
he
was
vnworthy
to
haue
suche
a
comfort
of
hyr
And
so
what
it
myght
mene
/
or
what
it
myght
be
/
or
whennys
it
myght
come
he
nyst
neuer
.
But
afterward
in
heryng
of
another
reuelacyon
of
this
holy
mayde
shewed
to
a
deuoute
matrone
/
he
vnderstood
the
better
what
it
myght
mene
soo
whens
it
myght
come
.
Of
the
whiche
matrone
I
shall
tell
you
.
The
same
tyme
whan
this
holy
mayde
passyd
out
of
this
worlde
/
there
was
in
Rome
a
deuoute
matrone
/
that
was
called
Semya
/
the
whiche
hadde
two
men
to
hyr
sones
/
to
whome
she
was
euery
daye
bothe
moder
and
seruant
/
in
makyng
of
theyr
mete
.
Thys
deuoute
matrone
after
tyme
hyr
husbonde
was
dede
/
she
purposed
euer
after
to
serue
god
/
and
visyte
by
pylgrymage
holy
sayntes
of
Rome
/
and
she
continued
many
yeres
She
hadde
also
in
custome
for
to
ryse
at
mydnyght
and
praye
/
and
afterward
for
to
take
a
lytell
rest
syttyng
or
lenyng
wyth
hyr
hede
/
that
she
myght
be
the
more
quycker
on
the
morowe
erly
for
to
go
hyr
stacyons
of
Rome
.
It
befyll
soone
after
that
whan
this
holy
mayde
Katheryn
was
come
to
Rome
/
this
deuoute
matrone
took
knowleche
of
hyr
/
and
was
often
tymes
edyfyed
by
hyr
good
exhortacyons
/
and
soo
hadde
a
good
ghoostly
affeccyon
to
hyr
/
and
was
ofte
tymes
homely
wyth
hyr
in
hyr
hows
almost
euery
daye
Neuertheles
a
●ytell
afore
this
holy
mayde
deyed
/
she
came
not
to
hyr
bycause
of
certeyn
besynes
that
she
hadde
to
done
/
what
for
hyr
pylgrymages
/
and
the
purueyaunce
of
mete
for
hyr
sones
/
And
therfore
she
wyst
not
that
this
holy
mayde
passyd
Thys
deuoute
matrone
Semya
arose
vp
atte
mydnyght
as
she
was
wonte
/
for
to
doo
and
praye
a
longe
tyme
to gydre
/
she
purposed
for
to
reste
a
lytell
/
by
cause
she
wolde
vp
by
tymes
on
the
morowe
for
to
here
nasse
/
and
thenne
for
to
be
besye
aboute
hyr
chyldren
mete
.
She
dyde
soo
/
but
euer
she
was
trayueylled
in
hyr
slepe
that
she
sholde
O
wretche
/
the
fende
hath
deceyued
the
/
she
●se
vp
thenne
and
wente
about
for
to
seke
in
paryshe
chyrches
where
somme
hole
masses
were
aseyeng
/
&
as
she
wente
she
herde
a
be●le
rynge
to
a
masse
in
an
hows
of
Nonnys
/
she
was
gladde
thenne
&
thyder
she
wente
and
lefte
hyr
wortys
vnpy
kyd
&
vnwashe
for
hast
and
shytte
hir
do
●e
&
bare
the
keye
wyth
hyr
/
whan
she
came
the
masse
was
in
the
begynnyng
/
wyth
that
she
sayd
to
hyr
self
thus
.
Now
I
wote
well
the
fende
hath
not
deceyued
me
as
I
wende
.
Neuertheles
as
moche
as
she
wyste
well
that
the
mete
of
hyr
sones
myght
not
be
redy
or
they
came
home
to
mete
/
she
was
sory
/
but
for
the
comforte
that
she
hadde
in
hyr
mas●e
/
she
commytted
all
to
god
/
prayeng
hym
that
he
wold
wouche
sauf
to
kepe
hir
that
day
fro
heuy
wordes
of
hyr
chyldren
/
the
whyche
were
growen
men
/
for
she
was
sore
aferde
to
dysplease
them
/
&
soo
she
herde
forthe
all
the
hye
masse
/
whan
the
hye
masse
was
done
/
as
she
went●
home
she
mette
wyth
hyr
sones
comynge
homward
to
mete
seyeng
to
hyr
thus
.
Moder
hye
you
faste
for
it
is
tyme
to
go
to
mete
.
She
answerd
ageynefull
esely
and
sayd
.
Good
sones
abydeth
a
whyle
/
&
ye
shall
go
to
mete
anone
Whanne
she
was
entred
in
to
hir
hous
she
founde
hyr
mete
all
redy
ynough
/
and
the
wortys
all
redy
in
the
potte
well
soden
at
the
full
/
she
was
than
astonyed
/
&
thanked
our
lord
that
she
had
herde
hyr
masse
/
and
so
badde
hir
sones
sytte
done
to
mete
in
the
name
of
Jhesu
/
thynkyng
in
hyr
self
that
after
none
she
wolde
go
&
vysyte
the
holy
mayde
Katheryne
/
all
the
mete
tyme
she
thought
moche
in
that
vysyon
/
&
how
it
was
confermed
wyth
so
grete
myracles
In
the
mene
whyles
hyr
sones
commended
theyr
mete
&
sayd
that
it
was
beter
sesoned
that
tyme
/
than
ony
mete
that
they
hadde
eten
afore
many
a
daye
/
but
the
deuoute
matrones
●erte
was
alwaye
vpon
the
vysyon
seyeng
wythin
hyr
selfe
thus
.
O
moder
Katheryne
and
crystis
spouse
.
Yet
for
all
thys
she
wende
not
that
she
hadde
be
dede
And
whan
hyr
sones
were
a
gone
&
hadde
et●
/
she
wente
to
Katherynes
hous
and
knockyd
at
the
dore
&
herde
none
answere
/
it
was
sayd
hyr
of
the
neyghboures
there
about
that
she
was
walkyd
out
for
to
vysyte
holy
places
/
yet
in
treuthe
hir
susters
were
wythin
waylyng
And
wolde
not
suffre
none
to
entre
in
to
the
tyme
they
hadde
axyd
counseyll
how
they
shold
be●y
the
body
/
At
the
last
it
was
determyned
amonges
them
that
on
the
morowe
the
body
shold
be
ladde
to
the
frere
prechours
/
&
there
for
to
do
the
seruyse
as
god
wold
ordeyne
by
counseyll
&
so
it
was
done
/
But
as
soone
as
the
body
was
come
to
the
chyrche
/
the
people
folowed
for
to
touche
hir
fet●
or
hir
clothys
/
so
that
bothe
the
freres
&
also
hir
sustres
and
other
of
hir
dysciples
were
aferde
/
lest
they
sholde
haue
borste
&
toren
hyr
clothys
/
&
therfore
they
sette
the
body
wythin
the
chauntell
of
a
chapell
/
that
was
endued
in
the
worshyp
of
Saynt
Domynyk
/
What
that
fyll
afterwarde
I
thynke
to
declare
you
in
the
nexte
chapytre
by
the
helpe
of
god
Casuelly
whyles
thys
was
adoyng
Semya
the
Matrone
came
Inne
the
mene
tyme
/
and
axyd
what
that
noyse
and
concourse
of
people
myghte
mene
/
Hyt
was
tolde
hyr
that
Katheryne
of
Sene
was
passyd
oute
of
thys
worlde
/
hyr
body
was
in
the
chyrche
/
wherfore
the
people
gadred
soo
faste
for
to
see
it
.
Anone
whanne
she
herde
that
/
she
wayled
and
wept
and
wente
Inne
there
the
body
●aye
seyeng
to
the
ghoostely
chyldren
of
thys
holy
mayde
Katheryne
.
¶
O
vnpytuous
woman
why
haue
ye
hydde
this
fro
me
/
why
called
ye
me
not
to
her
passyng
/
They
excusyd
theym
that
they
myght
not
for
certayn
causes
/
than
she
prayed
theym
for
to
telle
her
whan
she
departed
from
the
body
they
sayde
yester
daye
aboute
vnderne
of
the
daye
/
wyth
the
Semya
wepte
and
sayde
thus
that
same
tyme
it
was
that
I
sawe
myn
gloryous
moder
lad
vp
to
heuen
with
ang●lis
wyth
thre
precious
crownes
on
her
hede
:
Now
I
wote
well
she
sayd
that
our
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
sent
his
angelys
&
shewed
me
the
passyng
of
myn
glorious
moder
gloryous
saint
katheryn
of
Sene
And
more
ouer
she
mynystred
for
me
merueylously
in
myn
kytchyn
/
O
moder
O
gloryous
moder
why
vnderstoode
I
not
whan
I
hadde
that
gloryous
visyon
that
thou
that
tyme
passid
out
of
this
worlde
/
Thenne
she
respyred
and
tolde
to
her
susters
and
to
other
ghostely
children
of
heres
what
vysyon
she
had
suche
a
tyme
▪
al
as
it
is
rehersed
/
thus
endeth
this
chapitr●
¶
Of
tokens
and
myracles
whiche
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
wrought
after
the
de●h
of
this
hooly
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
Katheryn
of
Sene
bothe
tofore
her
beryeng
and
after
.
That
is
to
saye
of
the
myracles
were
knowe
for
many
ther
were
that
were
not
knowe
/
Capitulum
●
WHan
the
blessyd
soule
of
this
holy
mayde
and
virgygyn
gloryous
saynt
katheryn
of
Sene
was
deliuerd
out
of
her
swete
body
:
and
the
swe
holy
body
put
in
a
chaunsell
of
saint
Do
mynyk
I
closed
by
cause
the
people
sholde
cerce
a
whyle
of
her
confluence
as
it
is
●eher●ed
afore
in
the
iiij
chapytre
:
In
the
mene
tyme
that
it
s●ode
there
came
a
suse
of
saint
fraunceis
order
that
was
callyd
Domynyca
the
whiche
had
a
sekenes
in
her
armr
/
that
half
a
ye●e
afore
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyne
dyed
she
myght
not
by
welde
her
arme
:
for
it
was
in
maner
benomme
her
and
drped
vp
/
This
suster
Domynyca
in
hope
to
haue
helpe
herde
seye
that
this
hooly
mayde
&
vyrgyn
was
dede
▪
came
to
the
chyrche
there
she
laye
&
sayde
that
she
myght
not
come
to
this
holy
body
for
the
peple
/
&
by
cause
also
the
chaunsel
dore
was
shette
/
she
threwe
in
a
keuerchef
and
prayed
the
susters
of
saint
Domynyk
that
they
wolde
touche
the
swete
holy
body
of
that
holy
mayde
and
vyrgin
wyth
that
keuerchefe
&
thenne
to
gyue
●t
to
her
a
gayn
.
They
dyd
so
/
&
assone
as
she
hadde
the
keuerchefe
agayn
she
put
it
to
her
arme
and
was
hole
anon
/
wyth
that
she
cryed
to
all
the
people
and
sayde
that
her
arme
was
hole
by
myracle
of
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
gloryous
katheryne
Thenne
the
peple
made
moche
noyse
in
thankyng
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
&
brought
chyldren
of
heres
&
other
seke
bodyes
that
they
myght
haue
helpe
by
myracle
namely
by
touchyng
somme
hemme
of
that
holy
mayde
and
virgins
clothes
▪
Amonge
all
other
there
was
brought
a
●●●●de
of
iiij
yere
olde
whos
hede
lay
vpon
his
one
sholder
by
cause
off
a
certayn
infyrmyte
that
he
hadde
by
the
whiche
infyrmyte
the
synowes
of
his
necke
were
shronke
to
gyders
so
that
he
myght
neuer
lifte
vp
his
hede
fro
the
sholder
Assone
as
this
childen
was
brought
to
the
holy
body
and
was
touched
in
the
necke
wyth
the
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
:
about
whos
neck
also
was
put
a
keuerchefe
of
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
▪
●ythin
a
lytyll
whyle
and
tyme
afterward
the
chylde
began
to
amende
and
soo
was
att
the
laste
hole
.
This
was
the
cause
why
the
fryers
durste
not
burye
the
holy
body
by
thre
dayes
to
gyder
in
as
moche
as
our
reuerende
lord
almighty
god
sholde
shewe
myracle
by
her
:
For
there
was
soo
grete
a
confluence
of
people
thoo
thre
dayes
that
a
mayster
of
●yuynyte
was
steryd
for
to
make
a
sermon
to
the
worshyppe
of
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
and
of
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
But
whan
he
stode
vp
in
the
pulpyt
he
myght
not
be
herd
for
noyse
of
the
people
and
the
grete
concurs
to
the
swete
holi
body
.
Soo
that
at
the
laste
he
lefte
of
his
sermon
and
sayde
to
all
the
peple
in
this
wyse
/
Syres
I
see
well
this
holy
maide
and
vyrgyn
nedeth
nought
our
prechinge
for
she
by
her self
pr●●heth
suffyciauntly
ynow
and
thenne
he
wente
doune
out
of
the
pulpyt
:
¶
The
myraclys
of
this
holy
mayde
&
vy●gyn
encresyd
faste
:
For
there
was
a
Roman
the
whiche
was
called
Lucius
/
that
had
suche
a
sekenesse
the
whiche
myght
not
behelyd
of
none
leche
a
ioynt
off
his
knee
was
to
broste
so
that
he
myght
not
walke
vnnethe
but
by
sustentacion
of
a
staf
:
This
lucius
herde
saye
that
suche
an
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
dyde
myraclys
▪
wyth
grete
traueyle
and
helpe
of
other
he
came
there
her
swe●●
hooly
body
lap
:
&
there
wyth
grete
reuerence
and
deuoucion
he
toke
the
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
hond
and
put
it
to
his
thye
/
&
to
his
legge
.
●ythin
a
lytyll
whyle
and
tyme
after
he
felte
more
strengthe
in
his
leggys
than
he
dyde
afore
so
that
or
than
he
wente
fully
thens
he
was
all
hole
/
praysyng
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
in
his
merueiles
that
he
shewed
in
his
saintes
/
¶
Also
there
was
a
yonge
maydede
childe
that
was
called
●e●●zola
the
whiche
had
an
horybyll
infyrmyte
of
a
lepyr
in
her
face
that
her
noyse
and
the
ouerlyppe
of
her
mouth
was
coueryd
wyth
that
horryble
lepre
/
This
mayde
herd
speke
also
of
the
myracles
shewed
by
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
Katheryne
of
Sene
/
&
come
to
the
same
chriche
where
that
her
holy
body
lay
and
in
to
come
to
that
holy
body
/
but
alwaye
she
was
put
a
backe
by
prees
of
the
people
:
At
the
la●t
she
came
in
to
that
swete
holy
body
&
put
not
only
her
face
to
the
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyns
hondis
and
feet
/
But
also
to
her
louely
swete
face
and
vysage
Soone
after
she
felt
releuyng
of
her
sekenes
soo
that
wythin
a
short
tyme
she
was
so
perfyghtly
hole
and
neuer
afterward
apperyd
in
her
face
ony
naner
of
●eper
/
spottene
marke
/
of
ony
maner
leper
/
¶
Also
there
was
a
Roman
calli●
Cypryus
that
had
a
doughter
the
whiche
doughter
of
yonge
age
toke
a
sekenes
that
is
called
the
tysyk
of
that
sekenes
she
myght
neuer
be
deliueryd
by
none
maner
of
me
decyne
/
when
the
fader
&
the
moder
herde
saye
of
the
myraclis
/
shewed
by
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
by
by
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
katheryn
they
came
to
the
same
place
&
her
doughter
wyth
them
where
the
swete
holi
body
laye
&
recommendyd
deuoutly
her
doughter
to
that
holy
mayde
and
vyrgin
Assone
as
the
chylde
was
hole
/
Also
in
the
mene
tyme
the
swete
holy
body
lay
vnberyed
/
there
was
a
cytysyn
of
Rome
that
was
callyd
Anthoni
the
whiche
was
the
same
tyme
in
saynt
Pet●is
chirche
whan
he
herde
of
the
myraclis
that
was
wrought
by
this
hooly
mayde
and
vyrgyn
:
This
Anthony
was
enfected
soo
that
he
myght
not
be
cured
wyth
none
natural
mede●in
/
he
bethought
him
of
this
hooly
maide
&
virgin
&
deuoutly
he
made
a
vowe
to
her
&
he
had
not
so
sone
made
his
a
vowe
/
that
he
ne
felte
his
body
and
his
lymmes
as
stronge
as
euer
they
were
/
Thenne
he
came
to
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
&
thanked
our
reuerend
lord
almighty
god
and
her
of
his
recoueryng
/
¶
Also
ther
was
a
deuoute
matrone
that
was
welknowe
wyth
this
hooly
mayde
and
virgyn
whan
she
lyued
in
erthe
/
for
ofte
tymes
whan
she
came
to
her
place
she
and
many
of
her
dysciples
were
herberowed
wyth
her
:
the
whiche
matrone
she
called
Paula
/
In
the
same
tyme
whan
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyne
passyd
out
of
this
world
This
pau●a
was
seke
and
hadde
lay
seke
iiij
monethes
afore
vpon
a
sekenes
that
is
called
podagra
and
vppon
another
sekenes
on
her
syde
that
is
called
Ilycapassio
/
And
by
cause
the
remedyes
of
thoo
two
sykenesses
ben
contrary
eche
to
other
for
the
tone
sekenesse
requyred
openenyng
/
and
the
other
closinge
/
therfore
this
matrone
was
moche
more
vexed
▪
soo
that
other
whyles
she
was
nere
deed
:
●han
t●is
matrone
herde
saie
that
this
holy
made
&
virgyn
was
●passyd
:
She
asked
for
charyte
that
she
might
hau●
some
maner
of
clothe
/
that
her
swete
holi
body
was
coueryd
with
or
touched
as
she
desyred
soo
she
hadde
:
that
same
nyght
at
euen
she
leyde
that
clothe
vpon
her
as
she
laye
in
her
bedde
all
nyghte
:
On
the
morowe
she
roos
vp
all
hole
and
walked
on
her
fete
as
though
she
hadde
neuer
that
sekenesse
.
Suche
myrac●es
&
many
moo
oure
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
wrought
in
that
blessyd
mayde
and
holy
vyrgyn
or
than
it
was
buryed
.
Yet
oure
reuerend
●lorde
almyghty●
god
cecyd
not
for
to
worke
helthe
to
seke
folke
For
in
werkyng
it
rather
encresyd
than
dymynused
:
¶
There
was
a
woman
that
was
callyd
●one
whiche
had
a
lytyll
chylde
that
myght
not
stonde
ryght
vp
on
his
fetene
goo
/
This
●one
herde
how
our
reuerende
lorde
almyghty
god
wrought
many
fayr
my
ra●●ys
by
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyne
gloryous
saint
katheryne
she
made
auowe
to
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
&
to
here
for
the
●elthe
of
her
chylde
After
tyme
she
hadde
made
her
a
vowe
she
toke
hyr
chylde
with
her
and
came
to
the
graue
where
the
hooly
mayde
&
vyrgyn
was
buryed
/
And
she
layde
hyr
chylde
vpon
the
graue
/
And
anone
the
chylde
began
to
stonde
ryght
vp
and
go
as
though
he
hadde
had
neuer
sekenesse
in
his
legges
:
¶
Also
there
was
a
man
of
Tose
that
was
also
callyd
Johan
the
whiche
had
an
horryble
sekenes
in
hys
eyen
so
the
wormes
bredde
in
his
eye
/
this
●ohn
made
a
vowe
deuoutly
to
oure
reue●●nde
lord
almyghty
god
&
to
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
gloryous
saint
Katheryne
off
Sene
/
&
anone
he
was
delyuerd
of
hys
sekenes
/
wh●n
he
was
so
delyueryd
he
came
to
the
sepulcre
of
that
blessid
mayde
&
virgin
&
set●●
vp
a
token
of
waxe
as
the
maner
is
in
sygne
&
token
of
delyu●ra●ce
than
he
tolde
to
all
folke
that
wolde
h●re
it
the
merueyle
of
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
shewed
by
this
hooly
mayde
&
virgyn
:
Also
there
was
a
woman
pylgryme
of
duchelond
whos
name
was
not
wryton
bicause
it
was
foryete
of
neglygence
the
whiche
pylgryme
had
desuche
a
sekenesse
in
both
her
eyen
that
she
had
almost
lost
her
syghte
Th●
pylgrym
made
a
vowe
deuoutly
to
oure
reuerende
lord
almyghty
god
&
to
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
Katheryn
of
sene
/
And
wythin
a
lytyll
tyme
after
she
had
clere
●
yght
&
hyr
sekenesse
was
gon
whan
she
was
to
hyr
sepulcre
for
to
thanke
our
reuerende
lord
almyghty
god
and
hyr
/
She
sawe
as
clerly
as
eue●
she
dyde
/
¶
Also
there
was
a
lady
of
Rome
that
was
called
Mary●
the
whiche
the
whiche
hadde
in
her
hede
a
greuous
sekenes
that
notwithstondyng
many
sondry
medecyns
the
whiche
she
vsed
she
myght
neuer
be
holpe
therby
/
but
lost
her
eyen
/
Wherfore
for
sorowe
and
shame
that
she
hadde
therof
/
she
wold
neuer
passe
her
hous
after
ne
appere
in
the
syght
of
men
:
This
lady
herde
speke
of
the
gteate
myraclis
that
our
reuerend
lord
almighty
god
wrought
by
that
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
katherin
/
she
made
auowe
to
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
and
to
her
deuoutly
/
After
tyme
her
vowe
was
made
:
the
next
nyght
sueing
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
apperyd
to
the
seruaunt
of
this
lady
in
her
slepe
and
bad
her
sey
to
her
lady
that
she
sholde
doo
nomore
medecyns
to
her
sight
.
but
euery
daye
in
the
morowe
she
shold
goo
to
chirche
&
here
the
seruyce
of
our
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
and
thenne
she
shall
be
hole
Whan
this
seruaunt
had
tolde
her
lady
thus
/
she
dede
soo
/
and
at
the
laste
by
lytil
&
lytyll
she
began
to
see
wyth
that
blynde
eye
and
was
fully
restoryd
to
helthe
:
Loo
dere
susters
by
this
myracle
ye
may
consydere
that
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
folowed
the
dedes
of
our
lord
almyghty
god
swete
Ihesu
Cryst
/
For
whan
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
swete
Jhesu
Cryste
was
sought
whiles
he
was
in
erthe
here
for
the
helthe
of
body
/
Hym
thought
it
was
not
ynow
for
hym
to
he
le
only
the
body
but
yf
he
helyd
the
soule
Whan
he
sayde
to
one
that
came
to
hym
for
to
be
helyd
in
body
thus
:
Fili
remittuntur
tibi
peccata
/
That
is
to
saye
/
thyn
synnes
be
forgyuen
/
Ryght
soo
this
holy
mayde
&
virgyn
there
she
was
asked
of
helthe
/
She
gaue
also
helthe
of
soule
in
that
she
badde
her
here
her
dyuyne
seruyce
The
whiche
is
helthe
and
comforte
to
thesoule
:
¶
Also
there
was
a
yonge
man
the
whiche
was
called
James
the
sone
of
a
Romane
that
was
called
Peers
/
the
whiche
was
in
a
tyme
so
seke
in
body
that
none
leche
myght
hele
hym
/
But
alegates
he
drewe
faste
to
deth
:
Thenne
was
there
a
deuote
woman
that
was
called
Ceccola
/
The
whiche
woman
sawe
this
yong
man
in
poynt
of
deth
:
and
made
avowe
for
hi
to
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
katheryn
/
She
hadde
not
soo
soone
made
her
vowe
/
but
that
the
yonge
man
began
to
recouere
and
was
fully
delyuered
from
his
sekenes
/
¶
Also
there
was
a
woman
callyd
gallya
that
was
sore
seke
and
myght
not
be
helped
by
none
lechecrafte
So
that
lechee
sayde
by
cours
of
naturall
kynde
that
she
sholde
be
dede
wythin
a
short
tyme
thenne
this
woman
Gallya
thought
vppon
saynt
gloryous
katheryne
of
Seene
and
recommended
her
lyff
to
her
/
She
had
not
so
soone
do
soo
/
but
that
she
felte
comforte
and
amendement
/
And
so
lytyll
and
lytyll
she
was
restoryd
to
helthe
/
¶
Also
there
was
a
deuoute
lady
that
was
called
dame
Jone
the
whiche
knewe
well
this
holy
mayde
&
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
whyles
she
lyued
/
And
she
counseyled
seke
folke
whan
she
spake
wyth
them
to
recommende
her
sekenes
to
the
merytes
of
the
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
in
as
moche
as
she
herde
speke
of
the
grete
myracles
that
our
reuerend
lord
almighty
god
wrought
in
her
trusting
fully
that
they
sholde
be
holpe
by
her
merytes
.
Soo
that
by
her
steryng
&
exortacion
many
were
holpe
/
Thenne
it
fyll
in
a
tyme
that
off
the
chyldren
of
that
worthy
Lady
dame
Jone
sodenli
as
he
went
vpon
an
hye
steire
fyll
doune
hedelyng
a
fore
thys
Lady
his
moder
/
Soo
that
she
wende
as
it
was
lykely
to
be
that
the
childe
eyther
was
ded
or
ellys
sholde
haue
caughte
a
mayme
therby
all
the
dayes
of
his
lyf
after
/
Wyth
that
this
lady
the
moder
of
the
chyld
cryed
to
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
off
Sene
thus
gloryous
saynt
katheryn
off
Sene
to
the
recommaunde
myn
chylde
/
she
had
not
soo
soone
sayd
soo
▪
but
that
the
chylde
stood
vp
wythouten
ony
harme
lesse
or
more
:
for
he
was
as
hole
thenne
as
euer
he
was
afore
:
Thenne
the
moder
thanked
our
reuerend
lord
almighty
god
and
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryne
of
the
blessed
myracle
/
¶
Also
there
was
another
woman
the
whiche
was
a
generall
launder
and
lyued
by
that
maner
of
besynes
that
was
cally
d
bone
Johan
.
i.
bona
Johanna
/
In
a
tyme
as
this
woman
shold
goo
to
the
Ryuer
ther
besyde
and
wasshed
clothes
/
It
behapped
her
that
she
sholde
wasshe
a
quylte
:
and
in
the
mene
tyme
she
helde
the
ton
ende
vnder
her
armes
whyle
that
the
other
ende
was
a
wasshyng
/
It
behapped
that
the
heuyer
ende
in
the
water
drewe
doune
the
lyghter
ende
vnder
her
armes
and
soo
fletted
feer
wythin
the
Ryuer
▪
Whan
she
perceyued
that
she
wyste
well
yf
it
were
lost
she
myght
not
paye
therfore
by
cause
she
was
ryght
poure
.
She
than
a
rechyd
after
the
quylte
for
to
haue
it
agayn
and
sodenly
she
her self
fell
in
to
the
water
/
soo
that
the
water
bare
her
ferre
wythin
:
wyth
that
she
bethought
her
of
gloryous
saint
katheryn
and
sayde
thus
O
thou
gloryous
saint
Katheryne
helpe
me
now
in
this
nede
:
This
worde
was
not
soo
sone
I
sayde
but
that
she
was
holpe
in
soo
moche
that
she
was
lyfte
vp
aboue
the
water
and
toke
the
clothe
and
came
to
lond
wythout
helpe
of
man
whan
she
was
recouereude
she
was
sore
astonyed
merneylyng
how
that
myght
be
/
that
she
was
so
soone
holpe
thenne
she
conceyued
wel
that
it
thus
by
the
helpe
of
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
and
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
of
Sene
¶
Of
another
myracle
now
I
shall
tell
you
of
the
whiche
Mayster
Reymound
bereth
witnes
as
it
was
told
him
It
befel
on
a
tyme
whan
Mayster
Reymound
was
come
to
the
Cyte
of
Rome
vppon
a
daye
whan
this
holy
maydens
&
virgyn
body
shold
be
translated
as
she
prophecied
longe
afore
whyles
she
lyued
as
it
shall
be
declared
afterward
/
that
her
fylle
seke
thenne
came
to
hym
a
physycion
that
was
called
Mayster
James
of
saynt
Mary
the
rounde
vpon
a
daye
:
whan
this
physycien
came
to
visyte
Mayster
Reymond
And
for
to
gyue
hym
medycyne
he
tolde
Mayster
Reymound
of
a
yonge
man
that
was
called
Nycholas
a
worthy
mannys
sone
of
Rome
that
was
passyng
seke
off
a
sekenes
that
is
called
the
quynauncie
soo
that
euery
leche
sayd
by
nature
he
myght
notlyue
/
For
to
all
mennys
syght
he
drewe
faste
to
the
deth
/
This
perceyued
Alixa
a
suster
of
penaunce
of
saynt
Domynyke
in
as
moche
as
she
knewe
well
that
the
fader
and
the
moder
loued
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
Katheryne
:
Whan
she
lyued
:
came
to
this
yonge
man
and
brought
wyth
her
a
tooth
of
this
hooly
mayde
and
vyrgyn
gloryous
saynt
katheryne
that
she
kepte
alwaye
for
a
relyke
.
The
whiche
tooth
she
put
in
that
yonge
mans
mouth
/
She
hadde
not
so
soone
doo
soo
:
But
that
the
posteme
that
was
wythin
brake
and
the
mater
fyll
out
off
the
childes
mouth
/
&
wythin
a
whyle
after
he
was
hoole
&
thanked
oure
reuerede
lord
almyghty
god
&
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
.
Also
afterwar
he
tolde
that
myracle
openly
to
all
that
world
here
it
/
Soo
that
in
a
time
whan
mayster
Reymond
prechyd
he
tolde
that
myracle
to
the
peple
as
he
herde
off
other
/
Whan
that
yonge
man
herde
hym
speke
therof
the
whiche
was
at
the
sermon
for
that
tyme
/
he
stode
vp
openly
and
saide
to
Mayster
Reymound
thus
/
Syrye
saye
sothe
for
I
am
the
same
that
this
myracle
was
shewed
to
:
Many
mo
myracles
were
shewed
by
our
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
of
this
hooly
mayde
and
virgyn
whiche
ben
not
wryton
in
this
boke
/
But
they
myght
be
knowen
wythouten
ony
wrytyng
openly
ynoto
by
the
ymages
of
waxe
that
were
offred
vp
to
her
sepulcre
/
soone
after
she
was
buryed
Neuertheles
of
one
myracle
I
shall
telle
you
that
Mayster
Reymound
bereth
recorde
of
/
It
befyll
soone
after
that
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyne
was
buryed
that
quene
Johan
of
Cecyly
sent
in
a
tyme
Reynold
of
vrsyne
wyth
a
grete
host
off
armyd
folke
to
the
Cyte
of
Rome
for
to
make
Pope
vrbane
the
vj
eyther
for
to
put
hym
out
of
the
Cyte
/
or
ellys
for
to
slee
hym
▪
All
be
it
the
Romans
hylde
wyth
the
pope
as
trewe
chyldren
wyth
the
Fader
/
Of
the
whiche
Romans
somme
of
the
comyn
peple
were
take
of
thoo
scismatykes
and
crruelly
punisshed
/
somme
were
bounde
to
a
tree
soo
to
deye
myscheuously
somme
were
ledde
to
a
felde
and
I
payned
wyth
certayn
infirmytes
and
instrumentis
of
yron
soo
for
to
take
her
bodely
deth
/
But
as
many
as
asked
helpe
of
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
of
sene
preuily
in
her
herte
or
openly
in
worde
wyth
deuoucion
Thei
merueylously
and
sodenly
were
vndo
of
her
hondes
wythout
ony
helpe
of
ony
man
/
¶
Of
suche
myraclis
that
were
many
the
whiche
ben
not
wryten
in
this
boke
/
Loo
dere
frendes
thus
endeth
this
chapitre
where
ye
maye
see
many
fayr
myracles
by
the
whiche
ye
may
vnderstonde
that
this
hooly
mayde
and
virgyn
was
and
is
a
dere
spose
of
our
lord
reuerend
lord
almighty
god
:
I
will
thus
make
an
ende
of
this
boke
:
saue
by
cause
holy
chirche
commendyth
more
the
vertu
of
pacience
thenne
shewyng
of
myraclis
as
saint
Gregrye
sayth
therfore
I
thynke
to
wryte
to
you
a
chapytre
of
the
vertu
of
pacience
that
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
hadde
wherin
ye
maye
gader
flonres
and
fruyte
to
encrece
of
your
vertuous
lyuyng
by
the
helpe
and
socour
of
our
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
swete
Ihesu
Cryste
:
Qui
cum
patre
et
spiritu
sancto
viuit
et
regnat
deus
per
omnia
secula
seculorum
Amen
:
¶
Of
the
myght
and
stronge
paciens
whiche
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
gloryous
saint
katheryn
of
Sene
shewed
openly
from
her
fyrste
yonge
age
vnto
her
deth
bi
the
whiche
virtu
clerly
is
prouyd
that
ryghtfully
she
is
worthy
to
haue
the
name
in
godes
chirche
of
erthe
whan
she
is
made
soo
fayr
and
so
glorious
in
goddis
chirche
in
heuen
/
And
in
this
chapytre
is
a
recapytulacion
of
all
the
holy
fyll
of
this
gloryous
saint
and
virgyn
afore
sayde
for
werynesse
of
reders
/
Also
yf
:
eche
man
may
not
haue
all
the
hole
holy
lyf
of
this
gloryous
saint
and
virgyne
afore
sayde
/
Thenne
maye
he
haue
the
substaunce
of
it
here
compendyously
rehersyd
/
Capitulum
vltimum
THe
holy
doctour
saynt
Gregorye
seyth
in
hys
dyalogus
that
the
vertue
of
pacyence
is
more
commendable
thenne
shewyng
of
myracles
This
is
the
cause
why
our
moder
holy
chyrche
/
whan
she
wodel
Canonyze
ony
saynte
/
fyrste
she
enquyreth
of
the
vertue
of
pacyence
.
Thenne
of
the
shewyng
of
myracles
/
&
that
is
for
two
skylles
.
One
is
for
many
euyll
lyuers
haue
do
wond
thynges
/
&
shall
do
that
semeth
myracles
/
all
though
they
be
none
/
as
Symon
magus
dyd
/
&
Antecryst
shall
do
in
hys
tyme
.
Another
is
by
cause
som
ther
hath
ben
that
haue
done
&
shewed
myracle
by
●tue
of
our
lord
Ihesu
/
the
whiche
haue
be
dampned
afterward
as
Judas
/
&
all
tho
thou
our
lord
speketh
of
in
the
gospell
/
where
he
sayth
that
som
shall
stande
on
the
lyfte
syde
on
the
day
of
the
generall
dome
/
&
saye
to
hym
in
excusyng
of
them self
.
Lord
haue
we
not
in
thy
name
shewed
&
do
wonderfull
myracles
To
whome
our
lord
shall
answere
ageyne
&
say
Go
ye
from
me
werkers
of
wickydnes
/
by
thyse
two
skylles
ye
may
vnderstonde
the
holy
chyrche
in
erthe
may
not
only
be
certyfyed
by
myracles
/
whether
the
persone
be
holy
or
not
/
by
whom
they
be
shewed
/
all
be
it
that
they
shewe
presumpcyon
of
holynesse
.
And
namely
tho
myracles
that
ben
shewed
after
the
deth
of
a
persone
/
for
they
were
no
sayntes
/
at
whos
graues
myracles
ben
shewed
.
Yet
were
possyble
that
our
mercyable
lord
sholde
haue
them
excused
/
&
yelde
them
after
theyr
meke
beleue
/
the
whiche
beleuen
that
they
be
sayntes
.
Not
for
them
that
ben
there
beryed
but
for
the
glorye
&
the
ioye
of
hys
owne
name
/
lest
they
the
whiche
beleue
in
hym
be
defrawded
from
theyr
desyre
wherfore
our
mod
holy
chyrche
in
erthe
/
that
is
gouerned
by
the
holy
ghost
/
desyryng
for
to
be
certefyed
of
tho
merites
of
holy
sayntes
as
moche
as
it
is
possyble
in
this
lyf
enquyreth
specyally
of
theyr
vertuous
lyuyng
/
&
of
tho
thynges
that
they
wrought
whyles
they
lyued
in
erthe
.
Soo
our
lord
Ihesu
hyr
spouse
taught
hyr
to
do
whan
he
sayd
Ex
fructibus
eorum
cognoscetis
eos
That
is
of
hyr
werkys
ye
shall
knowe
them
/
for
it
folowed
aftward
in
the
same
place
where
that
clause
is
wryten
afore
/
that
a
good
tree
may
not
bryng
forthe
euyll
fruyte
.
What
ben
thyse
fruytes
.
Trewely
no
thyng
ellys
but
werkys
of
loue
&
charyte
/
bothe
of
god
and
of
our
neyghbours
But
by
cause
of
these
werkys
of
charyte
/
ryght
as
they
be
plesaunt
to
our
lord
/
ryght
so
they
ben
dysplesaunt
to
the
fende
So
that
he
is
about
in
all
that
he
can
&
may
for
to
lette
the
dedes
of
charyte
/
bothe
by
hym self
&
also
by
the
worlde
/
that
is
by
worldly
lyuers
.
Wherfore
it
is
full
necessarye
to
holy
lyuers
to
haue
pacyence
&
perceueraunce
yf
they
wyll
be
rewarded
for
theyr
mede
in
blysse
/
by
the
whiche
pacyence
they
may
conserue
them
&
kepe
them
in
good
loue
of
god
and
of
theyr
good
neyghbours
/
notwythstondyng
all
maner
persecucyons
.
Therfore
it
was
that
Saynt
Powle
assygned
the
fyrst
condycyon
of
charyte
pacyence
whan
he
sayd
.
Caritas
paciens
est
.
That
is
charyte
is
pacyence
Loo
maydens
this
is
the
cause
why
oure
moder
holy
chyrche
in
erthe
/
requyreth
more
after
the
pacyence
of
a
saynte
yf
he
sholde
be
Canonyzed
thenne
after
the
myracles
/
for
among
all
●tuous
werkys
/
yet
pacyens
is
the
grettest
wytnesse
of
holynesse
.
And
this
is
sayd
maydens
be
cause
that
ye
shold
not
be
in
doubte
of
this
holy
maydens
holynes
/
for
she
had
that
vertue
of
pacyence
full
blyssedly
/
As
I
shall
tell
you
by
the
helpe
of
god
&
of
your
good
prayers
rehersyng
all
hir
dedes
of
pacyence
/
by
recapytulacyon
of
this
hole
legende
namely
for
wery
reders
that
thynken
an
houre
in
deuoute
redyng
is
lenger
than
a
daye
/
and
yf
they
were
occupyed
in
tales
&
tryfles
/
thenne
them
semeth
the
long
day
●hort
thenne
an
houre
.
Vnderstonde
well
maydens
that
this
holy
mayde
Katherin
perceyued
/
that
the
vertue
of
pacyence
myght
not
haue
his
gracious
werkyng
in
a
soule
/
but
fyrst
vnlefull
thynges
were
remeuyd
awaye
from
it
/
&
namely
suche
vnlefull
thyngys
that
ben
e●●ytable
to
the
lustes
of
the
flesshe
/
wherfore
or
thenne
she
came
to
the
age
of
exꝑyence
of
flesshly
lustes
.
She
●emeuyd
awaye
myghtly
all
suche
/
as
suche
thynges
that
sholde
styre
hyr
wh●n
she
came
to
age
.
And
yet
she
dyd
not
this
wythout
Inspyracion
/
&
notable
vision
of
our
lord
by
the
whiche
Inspiracyon
whan
she
was
●j
yere
of
age
/
she
saw
our
lord
arayde
as
a
bisshop
sytting
in
a
ry●t
fayre
chambre
ouer
the
chirche
of
the
f●ere
p●echours
/
Wyth
whome
she
sawe
a●so
saynt
Johan
Euangelyst
/
&
whyles
she
behelde
our
lord
/
he
lokyd
vpon
hyr
full
benyngly
&
mekely
and
blyssed
hir
.
After
this
holy
vysyon
hyr
soule
was
fulfylled
wyth
ꝑ●y●e
loue
/
that
she
putte
awaye
all
chyldren
condycyons
/
&
gaue
hyr
selfe
anone
to
prayer
&
to
penaunce
/
and
therin
she
encrecyd
perfytly
/
that
in
the
nexte
yere
after
/
whan
she
was
of
vij
yere
of
age
she
made
a
vowe
of
madenhode
afore
an
ymage
of
our
lady
/
not
sode●●ly
but
wyth
grete
delyberacyon
afore
/
as
it
is
openly
declared
in
the
seconde
&
the
thrydde
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
ꝑtye
.
Furthermore
by
cause
that
this
holy
mayde
wyst
well
that
abstynence
was
necessary
for
to
kepe
the
purpose
of
maydenhode
.
Therfore
she
gaue
hir
to
grete
abstynence
in
hyr
yong
age
/
&
perfourmed
it
meruayllously
For
as
it
is
reher●●d
in
the
thrydde
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
ꝑ●ye
/
&
in
the
vj
chapytre
of
the
same
partye
more
largely
the
began
preuely
to
leue
flesshe
.
And
thenne
as
she
encrecyd
in
age
lytel
&
lytell
/
she
lefte
all
maner
etynge
of
flesshe
/
&
therto
she
dranke
no
wyne
but
whan
it
was
medled
wyth
wat●r
/
so
that
it
had
all
most
lost
hys
●ast
&
hys
colour
of
wyne
.
And
whan
she
was
xv
yere
of
age
/
she
lefte
bothe
wyne
&
flesshe
/
&
all
maner
of
metes
out
take
brede
&
rawe
herbes
.
Also
whan
she
was
xx
yere
of
age
/
she
lefte
brede
&
took
hir
onely
to
dyetyng
of
rawe
herbys
/
&
soo
contynued
in
that
maner
of
lyuyng
vnto
the
tyme
our
lord
gaue
hir
a
newe
maner
of
gracious
lyuyng
/
whan
she
lyued
without
ony
maner
of
mete
/
&
that
was
whan
she
was
xxv
or
xxvj
yere
of
age
/
as
it
is
openly
declared
in
the
vj
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
/
where
is
rehersed
the
cause
&
the
maner
why
&
wherfore
she
came
to
suche
estate
And
where
also
is
answered
suffycyentely
to
them
that
grutched
to
that
maner
of
lyuyng
.
Whan
this
holy
mayde
hadde
thus
fully
o●come
the
styryng
of
synnes
that
she
came
to
the
perfyte
vertue
of
pacyence
/
as
I
shall
tell
you
by
the
helpe
of
god
The
fyrst
proue
of
pacyence
that
she
had
/
was
by
hyr
moder
Lapa
that
wold
that
she
had
be
wedded
/
whan
she
came
to
the
age
of
xij
yere
.
And
whan
that
she
sawe
that
she
myght
not
brynge
hyr
doughter
well
therto
/
thenne
she
putte
hy●
▪
out
of
hir
chambre
that
was
assygned
to
hyr
afore
of
honeste
/
and
putte
hyr
to
all
maner
defoule
of
the
kechen
/
that
nother
she
myght
haue
lesyr
for
to
praye
ne
for
to
haue
medytacyon
ne
contemplacyon
as
she
was
wonte
/
what
pacyence
she
hadde
in
this
persecucyons
/
and
how
gladde
she
was
ther
Inne
/
it
is
clerely
declared
in
the
fourthe
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
.
Meruayllously
and
vertuously
alwaye
she
stode
in
the
purpose
of
maydenhode
/
and
yet
serued
the
housholde
wyth
a
gladde
chere
.
And
neuer
for
suche
occupacyons
and
pryuacyons
of
hyr
pure
chambre
she
cessyd
fro
prayer
and
other
ghoostly
excercyses
/
vn
to
the
tyme
she
hadde
ouercome
bothe
hyr
persecucyons
and
hyr
pursuers
/
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
same
fourthe
chapytre
/
but
yet
ouermore
/
whan
the
fende
styred
hyr
moder
Lapa
for
to
sette
this
holy
mayde
from
holy
dyscyplynes
and
wakynges
/
&
also
herde
lyggyng●s
.
Thys
holy
mayde
thenne
wyth
a
myghty
pacyence
/
and
a
meruayllous
tempred
ryght
dyscretely
hyr
moders
heuynes
ageynst
hyr
.
And
yet
neuerthelesse
kepte
forthe
hyr
hardenes
of
lyuyng
/
as
it
is
declared
in
the
vj
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
fully
ynough
And
moreouer
what
Impediment
she
suffred
in
hyr
sowle
by
the
fende
in
tyme
of
prayer
/
and
of
other
ghoostly
excercyses
/
in
tormentyng
of
hyr
flesshe
/
and
other
almes
dedes
that
she
dyd
as
it
is
openly
shewed
in
many
dyuers
chapytres
of
thys
legende
afore
as
I
shall
declare
to
you
.
The
fende
besyed
hym
that
he
myght
fyrst
to
remeue
thys
holy
mayde
awaye
from
hyr
spouse
Jhesu
/
afterward
to
wythdrawe
hir
fully
from
hym
.
Or
ellys
at
the
laste
for
to
lette
hyr
/
namely
for
a
tyme
/
but
she
wyth
a
myghty
feruour
fyrst
ouerthrewe
hyr
enemye
the
fende
.
Afterward
by
wytte
and
counseyll
of
the
holy
ghoost
ouercome
hym
.
At
the
last
wyth
stedefast
vertue
shamed
hym
/
that
was
aboute
to
lette
hyr
.
As
for
the
fyrst
the
fende
began
to
remeue
hyr
fro
hyr
holy
purpose
Fyrst
by
hyr
suster
Bonauenture
/
the
whiche
was
wedded
curyosyte
of
her
here
and
clothys
/
as
it
is
declared
openly
in
the
fourthe
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
.
The
seconde
tyme
by
hyr
brethern
and
hyr
moder
that
were
in
full
purpose
for
to
marye
hir
as
hit
is
shewed
in
the
same
chapytre
.
And
the
thrydde
tyme
by
hym selfe
/
puttyng
to
hyr
dyuers
heuynes
of
temptacyons
/
and
dyuers
Illusyons
/
or
thenne
she
receyued
the
habyte
of
penaunce
/
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
vij
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
.
Also
mayster
Reymond
of
hyr
besyde
all
this
as
he
was
enfourmed
of
other
that
were
trewe
folke
/
that
in
a
tyme
whan
she
prayed
afore
a
crucifyxe
of
our
lordes
passyon
/
the
fende
stood
afore
hir
hauyng
in
hys
honde
a
clothe
of
sylke
/
and
was
aboute
to
araye
hyr
wyth
the
same
clothe
The
whiche
Illusyon
of
curyosyte
she
dyspysed
and
blyssed
hyr
and
torned
hyr
to
the
crucyfyxe
.
After
that
the
fende
vanysshed
awaye
/
but
yet
he
lefte
in
hyr
mynde
temptacyon
of
curyosytre
of
clothyng
.
Thenne
anone
she
hadde
myne
of
hir
purpose
of
maydenhode
/
and
spak
to
our
lord
in
this
wyse
.
Dere
lord
and
swete
spouse
/
thou
knowest
well
that
I
desyred
neuer
husbonde
but
the
Therfore
I
praye
the
helpe
me
that
I
may
ouercome
these
temptacyons
of
curyosyte
by
vertue
of
thyne
holy
name
.
I
axe
not
lord
/
that
thou
sholdest
take
them
awaye
fro
me
/
but
that
thou
wouchesauf
to
gyue
me
the
vyctorye
of
thy
mercy
.
As
soone
as
she
hadde
sayde
these
wordes
.
Our
blyssed
Lady
quene
of
maydens
apperyd
to
hyr
syght
/
semyng
to
hyr
syght
that
she
took
oute
a
ryght
fayre
clothe
out
of
hyr
sones
syde
/
wyth
the
whiche
clothe
she
arrayed
hyr
/
And
afterward
she
sayde
to
thys
holy
mayde
thus
▪
I
do
the
well
to
wete
doughter
/
that
the
clothes
whiche
comen
oute
of
my
sones
syde
passen
all
other
clothes
in
fayrnes
and
in
beaute
.
Thenne
alle
hyr
temptacyon
wente
awaye
/
and
she
was
gretely
comforted
.
As
for
the
seconde
there
the
fende
was
about
to
wythdrawe
hir
fully
from
our
lord
/
by
wytty
counseyll
of
the
holy
ghoost
/
she
ouercome
hym
and
lette
hym
of
hys
wycked
purpose
in
that
that
she
pesyd
hir
moder
Lapa
wyth
grete
wytte
cessyd
hir
of
hir
hastynes
whan
she
was
aboute
for
to
lette
hyr
of
hyr
penaunce
doyng
/
and
contynued
afterwarde
neuerthelesse
in
hyr
penaunce
as
she
began
▪
also
whan
she
bare
hir self
so
wysely
to
hir
confessour
&
to
other
counseyllours
the
whiche
counseylled
hyr
to
leue
hyr
grete
abstynence
and
to
lyue
after
a
comyndyete
/
as
it
is
declared
in
the
fyfthe
chapytre
of
the
seconde
partye
And
also
wysely
and
meruayllously
she
pesyd
hir
soueraynes
that
forbode
hir
to
go
to
places
thyder
that
our
lorde
sente
hyr
.
But
yet
she
fulfylled
goddes
byddynges
/
and
esely
pesyd
hyr
soueraynes
/
what
pacyence
she
hadde
in
this
werke
/
ther
can
noo
tongue
tell
ne
penne
wryte
.
Furthermore
the
fende
saw
that
he
myght
by
noo
whyle
remeue
ne
wythdrawe
thys
holy
mayde
from
hir
deuoute
purpose
/
he
besyed
him
namely
for
a
certeyne
tyme
for
to
lette
hyr
not
onely
by
hym self
/
but
by
dyuers
persones
/
the
whiche
shall
be
tolde
you
specyally
wythinne
forthe
what
they
were
.
Fyrst
by
hyr
owne
moder
Lapa
that
brought
hyr
to
a
bath
for
to
be
bathed
/
that
she
myght
by
that
esy
bath
be
wythdrawe
for
a
tyme
fro
hyr
sharpe
dysciplynes
/
and
from
other
hardenesse
of
penaunce
But
yet
she
coude
fynde
ther
more
sharpe
penaunce
thenne
in
hir
owne
chambre
whan
she
suffred
the
hote
brennyng
water
vpon
hyr
naked
body
/
a●
it
is
rehersed
in
the
seuenthe
chapytre
of
the
fyrst
partye
.
Also
another
tyme
he
wolde
hadde
lette
hir
by
the
byddyng
of
vndyscrete
soueraynes
that
were
euer
aboute
to
lette
hyr
from
confessyon
/
from
prayer
/
&
from
all
other
ghoostly
exercyses
/
as
it
is
declared
openly
ynough
in
the
fyrste
chapytre
of
the
secounde
partye
.
Neuerthelesse
somme
shall
I
reherse
here
in
specyall
that
ben
not
spoken
of
in
the
same
chapytre
.
And
all
be
it
that
somme
thynges
may
not
be
rehersed
here
wythout
shame
of
som
Relygyous
personys
/
the
whiche
were
contrarye
to
hyr
holy
purpose
.
Yet
better
it
were
that
I
rehersed
them
/
thenne
the
gyftes
of
the
holy
ghoost
be
hydde
/
where
by
ye
maydens
may
haue
loue
and
drede
/
bothe
for
to
here
suche
trespasses
of
suche
Relygyous
folke
/
and
loue
in
seyeng
of
the
vertue
of
pacyence
in
this
holy
mayde
.
This
holy
mayde
Katheryne
after
tyme
that
she
hadde
sauoure
and
swetenes
of
deuocyon
/
she
myght
neuer
do
dede
of
vertue
openly
wythout
sclaundre
&
bacbytyng
of
suche
/
namely
that
she
sholde
rather
had
fauoured
hyr
and
comforted
hyr
therin
/
as
ghoostly
lyuers
bothe
of
Relygyous
and
seculerys
/
meruaylleth
noothyng
here
of
/
for
as
I
sayde
afore
in
the
fyfthe
chapytre
of
the
secounde
partye
.
But
yf
ghoostly
lyuers
quenche
perfytely
hyr
propre
wyll
of
them self
/
they
fall
more
cruelly
in
the
dyche
of
enuye
thenne
other
flesshely
lyuers
.
As
I
putte
an
exsample
therof
.
Of
the
monkes
of
an
holy
Abbotte
Pachamye
/
that
for
the
grete
abstynence
of
a
newe
monke
/
that
was
come
amonges
them
/
they
sayd
theywold
goo
out
of
the
momasterye
/
but
yf
that
newe
monke
were
auoyded
.
Ryght
so
it
befyll
wyth
this
holy
mayde
.
Alle
the
susters
of
penaunce
sawe
that
Katheryne
passyd
them
alle
in
hardenes
of
lyuyng
/
in
sadnes
of
vertue
/
in
deuocion
of
prayer
and
contemplacyon
.
Anone
the
serpente
of
enuye
entred
in
them
and
styred
them
for
to
bacbyte
this
holy
mayde
/
bothe
pryuely
and
also
openly
to
the
prelates
and
the
ordre
wyth
grete
boldenes
/
&
yet
they
that
were
holde
moste
sadde
/
helde
wyth
them
and
sayd
that
it
myght
not
be
ellys
but
t●at
she
wrought
all
that
euer
she
dyd
in
Belsabub
the
prynce
of
all
deuelys
.
Thys
womman
by
suche
false
suggestyon
drewe
vnto
theyr
errour
many
sad
folke
/
bothe
Relygyous
and
seculers
/
soo
that
by
theyr
counseyll
thys
holy
mayde
was
ofte
tymes
lette
from
hyr
confessyon
and
hyr
confessour
/
and
also
from
receyuyng
of
the
blyssed
sacrament
/
and
all
this
she
suffred
pacyently
wythout
ony
grutchyng
or
playnyng
.
Rather
supposyng
of
them
that
so
lette
hyr
/
that
they
dyd
it
for
an
holy
entente
/
and
for
the
helthe
of
hyr
soule
/
where
fore
hyr
semed
that
she
was
the
more
bounde
to
praye
for
them
not
as
for
hyr
enemyes
/
but
as
for
hyr
specyall
frendes
.
Yet
aboue
all
this
whan
she
was
other
whyle
suffred
to
be
houselyd
/
in
receyuyng
of
the
blyssed
sacrament
of
the
aulter
/
they
wolde
not
suffre
hyr
afterward
to
abyde
long
in
prayer
as
she
was
wonte
to
do
/
the
whiche
was
to
hyr
vnpossyble
/
by
cause
she
receyued
it
wyth
suche
a
passyng
feruour
of
deuocyon
/
soo
that
euer
soone
after
hyr
spyryte
was
rauysshed
fro
hyr
bodely
wyttes
/
and
so
she
abode
many
houres
to
gydre
/
as
it
is
declared
afore
in
the
seconde
and
in
the
laste
chapytre
of
the
seconde
partye
As
soone
as
she
was
aspyed
in
that
wyse
/
som
that
were
dysceyued
by
the
forsayde
susters
wolde
come
Inne
and
drawe
hir
out
of
the
chyrche
/
where
ofte
tymes
she
sholde
lye
in
the
sonne
whan
it
was
most
hotest
aboute
mydde
daye
long
tyme
to
gyders
or
thenne
she
cessyd
of
hyr
rauysshynge
and
restored
to
hyr
bodely
wyttes
.
And
ther
wyth
wepyng
and
waylyng
somme
▪
of
hir
susters
that
were
vertuously
styred
to
grace
kepte
hyr
tyll
she
was
restoryd
.
Also
there
came
another
man
that
came
in
a
tyme
and
founde
hyr
lye
there
as
a
dede
womman
in
rauysshyng
/
&
wyth
a
grete
angre
he
wente
to
hir
and
sporlyd
hyr
wyth
hys
feet
.
And
whanne
she
was
restoryd
to
hyr
bodely
wyttes
ageyne
/
it
was
tolde
hyr
how
she
was
ferde
wyth
/
yet
she
wolde
neuer
blame
hem
therfore
/
but
rather
excuse
hem
whan
other
spake
euyll
of
hem
.
Neuertheles
they
were
punysshed
of
our
lorde
full
harde
/
and
that
was
a
grete
sorowe
to
hyr
/
saue
she
durst
not
long
stryue
ageynst
hys
ryghtwysnesse
.
For
in
a
tyme
there
was
a
lady
/
that
hadde
grete
Indygnacyon
of
this
holy
mayde
whan
she
sawe
hyr
in
suche
rauysshyng
/
wherfore
she
came
to
hir
and
sporlyd
hyr
wyth
hyr
feet
.
But
as
soone
as
she
was
come
home
to
hyr
owne
place
/
she
dyed
wythout
receyuyng
of
ony
sacrament
.
There
was
also
another
wretche
that
sporled
hir
in
the
same
wyse
/
whan
she
was
soo
rauysshed
.
And
also
was
one
of
tho
that
one
tyme
bare
hir
out
of
the
chyrche
whan
she
was
soo
rauysshed
full
vyolently
/
but
he
was
punysshed
afterward
that
I
am
a
ferde
to
tell
it
.
Thys
wretchyd
man
was
soo
enuyous
and
soo
odyous
to
thys
blyssed
mayde
/
that
not
wythstondyng
alle
the
formest
cursed
dedys
that
he
shewed
to
hyr
/
yet
he
was
aboute
in
a
tyme
for
to
kylle
hyr
/
and
ther
was
no
thynge
that
letted
hym
/
but
onely
he
hadde
hyr
not
there
he
wold
haue
hir
Thys
holy
mayde
knewe
noo
thyng
herof
/
but
our
lord
Jhesu
punysshed
him
therfore
full
sore
/
and
that
was
in
this
wyse
wythin
a
lytell
tyme
after
/
this
wretchyd
man
/
as
he
wente
to
a
certeyn
place
he
was
take
wyth
the
frensye
that
he
cryed
nyght
and
day
suche
wordes
/
helpe
me
helpe
me
/
for
the
hangeman
comet●
for
to
smyte
of
my
hede
.
Other
that
were
nyghe
hym
and
herde
hym
/
they
sawe
that
he
was
so
from
hym self
comforted
him
that
he
sholde
not
be
aferde
/
and
for
fere
that
he
sholde
slee
him self
/
as
he
shewed
by
certeyne
tokenes
that
he
wolde
/
they
kepte
hym
the
more
dylygently
Soone
after
it
semed
that
he
was
amended
/
so
that
he
was
not
kepte
so
dylygently
as
he
was
But
pryuely
anyghtes
tyme
he
wente
oute
of
the
Cyte
/
and
henge
and
strangelyd
hym self
meruayllou●ly
.
He
took
a
corde
and
tyed
it
vpon
the
foote
of
a
tree
euen
by
the
grounde
/
and
that
other
ende
of
the
corde
he
putte
aboute
hys
necke
/
and
soo
wyth
pure
vyolence
he
slyded
vpon
the
grounde
and
kylled
hym self
/
as
it
was
demed
of
them
that
founde
the
dede
bodye
was
not
beryed
in
holy
place
/
but
in
the
dongehyll
as
it
was
ryght
semely
that
it
sholde
.
By
this
maydens
ye
may
knowe
what
vertue
of
pacyence
this
holy
mayde
hadde
/
and
how
pleasaunt
hyr
dedys
were
to
our
lord
/
that
so
auengyd
hir
wronges
vnknowyng
to
hyr
.
¶
Also
yet
shall
I
reherse
to
you
by
maner
of
recapytulacyon
thre
meruayllous
thynges
that
be
wryten
in
the
fourthe
chapytre
that
of
secounde
partye
/
by
the
whiche
thynges
ye
may
consydre
that
this
holy
mayde
hadde
passyngly
the
vertue
of
pacyence
.
As
for
the
fyrst
it
is
wryten
in
the
same
chapytre
of
a
leprose
womman
that
was
called
Secta
lyeng
in
an
hospytall
/
the
whiche
womman
not
onely
lacked
necessaryes
but
also
a
keper
/
for
ther
was
none
that
wolde
kepe
hyr
by
cause
of
hyr
lepre
.
Thys
holy
mayde
herde
here
oft
she
wente
to
hir
and
was
to
hyr
a
seruaunt
/
and
ordeyned
gladly
for
all
that
she
neded
.
Of
this
mynystracyon
the
syke
leprous
womman
was
proude
/
and
styred
what
she
coude
this
holy
mayde
wyth
many
Iniuryes
reproues
&
sclaundres
puttyng
ageynst
hyr
▪
But
yet
this
holy
mayde
was
so
armed
wyth
myghty
pacyence
that
she
was
noo
thynge
meued
by
hyr
wordes
/
thenne
the
fende
sawe
that
he
myght
in
noo
wyse
meue
hyr
from
hyr
merytorye
seruyce
/
he
enfected
and
desouled
hyr
hondes
wyth
the
same
lepre
that
the
same
leprous
womman
hadde
/
yet
for
that
wolde
she
not
leue
/
but
rather
desyred
to
be
a
lepre
thenne
for
to
leue
hyr
vnseruyd
And
so
she
contynued
in
hyr
seruyce
vnto
the
tyme
she
hadde
beryed
that
syke
womman
.
And
aftertyme
she
was
beryed
/
our
lord
by
myracle
clensyd
hyr
from
hyr
lepre
in
hyr
hondes
.
Charyte
that
is
pacyence
and
benyngne
taught
hyr
for
to
ouercome
alle
this
.
As
for
the
seconde
/
there
is
also
wryten
in
the
same
chapytre
of
another
womman
that
is
called
Palmarya
/
the
whiche
was
one
of
the
sustres
of
penaunce
.
I
shall
tell
you
this
womman
Palmarya
was
hyghly
sette
in
a
wycked
hate
ageynst
this
holy
mayde
/
soo
ferforthe
that
she
dyffamed
hyr
wretchedly
/
wherfore
our
lord
gaf
hyr
fyrst
a
sykenes
in
hyr
body
.
Afterward
she
began
to
perysshe
body
and
soule
/
so
that
she
myght
not
esha●e
dampnacyon
/
but
yf
this
holy
mayde
Katheryne
by
perfyte
pacyence
that
charyte
formyd
in
hyr
soule
/
had
prayed
for
hyr
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
same
for
the
chapytre
of
the
seconde
partye
.
Also
there
was
another
suster
of
penaunce
/
that
was
called
Andrea
as
it
is
wryten
in
the
same
chapytre
/
the
whiche
had
in
hyr
brest
a
foule
stynkyng
kancre
/
that
ther
was
neuer
one
that
wold
minystre
to
hir
for
stenche
Of
this
herde
this
holy
mayde
/
&
she
cam
to
the
syke
womman
&
serued
hir
gladly
without
ony
squeymousnes
/
in
washyng
&
wypyng
of
hyr
wounde
/
&
whan
she
felte
in
hyr
self
ony
maner
squeymousnes
she
wold
then
put
hyr
nose
to
the
wounde
long
tyme
to
gyds
vnto
the
tyme
hir
body
defaylled
/
but
the
lothenes
went
awaye
ther
by
.
Thenne
the
fende
Sathan
entred
in
to
the
syke
suster
/
&
made
hir
to
grutche
with
this
holy
mayde
&
for
to
haue
hir
in
suspeccion
/
&
so
wood
she
was
wyth
hir
that
she
sclaundred
hir
openly
to
hir
susters
&
sayd
that
she
had
synned
flesshely
and
loste
hyr
maydenhode
.
¶
Al
be
it
that
this
hooly
mayden
and
vyrgyn
was
heuy
of
this
shlaunder
:
yet
she
lefte
neuer
her
seruyce
to
her
/
but
ouer
came
by
meke
seruyse
and
myghty
pacyence
her
malyce
/
and
wente
to
prayer
as
for
a
souerayn
remedye
agaynst
suche
accusacions
/
at
the
laste
by
grace
of
thys
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyns
prayers
and
by
the
merytes
of
her
stronge
pacience
/
this
seke
suster
sawe
this
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
in
tyme
of
her
prayers
transformed
a
fore
her
in
to
a
grete
lyght
that
she
had
therby
grete
comforte
and
repented
here
of
her
fals
accusacion
Than
she
called
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyr
to
her
and
asked
her
forgyuenes
af
her
cursed
accusacion
&
all
other
to
whom
she
had
shlaundred
her
/
she
sent
after
and
tolde
theym
that
she
hadde
falsely
accused
this
hooly
mayde
and
vyrgyn
wherfore
she
asked
theym
forgyuenes
/
and
thenne
she
tolde
theym
what
she
sawe
of
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
affermyng
to
theym
all
that
she
was
not
only
a
pure
mayde
and
virgyn
but
also
an
holy
mayde
and
vyrgin
Loo
dere
frendes
there
the
fend
wente
to
the
fame
this
hooly
mayde
and
vyrgyn
by
his
malycious
excitacion
/
there
he
magnefyed
her
vertuous
name
alle
agaynste
his
wyll
:
yet
all
this
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
by
medytacion
of
the
vertu
of
pacience
that
was
in
her
/
Thenne
from
that
tyme
forward
this
holy
vyrgyns
name
encrecyd
soo
hyghely
amonges
the
peple
/
that
it
come
to
the
audyence
of
two
popes
whiche
were
in
her
tyme
and
many
cardynals
/
¶
Ferthermore
of
another
thinge
I
shal
telle
you
the
whiche
is
writen
in
the
same
chapyter
of
the
same
woman
Andrea
.
It
befell
in
a
tyme
whan
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
wasshyd
and
wyped
her
stynkyng
wounde
/
The
fende
made
her
so
skeymous
that
her
stomake
was
meruey
lously
steryd
for
to
caste
wyth
that
she
aroos
&
saide
to
her
sefl
thus
Trewely
wretche
thou
that
art
soo
skaymous
off
thyne
susters
sykenes
:
leue
it
welle
thou
shalt
receyue
the
fylte
of
her
wounde
with
in
thyn
owne
body
/
Thenne
she
wente
&
wysshe
that
stynkyng
wounde
and
receyued
the
fylthe
that
came
ther
fro
in
to
a
dysshe
and
went
a
syde
and
dranke
it
of
The
nexte
nyght
after
our
reuerend
lord
apperyd
to
her
and
sayde
:
Doughter
in
this
dede
thou
passyst
in
myn
syngh
/
And
thou
hast
therby
pleasyd
me
more
than
in
ony
werke
that
euer
thou
dedest
And
therfore
by
cause
thou
hast
doo
soo
merueylously
a
dede
for
my
loue
/
I
shal
gyue
the
a
merueylous
drynke
by
the
whiche
thou
shalt
be
hadde
in
grete
merueyle
amonge
alle
creatours
wyth
that
as
it
semed
to
her
he
putt
her
mouthe
to
the
reuerend
wounde
of
his
swete
blody
syde
/
And
sayde
doughter
drynke
ynongh
of
the
drynke
of
myn
syde
that
is
merueylous
and
delectable
bi
the
whiche
not
oonly
thyn
soule
but
thyn
boody
shal
bee
fulfylled
the
whiche
thou
hast
despised
for
myn
loue
/
Fro
that
tyme
forword
her
s●omake
had
none
appetyte
to
ony
matery
al
mete
ne
it
nyght
not
defye
ony
mete
and
that
was
none
merueyle
For
wher
that
ony
creature
hath
receyued
drynke
habundauntly
of
the
well
of
lyf
/
what
merueyle
is
it
though
it
nede
none
helpe
of
other
bodely
mete
/
Oute
of
this
grace
came
that
merueylous
faste
the
which
is
rehersyd
in
the
fyrste
Chapytre
off
the
seconde
party
:
Wherfore
was
all
this
grace
graunted
trowe
ye
dere
frendes
trewely
for
the
charytable
pacyens
that
she
hadde
to
syke
folke
&
to
all
other
for
the
grete
charyte
that
was
soo
haboundaunt
in
her
herte
receyued
and
toke
the
word
of
lyf
the
whiche
brought
forthe
fruit
in
pacience
that
is
thrytty
folde
fruyte
:
syxty
folde
fruyte
and
an
hondred
folde
fruyte
Thrytty
fold
fruyte
she
brought
forth
by
paciens
that
she
shewed
to
Cecca
the
leprous
woman
/
syxty
fold
fruyte
she
brought
forth
by
pacience
that
she
shewed
to
Palmarya
/
&
an
hondred
folde
fruyte
she
brought
forth
by
the
pacience
that
she
shewed
to
Andrea
this
laste
seke
suster
/
Now
I
shall
I
telle
you
of
somme
thynges
that
ben
not
rehersed
in
the
boke
before
vnnethe
was
ther
ony
body
that
had
conuersacion
with
this
holy
mayde
and
vyrgyn
/
but
that
they
dede
to
her
many
iniutyes
and
wronges
one
way
or
other
/
soo
that
there
was
one
of
the
fryers
that
was
so
fulfylled
wyth
the
fende
that
in
the
presens
of
alle
her
susters
he
put
to
her
full
reproues
and
defamaciōs
She
was
neuer
the
more
meued
out
off
paciens
but
she
charged
her
susters
that
they
sholde
not
trouble
hym
ne
telle
nothynge
afterward
to
other
that
shold
soune
to
her
repreff
/
what
that
euer
they
herd
hym
speke
the
more
pacient
the
holy
maide
and
vyrgyn
was
/
the
more
wood
was
he
agaynst
her
so
that
in
a
tyme
he
stale
her
monye
that
was
gyuen
to
her
for
to
doo
almes
wyth
/
yet
for
all
this
she
was
notfynge
steryd
but
kepte
alwaye
patiently
her
charyte
/
and
so
at
the
laste
ouer
came
hym
by
her
pacience
/
¶
Ouermore
yf
I
sholde
tell
you
of
the
grete
pacience
that
she
had
in
suffring
of
dyuerse
infyrmytes
of
the
body
:
my
payne
sholde
not
oonly
fayle
me
but
also
myn
vnderstondyng
/
she
suffred
euer
contynuelly
the
payne
of
ylica
passyo
as
it
is
rehersed
in
the
vj
/
Chapytre
of
the
seconde
party
/
where
is
declared
and
tolde
clerly
the
cause
why
she
hadde
that
infirmyte
/
And
therwyth
she
hadde
a
payne
in
the
hede
contynuelly
/
And
aboue
all
this
she
hadde
a
synguler
continuell
payne
in
her
breste
fro
that
daye
that
oure
reuerende
lorde
almyghty
god
made
her
taste
paynes
of
his
precyous
passyon
as
it
is
rehersyd
in
the
vj
/
Chapytre
of
the
seconde
party
:
That
same
payne
in
her
breste
lefte
wyth
her
the
whiche
passed
all
her
other
bodely
paines
And
yet
more
ouer
wyth
all
thyse
paynes
she
hadde
ryght
ofte
the
feueres
/
For
alle
thyse
paynes
she
shewed
neuer
sory
there
/
but
euer
gladde
there
to
alle
folke
and
neuer
pleyned
her
/
¶
But
alle
those
that
came
to
her
to
bee
comforted
she
comforted
them
wyth
worde
yf
it
nede
were
notwythstondynge
her
greate
infyrmytes
she
wolde
laboure
for
theym
soo
that
her
sekenesse
sholde
not
let
to
her
.
But
that
she
wolde
aryse
out
of
her
bedde
and
traueyle
bothe
for
her
bodely
hele
and
ghostely
he
le
as
it
is
rehersyd
in
the
vij
/
Chapytre
of
the
seconde
party
:
¶
Ferthermore
what
payne
she
suffred
of
fendes
it
maye
not
lyghtely
bee
tolde
you
by
cause
it
was
so
ofte
:
It
is
touched
afore
in
the
seconde
Chapytre
of
the
seconde
party
how
ofte
she
was
caste
off
fendes
in
to
the
fyre
albe
it
she
was
in
no
wyse
I
hurte
/
But
specially
of
one
thinge
Mayster
Reymound
bereth
recorde
that
in
a
tyme
that
he
and
certayne
of
his
bretheren
were
out
for
the
helthe
of
sowles
And
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
with
them
and
as
they
came
homward
again
a
lytyll
a
thyshalf
the
Cyte
of
Sene
/
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
for
werynesse
was
sette
vppon
an
hors
/
she
hadde
not
ryden
but
a
lytyll
tyme
that
the
fend
drew
here
doune
in
to
a
pyt●e
so
that
the
●y●st
that
came
to
the
grounde
was
her
hede
:
whan
mayster
Reymounde
perceyued
that
he
cryed
helpe
of
oure
gloryous
lady
gloryous
virgyn
Mary
and
came
and
founde
this
holy
mayde
and
virgyn
all
smelyng
as
she
lay
and
despysynge
the
fend
and
she
hadde
none
harme
:
but
she
sayde
to
Mayster
Reymound
loo
the
fend
hath
doo
this
/
Thenne
she
was
take
vp
and
sette
vppon
the
hors
agayn
eftsones
/
And
she
rode
not
as
ferve
as
a
man
myght
shete
an
arow●
but
that
the
sende
had
eftsones
throwe
her
doun
in
to
a
foule
fenne
or
lake
and
the
hors
laye
vppon
her
syde
/
Thenne
she
smelyd
and
sayde
this
hors
warmeth
well
my
syde
there
I
suffer
●he
payne
of
ylica
passio
/
&
so
she
s●●rned
the
fende
and
hadde
none
harme
/
Mayster
Reymound
and
his
fe
lawe
thenne
toke
her
vp
and
wolde
nomore
suffer
her
ryde
but
ladde
her
betwyne
theym
both
.
By
cause
also
they
were
nyghe
the
●yte
/
Yet
the
cursed
fende
/
wolde
not
ase
but
alwaye
he
tourmentyd
her
and
drewe
her
now
on
that
one
syde
/
now
on
that
other
syde
/
And
but
●he
hadde
be
holde
she
sholde
haue
falle
to
the
grounde
/
Neuertheles
alwaye
in
suffryng
of
suche
tourmentis
she
shewed
e●uer
glad
pacient
chere
and
dyspysed
the
fende
/
After
suche
I●●usyons
folowed
greate
profyght
of
soules
as
it
is
made
mencion
of
the
vij
chapytre
of
the
second
partye
:
And
that
knewe
welle
the
fende
wherfore
he
tourmentyd
her
in
that
●
wyse
that
he
dyde
.
And
ryght
as
thyse
tourmentis
beren
wytnesse
of
her
grete
pacyence
:
Ryght
so
they
maye
well
bere
wytnesse
that
she
was
and
is
an
holy
maide
&
vyrgyn
in
suffryng
of
theym
as
it
is
openly
declared
in
the
second
chapytre
off
the
thyrde
party
where
it
is
rehersed
that
she
ended
her
bodely
lyf
in
suche
martyrdome
/
Ensample
herof
I
may
telle
you
dere
frendes
of
Saint
Antony
whan
he
was
in
deserte
he
knewe
wel
that
martir
dome
was
a
souerayne
thynge
in
the
syght
of
our
reuerend
l●rde
almyghty
god
&
therfore
he
desyred
martyrdome
whome
our
reuer●nd
lord
almyghty
god
suffred
to
be
tormentyd
of
●endes
for
a
martyrdome
but
yet
he
lefte
not
hys
bodely
lyff
for
suche
tourment
/
This
holy
mayde
&
vyrgyn
was
so
vyolently
tormented
by
suche
paynes
that
she
ended
her
bodly
lyff
wyth
theym
euer
thankyng
our
reue
rend
lord
almyghty
god
.
This
was
a
grete
token
of
holynes
for
to
suffer
martyrdome
of
fendes
:
Loo
dere
frendes
now
haue
ye
herde
the
vertu
of
paciens
whiche
this
holy
maide
and
virgyn
vsed
wherfore
she
is
oned
&
spoused
to
oure
reuerend
lorde
almyghty
god
swete
●hesu
Cryste
in
the
bl●sse
off
heuen
/
And
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
this
recapytulacion
of
this
holy
booke
to
the
honour
and
worshyppe
of
our
gloryous
reuerend
lord
almyghty
god
all
the
●euerend
Trynyte
/
Cui
referantur
laudes
/
honor
e●
gloria
in
sclā
sclō●●
Amen
/
¶
Here
endeth
the
lyff
of
that
gloryous
vyrgyn
and
Martyr
saynt
Katheryn
off
Sene
/
¶
Here
begynnen
the
reuelacions
of
Saynt
Elysabeth
the
kynges
doughter
of
hungarye
/
ON
a
day
whan
saynt
Elisabeth
was
in
preuy
prayer
:
and
sought
her
spouse
Ihesu
Cryste
/
wyth
deuoute
herte
and
drery
spyryte
:
and
founde
hym
not
/
as
she
was
wounte
/
She
began
to
thynke
her
and
egerly
to
syghe
in
her
sowle
what
were
the
cause
that
her
spouse
vysyted
her
not
by
insendynge
of
swete
comfortes
/
as
he
was
wonte
to
doo
other
tymes
/
And
whan
she
stylye
dysposed
her
to
goo
to
somme
spyrytualle
brother
for
to
haue
counseylle
therof
:
The
blessyd
mayden
marye
apperyd
to
her
and
sayde
Elysa●eth
yff
thou
wolde
●ee
my
dyscyple
/
I
wolde
be
thy
maystres
/
and
yf
thou
wolde
be
my
seruaunt
:
I
wolde
be
thy
lady
/
To
whom
Elysabeth
sayde
/
Lady
who
bee
ye
that
wolde
haue
me
dyscyple
and
s●●uaunt
/
To
whom
mayde
Marye
answerd
I
am
moder
to
the
sone
of
god
a
lyue
/
whom
thou
hast
chosen
to
bee
thy
lord
and
spouse
/
Thenne
she
sayde
ther
is
noo
brother
in
the
worlde
that
may
better
enforme
the
of
thy
spouse
/
than
I
maye
Thenne
Saint
Elysabeth
faylyng
vppon
the
erthe
/
honouryd
her
and
kneling
she
layde
her
hondes
ionyd
to
gyder
bytwyxte
the
hondes
of
the
blessyd
virgyn
And
eftsonys
our
lady
sayde
/
If
thou
wylt
be
my
doughter
dyscyple
and
seruaunt
:
I
wolde
be
thy
moder
ladye
and
maystresse
/
And
when
thou
art
of
me
suffycyently
enforned
and
taught
/
I
wolde
lede
the
to
the
louyd
spouse
my
sone
/
whiche
wol
receyue
the
in
to
hys
hondes
As
I
now
haue
receyued
the
/
Thenne
/
afterward
she
began
to
warne
her
and
sayde
/
Flee
chydynges
and
streues
/
ba●bytynges
and
●u●murracions
/
and
murmurs
that
be
made
of
the
:
gyue
noo
heryng
to
theym
:
ne
let
not
thy
hert
be
tormentyd
thersore
but
thynke
ther
maye
not
so
moche
yll
be
spoken
of
the
/
but
ther
is
more
In
theym
than
is
spoken
of
the
The
next
feste
of
our
lady
than
folowynge
after
whan
Elysabeth
goddes
seruaunte
in
prayeng
wepte
full
bitterly
dredynge
that
she
hadde
not
fully
kepte
the
forsayd
warynge
of
the
gloryous
virgyne
Sodenly
she
apperid
to
her
not
in
slepe
but
wakyng
swetely
calling
her
by
her
propre
name
and
sayde
:
O
Elysabeth
my
swete
doughter
tourment
the
not
soo
moche
though
thou
haue
not
fully
bowed
to
my
warnynges
&
byddynges
For
why
thou
beginnest
now
for
to
profyte
in
the
way
of
god
/
But
thou
atreyned
not
yet
the
hyghenes
of
perfection
But
fyght
stedfas●ly
against
vices
/
and
saye
on●
the
angelis
Salutacion
:
that
Gabryell
goddes
messanger
hayled
me
wyth
/
and
all
thy
trespace
shall
freely
bee
forgyue
the
:
of
my
sone
/
By
processe
of
tyme
in
the
feste
of
saint
Soolaste
.
whyles
Elysabeth
Crystis
seruaunte
was
stedfaste
in
prayer
:
and
soo
bytterly
she
weped
:
that
she
myght
not
wyth
holde
her
from
vtterly
sobbynges
▪
Ans
cryenges
wyth
voyce
sodenlye
/
¶
The
blessyd
mayde
Mary●
apperyd
to
her
soo
hauynge
wyth
●er
Saint
Johan
Euangelyst
thenne
the
blyssyd
mayde
sayde
/
O
Elysabeth
thou
hast
chosen
me
to
be
thy
moder
lady
and
maystres
:
but
I
wold
that
thou
make
a
charter
to
me
of
this
chesyng
and
thy
wylfull
byhetyngis
and
that
thou
may
not
slyde
from
this
purpose
wher●ore
I
haue
brought
wyth
me
my
sonnes
loued
dysciple
Johan
the
Euangelyste
●or
to
make
therof
yf
thou
consente
an
open
Instrumente
/
Thenne
saint
Elysabeth
knelynge
vppon
the
erth
/
and
wyth
her
hondes
joyned
/
honoured
her
and
sayde
/
Of
me
my
lady
doo
what
be
pleysyng
to
you
:
as
of
your
seruaunt
/
And
thys
gyft
she
confermyd
wyth
othe
/
&
seeyn
Johan
at
the
byddyng
of
the
gloryous
vyrgyne
/
made
therof
an
open
Instrument
/
Ones
in
the
vygyll
of
the
natyuite
of
our
lord
whyles
she
was
prayeng
wyth
ententyue
mynde
and
sayde
the
salutacion
of
oure
goode
lady
wyth
hye
voyce
and
moche
deuocion
and
shedyng
of
teres
:
vysybly
the
blessyd
〈◊〉
marye
apperyd
to
her
and
sayde
▪
I
am
come
to
teche
the
the
prayer
that
I
mayde
whan
I
was
yonge
and
beyng
in
the
temple
I
purpose
wyth
a
vysement
in
myn
herte
that
I
wolde
haue
god
my
fader
:
And
I
ordeyned
me
for
to
doo
waht
I
trowed
moost
plesyng
to
hym
that
I
myght
fynde
grace
in
his
syght
:
And
he
dyde
teche
me
his
lawe
and
of
all
the
commaundementys
therin
/
thre
namely
I
toke
to
my
stodeyng
/
to
kepe
theym
with
souerayn
besynes
and
wyth
all
my
myght
▪
whiche
are
thyse
▪
Thou
shalt
loue
thy
lord
god
wyth
all
thy
herte
/
and
with
all
thy
sowle
and
wyth
all
thy
strengthe
this
thou
shalt
loue
thy
neyggbour
as
thy self
/
Thou
shalt
loue
thy
●rende
/
and
thou
shalt
haue
thyn
enemye
In
hatred
/
man
and
good
angell
/
I
vnderstonde
my
frende
/
And
the
deuyll
and
the
wycked
man
in
as
moche
as
he
is
wycked
I
vnderstond
myn
enemye
/
Out
of
this
loue
of
god
and
of
m●n
neyghbour
and
hate
of
myn
enemye
that
is
the
deuyll
&
syn
lyghte
in
to
me
all
fulnesse
of
grace
and
vertue
:
Sothly
this
loue
maye
not
be
rootyd
in
mannis
her●e
/
But
wher
hatred
is
of
thy
ennemye
that
is
the
deuyll
and
synne
/
Therfore
yf
thou
wylt
gete
this
loue
:
doo
as
I
dyde
in
the
temple
in
the
begynynge
of
my
yonhede
/
For
I
rose
at
mydnyght
and
stonding
before
the
aulte
with
all
besynesse
of
my
thought
.
I
asked
off
god
his
grace
by
the
whiche
I
myght
kepe
the
forsayd
thynges
/
And
in
prayer
byfore
the
aulter
/
I
made
vij
askynges
by
ordre
/
¶
The
fyrst
was
that
he
wolde
gyue
me
grace
/
thorugh
the
whiche
he
wolde
gyue
me
grace
that
I
myght
fulfylle
the
fyrst
commaundement
that
is
for
to
loue
god
ouer
all
thynges
wyth
all
my
herte
wyth
all
my
sonle
and
wyth
all
my
strenghes
¶
The
secoude
was
that
I
myght
fulfylle
the
seconde
commaundement
of
louynge
my
neyghbours
as
my self
&
that
he
wolde
make
me
to
loue
the
whiche
he
loueth
/
&
hate
what
he
hateth
/
The
iij
was
that
I
myght
fulfylle
the
thyrde
commaundemen●
&
that
he
wolde
make
me
hate
the
enemye
of
mankynde
for
●nchosen
that
〈◊〉
toke
begynnyng
of
hym
:
The
iiij
was
that
he
wolde
gyue
me
mekenesse
pacience
myldnes
deuoute
&
thyse
other
vertues
by
the
whiche
I
myght
be
made
more
gracious
in
syght
of
him
/
The
v
/
was
that
he
wold
make
me
to
see
the
time
in
the
whiche
that
blessyd
mayden
sholde
bee
born
that
prophetes
for
sayenges
shold
bere
his
sone
▪
&
that
he
wolde
kepe
my
eyes
with
the
whiche
I
myght
beholde
here
/
Myn
erys
wyth
whiche
I
myghte
her
here
sp●ke
/
My
tonge
that
I
myght
touche
here
:
my
sete
wyth
the
whiche
I
myght
〈◊〉
to
her
:
my
knyes
that
I
myght
honoure
her
and
see
and
honoure
her
sonne
syttyng
in
her
arme
:
The
v●●was
that
he
wolde
gyue
me
grace
:
by
the
whiche
I
myght
kepe
all
the
byddyngis
of
the
bisshoppes
and
the
ordeynaunce
of
the
temple
:
The
vij
:
and
the
laste
was
/
that
he
wolde
vouches
af
to
kepe
his
holy
temple
/
And
all
his
owne
people
euer
to
●●tille
his
owne
seruyce
/
Whan
Elysabeth
had
herde
this
/
she
braste
out
in
thyse
wordes
and
sayde
/
O
my
moost
excellent
lady
In
what
maner
sayde
you
this
thynges
were
ye
not
●halowed
in
youre
moders
wome
/
ne
were
you
not
gyltles
of
al
blame
/
and
full
of
grace
/
To
whom
thys
blessyd
mayden
sayde
/
Here
qu●d
she
Elysabeth
/
thought
all
I
was
soo
wyth
out
doubte
as
thou
sayest
/
Neuertheles
witte
thou
this
in
sothfastenesse
that
I
helde
me
that
tyme
as
vyle
and
wretchid
de
and
vnworthy
the
grace
of
god
/
as
thou
holdest
the
now
:
And
moche
more
vnworthy
/
And
therfore
I
asked
ay
of
hym
that
he
wolde
vouchesafe
to
sende
in
to
me
his
grace
and
his
vertue
/
¶
Ouer
that
in
a
nyght
whyles
Elysabeth
Crystis
seruaunt
began
to
thynke
/
how
god
the
gloryous
fader
was
plesid
in
the
gloryous
mayde
M●●ye
/
Yet
whyles
sh●lyued
:
for
that
he
wolde
his
sone
toke
flesshe
of
her
/
And
toke
the
blessyd
mayden
answerde
to
her
/
Of
me
my
louely
doughter
god
wrought
:
as
●e
that
●●an
touche
the
harpe
or
the
fydele
/
For
why
fyrst
he
temperyth
it
that
it
maketh
a
swete
sowne
/
and
acordyng
●owne
/
and
afterward
ledyng
and
touchyng
he
synget
somme
thynge
wyth
the
sowne
of
it
:
Ryght
soo
god
the
fader
first
he
ordeyned
and
tempered
in
me
all
my
stringes
and
all
my
wyttes
as
well
of
the
soule
as
of
the
body
:
After
that
he
tou●●edand
ordeyned
with
the
fynger
of
his
ghost
all
my
saweys
&
my
werkes
to
the
plesaunce
of
him
and
of
●e
sythes
he
reysed
me
wyth
companye
of
angels
to
be
holde
the
courte
of
heuen
/
Wherfore
I
founde
soo
moche
comforte
and
echeing
of
grete
and
of
ghostely
swetenesse
that
after
whan
I
come
agayn
to
my self
I
was
soo
fulfylled
in
loue
of
that
cont●ee
that
I
desyred
●or
to
halfe
stones
trees
▪
bestys●and
other
creatures
for
loue
of
hym
that
them
formyd
/
I
coueted
also
for
to
doo
seruyse
to
all
the
ladyes
that
came
to
the
temple
/
for
loue
of
her
maker
off
whom
I
tasted
suche
swetenesse
that
they
may
not
be
spoken
/
Therefore
doughter
on
that
same
maner
/
whan
god
wolde
gyue
the
ony
grace
or
comforte
:
thou
shalt
take
it
mekely
/
and
suffre
hym
to
doo
of
the
what
soo
be
pleseyng
to
hym
/
Ne
thou
shal●
not
waxe
proude
vnder
couler
of
mekenesse
/
And
saye
lord
why
doost
thou
thyse
thynges
to
me
I
am
not
worthy
and
suche
odyr
/
For
though
thou
be
a●therwysest
/
he
knoweth
better
what
is
to
doo
of
the
/
than
thyn
owne
self
:
And
yf
he
worketh
in
the
ony
wounderfull
thynge
/
the
ioye
is
his
and
not
thyn
:
Thenne
it
befyll
whyle
this
homely
spekynge
was
drawen
on
longe
/
that
one
of
Elysabeth
felowes
passed
forthe
where
she
prayde
whome
saint
Elysabeth
gretely
blamynge
sayde
full
sharpely
to
her
/
Wherto
gooste
thou
now
hyther
and
thider
this
tyme
before
my
face
/
And
began
as
it
were
to
menace
her
wyth
wordes
and
sygnes
:
Thenne
whan
she
was
passed
our
lady
the
blessyd
mayde
sayde
to
Elysabeth
Crysty●
seruaunt
.
¶
O
doughter
loo
who
that
thou
art
pet
a
foole
and
vndescrete
/
that
●plyest
thy●●
herte
to
ony
worldely
thynges
whyle
thou
ha●t
me
presente
with
ye.
¶
Therfore
vse
nowe
my
presence
this
nyghtfor
o●
specy
:
all
grace
I
am
sentefro
my
sonne
to
the
that
thou
aske
sekerly
what
the
lyketh
:
And
I
wolde
answere
instedfastenesse
to
the
all
thyng
that
thou
askest
:
¶
Neverthelesse
for
thou
applyed
thyne
herte
to
the
dede
of
thy
●olowed
&
reproued
here
vndiscely
I
wold
gyue
to
the
penaunce
/
that
▪
in
no
wyse
thou
go
agayn
to
thy
bed
this
nyght
/
ne
I
thynke
not
to
shewe
the
somme
thyng
now
/
the
whiche
I
wolde
haue
sayd
yf
thou
hadde
not
offended
my
presence
/
whan
that
nyght
was
passed
and.
daye
was
come
:
Elysabeth
began
to
make
moche
sorowe
and
gretely
to
be
tormented
for
the
offence
she
hadde
done
in
the
/
nyght
afore
to
the
mageste
of
the
gloryouse
virgyne
/
as
it
is
sayd
aboue
:
¶
And
she
/
drede
gretely
/
lest
she
myght
neuer
after
recouer
suche
a
grace
/
and
so
grete
a
comforte
To
whos
preuy
thougt
the
blessyd
/
mayde
answeryd
aperyng
to
hyr
ef●sones
and
sayd
Drede
the
not
doughter
ne
tormente
the
not
wyth
foly
doubtyng
for
wantyng
of
me
/
for
thy
trespas
that
is
passyd
/
for
why
thy
trespas
is
nowe
for
/
gyueng
to
the
by
thy
penaunce
/
and
I
am
now
come
to
the
that
thou
aske
what
the
:
lyketh
/
for
I
am
redy
to
gyue
the
answere
of
althynges
as
I
bydde
the
¶
To
whome
Saynt
Elysabeth
sayd
I
praye
you
/
lady
that
ye
say
me
/
what
steryd
you
forto
aske
of
our
lord
that
he
wold
lette
you
of
hys
specyall
grace
seen
that
mayde
borne
of
the
whiche
hys
●one
sholde
be
borne
.
¶
And
she
answerd
on
a
day
whan
I
/
hadde
comforte
of
god
so
wonderfull
that
vnto
that
tyme
▪
I
was
not
experte
of
none
suche
/
and
came
agayne
to
myself
I
/
beganne
to
thynke
and
desyre
wyth
wyll
full
brennyng
herte
/
yf
I
myght
doo
onythyng
/
or
haue
in
me
/
for
the
whiche
god
/
wolde
lette
me
neuer
parte
from
hym
/
And
whan
I
thought
thus
/
I
rose
vp
:
and
went
to
a
book
/
and
beganne
to
rede
in
it
.
And
the
fyrst
o●enyng
of
the
booke
:
came
before
my
syght
the
worde
of
Esaye
the
prophete
Ecce
virgo
concip●et
et
pariet
●●●●um
&
ct:
¶
That
is
Loo
a
mayden
shall
conceyue
and
bere
a
sonne
&
c●
:
And
as
I
bethought
me
/
thynkyng
that
maydenhode
pleased
moche
to
god
:
Sythe
he
wolde
hys
sonne
sholde
be
borin
of
a
mayde
thenne
I
purposed
in
my
herte
for
the
reuerence
of
hym
to
kepe
maydenhode
&
yf
it
befyll
me
to
see
hy●
/
for
to
serue
hy●
/
in
maydenhede
all
my
lyf
tyme
.
And
yf
it
nedyd
for
to
goo
wyth
her
through
a●
the
worlde
After
this
the
nexte
nyght
folowyng
whyles
I
prayed
wyth
deuocyon
of
soules
besought
god
that
he
wold
let
me
see
the
mayde
before
or
I
deyede
/
sodeȳly
whan
I
was
in
derkenes
soo
moche
/
bryghtenesse
appered
to
me
before
my
/
syght
that
in
comparyson
of
it
the
sonne
/
was
as
nought
/
and
fro
that
shynnge
I
/
herde
a
voyce
clereli
seyeng
to
me
mayden
of
Dauyd
kyured
thou
shalt
bere
my
●onne
.
¶
And
he
added
therto
/
wote
thou
certaynly
that
the
same
worshyp
and
reuerence
that
thou
desyred
for
to
do
to
another
mayden
/
shall
be
done
to
the
afore
other
.
I
wyll
for
sothe
that
thou
be
that
/
mayden
/
the
whiche
shall
here
my
sonne
.
And
the
whiche
not
onely
thou
shal●
haue
hym
by
thy selfe
/
ne
in
thy self
/
but
by
/
lawe
of
matrymonye
thou
shalt
may
gyue
hym
to
whome
the
lyketh
/
and
he
shal
not
haue
my
grace
ne
my
loue
ne
he
shall
▪
not
entre
the
kyngdome
of
my
sonne
that
/
wyll
not
loue
the
/
and
trowe
the
/
the
moder
of
my
sonns
that
shall
take
flesshe
of
▪
the
for
helthe
of
mankynde
.
And
thou
all
one
shalte
may
graunte
to
other
of
hys
grace
/
the
whiche
thou
shalt
receyue
of
/
me
.
¶
And
whanne
I
herde
thys
wordes
I
was
rauysshed
of
my selfe
for
moche
/
drede
and
wonderyng
/
and
I
fylle
doun
prostrate
on
my
face
as
dede
/
for
I
myghte
not
holde
vp
my selfe
/
but
sodeynly
/
the
Aungels
of
god
stood
by
me
reysyng
me
fro
the
erthe
and
comforted
me
/
and
sayd●
¶
Drede
the
not
/
for
why
thou
arte
blyssed
aboue
alle
wommen
and
in
/
the
restyth
goddes
grace
/
by
the
whyche
/
all
maye
lyghtly
be
fullfylled
/
that
be
sayde
to
the
of
oure
lorde
:
¶
For
that
tyme
forwarde
I
cessyd
not
/
to
gyue
louynges
to
my
creature
daye
:
and
nyght
/
wyth
herte
/
mouthe
/
and
werke
/
wyth
stable
and
certayne
trouthe
abydynge
the
daye
and
the
houre
whan
tho
/
thynges
sholde
be
fullfylled
/
that
were
/
shewed
to
me
of
our
lorde
:
I
sayd
also
oft
sythtes
wythin
my selfe
¶
O
mooste
benygne
lorde
/
sythen
yt
lyketh
the
for
to
/
gyue
soo
grete
grace
to
thyne
vnworthy
/
handmayden
¶
I
beseche
the
that
thou
gyue
me
-
the
spyryte
of
wysdom
/
that
I
mai
worthely
conceyue
thy
sonne
maker
of
heuen
and
erthe
and
serue
hym
to
pay
-
¶
The
spyryte
of
vnderstondyng
/
by
the
whiche
I
may
wyth
lyghtned
soule
fulfyll
hys
mekenes
/
in
as
moche
as
is
possyble
in
this
worlde
.
-
¶
The
spyryte
of
counseyll
/
by
the
whyche
I
may
kepe
and
gouerne
hym
as
it
/
besemeth
whyle
he
is
in
hys
chyldehode
:
and
wepyng
of
mannes
Infyrmyte
/
and
not
yet
formyng
wordes
in
spekyng
.
-
¶
The
spyryte
of
strenthe
/
by
the
whyche
whyche
I
may
wyth
manly
herte
bere
mynde
the
name
of
hys
worthynesse
/
and
stedfastely
cleue
vnto
hym
.
-
¶
The
spyryte
of
conyng
/
by
the
whyche
I
may
enfourme
all
thoos
that
shalle
/
haue
to
do
wyth
hym
and
that
wyll
folowe
hym
.
-
¶
The
spyryte
of
pyte
/
by
the
whiche
I
/
may
haue
compassyon
of
hys
swete
man
hede
and
of
hys
tender
compleccion
/
as
/
it
semeth
for
to
haue
.
-
¶
And
the
spyryte
of
drede
of
god
/
by
/
whiche
I
may
serue
him
wyth
a
meke
soule
and
dewe
reuerence
.
¶
All
this
thinges
my
dere
doughter
the
whiche
I
asked
were
graunted
to
me
as
thou
mayst
vnderstonde
by
the
Angellys
salutacyon
/
whiche
I
was
haylled
of
Gabryell
the
Angell
.
¶
Another
tyme
as
Elisabeth
Cristys
seruaunte
stode
in
prayer
and
thought
how
/
moche
grace
god
hadd
done
to
the
glorious
vyrgyn
mary
.
¶
She
apperyd
to
hir
and
sayd
my
doughter
thou
thynkest
that
I
hadde
so
moche
grace
wythout
traueylle
of
my
creatour
/
but
it
is
not
soo
out
/
take
the
grace
of
halowynge
in
my
mods
wombe
.
¶
All
other
grace
I
hadde
wyth
moche
trauell
of
soule
and
body
contynually
prayeng
daye
and
nyght
wyth
fulle
brennyng
desyre
and
wepyng
wyth
full
bytter
mornyng
/
and
euer
thynkyng
spekyng
and
workyng
that
I
trowed
were
/
moste
plesyng
to
my
creatour
Eschewing
wyth
souerayne
kepyng
me
fro
all
offenses
of
hym
/
ye
were
it
neuer
so
lytyll
and.
thenne
she
sayd
/
haue
thou
for
certayne
/
doughter
that
noo
moystour
of
pleasyng
deuocyon
or
gyfte
of
grace
or
vertu
descendyth
perfytely
from
god
in
to
mannes
herte
but
by
deuoute
prayer
of
soule
and
sharpe
bodely
traueyll
:
¶
For
after
that
a
man
perfytely
offereth
to
god
two
mytes
the
/
whiche
he
hath
that
is
his
soule
and
his
body
and
ordeyneth
hym
to
his
seruyse
and
honoure
oure
lorde
god
of
hys
hyghe
graces
begynneth
to
gladde
:
that
mannes
sowle
in
soo
moche
that
he
n
ay
not
bere
it
/
but
for
swetnes
and
for
wondryng
it
fareth
as
it
were
in
hit
self
/
as
a
man
that
were
dronke
of
swete
wyne
and
myghty
/
putte
out
of
hym selfe
that
may
not
bere
it
for
feblynes
of
hede
.
And
thenne
that
soule
knowed
that
she
hath
noo
thyng
doun
pleasyng
to
god
for
to
haue
soo
grete
comforte
before
.
And
she
holdeth
more
vnder
vyle
/
and
more
worthy
dyspyte
/
thenne
euer
she
helde
hyr
before
/
but
afterwarde
whanne
suche
a
soule
torneth
ageyne
to
hyr
self
/
she
yeldeth
thankynges
and
louynges
to
god
/
wyth
deuocyon
and
affeccyon
of
wyll
/
and
woldeth
hir
vnworthy
of
grace
.
And
wyth
moche
drede
storeth
hyr
selfe
as
vnkynde
ageynste
soo
greate
a
benefactour
.
And
god
seyeng
hyr
euer
waxe
more
meke
thorught
the
gyftes
that
she
receyueth
/
he
took
more
hede
to
gyue
hyr
moogyftes
of
grace
in
soo
moche
/
that
as
it
were
that
he
fulfylled
hyr
desyre
in
this
worlde
.
Soo
that
hyr
thynketh
/
that
hyr
dwellyng
is
in
heuen
wyth
god
/
and
not
in
erthe
wyth
men
here
/
and
thynked
also
that
she
hath
paradyse
in
hyr
self
.
Soo
I
knowleche
that
it
befyll
wyth
me
whyle
I
lyued
in
erthe
/
and
whanne
I
was
alle
brennyng
in
goddes
loue
/
and
felyd
soo
moche
swetenes
in
hym
/
that
for
hym
alle
the
worlde
was
vyle
to
me
/
Ones
whan
I
was
alone
wyth
deuocyon
in
my
preuy
chambre
.
Loo
sodeynly
the
Aungell
Gabryell
stood
by
me
/
and
as
the
Gospell
seyth
/
sheylled
me
and
sayde
.
Aue
gracia
plena
&c.
Off
the
whiche
salutacyon
whanne
I
herde
it
fyrst
/
I
was
fer●e
/
but
afterwarde
that
I
was
comfor●ed
wyth
hys
holy
and
swete
speche
and
made
seker
/
not
doubtyng
thyse
thynges
to
be
sothe
that
he
shewed
.
I
fyll
to
the
erthe
/
and
knelynge
wyth
my
hondes
ioynde
I
honoured
and
sayde
.
Ecce
ancilla
domini
.
fiat
michi
secundum
verbum
tuum
.
That
is
to
saye
.
Loo
here
the
seruaunt
of
god
/
be
it
done
to
me
after
thy
worde
.
The
whiche
worde
sayd
anone
I
was
rauysshed
/
and
in
soo
grete
fulnesse
of
goddes
grace
enbasshed
me
that
I
neuer
felte
soo
moche
swetenesse
and
comforte
in
my
soule
.
And
in
that
rauysshyng
goddes
sonne
took
flesshe
of
my
puryst
blood
/
wyth
oute
ony
wem
of
me
/
or
〈◊〉
delyte
.
The
cause
why
god
dede
this
grace
to
me
/
was
feyth
and
mekenes
/
wyth
whiche
I
troweth
in
fulfeyth
the
Aungellys
wordes
/
and
meked
me
and
dressed
me
all
to
goddes
wyll
.
And
therfore
he
wouchesaue
to
gyue
me
soo
moche
grace
.
And
soo
thou
my
doughter
in
alle
thynges
that
god
heteth
or
dothe
to
the
/
haue
thou
not
in
mistrowyng
/
ne
yenstōd
hym
not
seyeng
lord
/
why
doest
thou
this
to
me
.
But
by
exsample
of
me
saye
.
Ecce
ancilla
domini
&c.
And
ony
tyme
be
not
fulfylled
/
as
it
is
hyght
to
the
or
ellys
it
is
taken
fro
the
that
was
gyuen
to
the
of
god
.
Blame
thy
owne
self
/
and
thynke
that
thou
hast
done
somme
trespas
before
the
syghte
of
goddes
mageste
/
for
the
whiche
goddes
sentence
is
chaunged
for
he
hath
wyll
to
purchace
the
lyf
wythouten
ende
/
he
nedeth
to
be
buxom
of
herte
to
the
commaundementes
and
loue
hym self
to
god
/
by
veray
mekenesse
and
obedyence
/
for
the
contrayous
of
the
synnes
/
pryde
and
Inobedyence
of
our
fore
faders
Adam
and
Eue
/
for
the
whiche
they
lost
the
grace
and
the
dygnyte
that
they
were
made
in
.
¶
Ouer
that
thenne
in
another
tyme
on
the
vygyle
of
the
natyuyte
of
oure
lorde
/
whan
Elysabeth
Crystys
seruannt
was
duryng
in
longe
prayer
and
asked
mekely
of
god
wyth
moche
de●ocyon
and
fallyng
of
terys
/
that
he
wolde
gyue
hyr
grace
by
the
whiche
●he
myght
loue
hym
wyth
all
hyr
herte
.
The
blyssed
mayden
was
besyde
and
sayd
to
hyr
/
who
is
he
that
loueth
god
wyth
all
hys
herte
/
whe●e
it
be
the
Elysabeth
.
And
whan
she
d●ede
to
af●erme
and
sayd
that
she
loued
god
wyth
all
hyr
herte
:
And
therfore
she
was
styll
and
answerd
noo
thyng
/
thenne
the
blessyd
mayde
sayd
to
hyr
/
wolde
thou
that
I
say
who
loueth
god
perfytly
For
certeyn
Bartholomew
th
apostle
loued
hym
well
Laurence
the
ma●tyr
&
Johan
the
Euangelyst
and
other
apostles
and
martyrs
.
And
therto
she
sayd
woldest
thou
for
the
loue
of
hym
ben
slayn
rostyd
or
drynk
venym
And
whan
she
durst
not
afferme
ne
denye
that
she
wolde
suff●e
this
thynges
for
the
name
of
cryst
.
Thenne
the
blyssed
mayden
sayd
.
In
stedfastnesse
I
say
the
doughter
yf
thou
wold
for
loue
of
god
be
spoyled
of
all
worldly
thynges
and
garmentes
of
thy
now
mynde
or
wyll
/
soo
that
thou
wyll
noo
thyng
haue
ne
●oueyte
in
this
world
I
wyll
procure
to
the
of
my
sonne
the
mede
that
Bartholomew
hath
for
his
fleyeng
/
and
yf
thou
be●●
paciently
wronges
and
reproues
and
all
maner
of
wronges
born
of
the
/
thou
shalte
haue
the
mede
that
Laurence
had
for
the
rostyng
of
his
body
.
And
whan
thou
art
reproued
/
soorned
and
se●●●
at
nought
of
other
/
yf
thou
be●e
it
gladly
and
mekely
thou
shalt
haue
the
mede
that
Johan
the
Euangelyst
had
for
the
drynkyng
of
venyme
.
And
yf
thou
wolde
be
t●ewe
to
me
and
be
buxom
to
me
/
I
wolde
be
nyghe
to
the
to
fulfyll
all
that
is
sayd
before
/
&
I
wold
be
wyth
the
euer
helpyng
the
whan
it
is
spedfull
to
the.
Ouer
that
another
tyme
as
saynt
Elysabeth
prayed
/
and
in
hir
prayeng
she
thought
wyth
deuocyon
of
sowle
and
in
what
wyse
the
blyssed
mayde
prayed
as
she
had
shewed
hyr
as
it
is
sayde
before
.
The
blyssed
mayde
answerd
hyr
/
In
prayeng
doughter
I
dyde
as
he
that
wyll
newe
make
a
fayre
well
/
fyrst
he
gothe
to
the
roote
of
the
hyll
vnder
whiche
the
water
spryngeth
/
and
herken●th
besyly
vn●
what
syde
the
veynes
of
water
gothe
/
&
whan
he
sought
hym
by
herkynge
/
thenne
he
begynneth
to
delue
in
that
syde
of
the
hyll
tyll
he
fynde
an
able
begynnyng
of
a
welstede
fro
the
spryngyng
veynes
/
and
afterward
he
dressyth
water
in
to
the
well
stede
/
the
whiche
he
maketh
large
and
fayre
and
clene
After
that
he
maketh
a
wall
all
about
the
well
/
and
in
the
myddes
of
the
well
a
stone
pylar
fastned
in
it
pypes
all
aboute
thorugh
the
whiche
the
water
may
passe
out
of
eche
half
/
more
prop●●tably
to
the
vse
of
men
.
This
dyd
I
ghostely
/
for
thenne
wente
I
to
the
hyll
/
where
I
besyly
herkened
and
lerned
the
lawe
of
moyses
/
and
all
the
x
commandementes
/
Thenne
fonde
I
the
veyne
of
water
whan
I
lerned
in
redyng
thynkyng
and
prayeng
that
the
wellhede
&
begynnynge
of
all
good
is
for
to
loue
god
wyth
all
the
herte
and
wyth
all
the
strengthes
that
I
can
wa●
to
the
well
shewe
/
whan
I
conceyued
a
styff
desyre
to
loue
all
thinges
that
god
loueth
/
&
hate
all
that
he
hateth
/
than
forsothe
I
kept
shynyng
water
&
clere
whan
I
studyed
to
kepe
the
desyre
of
myn
herte
&
the
affeccion
of
the
sensualyte
vnhurted
from
all
fylth
of
synne
/
than
I
reysed
a
wall
aboue
the
well
whan
I
besyed
me
to
kepe
in
me
al
●tues
vnhurted
&
namely
mekenes
/
pacyens
&
myldnes
wyth
hope
&
charyte
to
mi
liues
ende
/
than
I
reised
the
peler
&
fastned
in
it
pypes
whan
I
gaue
my self
in
exsample
to
all
mankynde
/
so
that
none
from
now
forth
may
be
excused
▪
For
why
whom
someuer
wyll
folowe
me
and
be
b●usome
to
my
wronges
▪
he
shall
fynde
grace
and
heeale
thorugh
my
procuryng
▪
And
certaynly
wyte
thou
doughter
that
he
that
loueth
me
not
.
may
finde
noo
grace
of
my
sone
:
and
as
it
foloweth
therby
nother
of
the
fader
ne
of
holi
ghost
/
Thyse
thynges
my
dere
doughter
I
saye
to
the
that
thou
lerne
to
aske
grace
of
god
in
prayer
wyth
fayth
and
mekenesse
as
thou
knewest
that
I
dyde
by
thynges
afore
sayd
:
For
wythouten
prayer
:
It
is
vnpossyble
to
gete
the
grace
of
god
/
¶
Neuerthelater
vertues
and
grace
bennot
gyuen
of
god
to
all
I
lyke
:
For
whi
they
can
not
aske
theym
alyke
off
god
al
in
prayer
▪
In
mekenes
and
fayth
ne
kepe
theym
whan
they
haue
theym
/
And
therfore
shold
men
excyte
on
an
other
in
prayer
/
that
echosen
come
to
other
that
god
hath
gyue
to
hym
and
take
off
other
that
he
hath
not
hym self
.
Wherfore
doughter
I
wolde
that
thou
praye
besely
/
not
only
for
thyn
owne
heale
/
but
also
of
other
/
For
ther
by
shall
grace
bee
encresyd
to
the
and
to
other
:
And
thy
prayers
shall
be
fruytfull
/
It
happened
that
Elysabeth
was
mornyng
in
a
spyrytuall
dysese
duryng
thre
yere
.
And
that
was
for
thought
that
she
myght
not
haue
her
confessour
as
ofte
/
as
she
wolde
bee
confessyd
/
wherfore
god
hauyng
compassyon
of
her
desolacyon
/
he
assygned
saynt
Johan
the
Euangelist
to
be
her
confessour
commaundynge
that
soo
ofte
as
she
wolde
be
shryuen
he
sholde
besely
here
hir
and
assoyle
her
by
his
auctoryte
/
And
it
shop
soo
by
goddis
grace
:
that
whan
she
shroue
her
to
saynt
Johan
she
hadde
full
mynde
of
all
her
synnes
.
&
whan
she
shroue
her
to
ony
other
confessour
/
She
hadde
vnnethes
mynde
what
she
sholde
saye
:
She
was
not
glad
and
iocunde
after
her
assoyling
▪
as
whan
she
shroue
her
to
Saynt
Johan
/
¶
It
befyll
on
a
daye
that
Elysabeth
goddes
seruaunt
suffred
a
grete
notable
wronge
of
another
wycked
woman
/
wherfore
as
to
mennys
syght
/
She
was
gretely
dysplesyd
.
At
the
last
whan
she
came
agayn
to
her self
and
thought
that
she
hadde
suff●ed
wronge
/
Thenne
sodenly
she
lyghtned
wyth
a
●eruent
spyryte
off
charyte
gaue
her
to
prayer
/
And
wyth
passyng
mornynge
and
flowynge
of
teres
deuoutly
prayenge
:
she
besought
god
that
forsayde
woman
and
for
all
other
of
whiche
she
had
taken
ony
wronge
/
brast
out
in
thyse
wordes
/
O
swete
&
ayde
hastynge
god
/
that
gyldest
goode
for
yll
/
I
beseche
the
that
thou
ye●de
to
her
that
bereth
on
me
this
wronge
.
a
notable
gladnesse
of
holsom
comforte
soo
that
she
haue
Joye
therof
as
I
sholde
Joye
yf
I
were
thy
good
doughter
/
&
this
sayde
a
voice
sodenly
soned
to
her
erys
and
sayde
Elysabeth
though
neuer
made
prayer
that
pleased
m●
soo
moche
:
as
this
dooth
And
therfore
I
make
it
knowen
to
the
that
all
thy
synnes
be
forgyuen
the
/
And
whan
she
began
to
telle
hym
by
one
and
by
one
/
all
the
trespaces
that
she
hadde
in
fresshe
mynde
:
sayenge
/
suche
and
suche
haue
I
done
/
the
voyce
answeryd
thyse
&
al
other
ar
forgy●e
the
Thenne
she
sayde
:
who
art
thou
quod
she
thou
spekest
to
me
and
for
●euest
me
alle
my
synnes
/
&
the
voyce
sayd
to
her
▪
I
am
he
to
whos
feet
marye
magdalene
came
&
went
awaye
clensyd
of
all
synnes
/
On
s
also
whyles
elysabeth
bythought
her
in
her
prayer
what
thynge
that
she
myght
do
to
the
most
plesaunce
of
god
she
herde
a
voyce
sayng
to
her
:
¶
Spera
in
domino
●●
fac
bonitatem
et
cetera
/
That
is
hope
in
god
and
doo
goodnesse
and
dwelle
in
e●
the
and
thou
shalt
be
fede
in
the
ryches
of
it
/
Delyt
the
in
our
lord
:
and
he
shall
gyue
the
thyn
askyges
of
thyn
herte
/
Hope
in
hym
and
he
shall
werke
and
he
shall
lede
out
as
lyght
/
Thy
ryght
wysnes
&
thy
dome
as
myddaye
Be
thou
suggette
to
our
lord
and
praye
hym
/
On
a
daye
whyles
Elysabeth
was
lastyng
in
prayer
:
and
full
bytterly
wepte
her
synnes
/
our
lorde
Jhesu
Cryste
that
is
confortatour
of
theym
that
ben
soroufull
sayde
to
her
apperyng
/
O
my
dere
doughter
trouble
the
not
ne
be
not
sory
for
mynde
off
thy
synnes
/
For
why
all
thy
synnes
ben
forgyuen
the
/
And
whan
she
answeryd
the
contrary
and
sayde
that
she
was
certayn
▪
that
yf
he
wolde
doo
wyth
her
rightfully
and
not
mercyfully
/
she
was
worthy
to
be
dampned
to
the
paynes
of
helle
Thenne
our
lorde
Jhesu
Cryste
answered
and
sayde
:
Doughter
ryghtuosnesse
is
now
done
to
god
my
fader
/
For
they
synnes
/
and
satysfaction
is
fully
made
to
hym
/
for
theym
all
/
after
that
ryghtuousnesse
asketh
.
For
yf
thou
haue
offendyd
god
/
wyth
all
the
membrys
of
thy
body
/
I
was
●●ormentyd
in
all
the
membris
of
my
body
for
thyn
and
for
all
man
kindes
synnes
/
For
yf
thou
trespased
wyth
honde
and
wyth
fete
/
My
handys
and
my
feet
were
nayled
to
the
crosse
wyth
harde
nayles
▪
Yf
thou
haue
trespased
wyth
thy
eyen
▪
Myn
eyes
were
blynfyld
wyth
a
clothe
/
yf
thou
haue
trespased
wyth
thyn
●erys
myn
●rys
herde
blasphemes
and
grete
wronges
/
yf
thou
haue
trespased
wyth
thyn
herte
my
herte
was
persed
wyth
a
spere
and
yf
thou
haue
offendyd
wyth
all
thy
body
/
My
body
was
shorged
soo
that
from
the
sole
of
the
fote
vnto
the
tope
of
my
hede
/
apperyd
in
me
noo
stede
hole
.
¶
Therfore
doughter
thynke
not
but
that
dew
satysfaccion
for
thy
synnes
▪
is
doo
full
ryght
wysly
to
god
my
fader
:
Sothely
I
●uffred
the
paynes
of
all
synfull
and
the
wronges
of
theym
/
I
bare
in
my
herte
that
dyde
not
synne
/
ne
gyle
was
founden
in
my
mouth
:
¶
On
another
tyme
whan
Elysabeth
goddes
seruaunt
was
prayeng
/
Sodenly
she
sawe
wyth
her
ghostely
eyen
:
a
full
fayre
honde
that
hadde
longe
fyngers
and
the
palme
large
and
brode
:
And
in
the
myddes
of
the
palme
was
a
wounde
all
redde
of
blode
/
And
as
soone
as
she
vnderstode
that
it
was
the
honde
of
Cryste
:
She
wondrede
that
it
was
soo
small
and
soo
longe
/
And
also
ne
it
was
answerde
to
her
▪
that
it
was
so
small
/
For
whiche
cryst
lyued
in
flesshe
/
On
nyghtes
when
he
prayed
/
he
helde
his
hondes
streyth
forth
/
And
on
dayes
▪
he
t●aueyled
wyth
hondes
and
his
fete
/
and
all
his
body
by
tounes
and
castellys
prechynge
the
kyngdome
of
god
.
And
after
this
she
herde
a
voyce
sayeng
to
her
/
Elysabeth
loo
/
This
thyrde
tyme
I
saye
to
the
/
thy
synnes
ben
fogyuen
/
And
thou
hast
my
grace
:
To
the
whiche
voyce
she
answerde
.
Lord
yf
I
bee
halowed
as
thou
sayste
whero●
is
it
that
I
maye
not
wythholde
me
but
that
I
offende
thy
mayeste
eche
daye
in
somme
thynge
And
the
voyce
sayde
to
her
/
For
yf
thou
noo
tyme
offended
/
thou
sholde
not
be
so
mocho
mekyd
/
And
by
that
I
folowed
/
that
thou
woldest
not
loue
me
soo
moche
.
And
thus
thou
sholdest
waxe
worse
thenne
fendes
that
both
trusteth
&
dredeth
/
¶
Therfore
I
haue
not
soo
haloweth
/
the
but
that
thou
maye
synne
▪
But
it
suffyseth
to
the
that
I
haue
gyue
the
soo
moche
grace
:
that
wolde
suffre
thy self
be
slayne
rather
thenne
thou
sholdest
offende
dedely
:
And
whan
thys
was
sayd
/
Cryst
apperyd
to
her
openly
/
And
her
thought
that
thyke
lopred
blode
largely
flowed
oute
of
hys
syde
/
wherfore
she
beganne
to
/
wonder
/
To
whom
Cryst
sayde
doughter
wonder
the
not
For
why
whan
I
hangyd
on
the
crosse
all
my
membrys
were
dysioynyd
out
of
ioynte
for
vndone
trespasse
/
And
myn
entrayles
were
broken
and
my
veynes
opened
/
¶
And
therfore
soo
haboundaunt
and
thyke
lopered
b●ode
folowed
out
of
my
syde
/
All
thyse
thinges
before
sayd
.
Sayn●
Elysabeth
a
boute
the
endyng
of
her
lyff
/
the
whiche
was
in
the
yere
of
Our
lorde
a
M
CClxi
affermyng
that
she
hadde
seyn
and
herde
.
as
it
is
aboue
wryton
.
¶
And
she
sayd
that
she
hadde
so
grete
certayne
off
them
all
/
that
she
wolde
rather
suffre
dethe
than
ne
to
doubte
ony
lytyll
parte
of
them
that
they
were
not
trewe
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
reuelacyons
of
saynt
/
Elysabeth
the
kynges
doughter
of
hungarye
/