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And commaundyd all to auoyd the place, and make sylence, & pryuyly dyd betake to hym thys mylke, apon this condycyõ, that if it chãcyd to come home saffe & sownde he wuld offre that precyous tresure to our ladyes aultre in Paryse, whiche standythe in the myddys of the ryuere Sequana, whiche dothe apere to separat hymselffe to honor and obaye our blessyd lady.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

_ No, I wold you shuld know it, there is no lyuynge tode that more euydêtly dothe expresse hymselffe than it dyd there playnly apere.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

For thys same mã dyd say, that a woman dyd apere to hym, in hys sleape, after a maruelouse fashion, which shold gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Afterward, sayd I, thys roffe which is all of rede dothe apere nat to be very olde,

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

_ Ye trewly there be some so gyuê to our blessyd lady, that whan thay apere to put vpe thayr handes to offre, with a pure cõusyance, thay stayl that whiche other men hathe gyuen.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

_ At our entre in, lord what a pryncely place dyd apere vnto vs, where as euery mã that wyll may goo in.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Abbayes, bothe of thaym be of Saynte Benedycts ordre, but that which ys callyd Saynte Augustyns dothe apere to be the oldre, that whiche ys callyd now Saynte

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Well | | at the last came one that redde the tytle, it was wryten in laten with greate Romayne lettres, ye Greke was wryten with capytale lettres of Greke, whiche at the fyrst syght do apere to be capytale latê lettres, at thayr desyer I dyd expownde ye verses in laten, trãslatynge thaym word for word.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

_ Thay saye the same of the holy crosse, whiche is shewyd in so many places bothe openly, and pryuately, that if ye fragmentes were gathered apon one heape, they wold apere to be a iuste fraghte for a shipe, and yet Christe dyd bere all his crosse hymselffe.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

But so moche greater is | | the myrakle, that the stone is litle, the fourme of the tode dothe nat apere, but it shynythe as it were enclosyd within that precyous stone.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502