neither eat nor drink for dread of the doom that is com●n●. The sixth day all great buildings/ castles/ towers steeples & houses shall fall down & brennetyl the sonnense again. The seventh day all stones and rockies shall bet● to guider that each shall break other with one horrible noise, the which shall be herd into heaven/ The eight do ye the earth shall quake so that there may no man stand thereon but shall fall down/ The ninth day the▪ people shall go out of their denmys/ and go as they were myndeles & nonespake to other/ The tenth day ●yles and earth shall be even & plain/ The eleventh day/ all graves & tombs shall again & the bodies shall stand upon them/ The twelfth day/ stars shall fall fro heaven sheting out brenning beams a dreadful sight to see/ The thuteenth day they shall die that be●en by ●/ The fourteenth day heaven & earth shall burn the fifteenth day heaven & earth shall be made new & all people shall rise in y●. age of thirty winter/ & come to the doom. (Dominus venie● adjudicium cummulti●●dine angel orum) Thenneshall come to the doom our lord Jesue rystvery god & very man with his angels & show his wounds fresh bleeding/ as yt. day he died on the cros. with ally ᵉ instruments of his passion. The sper crown/ seourges/ nails/ hamer pyn●sons/ & the garland of thorns/ to show what he suffer in his passion for mankind Then may they besory and feared that have sworn by his passion or wounds. or by o●● member of his body/ that shall be a great repress to them but they a mend them in this world/ or they die. Then will our lord greatly thank them that have do mercy in this world for hyssake to they reve●crysten/ and will say thus to them (Venite benedicti patris mei pe●cipite regnum●●●) Come ye my faders blessed children and recey●●ye the kingdom of heaven, that is ordained to you and someher●e so them the seven weeks of mercy when I was hungry ye gaaf me meet (Sihvi●t ded is tismihi bibere) when I was thirsty ye gave me drink/ and when I was herberles/ ye herbered me/ and so for the all the works of mercy/ For when ye gass any thing in my name/ it was to me/ then shalour lord rebuke the rich people/ that would not do for his love/ nor sorgyve nootresspasse for his sake/ And said to them/ ●iscedite a mem●ledieti in ignem eternum) Go ye cursed people into everlasting pain of hell/ For when I was a hungered ye gave me no meet etc./ Than may they befull sorry & woe that ever our lord Jesue ryst shall thus rebuke them. For there shall be no man of law to plete nor for gold nor for sylver nor other yefts to help. For than shall neither master nor lord ship help but all be set be side/ butt right as a man hath done so shall he have.  
And there shall be dyvers accusers both above him and beneath him And on everyside above him shall be our lord Jesus Cryst his domys man/ (●rahisest fur or domini in populo suo) without mercy to them that deed no mercy/ and so accuse them of the lest thought that ever was amiss. On the right side his angel telling readily where when and how host he died amiss/ On that other side fiends challenging him they res as by right for his wicked dediss. Under him hell ready if he be found in sin that day they shall be pained and in pain wythoutenend that day poor people▪ shall sell with eryst at the doom/ and dame the rich people for the great wrounges that they did to them. and they might get none a men des till the day of doom then they shall have their will of the rich people for when the rich done the poor wrong: they can do no more but pray to god to quite them at the day of doom. And so he will for god saith thus (Michi vindi clametego ●etrib●am) Put all to me/ & ● yield every man after his deserving/ therefore while yeben here make ye amends for your wickedness/ And make them y●▪ friends that shall be your domys men at the day of doom and trust not to them that shall come after you/ lest ye be beguiled And dread the pain of of hell/ that never shall have end.  
Narracio  
Saint Bede telleth how there was an housbonde man in England that fill sick/ and lay dedefram the evyn till on the morrow. Then ne he rose and departed his gods in four parties and all his own part he gave to pour men/ and went and was a monk ●n an abbey that was nigh the water side. Into the which water he went every night/ were it never so cold and stood therein long/ and suffered great penance. And when he was asked why he died so to suffer that great penance/ He said to eschew a greater pain that he had seen. And he would eat but barley breed & drink water all his life after. And told two religious men the pains that he had seen and they were so great that they could not tell them openly. He said that an angel ●ad him to a place there that▪ one side was so cold that no tongue might tell the pain thereof. And the other side was so hot that no man might tell the pain thereof and souls were cast out of that one into that other and that was a great pain to them. And the angel showed him the fire that came out of hell that was soohoo/ And so far as him thought he might see it/ he thou ghtal bren● him▪ and in the ●eme thereof/ hesawe souls boil up and down crying and wailing for woe/ Also he heard fiends cry/ cast out hole lead & brimstone to make herpeynes greater/ and so they tormented the souls in pey●e  
Now lord god for thy great mercy have mercy on us/ and keep us ●ro those pains/ and bring us to the bliss of heaven/ that never shall have ending  
Amen.   

Dominica in septuagessima.  
Good men & women this day is called in holy church/ the sunday in septuagesme/ Forcause●●▪ holy church is mother of allerysten people/ she taketh good heed to the children as a good mode● oweth to do & ●orasmo●he as she seeth 'em full sore sick in sin/ and many of them wounded to ye. with the swe●d of sin/ the which sin hath caught all this ye●● tofore/ And namely this cr●stmas time yt. was ordained in holy dryrch for great solemn p●●yte/ for every man should be busy to serve god with all his power/ because that cr●ste himself she wed that day sweetness of love to all christian people/ For man he was borne yt. time/ And in the same flesh & blood as one ●f us/ & laid in a cradle more pourly than any of us/ & was crystened in water as any of us. And also he come to a wedding for to dense it from sin/ & to make us holy & brethren to him & heirs to the kingdom of heaven. For this causes all christian people owen to be full glad in their souls as my ●. time making solemnity & mirth & making 'em both clean in body & soul from all manner of sins And grounding them in great sadness of love to god and to all cryssten people doing great alms to them that have need: But now the more harm is for that high and solemn pnefes●e is turned into f●llye. sin & great sickness to the soul/ as in pride by dyverse wise in clothing/ & in many dyverse guile using/ into great covetyse/ & into lechery▪ that sueth always gloten ●● In slewth in god is servyce/ as ●apys and vanity syngyngery bawdry speaking For vanity causeth much slow the for among such people/ he is most worthy that most charlatry can speak. thus these solemn and high festes yt. were ordained to great worship of god and of our lady & all the saints in heaven now been turned into great offence to god/ wherefore our mother holy chircheseying her children in such despair/ as a mother full of compass yons●r● in her heart for them/ this day layeth down alleluia and other songs of m●●the & melody/ and taketh ●raclus/ that been songs of morning/ Also for this holy sacrament of wedding is much de●oyled by vanity of sin/ therefore it is laid do●n this days & in advente. For many that been now wedded yeveth them all lust and liking of the bodies of fleshly lusle of this world And thinketh full little of the death yt. is full grevous that cometh too soon after. But as it is red by great clerks/ it is more spefull to monnes soul to god/ to an house there as is a corpse & weeping/ than to go to an house/ there as is a great revel & much mirth for such things make a man to foryete his god & himself both/ but theras is a sight of a corpse maketh a man to think on his death/ that is the special thing to put away sin & vanity of this world. For Solomon saith thus to his son/ ●ili memorare novissima tua & ineternum non pec●●bis/ son have in thy mind that thou shall deye●● thou shall never sin deadly/ thus holy church having great compassion of her children ordaineth three manner of salves to help & to he'll her children that been to think on death inwardly to labour busily & to chastise ye. body reasonably the first as to think on death inwardly/ holy chircheyeveth ensample this day in the office of the mass Circumdederunt me The sickness of death hath b●●typped me/ this saith he teaching every good child to have in mind how hard he is bestead with death on each side in so much that he ma● not scape no way. but eve● death sueth him with abow drawn & and an arrow eye● therein ready to shoot him he wot never what time/ This is a principal salve to every man yt. taketh it to her t● to put away all manner ofvamyte & vain mirth/ But for to understand this the better I show this by ensample.  
Narracio  
I read of a king yt. ever was in hevy sorrow and he would never laugh ne make merry ●here/ but ever was in morning & in hevyness/ therefore his meinie & all other men were greved/ there with they go ●o the kings brode●/ praying him to speak to the king/ ● said he greved all thoo that were about him with his hevy cheer/ and counseled him to leve it and make ●yght cheer in time coming/ then was this king wise & thought to chastise his brother by a while/ and wrothly bade him go home and do that he had to do Then was the manner of ye. country that when a man should be done to death/ should come trumpets and trump afore his gate. Then said the king bidding them go trump afore his brother's gate. and men go with them to arrest him/ and bring him before the king/ And in the mean while/ the king called unto him seven men that he tru● on/ and bad them that when his brother was come/ to draw her swords and set them at his breast afore his heart.  
So when his brother was come they died as the king bade 'em. than the king commanded all men to dance and to make revel all that they could and so they dieden then said the▪ king to his brother/ why art thou so hevy of cheer/ have up thy heed and be merry for all this mirth is made for thee/ then answered he and said How should I be merry of cheer & see here seven swords set to my heart/ and wot not who shall be my death first/ Then said the king put up your swerdis/ and spoke to his brother thus. It fareth by me that seven deadly sins be everredy to reve me of my soul to the heart/ and this maketh me that I may never be merry and make glad cheer/ but ever am afeard of death for my soul that is the ●yf of my body. Then said the brother/ lerye thee mercy/ for I knew never this till now and shall be wiser ever after/ This I will say boldly he that will take this to heart he shall have better will to louvre than to laugh to sigh than to be glad/ to weep than to sing so that he shall find the mind of death the principal salve of all manner of sin also principally we must have in ne mind thee▪ painful death of our saviour that he suffered for us all/ of the which is made mention in the first chapter of trene/ Attendite & videte siest dolour similis sicut dolor meus/ That other salve is to labour busily in this world/ of we▪ labour speaketh St. pole in the pistle of this day & saith/ Sic currite ut comprehendatis Renneye so yt. ye may have the game/ by this running ye shall understand yt. he that run for the game enforsyth himself with all his might to run fast and so must every servant of god enforce him to labour busily in the degree god hath set him in & men of holy church must labour in studying & praying & to teach ye. people the law of god. Lord is & rentelmen must labour to keep holy church in rest & peace and other common people must labourlogele lyvyng t● these other degrees & fsorhymself both to soul and body And for no man should excuse him from this labour christ in the gospel yeveth an ensample saying thus Primomane conducere operarios/ a husbound man went into his garden or vineyard at prime & ayen at undrens or midday/ & sat even song tyme. And he hired people to labour by all the tides of the day/ This is to understand all ye-grees of the▪ world/ For as job saith/ A man is borne to labour & traveyle in this world as a bird to flee/ And saint Bernard saith He that will not labour here in this world/ He shall labour with the fendis of hell. For that, is the testament of Adam that he left to all his of spring/ labour & traveylle/ To this labour he giveth ensample & rehearseth how god made Adam & Eve ●o labour to keep paradise and bad they meet of all the fruits that was in paradise/ except one tree that he keep for himself so as ●fte as they saw that tree/ they should think ●n him that made them and know him for their god/ And for they should notete there of inpeyne of damnation Then the fendesawe them in so moche joy that they were in and himself in so moche pain/ And woe that he had great envy to them/ and went to Eve: and asked why they eat not of the fruit of that tree/ And she said god hath forbid us that tree in pain of death Then said the fiend/ he woteful well that and yeete thereof/ ye should be like god knowing both good and evil/ And if yewyl prove that I say so the/ eat thereof and assay. Then took Eve of the fruit and gaafadam and bade him eat thereof and for Adam loved her well/ and would not wrath her/ took an apple and eat. And an an●ther with hyher of them saw others shape and were ashamed. And took leaves afafygge tree and so ●evered her membres. Than come our lord to adam ●●ayd▪ Quarefeci●ti hoc▪ why hast thou do so▪ & he said (Mulier quamdedisti mich isociam) The woman bade me/ then said our lord to eve/ why diddest thou this (Serpens decepit me.) The serpent begyld me Then for they might not die in paradise nesuffre no penance/ therefore he drafe 'em naked out into this world that is full of wretched weeping and waylyngefull sore sighing to go & gate her meet with great labour and travaylle and die at the last. Than prayed Adam our lard weeping/ he should not take great vengeance upon them▪ but have mercy on them/ & pity for they were beguiled byenvy & malice of the fiend/ and by innocency of themself that they wist not what they died.  
Then had our lord ruth on them/ & for they were both naked he clothed them in pylches, & bad them go labour and traveyle for the●r lyving/ And said to Eve (In dolore paries filios) In sorrow and woe shalt thou bear thy children/ and took adaminsrumentes to labour with & lest them there. By this ye shall understond and take ensample to labour busily. For and adam & eve had laboured busily/ the fiend had never overcome them. For the fiend desireth no more when he would tempt a man but for to find him idle And therefore know ye well that it is a rich salv● against sin for to labour besdy. The third is to chastise the body discreetly. (Unde Paulus. Castigoco● pus meum etin servi●●te ●edigo) I shall chastysen●y body/ and dress it to service of my soul for man m●● flesh is so wild & so lusty to sin that it will not▪ in no wayeleve his lust to serve god/ but if it be chastised with penance. For it must be chastised sometime with pain/ Thus did adam & eve in ensample that all other that shall come after hem should do the same for many years before her death either of them stood in water a nights up to the ●hy● one serve from another to suffer penance till her fless he was as green as grass for cold. Then come y●▪ fiend to eve also bright as an angel/ & said y●▪ god ha● sent him from heaven▪ & bade her go to Adam & say to him/ that god bade him leave his penance for her hespasse was forgyve. And Eve did so/ but adam wist well that▪ it come forth from ye. fiend & not from god. He said to Eve when god drove us out of paradise for our sin & had compassion on us/ for we wept sore on him. and prayed him meekly of mercy he setted us here to penance to ourlyves end. And therefore go again▪ for the more penance that we do the more shall be our meed. And therefore go again & do thy penance in god is name▪ yet the fiend come again the second lime & said to Eve▪ god of his grace hath take reward to your penance that▪ ye suffer & hath forgyve you Then went Eve to Adam and told him so. Then said adam/ I wot well that▪ he that▪ hath said so to the is our enemy/ for our penance greveth more him than us & he would have us to leve of & so to lose our meed/ but dow fourth our penance to our lyves end For god taketh none heed to thee▪ beginning of a thing but to thee▪ ending▪ Yet the▪ fiend came again the▪ third time to Eve & said/ go thou to adam & say to him that▪ he began foul & well foul will end for first he trespassed by innocency & disseyte of thee▪ fiend/ & now he sinneth by good deliberation & will not do as god biddeth him wherefore your trespass is worthly damnation. Then was Eve afeard & told adam so Th●● adam syked sore & wept & sai● to her on advised woman god made the of one of my ribs for to help me and comfort me. and now be 'ticing of the fiend thou art to cumber me again but think how our first sin stancke in the sight of god that all our offspring shall be infect and have reprove there of in to the world is end. where for though we might do also moche penance as all our offspring might do yet it were to little to quite our lord god for our trespass but god of his special grace a lowythe a good will Than went eve again to her penance as adam bad and than said adam god will send us the oil of mercy when time of mercy is. And so adam and eve deed her penance to her lives end and when adam had live. ix. hundred year and. thirty. and had xxx ●ones. and. thirty. doughteris they died & were both buried to gedyr Adam and Eue.  
Thus ye may see well that adam and eve were full holy or they died and thought one death full inwardly and laboured full busily and chastised her flesh full reasonably and so must we do that cometh of 'em that wool come to the joy of paradise in tokening here of this sunday is called the sunday in septuages●me a number of lxx The which number be gynnyth this day and endeth on estyr even so holy church is morning from this day till Escyr even than she taketh comfort again in party of on hallelujah with a tract for it is not yet in full might till saturday in Estyr week the which is called Dominica in albis. Than she leythe down the tract and syngithe doubell hallelujah alleluy● teaching all christian men to labour and do penance treuly till the saturday that is to a man's lives end that is till the soul go to rest yet is not the soul in full rest till the saturday in albis that is till the day of doom when the body and the soul shall come to gedyr and be clothed in albis that is in whithe seven times whiter than the son & than they shall sing doubyll hallelujah that is to say lord make us save in ever lasting bliss to the which bring us he that for us all did on the wood tree Amen.   

Dominica lx  
GOod men and women this day is called the ●onday in sexagesime that is the number of lx the which number holy church teacheth every man & woman to think how short once life is now in our days for some time people levied ix ● year and more and now three score or fore score is a long life But yet the grace of god and his mercy and goodness is so moche that if we will do our business and diligence to serve god & please him he will give ●s as much joy and bliss in heaven as he gaffe to adam & eve that levied so long but he that will have that joy & bliss must do iij. things. One is he must hate sin namely and suffer tribulation meekly & do alms deed wilfully Than for our days be short we must the more tribulation suffer meekly & with patient heart & not grocching & dissese cometh of special grace for it is remedy for sins here in this world for penance or else for great encresing to his joy in a nother world wher● for God's apostle paul will that all christian people shall take ensample of him for he suffered moche tribulation patiently that he rehearseth in the pistle of this day And said thus. In laborihus plurimia Poule seith I have be in many great traveles and often times in prison sore boundyn with chains of iron Quinqʒ virgis cesue .v. times betyn with roddies and stourgiss on my bare body with paynemes Semel lapida tus And ones betyn with stones and three times in ship breaking Nocte ac die in profundum maria fui. And I was in the ground of the see a night and a day Sepe in periculis fluuium. many times in apparel of floods. Periculis latronum in apparel of thiefs and in apparel of false brethren that showed true love to me and were false and conseyled other to do me dissese and trouble. In fame et siti. in hunger and thirst In ieiuniis multis. in moche fasting In multis vigiliis. in long waking In frigore. in cold and in many other mischievous and apparel that were to long to tell and all he suffered with good will and ever thanked god of his sweet sand for well he wist that all these tribulacionus and dissese was for sin that he had done tofore And to increase his merit and joy that should come after where for all christian people that will please god what manner dissese or tribulation that come to 'em be it sickness loss of cattles or other goods or death of friends take it patiently and meekly and thine kith it cometh for sin that thou haste do tofore or else for great increase of joy and bliss that thou shalt have after for it cometh of special grace there as god visitith & cometh there as god sendeth but there as he suffereth all her will is no good sign that he loveth. And ther fore thank god ever of his visitation and beseek him ever of his mercy god knowithe our intent. & there for he for giveth soon to all that asketh mercy with a meek heart Thus must a man suffer tribulacione patiently he must also do alms discretely which be figured be these lx days for lx is sexesythiss x. so that by vi ye shall understand the seven. works of mercy that comen out of the ten commandments the why the be these to give meet and drink cloth her borrow visit pnsoners comfort the sick blind lame and to berry hem that be deed these be the. seven works of mercy the which all christian people must do that will be saved & have mercy of god wherefore sexagesime be gynnyth this day and endeth the wenesday in esterwenke the which holy church speaketh of thus Denite benedicti pria mei ●●. Come ye my fathers blessed children and take the kingdom of heaven that is ordained for you These same words god shall say to you at the day of doom And to all that hath done alms deeds diseretly & full filled the works of mercy and they where of poor and though that be not of poor must do her good will & that shall fullfille the deed this must be do discretely and how god teacheth this day i the gospel be ensample & saith thus Exiit qui semivat seminare semen suum A man went to sow his sedis & as he sew sum fill by the weigh & fowls come & eat 'em & sum fill among thorns & was lost & sum fill in good earth & brought forth an C. fold increase to this christ saith thus himself Ego sum via veritas et vita. I am the verray right true life and weigh to heaven then falleth his seed be sides the weigh that giveth not his alms for Christ's sake discretely but for pride pomp and vain glory of the world and so loseth his meed And that I prove be ensample.  
Narracio  
Theridamas was in yrlond a wondyr rich man and deed moche alms in his live in so much that the people went he had be a saint But when he was deed he appeared to on that he loved well in his live as black as any pyche with an horrible stink and said ye ween that be a saint but now I am such as thou sayest. than said he where be thy alms dediss and he said the wind of vain glory hath blowym 'em a weigh for he that doth his alms for vain glory of the world lesithe his meed and the ●endys of the eyre destroyit it Also he lesithe his meed that giveth his alms to such that knoweth that bethe in deadly sin and so to maintain hem in her sin his seed falleth among stones & wexyt dry and so lesithe his meed his seed falleth among thorns that giveth his good to rich people that have no need there to and so les● her meed. But his seed falleth in good earth that giveth his alms to good true people for they be God's earth & that seed shall give an hundred fold increase in ever lasting joy and bliss and shall be ever lasting food to 'em that doth thus her alms discretely. ye must also hate sin namely and i'll it in all that ye may for he that hatythe and fleith sin loved god & god loved him for god heateth sin in so much that he took vengeance one all the world for sin of lechery and in special for the sin again kind for when god saw this sin regning in all the world so unwordely he feyd thus me forthyn kith that ever I made man and said to noye Fac tibi archam. make the a ship of planed bo●dys as I shall teach the and make chambers there in and take of all clean bestis the coupull be 'em self and meet and drink with 'em Than made Noye this ship as god taught him square in the bottym and. iij. C. cubytus' of length and l cubytus' in breed and xxx cubytus' of heythe and this ship was in making an. C winter to schewe how merciable god is in tarrying to look if the people would a mend 'em. and how loath he was to do vengeance but the people was ever lengyr the worse than be help of angels all manner by'r dies & beasts were brought to Noye and when all where brought to the ship our lord bad Noye and his wife & his three sons go in to the ship by 'em self and Noyes wife and her sons wifes by 'em self. for the men should not common with the women so when they where all in god closed the door to hem with out forth Quodraginta diebus & quadraginta noctibus aperti sunt celi then it reymd. xl. days and. xl. nights that the water bore the ship heyer than any hill be xl cubytus' & stood still a. C. days and xl and drowned all the world both people and best save those that were in the ship. yet josephus said in armany there is an hill and that is called Sarus that was heygher than the water was And there for diverse people have opinion there was moche people saved so noye was in the ship all a year and then he put out a ravin for to bring word for to know if the water was ceased or no and he come not again then he sent out a dove and she come again and brought a branch of olive in her bill and there by noye know well that the watyr was cesid in some place then as god bade him Noye went out and took the unclean beasts from the clean and brent the unclean beasts in sacrifice to god And that pleased god so well that he yaffe hem and all that come of 'em after leave to et● flesh of all clean beasts and for to drink wine there as be fore the flood the people eat & drank no think but watyr for the earth was so batyll in hit self tofore that the people needed none other food but such as come of the earth Thus may ye see and understand how great vengeance god took on all the world for sin and now there is as much sin as ever there was in those days and moche more in many degrees where I dread left god will take vengeance on us And would or this time where not the preyers of holy church and good seyntes And in especial by the preyours of our lady and that ye shall here be ensample og saint Do mymke as he was in his prayers he saw our lord Jesus christ holding three speries in his hand ready to schete 'em in to this world for vengeance and all for sin Than come our lady kneeling be fore our lord and said my deer son what will ye done. And he said my dear modyr the world is so full of sin of pride covetise lechery & other sins that Iwoll schete these three speries of vengeance on the people then saide our lady my dear son have mercy of 'em and bide a while for I have some true servants the which shall preach and teach people to turn 'em from sin And thus be prayer of our lady god spared to take vengeance But now the world is so full of sin and cursed leaving of false extorcione and oppression of the poor people that they cry to god for succour and help wherefore it is full like that we shall be smetyn full soon with some grievous vengeance other with dearth or with skarnesse of pestilence wherefore it is needful for us to pray busily to our lady that she may pray for us to her dear son our lord Jesus christ to spare us in our days that we ●ow have grace and mercy now and ever Amen   

Dominica l  
GOod men and women this day is called the sunday in quinquagesime this word qumquagesime is a number of l the which number be tokenyth remissione and joy for in the old law every l. winter all manner of people that where over set with service of bondage. when they come to that age they were made free in great joy and mirth to hem wherefore this number begynnythe this day and end on estyr day schewing that all christian people that be oppressed with any tribulation or dissese here in this world shall be made fire and have remission at the day of doom and be made eyre in the kingdom of heaven And yet in comfort of all christian people every l winter the pope of rome grauntith full remission of all sins to all christian people that cometh to rome that year And for all that may not come thedyr to have this pardon The pope of heaven Jesus christ of his special grace grauntyth to all christian people full pardon of all sins in her last end so that they will keep three things here in this world Confession contrition and satisfaction holy shrift of mouth with contrition of heart and satisfaction indeed doing Also he must have charity with out feigning and stable faith with out flattering and with out these there may no man have pardon at rome nor else where and ther fore he that will be a soiled of the pope of heaven & have clean re●●ssyone he must be contrite sorry for his sins and shrive him clean and be in full purpose never to sin more And they that do thus god will for gyffe hem all their sins for a man may have so great and such contrition that it may quench all the pains that ever where ordained for him Take ensample by petyr that for soak christ thrice with great oaths but he was after contrite and sorry Et flenit amare. And wept full bitterly and god that is full of mercy for gave him his trespass and made better cheer to him after than he deed tofore for he should be in no dyspeyr and dread.  
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we find of a great rich man that was so wicked in his live that moche people deemed him dampened to hell so he fill sick and felyd himself that be should be deed. and he be thought him how wicked he had be in his leaving and took such a contrition to him and so great sorrow that he wept night & day ever when his sin come to his mind & so lay vij days and vij nights and shrove him clean and took great repentance to him and ever cried god mercy so that all people had great pite on him & than died Than it happed that there was a monk in an abbey that died the same time and was made by his abbothe to come again to tell him how that he feared and so he deed and said to the abbot when he was come. Sir I am come to heap my promise I prey you give me leave to go a gain for I go to joy then said the abbot was there any moo that died when thou dydyste that went to joy but thou And he said ye for sooth on and no more and that was the soul of such a man and told his name then said the abbot now I know well thou art not my monk but some fiend is come to tempe me for we know well if any soul be in pain he is one of tho. Than said the monk full unworthy is any man to know the prevites of God'S doom. For that man had so great contrition and repentance and wept so bitterly for his synnies that the watyr of his eyen perysched thorough all his clothes to the ground where for go thou the dyr to morrow & when thou fyndyste it true that I say than leave me And I go to ever lasting joy and bliss. Than went the abbot the dyr & found that it was true as the monk had said. & there kneeled the abbot down and thanked god and bad all the people to be glad that god is so merciful & that he had that knowledge. Here ye may see that great contrition that this man had quenched the great pain that was ordained for him. Thus ye may see how great help is to a man's soul to be contrite and sorry for his sins and to draw a man to the more contrition those l days these psalm in the sauter Miserere mei dena Be more rehearsed these days than ●ny othir time of the year the which is thus moche to say. God for thy great mercy have mercy on me and when a man is sorry for his sins and saith thus with a sorrowful heart god he ryth his prayer and for giveth him his trespass so that he be in full purpose never to sin more but to a mend him and be in parfeyte love & charity with out any feigning and but he have charise with out feigning all this prevalyth nought and be this ensample.  
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Theridamas was a man that had .v. sons and had found 'em long to school and cost him much good So on a day he called his .v. sons be fore him and said children I have found you long to school & have spend much good up on you and I see no great profit there of. where fore but yewoll a 'mong you all a soil me a question I will do no more cost on you ne find you no lengyr to school and they asked of her father what the question was and it should be a soiled And he said I am old & feeble and may not live long and there fore I would weet of you what thing would bring a man's soul sonnest to heaven and anon the eldyste son answered & said for sooth father preaching and teaching will bring a soul sonneste to heaven of any thing. well said qd the father what sayest thou to the second son And he answered and said faith & true be leave bryngithe a soul as soon to heaven. what seyste thou to the question my third son and he said good preyours and alms deed bringeth a soul soon to heaven what seyste thou to the matter fowrith soon and he saide pylgyymage going and great penance suffering bryngith a soul sooner to heaven than any of all these what seyste thou my fyuith son and he said for sooth father there is another thing that bringeth a soul sooner to heaven than all these what is that saide the father for sooth father said he charity for what virtue that ever a man have and he lack charity it vaylith not to heaven wards for though a man prey and do alms dediss go a pilgrimage have full faith and be leave teach and preach fast and suffer penance never so much cry and wipe never so loud and he be out of charity god heareth him not And here to acordyth saint paul in his pistle and saith thus Si linguia hominum loquar ●●. Though I were so eloquent as any man or any angel. Et si babuero propheciam et omne scienciam And though I had all the cunning in the world and know the propheci and the privity of god Omnem fidem ut montea transferam And though I had so moche faith that I might move hills. Et si distribuero in cibos pauperum And though dealed all my good to poor people for God's sake Corpua meum ut ardean And my body to burn in hot fire. Caritatem autem non habe●m nichil michi prodest. if I have not charity all this prefetith not to heaven wards where fore it is needful and most necessary to every creareis' soul that will be saved to have charity but though a man saith that he loveth god and loveth not his even christian he is deceived For he that loved god loveth his neighbour in good intent.  
Thus must a man have full charity that will be saved Caritas cooperit multitudinem peccatorum. For charity covereth the multitudo of sins. For he that dieth in deadly sin and out of charity shall be dampened And therefore of all virtues charity is most vertuus & most necessary to a man's soul. yet we must have a stable faith with out flattering and to believe sadly as holy church teacheth. and to believe faithfully in the father son and holy ghost. the father full god the son full god & the holy ghost full and these three persons be but one god that made all thing of nought. This faith was first showed in the holy patriarch in the vale of mambre there he saw three fair men coming toward him but he worshipped but one giving ensample to all christian people to see in spirit the father the son and the holy ghost three persons in one god heed and worshipped 'em as on god Also ye must believe in the carnation of our lord Jesus Christ that our lady conceived in the holy ghost with outewemme of her body in flesh and blood as one of us and very god & man and was deed and buried Tercia die resurrex it a mortuia And one the third day he rose from death to life Ascendit ad celos. And stied up to heaven on holy thoursday. In de venturus est judicare vivos & mortuos and shall come a yene at the day of doom and dame the quick and the deed This is ●iguryd by isaac the son of abraham that he get one his wife Sara thorough the holy ghost when they both where passed age to bring forth. for god saide to abraham that he should have fruit as great in multitude as there were stars in the firmament Than when this child was borne he was called isaac And when he was xxv winter of age god saide to abraham in this wise. Take thy son isaac and go to such an hill as he showed to him and offer him in sacrifice that was to slay him as the manner was sum tyme. Than abraham had be hefte of god to have great issue and though he loved his so ne never so much yet he took him anon with out grocching and went to the hill and made his son isaac to bear wood to burn himself with And wh●n they come to the hill top abrah● made an altar of wood & set it on fire and than he took his son isaac and would have slain him & offered to god. Than anon spoke an angel to abraham and bade him leave of and take the sheep that stood there by and offer him in stead of thy son isaac. He abraham ye may understand the radyr of heaven and be isa ac his sone Jesus Christ that spared for no love that he had to him but suffered the iewis to lay wood upon his back that was the cross that he should be done on himself and lad him to the hill of Calvary and there deed him upon the Auter of wood that was the cross that was made of ●owre diverse manner of wood that was Cidyr Cipir olive and Palm and there on he died for all man kind Thus may christ well be called isaac that is understand laughter for many a soul he brought out of hell lauging that went the thyr sore weeping. Than like as this was a figure of christs pession long or he was borne right so this day christ himself in the gospel saide thus to his disciples that he should be betrayed. Tradetur enim genti●ua et il ludetur et flagella bitur & conspuitur et post●uam flagel laverunt eum & die tercia resurget.  
And how he should be take and betyn with stourges spit upon & after his stourging done upon the cross and so slay him and the thrid day shall rise again to life and for they should have the better believe there to and to his words anon to fore 'em he made a blind man to see that cried and saide. Ihesu fili david miserere me● Ihesu the son of david have mercy of me. then said our lord to him what wouldst thou that I should do to the and he said ●omine ut videam lord give me sight. then said our lord thy saith hath saved the And a none he had his sight and he thanked god So must every criston man that will have perdon● of god he moat have contrition full of heart with shrift of mouth and sa tisfaction in deed being in hole charity with out feigning and in stable faith with out flattering And to steer you more to the faith I tell you this ensample.  
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There was a bishop in england that hight crossed heed and was bishop of lyncoll & was holdyn the grettyst clerk in england or in the world and when he lay in his death bed there come to him a great multitude of fiends and disputedr with him of the faith in so much that they had nigh turned him out of the believe & put in to despair.  
then was our lady ready and said to him my servant be levyste thou not in holy church as it teacheth And anon he cried and said yis gracious lady I be leave as holy church teacheth me. and anon the fend is went her weigh and gafe up the ghost to ever lasting bliss to the which god bring us all Amen.   

●ominica prima quadragesime.  
●Ood men and women this day is called in holy church the first sunday in quadragesime a number of xl for from this day till es●y● day be xl days and for be cause that every man synnyth more or less for to make satisfaction for our trespass all christian people be bound be the l●we of god and holy church to fast these xl days save though that the law dispensith with for reasonable cause Children that be with in age wymmen that be with child. old people that be might lose to fast labouring people as pylgremies and sick people those the law dispensith with upon her conscience. Than for the cause that sunday is no day of penance there for ye shall be gynne your fast one esche wedenysday that day ye most come to holy church and ●● ke aschies of the priests hands and think one the words▪ well that he seytth over your heads. Memento hom quod cinis es et in cinerem reverteris. have mind man of aschies that thou art come and to aschies thou shalt turn again Than be there ●in●r●● shylles why ye shall fast these xl. days on is as the gospel telleth this day thus. ●nct●s est I●es●a in desertū●t temptaretur a diabolo how the holy ghost bade our lord cris● jhesu go in to desert to win iherusalem and iherico to be ten ●●ed of the fiend & was there xl. days fasting & xl. nyghtis for your sake showing to all christian people the virtue and the ●●de that cometh of fasting the which ●e expressed in the preface of the mass that is said in holy church the xl. days that is thus Qui corporal● i●i●●io vi cia comprimis mentem ●le●●● virtutem largiria That holy fasting th●usteth down vices and lifteth up thouthe of man to ● t●ous and to largeness of all goodness and getith great m●de in heaven that shall last ever and ●●●● gra●e ●ere in earth for as clerks tell the spetell of a sasting man shall slay an addyr bodily than moche more it sleithe the might of the old addir that is the fiend of hell that come to eve in paradyse in likeness of an ad dyr and tempted her to gluttony vain glory and covetise right so the ●●nde come to Christ in likeness of a m● left ●e had be known and tempted christ and as the gospel saith C●m i●i●●asset quadragint● di●●●a et quadraginta noetical poste● esuxiit when Christ had fasted xl. days & xl. nyghtis than be kind of manhood he hung red Than come the fiend to him and schewde him stones and saide. Si ●i●i●● dei ●a ●i● ut ●apides isti pac● fiant. if thou be God's son of heaven make these stone's breed for right as ●●● was ●●beshed when she saw the apple be temptation of the fiend to eat there of The same wise he went to hate made christ to eat of the breed For gluttony is not only in man's meet but in the foul lust and appetite of a man. Than saide christ anon to him Non in solo pane vi vit homo sed de omni verbo quod procedit de ore dei Man leaveth not only by breed but by every word that cometh from the mouth of god Than the fiend took him & set him upon the high pinnacle of the temple & saide if thou be gods son bring the self down with out man's h●lpe or harm that I may know the for goddies son than saide our lord Non temptabis dominundeum tuum. Thou shalt not tempt thy lord god▪ yet he come a yene the third tyme. Assumysit eum diabolus in montem excelsum et ostenditei omnia regna mund. He took him and set him one an high hill and showed him all the kygdomes and richesse of the world and saide thus to him Her omnia tibi dabo si cadens ador●ueri● me All this I shall give the if thou wolte fall down and worship me. then saide our lord god onto him  
Dade sathanas scriptum est evim dominum deum tuum adorabis et illi soli seruies. Go sathanas it is wreton thou shalt worship thy lord god and only him serve than he left him and went his weigh Angeli accesserunt ad ibesum & ministraba●t ei.  
then angelis come & brought him food for the fiend is most busy these xl. days to tempt people to three sins to pride covetise and glotoni it is needful to have three remedies a yense hem. that is a yenste gluttony abstinence. a yense pride meekness. and a yenste covetise largmes. a yense gluttony we must fast that is not to eat before time and at meet not to eat greatly no more than a nother time and to fast both day and night as christ did but there is moche people will sit and drink both night and day and so fill her bodies with foul lust of gluttony Also ye must fast from all manner of flesh meet and white meet For Jeromie seith eggs is all most flesh and milk blood & when ye go to your meet take ensample be holy church when the priest goth to mass that is God's word how he at his beginning bowith down his knees and byddyth all other do the same in the ●●yddys of the massen and at the end of the mass bow down yoore he dies to god and therefore when ye go to your meet so worship god with a Pater noster and an ave that sent you that food and than make a cross upon your meet and after meet a nother and thank god highly that send you that food at your need to your bodily sustenance. thus must ye fast against gluttony A yenste pride that is but a fain glory of the world ye must put a way all such thoughts of pride and highness in heart and be meek and lowly in heart and think how a man is borne feeble sick and full poor & how he goeth every day a journey toward his death while he leaveth in this world and at the last cometh death and cast him down in to his bed and lie there Syking and groaning and chaundid both hide and hue then stynkyth his breath and his lips wexit black his face pale and his eyen yellow his tongue eugleymed and his nose black his tooth fallyn a weigh his flesh wederith and tournythe to earth And than at the last with great sighing giveth up the ghost and than lieth there as earth and put in to the earth Cito oblivisceris And so shall be s●ne for gotyn. There for take this sadly in your mind and I hope ye shall put away pride. then a yense covetise ye must have Abstynaunce that is for to say ye must abstain yourself from worldly covetise and vanities and they that have be hard in keeping of goods. and ever have gaderithe to gedyr to and fast have in keep But now should ye be as ready to pay and content that ye be in debt unto both to god and to the world And also to restore again that he hath take wrongfully. and give to poor people meet and drink and clothes and other things such as is needful and to 'em. And the feet that have all this this year gone busily to get goods of the world now must ye be as so be sy to go and give the poor people to them that have need as we have in the gospel Date et da bitur ●obi●. give ye and god will give you for the hands that will not give none Alms they be full unworthy to be acceptable unto god  
Also ye must go full busily unto God's service and in pilgrimages going and to all manner good deeds of Alms and he that hath be b●sy to gedyr good n●w should he spare from his own marsh for to give the poor needy that is God's people for that pleaseth god moche and greatly helpeth the soul Elemosina a morte liberat Alms delyverith the soul from death Sicut aqua extinguit ignem ita eleonsina extinguit peccatum For right as water quencheth fire right so alms deed quencheth sinew where for the prophet saith thus Date et d●bitur vobis give ye & god will give you Dimittite et dimittemini For give and god will for give you But now all is little enough feed your bodies that nothing ye may give to poor bodies for God's sake  
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we read that there was a worthy knight and rich man of goods and a mighty man of his hands but he cherished moche his body with delicate meats and deynties but at the last he died and was buried in a ton be of stone than had he a son that was a worthy man and used every day in custom to say deprofundis for his fathers soul be his tomb so one a day he made a great feast to all the worthy astatis in the country a bout him when they should wesche and go to meet this man be thought him how he had not said Deprofundis and prayed the people to a bide till he had saide his devotions and they said they would go with him and deed so then there fill such a lust in this man's heart that he must needs see his fathers tomb opened or else him thought he should die. And so made the people to open the tomb than a none was he were of a great black toad also black as any py●che with eyen berning like fire that had be clipped his fathers heart with her foul clowies & gnewe fast there one then saide this man O father much good meet and drink hath go down that th●o the & now thou art stran gelyd with a foul hell hound and horrible foul best. And a none he let go close the tomb a yene and so go to meet And when he had served all the people privily he went forth & left child and lordship and all his goods & went to ●he rusalem & levied there a 'mong beggeris with other poor people in great poverty all his life and so died when god would & went to ever lasting joy as I hope to the which joy god bring us all to Amen.   

Dmca secunda qua dragesime  
GOod men and women it is i● the second son day in clean lente where for like as ye have all this year made you honest in good a ray to your body Now should ye be as sone●besy to make you a clean soul where for this time of lente is ordained to cleanse your conscience from all manner rust and filth of sin so that ye may on Estyr day with clean conscience receive. the body of our lord ●h●●u christ wher fore s●int paul in the epistle of this day saith thus. He est voluntas dei. This is God's will that ye should be busy and holy to keep your bodies in cleanness for to please god moche & to pray to him to make his vessel clean a yense the coming of our lord the su Christ. than shall ye understand that this vessel is mannes conscience and that is a good vessel that keepeth all good thyngiss that is put there in till the day of doom. for at that day of doom every man's ●essell shall be opened and the world shall see what a man hath kept there in be it better or worse fair or fowl. Than he that bryngithe a clean vessel be fore the high judge shall be well a lowed. then how a man shall keep his vessel clean holy church tech i'th' by a ensample of an holy batriarke Jacob that is red & song of all this work jacob had a father that was called Isaac and his modyr rebecca And she had ij. children at on birth and that was first borne hyghte esau and that other Jacob But for the story is long we shall take at this time that is most needful and leave that other then had god give his patriarch isaac such grace that what blessing he gave his blessed children they should have it Than for Isaac was old and blind and nigh his death he said to his sof●e Esau Aufer michi de venatione tua God and hunt and get me some meet that I might eat of Bene dicam tibi pri●squam moriar That I may give the my blessing or I die But when Esau was gone jacob that younger be teaching of his more dyr gate his fathers blessing and his father said to him Esto dū●●ra trum tuorum Be thou lord of all thy brethren And so made him his Eyre and blessed all that blessed him. Than when Esau was come home and wist this he hatid Jacob his brothyr and thought to ●le him then jacob be counsel of his modyr went out of the country unto an uncle that he had that hight laban. And as he went be the weigh in a country of wild people leaving he durst not ●●ge with hem● a bide but ●ay all a night in the field by the weigh and laid a stone under his heed and slept Diditqg in somp nis scalam stantem super terram And in this sleep him thought he saw a ladder that stood on the earth and lasted up to heaven and god joined to the ladder Angelos quoque dei ascendentes et descen dentes And angels of god going up and down. then god spoke to him and said I am god of abraham and isaac and I will give the this land and be thy keeper in thy weigh Than work jacob and said. Dear dna est in loco isto et e●o nescie bam For sooth god is this place and I wist not And so went forth to his uncle & was with him xx. winter and more his servant and wed did his ij. doughteris that one hight rachel & that other ly● And when he had be there so long he desired home again in to his own country and took with him his wy●●e and his children and all his cattles and went forth then come there to him multitude of angels to help him Than when Jacob come to a ford he made all his meinie to go before with his Cattles and himself ●ode be hind in his preyours and as he prayed there come an an angel to him in likeness of a man and wrastelid with him all the night till on the morrow and took him by the great senowe of his thigh and made him to halt ever after. Than said the angel to Jacob what is thy name he said jacob Nay said he thou shalt no longer hight Jacob but israhel shall be thy name. and blessed him and left him there halting and thus he went home to his own country with great prosperity. This story is red in holy church in this ensample to all good servants that desireth to get the blessing of the father of heaven and to have heritage that is there he must first be Jacob and after israhel. For Jacob is to understand a wrasteler and israhel a man that seyghte god for he that will see god he must wrestle here in earth with the bad angel that is the fiend & with his own flesh as thus when he hath done a great horrible sin than the ●ende putteth to him a great shame in heart so that he dare not tell it out. then must he weastell with the find and the flesh and over come and tell out his sin opynly with all the circumstance of his sin then will his flesh be a feared and a shamed there of but than he must wrestle with his flesh strongly and make it to tell his sins & to do penance after the counsel of his goos●ely father taking the ensampell of the woman of ●er country that come to Christ as the gospel seith Ecce mulier cananea a finibua illis egressa clamavit dicens How the woman of cananee come to christ to get hele for her daughter that was trobbled with a fiend And said Ihesu fili david miserere mei Jesus the son of david have mercy on me then our lord answered Non est ●o●●m sumere panem filinrum & dare cannibal Hit is not good to take breed of children and give it hundies Nam et catelli ●●e ●t de mensa dinro rum suorum yiss lord for why when l●es eaten of the c●ommys that fallyn from her lords board. then said our lord Mulier magna est fides tua fiat tibi sicut via. O woman thou haste a great faith where for as thou wolte thy daughter be saved & so was her daughter hole. This woman and her daughter be tokenythe a man that his conscience travelythe with a fyude of deadly sin that may not be helped but he go to god and there shrine him to the priest sparing for no rebuke nor shame ne for dread but me kely suffer all that the confessor saith to him and take his penance meekly with a contrite heart & do it with good devotion and so he shall be delivered of the fiend that hath troubled his conscience. For a man that hath done an horribell sin and shall be saved he shall never have rest in his conscience till he be shriven there of for right ●● an hound gnawith a bone that is hard right so his sin gnawith his conscience showing be experience how hounds of hell shall gnaw his soul ever more with out rest that dieth wittingly in deadly sin that he might have be shriven of and would not Ensample of a woman.  
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There was a woman that had done an horrible sin and would fain have be shriven there of and durst not. Than come our lord to her bodily and said my daughter why shryvest thou the not of thy sin lord I may not for shame.  
then saide our lord take me thine hand and put her hand in to his side even to his heart & saide woman what feelest thou and she quaked for fere and said lord I feel thine heart. than saide our lord be thou no more a shamed to show me thine heart thany to let the feel mine than this woman rose & with light saw her hand all bloody and would have washed it of but it would not till on the moxow that she was shrenen and than was her hand clean as it was before and she clean of all her sins and thus she was made clean both body & so ule.   

Omca tercia ●n● dragesime  
GOod men and women this is the third sunday in clean sent on wherefore were de in the gospel of this day▪ and saith thus Erat ●●esu●●i ciena demonin How our lord cafte out a fiend of a doom man. and when the fiend was out ●ocutna est mut●● then the doom man spoke be this doom man ye shall understand all though that have no might to shrive 'em with her tongues to tell her sins but ta●y as long as they may for there is moche people and it where not for shame of the world in lenten nor out lenten would never come to shrift and that maketh the fiend for he is in that man or woman whethyr▪ it be that is so disposed. There for ye that be behind come and shrive you and make you clean and have this doom man out of your mind ande● cast a weigh the fiend but there be many that bythe not yet shreven what shall I do there wool they say they can not shrive 'em they wot not where of. But I may say to you of many an evil word and many an evil thought and many a cursed deed many great oaths many an evil word that ye have spoke I wot ye can not tell all for ye have been so long fro confession But I say to you that unknowyngnesse shall not excuse yodo at the day of doom for as soon as ye have offended god in many trespacis that hurtith the soul anon ye should make you clean & will it never in your mind but ye will not come till it be for gotyn And so yet when ye come to shryf te ye be doom for the fiend is within you for ye ween many times that it be no sin to speak an ydyll word to make the people to laugh nor to swear a great oath it doth no harm but saint paul in his pistle forbiddeth every man to speak any idyl words & seithe thus. Dico autem vobis quod omne verbum ociosum quod locuti fuerint omnea reddent rationea in die judicii For sooth. I say to you that ye shall give a reckoning for every idyll word that ye speak and none shall pass vnpunyshid at the day of doom. and there for late all idyl words be harlotry and rybawdiy And if ye so do that is worship to god and profit to the speaker for there as harlotry is moche spoken it is moche in mind For the tongue showed the abundance of the heart so first in thought after in his speaking it causith moche people to fall in sin of deed doing. Dnus quisque temptatur concupiscencia. first every man is temtid to sin be lust of thought there one. Concupiscencia generat pccm. And the lust gaderith sin. Peccatnm cum consummatum fuerit generat mortem. And when the sin is done it causithe dam pnacione ever lasting death that is in speaking rebawdry and harlotry for the lust that a man hath in speaking is great sin.  
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we find of an abbess that was a clean woman as for any deed of sin but she had great lust to speak there of So when she was deed and buried in the church the night after come fiend's and took up the body and all to beat it with brenning scourges fro the navel upward that it was as black as any piche But fro navel downward it shone as bright as any son & the fiends might do it no harm and ever as the fiends beat her she cried pitously that ij. of her sisters that where sextens were sore a feared there of but either comforted other so that they went near till they wist how it was Than spoke the spirit to her sistern and saide ye know well that I was a clean meyden as for any deed. but I had great lust to speak of sin that party hath great pain as ye may see where for i pray you sistren prey for me for by your preyouresy may be helped. and be ware by me in time coming here by ye may see what apparel it is to speak idyl words and harlotry speech. where for this same pistle saith thus Abstinetis vos a fornication. Abstain you from fornication and all sins and walkithe with christ in love and peace as Christ deed that suffered for us many scorns rebukes and dispites and all he took meekly patiently and in charity giving ensample to all christian people to do the same▪ but he that will leave in rest and peace shall have great persecution of evil people but and he suffer it meekly he is a martyr be fore god and in conferming of this holy church maketh mind and mention as thus.  
we read of an holy man that was called Joseph that suffered great persecution but he suffered ●it meekly there for god burst ghte him to great worship and prosperity. & how ye shall here but for this story is long there for we shall take that is most needful at this time. This Joseph had a father that hight jacob and had xij. sons brethren to joseph but his father loved him most specially of all that other & there for his brethren hatid him the more And in especial for a dream that he dreamed where by they supposed all that he should be lord of 'em all. & all they should do him worship and anon they took her counsel to gedyr and saide Venite itamque occidamus illum let us go there for and slay him but yet they durst not for dread of god and a non Vendiderunt eum in egipto they sold him in to egypt to a man for xxx pennies as god was sold and there for god was with him So a man that was steward to the king bought him that hight pontifer but the fiend had great envy to Joseph ● tempted the lady sore on him. Post multos itaque dies iniecit domina oculos in joseph et ait veni dormi mecum So on a day the lady looked on joseph and took him by the mantle and said come and sleep with me and as soon as Joseph under stood her meaning anon he yode and fled his weigh and left his mantle there Than this woman cried and told her husband how Joseph would have lain by her and for he should not say nay she kept his mantle. There for the lord made to cast joseph in prison there as pharaoh had put his boteler and his baker & as they fell a sleep they dreamed the which dreams they told Joseph & he said that the king would restore his boteler to his office again with in three days and the Baker should be hanged with in three days and as he saide it was than happed so that the king dreamed himself but there could no men tell what should fall there of but be counsel of the boteler the king sent after joseph And when the king had told him his dream Joseph saide that god had sent him a fair warning to purvey him tofore that should come after And he said there should come seven. plenteous yeris of corn and of all manner fruits and victuals and after hem should come seven. yeris in the which people should spend all that was go tin tofore. then the king saide I know no man that could purvey so well for such a thing as thou coudist wherefore I make the gretttest under me of all my ●eame and ● shall do to the as to me at thy commandment then a none io seph let make the greatest bernes that ever was sayen and gathered corn fast seven. yeris And soon after come seven. yeris that all things was scarche and dear. Than jacob Joseph father heard that there was corn to sell in egypt. And he sent the their his x. sons for to obey corn & when they come thethir & saw Joseph all fill down on her knees and did him worship like as his dream was for they know not him but went that he had belord of the country. But he know 'em well enough then he spoke to hem in lateyne. Surge And said they where spies that where come to know of the land. and they saide nay they where all brethren and all one mannes sons and a nother brother they had that was at home with her fa●yr & there was a nothyr and they woste not where that he were a live or no and that they meant by Joseph and for to prove the truth he made to bind on of 'em that hight simeon and saide that he should a bide with him tili they had fet him at home. and so let fill her sackies with corn & privily put her money in to her sackys unweting to 'em. And so when they come home to her father and put out her corn there they found her money and they told her father but than was he sorry for simeon his son that was left be hind in prison And more over for that he must medies send fore him which he loved moste and that was benjamin Joseph hole brother for these other where but half brethren to Joseph But when jacob failed corn he must needs send for more and he sent forth Benjamin And when Joseph saw his brothyr benjamin he might not for bear weeping and anon delivered him his brothyr simeon and set 'em all to meet & filled her sackies with corn and privily put the cup that they drank of in beniamyns sack and he ●ad 'em go her weigh But anon after joseph seute after hem and saide they where to blame while they had so good cheer to bear a weigh the cup that they drank of then they were heavy and sad and said it was not so and he ran sakyd 'em by and by and than they fond it in Beniamyns sack than come they again to joseph sore weeping and when joseph saw 'em all weep and his own brothyr Benjamin made most sorrow for it was found with then ●oseph bad 'em all be of good cheer for I am Joseph your brothyr and be no thing a dread for god hath sent you hedyr for your profit and a none sent after his fayir and so dwelled all to gedir a great while in that land with much prosperity This story is read this week in holy church for God's children should take ensample of old fathers to suffer tribulation and persecntion meekly in perfit charity for God's sake as he suffered for us. for who that gro●hith a yense tribulation and persecution that god sendeth must shrive him and take his penance. for there is sum people will say why doth god thus by me what have I trespassed a gain him though be in great apparel for her patience for truly words may let moche grace.  
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we find in miracles de wynfryde the virgin that a man come to her on a night upon ij. c●ochys full of many manner sickness, And so be the help of god and this holy virgin this man was hole and so went where he would hol● all day in the abbey and thanked highly god & this holy virgin of his hele So at night he went to his bed in good hele & on the morrow his sickness took a yene sarrur than it deed be for't and so lay crying that it was great pi●e to here  
then come a monk to him and asked him what he had done that his sickness was come a yene & he said no thing Thann saide the monk were thou shrevyn seethe thou were hole and he saide nay I had no need for I stolen nethyr ox nor cow nor did no grievous sin than the monk thought though a ●ā do no deadly sinew he may do so many vema●● that they may make a deadly sin for right as a man may with many small cornis charge a scronge horse so may he let his soul with so many small sins that he may fall in to the pit of hell then a none this man went to a priest & shwue & so was hole both in body & soul ever after be confession & prayers of this holy virgin Amen   

Dmca ●narta quadragesime  
GOod men and wym men this is the fourth sunday in lenten the which holy church maketh mention of an holy prophet that was called moyse the which was a figure of our lord jhesu Christ many yeris or our lord was borne Than as we read in holy church as moyses was in the desert of sinay god spoke to him & said Didi afflictōn● populi mei qui est in egipto clamorem eius ●●dini etc. Pharaoh the king of egypt oppressithe so the people of israhel with bondage & unreasonable works & they for woe cried to me for succour & help where for go thou thethir & bring 'em out of her bondage and I shall be with the then bring 'em & offer 'em to mey will bring 'em into a land of plenteousness of all goods So when he had taught moyses how he should do moyses went thedyr & gederid all she old people to gedir that know the prophecy how they should be lad out of that land & said to 'em as god bade him than were they full glad & went with him old & young till they come to the reed see & god was ever before hem in the day in a pilar as a cloud to refresh 'em from the hets of the son & in the night in a pilar snyur to light fro harm of venom bestis. But when that pharaoh heard that moyses had forth this people he took three C. chariotis of his own and iij. C. of the land and lx. M. horsemen and iij. C. M. footmen and went after  
And when moyses saw this people come he prayed to god for help and god himself smite the see with his yard. Et percussit mari rubro And when he had smetyn the see he had weigh for him and his people the see cleave a ij. parties so that the watyr stood still on every side as an hill & the ground was dry sand. Than moyses go forth and all the people after him  
Than wend pharaoh to have passed also and sewed after with all his host but when he had his host with in the se the watyr went to gedyr and drowned him and all his host and when moyses saw that he and his people were thus perished he thanked god and was there seven. days after and every day they go to the see thanking god of her passage making great melody that our lord had do so to hem. And yet mind here of all Estyr week we make solemn procession to the font that is the reed see then went moyses forth with his people in to desert till he come to the hill of Synay and there he left the people be nethe Stabat moisea super montem and moyses stood up on the hill there as god was And there he was fourthy days and fourthy nyghtis with out meet or drink then god gafe him ij. tabeles of stone in the which god wrote with his own fynheris the x. commandments and took them moyses and bade him teach 'em ●o his people And when moyses come down to the people his face was all bright as the son and ij spyris standing on his heed like ij horns so that the people might not speak with him for clearness Abscondit moisea faciem s●am.  
then moyses hid his face with a kerchoffe then in that on leffe were wreton the three commandments that langithe to god. and that be these. The first is thou shalt worship thy god and love him a 'bove all thing for thou shalt direct all maver thing to goddies will be ●●● thy ne own and shwe his will and not thy own will The second commandment is this.  
Thou shalt not take his name in vain. that is fo● to say thou shalt not be called God's child as a christian man and serve the send fore than that name is to the but vain. Also thou shalt not swear by god nor by no part of his body no● by no thing that he made but in foethering of the truth And yet but when thou art constrained there to. The third commandment is thou shalt keep thy holy day that is for to say thou shalt be early up and late down to serve god on the holy day as thou art on the work day to thy own work as busy shalt thou be on the holy day to serve god The fourth commandment is thou shalt worship thy father & thy modyr that brought the in to this would Also thy godfadyr and thy godmodyr that made the a christian man and thy father undyr god that hath cure and charge of thy soul The v. is thou shalt slay no man no this with thy tongue nor with thy hand nor with evil ensample The vi. thou shalt not steel no man's god  
fere of the common people for they held him a prophet But this day they knit 'em to gedyr and fully a cordyd that they would spare for no thing but he should be deed where for as the gospel telleth as christ preached in the temple the jews rebuked him spetuously and saide N●●● cognonimus quia demo●i●m habes Now know we that thou haste a fiend with the and all was to tempt him to have made him speak sū●●e evil word be the which they might have put him to sum reprove and for he told 'em that he was God's son they were ready to have stoned him to death but he know all her malice. Jhesus autem abscondit se et exivit de templo Ihus hid himself and went out of the temple.  
Thus our lord this day began his passione where for holy church redithe this week in the book of jeromie the prophet that first prophesied of christus passione and told how & in what manner the jews should done him to death Thanye shall understand well that in the same wise as the jews pursued christ to the death in the same wise I fear greatly left there be much false people that been christian that pursewith christ in heaven now. saint austin saith that they sin more grievously that pursue him in heaven than the jews did that pursewid him here in earth to death. Than if ye will weet which these be. take heed how christ marked 'em and saide thus.  
Qui ex deo est verba dei audit He that is of god heareth the word of god for he heareth not the word of god that swery the many great oaths full falsely these been though that pursewid him in henen that been glad in her hearts when they have a foul deed do & be grounded in foul cursed leaving of sin and will not a mend 'em for preaching nor teaching but ever do foul deeds and a none be ready to fight and to chide with 'em that tell i'th' hem her defawtis as it is showed by christ For the more harm is. the conditions of the people is such now a days that he shall have many enemies that will say truth and that I may prove by ensample  
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There was sum time a mammet in a cite that would tell where anything was that was stole or missed and how had it. So it happed on a time that a young man had stole a thing and was a feared of this mawmetis and a none he went to this mawment and saide thus well I wot thou mayst do me a great shame and vyllony but be god that I believe upon and thou discover me I will break thy heed and so went for the his weigh then so ne after come they that missed this good preying the mammet to tell 'em how had it and when they had long prayed at the last the maument spoke and said times be ●haūgid the people be worse than they were who saith the troughte his heed shall be broken. So he that will say truth he shall be shent and so the true man shall be so hunted and so pluc hid that he shall not wit to whom he shall speak nor to whom he may tell his council in trust for he that will soonest deceive him wool speak sum time most faith rest so that may be puyd Hit is wreton in the book of kings how there were ij. knights great enemies on to that othyr y● one hight jacob & that other amasa and this Jacob saide to Amasa as they met hail brothyr and kyssid him & with his other houde be hind he slew him with his knife and smote him to the heart. Thus it farithe now a days be more the people they speak full fair be fore the people & be hind him they will ●le him with a shroud knife that is with the cursed tongue these be they that pursued him in heaven and set nought by God's word for if though they hearen it with her ears it synkith nought in her hearts.  
where god pleynith him grievously be his prophet jeremy. and saide thus what guilt found your fathers in me if I have trespasid to you in any manner thing tell me Alas for shame of our obstinate pride for god is in the right and so he tretith with us that be in the wrong he proferith mercy or we ask it he makithe him merciful to hem that displesuhe him. and showed love their ●one is worthy.  
Thus be her hearts herder than any stone & thus we be wor than jews thus we be unkind to him that showed to us all kindness and ever he crieth to us and faiths I have left on earth for ye should here my scripture. Torn again to me & i will receive the lo my arms be all ready spradde to clip the to me & my heed is ready bowed to kiss the my sidies are ready, to show thy reins heart myu hands mine feet bledon to show the what I suffered for the and thou turnest away fro me. and thou be in perfit life I wool give the tresonre with out number I shall a vance the with out comparison & yeuè the rest with ountyn end so that all the fault shall be found in the and not in me Thus our lord proferith and teacheth us and there be full few that will hear him but let all these words pass out of her hearts antic no heed but all her ●●yndes in richesses & this worlds prosperity in this present life and take full ●itill heed of the life that is coming. & our lord jhesu christ suffered death to bring us to ever lasting bliss.  
There for in christus person makithe the prophet a great lamentation for the great unkynddenesse that he seeth in mankind and saith thus.  
Thou man for vanity thou stinkyste for thy rusty sin and there for j cry and weep for thou haste on thy heed a garland of flowers and j for the have one of thorns thou haste on thy hands a ●eyre of white gloves and j for thy have many bloody wounds  
Thou haste in thine arms spread to lead karrollis and dances and mine arms for the be nay led on a tree with sharp naylus. Thou haste thy clothes pinched small and my body for the is full of great walis And o thing grieveth me most of all thou settust not by my passion that ● suffered full sore for thy sake But with thine horrible swearing thou upbyoydeste me with many great oaths by mine heed eyen arms nails sides wounds feet bones be mine heart and be my passion that thou sholdiste do worship to thou dost great spite and reprove  
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we read in the gestis of Romans that an Emperor sent a great man to a land to be a justice and or he come there no man in that country coude swear no oath but ye and nay. but when this justice come a 'mong 'em he made the people to swear one books in sessiones and gave hem charges & so the people took ensample of this justice to swear as he and his men did be our lords passion sides Arms nails face wounds blood heart and so forth and took it so in use that the common people swore as they deed.  
Than on a day as the justice sat in his office and charged the people there come to fore him a fair woman clothed all in green and brought a feyre child in her lap all bloody and all to martered his heed all to pricked his face disfigured his eyen out his arms broken his hands smetyn thourghe his nails cut and his feet cut from his leggrs his sydiss all to rent his bowels and his heart drawn out of his body. then saide this woman to the justice. what are they worthy to have that have thus do to my child and he saide they were worthy to have death. then said she thou and thine men with your horrible oaths have thus dismembered my sweet son Jesus christ that am I modyr unto and thus ye have taught all your country where fore thou shalt have thy own don●e and so in sight of all the people the earth opened and the justice fill down to hell. & than the people were sore a gast and they left all such great oaths and dead a mend her lives and so late us leave all our oaths and leave as criscen should do and reverence the passion of our lord Jesus christ that was cause of our redemption be the which we shall come to ever lasting bliss that never shall have end.   

Dmca palmarum.  
GOod friends as ye know well that this day is called Palm sunday but fo● because that the service of this day is long I will tell you shortly why it is called Palm sunday as saint johan saith our lord Jesus Christ come to Betanye where he saith Venit ihesus beta●●ā ubi lazarus fuit mortuus quem resusuitavit. And there he raised lazar from death to live that hade lay four days deed and this lazarus was brothir to marry mawdeleyne and to martha that was a nother sister. then ihesus wist that his passion was nigh and took Lazar with him & riding on an ass he come toward iherusalem. and when the people heard there of the people went ayense him. Non propter ihesum tantum sed ut lasarum viderent quem resuscitavit a mortuis. Not only for Jesus but for to see lazar that was resyn from deche to live and also for to see christ and do him worship Acceperunt remos palmarum & sternebant in via. They took branches of palm and other flowers and strawed in the weigh a yense his coming And some spread her clothes in the weigh and song Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini. blessed be he that cometh in the name of our lord king of israhel where for holy church maketh this day solemn procession in mind of the procession that was made ayense christ. & also joy & mirth of our resing from death to live that hath lain all this year in deadly sin. now I trust to god that they be resyd to god leaving And for angels of heaven make much joy of your rising out of sin And thus we take palm and flowers in procession as they did and go in procession kneeling to the cross in the worship and mind of him that was done one the cross worshipping and well coming him with song in to the church as the people dead our lord in to the cite of iherusalem  
then iohan bellet askithe a question & seith that christ had the greatest worship riding one the ass that ever he had in this world Than why worship we the cross and not the ass to this question he answerithe himself and saith that the worship of this world as Solomon said All is but a vanity and nought and maketh to for get a man his god and himself There as great tribulacione dissese and heaviness causithe a man to think of god & ●rye to him for succour and help and to know himself And their fo● all christian people should put a weigh all worldly vanities that bryngythe moche people to great my scheve and many to ever lasting pain. we worship the cross fo● it was cause of our redemption and salvation and to bring us to ever lasting joy and bliss that we hopyn all to come to then anon when christ was come to the cite of Jerusalem he went to the temple and drove out all buyers and sellers that he found there in & saide Domus mea do mus oracionia vocabitur My house is a house of preyouris and ye make it a den of thiefs Thus our lord gave all christian people ensample to leave buying & selling on the holy day and in special in church. A nother it is why it is called palm sunday for be cause that palm be tokenythe victory where all christen people should bear palm in processione in tokening that he had fought with the fiend and hath the victory of him be shrift of mouth satisfactione with deed meekly done his penance with great contricione in his heart and in this wise overcome his ghostly enemy the fiend we read in the gestis of romans that it was the manner sum tyme. that if there were any land that were rebel a yense the Emperor a none the Emperor would send sum worthy knight with great pissa●●● of people to that land and put 'em down & make 'em sogetties to the Emperor of rome And when this knight had done so. than should he be set in a ch●re ●ray●d with clothes of gold in the best wise and a branch of palm in his hand in tokening that he had the victory and with great worship brought in to rome but when he come in to any worthy cite than there should stand one by him and beat him in the mouth with a branch of olive saying thus Anotholites this is to say kowe thyself that is to understand thought thou be great now and have the victory make not to much of thyself for it may fortwe a nother time thou mayst have the worse and turn to much villainy. more than now to worship. where for ●e not now to proud of thyself.  
Thus should ye beat yourself in the mouth of your soul with the branch of olyne that is with the virtue of meekness and so bold you in love and meek in heart and ever more dreading and fearing left he fall a yene in to sin And so leave the worship's that ye have now. For trust this truly licknesse is that virtue that most & so ●este over cometh your ghostly enemy the fiend and souneste gaderithe a man to virtuous leaving that we may have this virtue of meekness patience and charity to over come our ghostly enemy now and ever Amen   

GOod friends ye shall understand that holy church used these three days and seythe service in the eventide that is meekness where for we call it tenables. But holy church called it tenebras Than why this service is thus done in mekevesse holy fathers tellithe for three causis One is the night before that our lord Jesus christ was take he went unto the mount of olyvete and prayed thus Pater misipassibile est transeat a me calix iste My father if it be possible that this bitter passion may pass fro me if it were the father is will and else not And for dread & fere of that bitter passion that he field in his spirit he sweet both blood and watyr A nother cause is this that anon after mid night come judas with ●. knights and moche othir people to take christ and for it was murk and they could not well know him from saint james he was so like Christ there for judas saide Quem osculatus ●●ero ipsum em̄ tenete For sooth quod he him that I shall kiss it is take ye him for saint james was so like Christ that moche people called him christus brother and thus judas betrayed his mastyr and thus was christ take in meekness with all the spite that they could do to him beting him and speting in ●his face. The third cause is when christ was naked on the cross feet & hand hanging three owe ries from underyn till none then the son with drowe her light & was ●er●e thourghe all the world showing that the makyr of light was at that time pained to death for these three causis the service in the night is done in myrkenesse. the which service maketh mind how iudas betrayed christ and how jews come as privily as they ●oude for dread of the common people where for to the service is no bell rung but a sound made of tree where all christian peple may have knoweliche to come to this service privily with out making of any noise & all that the people should speak of coming and going should sound of the tree that is the cross that our lord was done upon and of his passion and of the words that our● lord spoke hanging on the cross and how she saide to his modyr Mulier ecce filins tuns w●man see thy son and how he commanded his modyr to saint johan the evangelist in keeping and what saide the these that hang by him and said thus. Domine ●nan●o v●neris in reg●um tuum memento me●. Lord when thou comyste to thy kingdom have mind of me and a none our lord said to him. hody me●umeris in paradiso. This day thonshalte be with me in paradise and how he took his spertte in to his faderis handis and saide In manus tu●s domine ●●. and so he yield up the ghost thus coming and going to the church all christian people should common and leave vanity and ydill talking and speak only to the cross that is o●●e redemption ● no their cause is when that ●udas hadden betrayed tris●e and saw by his treason he should be deed anon he fill in despair & hung himself on a tree and than he displesid more christ for that deed than for all the trespass that he had done tofore for christ is so merciful that and he had asked mercy he hulde have had mercy & for yevenesse Also at this service is set certain can delis in the quere after the use in sum place more than in some other as the use is the which be quey●●hith one after a nother in tokening of Christ's disciples how they went a weigh each after othir But when all these candelis be take a weigh and the light gone yet on a bidith still a while till clerks have song keryes and these ●erses the which be tokenethe the wymmeu that made lamentation at christus sepulchre then that can ●●ll is brought ● yene & other light there at that be tokeneth on●e lady ●o: all the faith was los● save only our lady and of her all other were informed and taught Also it be tokeneth christ himself that was in his manhood deed and laid in se ●●l●re and the third day rose from death to live a yene and gave light belove to all that where deed and quente be despair The strokes that the pressed giveth on the book be tokenithe the claps of the thoundye when christ broke hell yates & despoiled hell and fett● out adam and eve and all that he had bought with his pitter passione Now have ye heard some what what this serui●● be tokenithe and think there upon and be not unkind to your lord god that suffered all this for you for ●ukyndenesse is a sin that seynky●h in the sight o● god. As saint Ambros saith. that there may no man fy●de a pain great enough to punysche unkindness & that ye shall here be ensample.  
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I find that Alysaundyr necham telleth how that there was sometime a knight that went out of his own country fe● in to a strange land to seek adventures and it hap bid he come in to a great forest and there he her d● a great noise of a beast that seemed in dispire & than he wolte wete what it meant and went near and saw how a gret● horrible addy● and of great length be clipped a lion and bunde him to a tree as he lay and slepid and when the lion work he found himself bound and might not help himself ●e made a great horrible noise desyryng help of the knight than had this knight compassion on this lion & would fain have holp but he dread wha● he was lou see left he would have fallyn to him but be cause he was knight and the lion was king of all bestis in that distress he took his sword and smote addyr a sondy● Than a none the lion felt himself louse and fill down to the knights feet and ever after night & day in every place he followed the knight and every night the lion lay at this knights beddis feet and in every battle the lion was ready to help his master in so much that the people spoke to the knight of the lion yet be counsel of moche people he had the lion in suspect where for when he went in to his own country a yene privily while the lion sleep he took the watyr and went in to ship and seylid for the and when this lion work and myssid his martyr a none he y●●e a great roaring and went after him in to the see and swum after him as he might and when his might sailed thann he was drowned. By this knight ye may understand God's son of heaven that come out of far country that was out of heaven in to this world and was bound for mankind with this old addyr the fiend to a tree of in obedience where for with the sharp sword that was his passione he lousid mankyde out of his bounds and made him free to go where he would And there fo● all christian people be boundyn to worship him and thank him for his losing and to be buxum to him all the time that they leave and follow and sew the lore of holy church And he shall pass thourghe the watyr that is to say thorough the pain of death & he shall come to the joy that ever shall last with outyn end the which god bring us all to Amen   

diverse questions Any men wool ask diverse questio●ns of the service of these days of such priests that they suppose can not make no ready answer to. but put him to shame and do to him vyloni and rep̄uith where for I have te telith which be needful for every pressed to know and if he will look it ready and keep 'em ready in heart he may make ready answer and so shall it be to him both profit and worship. first if a man ask how shere thursday is called so▪ ye may say that in holy church it is called Ce●● domini oure lords supper day for that day ●e souped with his disciples opynly and after supper he gafe 'em his flesh & his blood to eat and to drink and saide thus. Accipite et mand● rate hoc est corpus meum Take ye this & eat it for it is mine own body and a none after he woshe all his disciples feet showing what meekness that was in him and for the great love that he had to hem It is also in englische called shear thursday for in old fathers days the people would that day shear her heads and clip her berdis and do down her he dies and so make 'em honest a yene estyr day. for on good friday they do her bodies none ease but to suffer penance in mind of him that that day suffered his passion for all mankind. on Estyr even it was time to here her service and after service make holy day.  
Hit is wreton in the life of a saint that he was so busy on the saturday before none that he made ●'man to shave him after none than was the fond ready and gathered us the hairs than this h●ly man saw that & commanded him to tell why he did so than saide he thou dost no reverence to thy holy day therefore wool keep these hairs till the day of doom in great reprove to the Than anon he left of shaving and took these hairs from the fiend and made to bren hem in his own hand to suffer penance & so abode unshavyn till monday after This is said to all though in reprove that worship not the saturday at after none. Than as johan Bellet seithe on there thursday a man should do down his heed & clippyn his beard & a priest should shave his crown so that there should no thing be between god & him for hairs come of superfluite of veins & of humures of the stomach & they should pair her nails of hands & feet that cometh of superfluite of filth with out forth and shrive 'em & make 'em clean with in his soul as with out. And thus make him clean both with in and with out The while that all this lenten hath be drawn between us and the quere be tokenithe the passione that was hid and unknown till the days come the which these days be done a way and the Auter opynly showed to all the people for these days christ suffered his passion opyniy that he had hauging on the cross. Consummatum est it is ended that is to say. now the prophecy of my passion hath an end. where for the clothes of my altar be take a weigh For Christ's clothes were take a weigh from him. & so was done nakid on the cross save as our lady his modyr wont a kercoffe about him to cover his membris. The altar stone be tokenythe christus body that was drawn on the cross as a skin of perch meant on a harow so that all his bonis might be told  
The beseems that the altar is wechyn with be tokenythe the s●ourgys that they betyn our lord's body with and the thorns that he was crowned with The watyr & the wine that it is waschyn with be tokenythe the blood and the water that ran down fro his wounds that was in his side perished with a spear The wine that is poured upon the altar on the v. crossis be tokenith the blood that ran down from his principal wondis of his body. Also this day is no pax yeven at the mass for judas betrayed christ this vyght with a cross this was the prophecy of his passion this day ended. where for this night when he had supped he made the sacrament of his own body and gaffe it to his disciples to eat and drink and began the sacrament of the mass and of the new law and after supper he wysche his disciples feet that was a manner of the new law full out for as he saide to Petyr he that is washin and is clean of deadly sin hath no need to be waschyn it be tokenythe the affliction of venial sins Than if people ask why priests do not mass after fouper as Christ deed It was turned in to more honest & more saluacione to man's soul for as Hyamo telleth upon the pistle of saint Poule that many in the beginning of the faith cometh to church on sherethurday and though that were rich bryngithe meet and drink with hem and eton and drynkyn her belies full and than at night token her hosell and saide that christ gafe 'em ensample Lu● when the rich e●e and drink to much th● poor people a bydythe with out till after the rich hath done fore an hu●gerid & than eton of the releffe that they left. and so after the people took her hosell. where as the pistle of this day tellithe. saint paul rebukithe hem there of and turned that foul use in to more honest and cleanness and holiness. that is for to say mass fasting all people to take her hosell fasting on estyr even the paschal is made the chief tapir in the church So is Christ chief above all the saints in heaven The paschal also be tokenyth the pelour of light fere that went before moyses and the children of israhel when moyses lad 'em out of Egipte in to the land of be hefte that is Iherusalem and so they passed save and sound. And so seven. days after they come all in to these and thanked god for her passage. And in mind here of holy church usithe all the Estyr work to go a processione to the fount that is now the reed see to all christian people that be christened in the fowte for the watyr in the fount be tokenythe the red see for blood and watyr is the wounds that were in christus sides in the which the power of pha●●o the fiend of hell is drowned & all his might lost and christian people failed and for the fount is hallowed on Estyr even and one whitsun even for in the beginning all children abode to be cristeved one these two days and to be christened at the fount hallowing But now for because that many in so long abiding were dead with out cristendome. where for holy church ordained now to criston all times of the year save viij. days before these evenies the child shall abide to the fount hallowing if it may for apparel of death and else not.  
Thus is the paschal hallowed be light with new fire and of it all othyr taperis and candellis be light for all hoolynesse & good techyug & good leaving cometh of christ and teaching of holy church and lightithe hem in christus passione with brenning love and charity Pecys of incense he styckyde in the paschal in the manner of a cross though be tokenith the v. wounds of our lord as Bede saith that he suffered in his body that shall be frecsche and sweet as any incense till the day of doom to great reprove to all that shall be dampened that believe not in Christ's passion and will not ask mercy and foryenesse of her sins. In the fount hallowing the priest cast watyr in the iiij parties of the fount for crisce had his disciples going preaching and teaching m four parties of cristome in the name of the father and the son & the holy ghost  
And after the priest bre thithe one the watyr for the holy ghost in making of the world was borne upon waters for when god for adames sin cursed the earth & land. he cursed not the watyr▪ where for it is lawful to a man to eat in lénton that ●omythe of the watyr  
after he dropythe the wax in to the watyr of a candle brenning the which betokenythe the manhood of christ that was fulled in watyr and puttith oil & cream in to the watyr for by the virtue of the sacrament though that be in heaven & in earth be joined to gedyr & that was proved be christus baptism for there the father of heaven spoke & saide Hic est filin● me●a dilectus in ●●● michi bene complacui This is my well-beloved son that will please me. And the holy ghost was say Sicut culumba As a white dove thus was the fount hallowed. ij. tymer in the year. At whitsuntide and at Estyr when all the people is brought out of thraldom be christus passion from the danger of the fiend & at wytsontyde for than is the holy ghost yeven in remission of all sins. Than from the fount the people goeth to the quere singing the latanye preying all the saints of heaven to prey to god to give to all that be cristyn to keep that worthy sacrament to God's pleasance and the covenant that they have made in her christening. Than the pressed goeth to the mass for Christ that is heed of all holy church is not reason. kyrieleysou is saide. for i● every preyoure in especial in the mass it is great need to ask help and succour of god to keep us from all manner of temptaciones that the fiend putteth in us and namely in God's service Gloria in excelsia is said for the father of heaviness hath great joy to be hold the people that his so ne hath bought with his passione and to see 'em in rest pese and charity eachone with othir. The greyle is not saide for though that be few christened be not yet perfit to walk in grace of ●tuous Alleluya is said for it is great joy to angels to see be christening the number of hem restored a yene after hallelujah a tract is saide hay sungen for though be christening they be wasche from synyit must the travel busily to keep 'em from comberaunce of the fiend that they fall not in deadly sin The offertory is saide for the wymenn that comen with oyntementies to offer to Christ's body they found him not in his ton be Agnus dei is saide but no pax give for Christ that is heed of pes is not yet reason The post common is not saide for though that be new christened should not be hoseled this day but on the morrow for in old time there come to christening people of great age Than a short evensong is done for the children that were not christened. where of greatly they where noyed with sickness of cold of long service than is ended under a short Colet of all the sacrament of christening is ended in the passione of Criste by the which all christian people were restored to ever lasting bliss to the which god bring us all to Amen.   

In die paraschene.  
GOod friends this day is called god friday for all that our lord ihe so christ suffered this day turned us to great joy for this day he suffered passione undyr pounce pilate fore our sake Hit is an old say that a fowl be gynuing hath a fowl ending. Now see how this pylat be gan cursidly & ended full wrechidly for as saint Austen saith cursed leaving first askith a cursed end after he that for getith him self here in his leaving is full like to for get himself in his last end.  
This pylat was a knights son that was called Tyrus that gate him of a woman that hight Pyle and this womannes father hyghte at. so when this child was borne they set the moderies name and the grunde father after and so by both names called him Pylat Than after when he was of three year of age his modyr brought him in to the knights court to his father Than had the knight a nother son nigh like to pilate's age but for this knights so ne was in all his rule more gentillere more manfully more godly more beloved than this pilate. so for hate and for envy there of this pylat one a day slew this knights son than was the knight wondyr sorry but yet he would not slay pylat aut sent him to rome to be there in hostage for a tribute that the knight should pay to the emperor then it happed that the king of france had sent his son thedir for the same cause then for be cause when pilate saw that he was more beloved and cherisched & than this pilate slew him Than for he was so cursed the emperor be counsel of the romans sent pilate in to a country that was called pounce where that the people of that country were so cursed that they slew any that come to be master over 'em So when this pilate come thethir he applied him to her manners so what with wiles and sotilte he overcome 'em and had the mastery and gate his name and was called pilate of pounce and had great domination & power then the king of Jerusalem sent after him and made him leave tenant undyr him of the lond●● of jury And for pilate liked well the office privily he sent to the Emperor and had his office confirmed of him unweting to the king Herod king that time where fore when king Herod heard what he had done he was so wroth & they were enemies unto the time that our lord Jesus christ was take and than they be come fren disayene and fill both in to one assent of Christ's death. then happed it afterward that the Emperor fill sick and sent after Christ fore to hele him for it was told him that christ helid all that ever would come to him of all manner of sickness what some ever sickness it had be But than had pilate done him to death or the messengere come Than when the Emperor understand that he sent for pilate and made him come to him. and when pilate herd● this he was sore a feared and took one Cristus cote●▪ And so when he come to rome to the Emperor All though that were in present made pilate good cheer all the while that he had on Cristus cote A●d the emperor swore be fore that he should be deed. Than took they of the cote and a none as the cote was of the Emperor was so wroth with pilate that he put him in to a prison till he had take counsel what death that he should die on. Than as soon as pilate woste and understand that he should be deed he took his own knife and slew himself with all. And when the Emperor heard there of and understand that he had slain himself and than a none he made to teye a great stone a bout pilate's neck and to cast him in to a watyr that is called Tybir than when he was cast in there the fendis made soche a noise there a bout that all the Cite of rome was sore a freyed of 'em.  
then when the Emperor saw this he made to take him up again and than was he cast in to a watyr that was betwixt to high hills and sollonge time astyr there was in the watyr many horrible sights say a bout that cursed man.  
Thus our lord ihrsu christ suffered passion and death for all mankind and first when he was take they did buffet him and striped him naked and beat him with stourgiss A vertice capitia vs●ʒ ad plantis pedmn non fuit in eo sanitas that fro the highheste place of his head to the sole of the feet was no thing left hole one him but all raw & after made a crown of thorns & set it on his heed and beat it down with strays of reed that it perished his brain and when they had pained him so they led him forth all bloody Admontem calvary. To the mount of calnarye to the end of death y●t women of the Cite when they sigh him so fowl fare with and all to luggis and to draw for very pit they wept upon him. Than saide our lord to hem Nolite flere super me sed super vos et filios vestros. ye women of Jerusalem weep ye not for me but upon you and your children. for there shall days come in the which ye shall bliss the wombs that were barren and the paps that never gave sock. Thus our lord preached be fore the vengeance that fill after upon iherusalem. The which prophecy jeremy the prophet spoke of that is radde in holy church these three days at tenebras the which was so horrible of many diverse mischievous & in special of hounger that children lay for hounger deed in the stretis Than was there a woman was come of great birth that for hunger took her own child that fed with her paps and slew it & partid it in ij. parties and than she roasted half and that other half she kept till on the morrow. then as people come by the street they had savour of the roast and anon they come in to have had part there of and when they saw the modyr roast her own child and soon they were heavy and foul dismayed and would not eat there of but went their weigh forth again. Than took the modyr of that child and eat there of & saide in this manner wise this is mine own son and mine own child that I bore of my body and fed it with my paps but yet I wool rathir eat it than die for hunger There for I tell yew this for to show yew somewhat of the vengeance that fill in the cite of Jerusalem after the death of our lord Jesus Christ then they lad him to the mount of calvary and there they strained so on the cross that every bone of his body might be known on from a nother and nailed him hand and feet to the cross and they gave up the cross and the body to gedyr and with a great poise they let the cross and the body fall down to gedir in to the morteyse that all the body dasch●d and all his bones craked and his joints burst and ●eynes and all wounds burst out of blood sydis arms legs feet and bonds so that there left no blood in him And ●●● they took a cloth wlyle the blood was hot and wound it a bout his body till the blood was cold and than they drew away the cloth and pullid away the flesh from the bones this was a great pite. And so when he should die he began as johan Hellet saith. Deus meus respice in me And so saide all verses sewing till he come unto that verse. In te domine speram. And so at this verse An manus tuas domine commendo spiritum meum redemisti me domine deus veritatis. There he gave up the spirit This is a great ensample that our lord Jesus Criste ●n to all christian that every man should have in mind these verses And he that can hem s●y and if he say 'em ●uery day he shall not die no manner mischievous nor rengeable death. Thann● after this passi on we say orisons & kneeling at every orison save at that orison that is saide for the iewis at that orison holy church knelith not for be cause jew ysm scorn kneeling three times to christ when they scourgid him then these orisones holy church preyith for all manner of people for iewis sarise nes cysmaties heretikis but not for christian people for while any man or woman stonte a cursed he is dampened be fore god and dampened shall be at his death but he repent him and amend him while he leaveth in this present world But take heed what saint Austen seith Siscirem pro certo●nod ●ater meus esset in in●erno non ●r arem pro illo nisipro diabolo. if I wist for a truth that my father were dampened in to hell I would never pray for him but as for the devil of hell. for there is no preyoure of holy church that helpithe a dampened man. Than after these orisones the cross is brought forth to the which all christian people should worship this day in worship of him that this day died on the cross and to prey to our lord Jesus Christ to for give us all our tree space as christ prayed to his father of heaven to for give 'em that dead him on the cross  
Narracio  
There was a knight sum time and that was a great lord and he hath a worthy man unto his son. And so it haped that a nother knight and this man fill at debate and so this knight slew him. where fore the father of this man that was deed gade rid a great multitude of people and pursued that other knight where so ener he went to have slay him night and day so that he might have no rest but ever deed de flay for fere of his life. then it happed on a good friday this knight saw all christian people go to the church And he be thought him that christ died that day on the cross for all man kind and put him only in the mercy of almighty god and went to the church with other people to serve god and when he was in the church anon this other knight had word and come with moche people in to the church and his sword drawn in his hand for to slay him and when this other knight saw that and wist well that he had trespassed him and fill down flat to the ground with his arms spread a broad as our lord ihe so christ spread his arms on the cross and saide. For his love that this day spread his arms on the ercss● and suffered passion and died for the and me and all mankind have thou mercy one me and for give me thy sons death.  
then this knight thought it had be to horrible a thing to smite him while that he lay so and cried him mercy so meekly and a none he put up his sword and saide to him Now for his son that this day died on the cross for the and me and all m●●yn de I for give the and took him up and kissed him and a none went to gedyr after unto do worship to the cross kneeling And when this knight word have kissed the feet of the cross the Image low sid his arms from the crosset be clipped the knight a bout the neck and kissed him and spal e thus that all the people heard I for give the as thou haste fore yeven fore the love of me. and thus all christian people should do. and than they should have mercy and grace of god and bliss ever lasting.   

In die pash  
GOod friends ye shall know well that this day is called in many places gods sunday ye know well that it is the manner in every place of worship as this day to do the fire out of the hall and the black wyntyr brandis and all thing that is foul with smoke shall be done a weigh and there as the fire was shall be gaily arrayed with fair flowers & strawed with green ryschies all a bout showing a great ensample to all christian people. jyke as they make clent her houses to the sight of the people in the same wise ye should cleanse your souls doing a weigh the foul brenning sin of lechery put all these a weigh and cast out all this foully smoky dost & straw in your souls flures of faith and charity and thus make your soul's abil to receive your lord god at the feast of Estyr. Deponentes omnem maliciam  
And put a weigh all malice and all sorrow for right as ye wool suffer no thing in your house that stinkythe and savoured ille where with ye may be deceived Night so christ when he cometh in to the house of your souls and he find there any s●ynche of wrath envy or any other deadly sin he wool not a bide there but a none he goeth his weigh and than cometh the fiend in and bydithe there. then may that soul be sorry that is so for sakyn of god and be take to the feud. Thus it is with though that been in wrath and envy or in any deadly sin and will not for give to 'em that hath trespassed to 'em for no preyoure he shall no for gevencsse have. foroure lord saith thus. Dimittite et dimit temini▪ For give and ye shall have for gevenesse. And there for every christian man & woman should search well his conscience and make him abil to receive his saviour Jesus Christ very god and man.  
Narracio  
There was sum time an holy bishop that prayed oft busily to god that he might have grace to see and know which were worthy to receive that holy sacrament and come to goddisbo●d Than on a time as he should hosell the people he saw some come with her faces as red as blood and blood dropped out of her mouths and some her ●●●es when ●● as b●a he as any pyche and s●mme were fay●● a●d r●●d and lasty to ●e hot and some as bright as ●●y snow Than among all he saw ij. common women come and there faces shone as bright as the fone than had the bishop great marvel of that sight and prayed to god to give him revelation to wete what all this be tokened than there come to him an angel and saide though that have bloody faces and blood dropithe out of her mouthy be enu●ous people and wrathful and will not amend 'em there of and ever they be back biting and slandering her nepburis & be ever ready to swe●e o this there for her mouths shall drop black blood till they come to amendment and though that have black faces as pyche be lecherous and wool not leave her sin and be g●●t● sinners in many degrees and▪ will not amē● hem. They that have her faces ●● white as any ●nowethe fe be they that have do great sin and be shriven there of and be sorry for her sins for the wiping of her eye had wa●chyd her souls and made 'em clean and so they be in clean life and truly labour for her leaving. And though ij. common women that shine so bright passing all other they were great sinners and were sore aferde whann e they come to church and took a great repentance in her herti● that they made a vow to god preying him heartily to fake no vetigeaū●e on hem and they would for sake her sin and never do a miss more where for god of his great gra●e & mercy hath for given 'em her trespass & all her sins and the sorrow of her hearts hath so waschin her soulis that they shine so bright all other and than the angel went his weigh & the bishop kneeled down & thanked god for his revelation. And ther fore take ensample ye this ij● common women & be sorry for your sins & repent yew in your heart is purpose never to turn again to sin. And than trustithe verily ye shall have grace and mercy & so coure to ever lasting joy & bliss▪ where for take this ● certain though ye make it glofing with words for to deceive your ghostly father & say that ye be in charity & be not. ye be guile yourself & trustid truly ye shall not be guile god that seeth every corner of your hearts. And there for disceve not your ●●ne sowtes for the love of god & be as busy to make your souls clean to the fight of god as ye be to make your houses to the sight of man. And as ye would array yew in your best clethis that ye have a yense the coming of your best friends so should ye array ●o●● now to ●●●e● ●●e your best friend that is your makir our lord Jesus christ that this time suffered passion and death to bring us to ever lasting life. This day is called also a passing day and in special for. ij causis One is for this day all christen people in reverence of god should for give all them that have tree spasithe to him and be in perfect love and charity to all christian people that hath miss do him all the year he for this day should be amended with the salve that helithe all sores that is charity. Caritas cooperit multitudinem peccatorum charity coverithe the multitude of sin  
It is also a passing day for this day should all gods children pass out of evil living in to good leaving out of vices in to ●tuous out of pride in to meekness out of covetise in to largeness out of ●●owthe in to holiness. out of envy in to love & charity out of wrath in to mercy out of glote●y in to abstinence out of lechery in to chastity out of the fiends clawis in to God's arms And thus of his great enemy make his dear friend. And he that passithe thus is worthy to come to a good feast the which our lord Jesus christ makithe this day to all the people.  
It is called also gods sunday For this day God's son rose from death to life and so gladithe all his servants with his up rising where for all holy church maketh mirth and melody this day and singithe thus Her est di●s quam fecit dominus exultemus et letemur in ea.  
This is the day that our lord made. joy we and glad we in that all our hearts. for the father of heaven with all his angels maketh so great me lodie of the up rising of his son that he maketh to day a passing great feast and biddithe all christian people there to as well as though that be in heaven as though that be in earth and they shall be full welcome that cometh to this feast clothed in God's livery that is a good clothing that is in love and charity. And also evil shall tho be that shall come in the fiend's livery clothid in wrath & envy for as the gospel telleth these shall be ●aste in prison of hell and than while other laughithe & make merry they shall wepe and be sorry and while some eat and drink at God's board they shall grind with there te the and say. De ve ve quante sunt tenebre woe woe woe how many darkness be there for they shall think that they may feel the darkness it is so murk and the pains of hell shall be so hard. for worms shall know 'em for they eton her even christian here in earth▪ with false bachyting & sdandering. where fore I charge you in God's name that none of you come thus to God's board but if ye be in perfect love and charity and be clean shriven & in full purpose to leave his sin for and I wist in certain which where out of charity and in deadly sin I must by the law of holy church with a loud vo●●● say thus to hem in audience of all the people I give the not thy hosell to thy salvation. but to thy dampnacione till thou come to amendment And there fore every christian man and woman should search well his coucience and make him abil to receive his saviour Ihesu christ to helte of his soul that she may come after this final life to ever lasting joy Amen. ●●e your best friend that is your makir our lord Jesus christ that this time suffered passion and death to bring us to ever lasting life. This day is called also a passing day and in special for. ij causis One is for this day all christen people in reverence of god should for give all them that have tree spasithe to him and be in perfect love and charity to all christian people that hath miss do him all the year be for this day should be amended with the salve that helithe all sores that is charity. Ca ritas cooperit multitudinem peccatorum charity coverithe the multitude of sin  
It is also a passing day for this day should all gods children pass out of evil living in to good leaving out of vices in to ●tuous out of pride in to meekness out of covetise in to largeness out of ●●owthe in to holiness. out of envy in to love & charity out of wrath in to mercy out of glote●y in to abstinence out of lechery in to chastity out of the fiends clawis in to God's arms And thus of his great enemy make his dear friend. And he that passithe thus is worthy to come to a good feast the which our lord Jesus christ makithe this day to all the people.  
It is called also God's sunday For this day God's son rose from death to life and so gladithe all his servants with his up rising where for all holy church maketh mirth and melody this day and singithe thus Her est dies quam fecit dominna exultemus et letemur in ea.  
This is the day that our lord made. joy we and glad we in that all our hearts. for the father of heaven with all his angels maketh so great me lodie of the up rising of his son that he maketh to day a passing great feast and biddithe all christian people there to as well as though that be in heaven as though that be in earth and they shall be full well come that cometh to this feast clothed in God's livery that is a good clothing that is in love and charity. And also evil shall tho be that shall come in the fiend's livery clothid in wrath & envy for as the gospel telleth these shall be ●aste in prison of hell and than while other laughithe & make merry they shall wepe and be sorry and while some eat and drink at God's board they shall grind with there te the and say. De ve ve quante sunt tenebre woe woe woe how many darkness be there for they shall think that they may feel the darkness it is so murk and the pains of hell shall be so hard. for worms shall know 'em for they eton her even christian here in earth▪ with false bacbyting & slandering. where fore I charge you in God's name that none of you come thus to God's board but if ye be in perfect love and charity and be clean shrevyn & in full purpose to leave his sin for and I wist in certain which where out of charity and in deadly sin I must by the law of holy church with a loud voice say thus to hem in audience of all the people I give the not thy hosell to thy salvation. but to thy dampnacione till thou come to amendment And there fore every christian man and woman should search well his coucience and make him abil to receive his saviour Ihesu christ to helte of his soul that she may come after this final life to ever lasting joy Amen.   

GOod friends these iij. days that is to say monday tewis●ay and wedenesday ye shall fast and go in p●ocellion man woman and servants for all we be sinners and havenede to prey to god for help grace and mercy for they may not excuse 'em from the procession that may lawfully be there Than he that with draw himself from the commandment of holy church wilfully he synnethe full grievously first he sinneth in pride for he is unbuxum also sinneth in slewthe that knowithe himself in sin & will not do his diligence to come out there of. and right as he with drawid him from the people that beu gathered to serve god right so will god put him from all the company of heaven and from all the prayers that be done in holy church till he come to amendment There for all christian people come holly to gedyr and pray these iij. days to all the seyntes in heaven to prey to god for us for we have sinned many times in the year a yenste the commandment of god end there for these iij. days we shall fast & prey to god of mercy & remission of our sins and put a weigh all the power of the fiend and keep us from all mischievous apparel and dreads that fallyn this time of the year more than any other time for in this time many great thunderis and lightning. And as Lincolniences saith. there were fendis that fleteryn in the eyre for fere of the blast of thundyr when that christ come to the hell yates when he despoiled hell and so yet when they here the thundyr in the eyre they be so aghast there of that they fallen downd and than go they not up ayene till they have do some ●u● sed dedis. for than they rear wederies and make tempestis in the see and draw down ships & make debate among the people and make on to slay a nother and tend/ fire and burn houses & draw down steeples & trees and cause women to overley her children & make people to hang hem self and drown 'em self in wan hope and in despair and do many cursed dediss. And for to put away all such my schevys and the power of the fiend holy church hath ordained that all christian people shall fast and go a processione these three days and prey to god and to our lady and to all seyntes of heaven of help and succour. where for in these processiones bellis be rung baneres be splaed the cross cometh after and the people sewith after. ●●r right as a king when he goeth to a battle his tromppetis go tofore. than the baneres and than cometh the king and his host following. So in this procession the bellis be God's tromppies the baneres cometh after Than cometh the cross in christus likeness as king of christian people and all s●we him and with her good prayers chase a weigh the fiends that they have no power and like a cursed teraunt wool be sore a feared and dread when he heard the tromppis of a king that were his ●●my & say his baneres displayed in the field with his host coming toward him in the same wise the fiend the teraunte of hell is a feared & dredithe him sore when the bellis ringith and the baneres be boar and the cross with all the people come preying than he fleith and dare not a bide and putteth away his power that 〈…〉  
Narracio  
we read at the Cite of Constantyne as the people went in processione for a dissese that the people had as they song lafoy tony suddenly a child was plucked up in to the eyre and bore in to heaven and the angels taught him to sing this song Sancte deus Sanctefor i● Sanete et in mortalis misere re nobis and anon he was lad down again to the earth and than he song that same song & a none they were delivered of her dissesis this is to say in englische. holy god holy strong god holy & never shall die have mercy us God that is holy and never shall die have mercy one us. god willithe and will that we be strong for to fight with the fiend with the world and with the flesh and than he will have mercy on us and bring us to that place than there as angels sing●. Sancte deus Sancte ●or●i● Holy god holy strong god have mercy one us and bring us to his bliss Amen.   

Ascensio dm  
GOod friend is such a day ye shall have an high & a solemn feast in holy church that is called the ascension of our lord the su Criste for that day as the faith and be leave teacheth how god is very god & man and stied up in to heaven where fore in tokening of this the paschpll that is the chief light in holy church that hath stand openly in the quere from Estyr unto this day Now it is removed a weigh in tokening that christ is chief light in holy church & so our lord diverse times openly apperithe to his disciples and taught 'em the faith and the believe and this day hestyghed up in to heaven and there wool a ●y●e unto the day of doom. But now ye shall here the manner of this ascension from escyr day unto this day he was not with his disciples algates but diverse times appeared unto hem and he appeared to hem as they satin at her meet & eat with 'em to show hem that he was very god & man in flesh and blood as they were For some of 'em they were in doubt left he had be a spirit that hath no 〈…〉 flecsche nor blood & there for to prove the truth he eat with 'em in her sight and bad 'em go● in to the hill of olive. & there in fight of all his disciples he blessed 'em and stied up in to heaven and left the steps of his feet thirst down in to the hard marbull stone for a token of his ascension then ye shall understand that the hill of olyvete be tokenithe merry where for Christ stied up at the hill of olyvete showing well that he is the heed of mercy and he is ever ready to give mercy to all that askithe mercy with meek heart. then in his up rising as we call Ascension angels made so moche melody that no tongue may tell it so fain they were of his coming Ascendit velociter he stied up swiftly for as it were a moment he was from earth to heaven A great clerk a philosover that is callid ●abymoyses he saith that it is as fer from earth to heaven as a holy man might leave a thousand year and every day go a thousand mile. But he that met this weigh knoweth best. and this weigh shall be met of a rightful & a good man. then in his ascension he had with him a great multitude of fowls the which he f●tte out of hell from the fiends bonds He stied up all so with his wounds read fresh & bloody And as bede saith for v. causes. first for to veri fie the faith of his resur rection for he wse in very flesh & blood that died on the cross for all mankind. The second to show his wounds to his father in great help & succour to all mankind. The third is to show how rightful they be damned that will not believe in his passion & in his resurrection The four the isto show how merciful he is to them that will be leave & ask mercy. The .v. is that he bore with him a sign of victory for a sickerness to all mankind for like as a lord is siker that ha' the a true advoket be for a Auge to answer fore him so in sickerness to all mankind we find him our aduket ener more ready to answer for us at thing that the fiend our gof●ly enemy maketh a yense us. where for seith the holy scripture a sikerer attorney may no man be but god. Dbi matter ostendit fill io poe ct as et uhera. where for the mother showed the son here breasts and her paps Filius patri latus et vulnera  
The sone showed to the father his fides all to beton & his wounds bleeding how should any thing be put a weigh or divided there as such tokens of love be showed he may not far a miss that hath such to friend is in the country of heaven Also by the steing up in to heaven of our lord Jesus Christ man hath gotyn a great dignity for a man to see his own kind & his own flesh & hisblode sitting on the right side of the father of heaven in his throne where for Angelus condering the dignity of man they would not suffer no man to do hem worshipp̄●● they deed be fore the in ●●●●acion of our lord Jesus Christ but they worship men for god himself hath take mankind on him and is now in heaven bodily. Here by may a man see how moche he is be hold to his god that we where bound before and therll to the fiend of hell and now we be made fire of all that. and our lord Jesus christ hath give unto man a freedom a bo●e any Angeles. And there fore we be bound to him to do him service reverence and worship. And there as Angeles sometime kepton the gatis of paradise with brenning swerdis that no soul might come yn. Now by faith our lord ithesu christ to mankind he hath cast up the gatis and warn no man to enter there in that is of stede●asee believe for as saint austin saith. Apperuisti credentibus regna celdr●n Thou hasee opened the gatis of heaven to them that be leave  
Also ye shall be leave right as a king of this world hath in his country officeris of diverse degrees some higher and some lower and some more prevyer than some. So our lords steing up at this time the lower Angel for great wonder that they had in christus Ascensione when they saw him in flesh and blood steing up to heaven with so great multitude of fo●les with him And also for the great wonder that they had when they saw the fiends of the eyre fly a weigh for dread and fere of his sc●onge coming that before were wont sparing no thing to assail the souls that come by them and than they flow● fore great fece of this coming. Also the good Angeles come in all the haste that they might to do our lord the sucriste service reverence and worship. Thus for great wonder that the lower angel had of his freing up they asked the higher angel and they saide. Quis est iste qui venit de edom what is this that cometh out of the world with bloody clothes as he were a king of joy. This is he that with death suffering ready in his stour ging sick and deed in the cross strong in hell bodily in doing fearful in rising and thus hath over come all his enemies and now is king glorious in heaven.  
then when our lord thesu christ was up in to heaven and than his disciples standing with his modyr for great wonder of that sight and also of the me lodye that they heard in the eyre they looked up in to heaven and suddenly ij. Angeles clothed all in white stowde by hem and saide. Diri galilei qui statis aspicientes in celum hi● est ihesus qui assumptus est a vobis.  
Men of gelilee what stand ye be holdyn in to heaven it is Ahesus that is stied up from you and so he shall come at the day of doom a yene and dame all quick and deed  
And there for all christian people lift up your hearts to our lord ●he su Christ that now is stied up in to heaven and s●●tythe at his fadir right hand and is ready to give mercy to all them that will ask mercy with a meek heart.  
And here fore there is no manner a man that may excuse himself nor have no manner excusation but if that will himself and ask mercy to his lord god with a meek heart and he shall have mercy and shall be saved ●●● though a man be never so sinful and he will ask mercy with a meek heart he wool give him mercy. For contritunet humiliatum deus non despiciea. A meek and a contrite heart god shall never despice for and he wool ask mercy and be sorry for his sins our lord wool take him to his mercy. then for to show his great goodness and compassion that our lord ha' the of mankind A shall tell you this ensample.  
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we read in the syffe of seinte carp how a man of miss believe turned a christian man out of his faith and for soak his believe and his cristendo me where fore this holy man Carp was so wroth that he fill in great sickness and when he should have prayed to god for a mendment he prayed night and day that he might see 'em have a bodily vengeance Than it happed at a mydenyghte as he prayed thus suddenly the house that he lay in cleaved in four partis And he looked up and saw one hanged so piteusly that it was great pite to se and than he looked up to heaven and there he saw our lord Jesus Criste with a great multitude of angels sitting in his throne. and he looked up again and than he saw this ij. men standing be fore an hot oven quaking and trembling for dread of fend is like adderis and worms coming out of the ovyn to draw these ij. men in to the ovyn with 'em. And so many othir fendis come in diverse likeness to help that they were into the ovyn then was this holy man Carp fain to see these ij. men have that vengeance and was wonder glad there of that he lost the sight of our lord thesu Christ and his holy angels for his heart was all one these ij. men's vengeance and was sorry for it was so long or they were put unto her pain And than he rose and went to him self and halpe all that ever he might and when they were in to the ovyn than was this carp very glad there of And than he looked up in to heaven and there he saw our lord Jhesu Christ and he saw him rise from his throne for great pit and compassione that he had on the too men and come down to hem and took 'em out of her pain and saide thus to Carpe Extend manus tuas contra me stretch forth thine hondys' ayense me ●nd saide thus I am ready and need were to die again for mankind rathir than to lose him.  
●e this ensample ye may see how ready that our lord Jesus christ is to all that wool ask mercy and for yevenesse and deserve mercy that is that every man a mend and leave his sins and be in full will and purpose to sin no more and thus he shall come to the grace and mercy of our lord Jesus Christ that suffered for us and all man kind one good friday and this day stied up to heaven the which he will grant us and bring us all there to Amen   

Sequitur vigilia penthecosten  
GOod friends as ye know well a saturday nest coming is wydsonuevyn and ye shall fast and come to church to here your service and make you ●●ene to receive the holy ghost that the father of heaven sendithe among mankind where for I counsel you and charge you if there be any of you that fall to any sin that he come and amend him there of and I will be ready to all that longith to me For take this in certain in the same wise as a man will not go to a place there as a stynckyng ●areyne is but if that he stop his nose and high him thence. Right so the holy ghost flethe from the soul that is comberid with deadly sin and angelus will stop her nosies for much more fouler stinkith deadly sin in the sight of god than doth any careyn to smell to the people and as the holy ghost fleth to 'em that bideth in good life and clean and in perfit love and charity and hath pit and compassione of alletho that be in any dissese or tribulation to such the holy ghost visitithe and cometh to. And with such as him listith to come to a bide and come 〈…〉 th' and teacheth hem ●● all need But as the service of this feast is more praised than any othyr time for as this feast holy church calleth to hem and saith Deni sancte spiritus. Come holy ghost specially to have help and succour and grace and to have part of the dole that he makithe at this time to all christian people that be able to receive his gifts. But ye shall understand that the holy ghost maketh his dole in other wise than other people. For they deal as it likith hem but the holy ghost delithe to all the people that is needful and spedful to hem that y●●te and some more and some less one gift and some another some he giveth wisdom in holy scripture to understand holy scripture he giveth grace to have great lust and liking there in that is for to say they be lusty to preach and to teach virtue and goodness and e● form the people to the heel of their souls unto them that here it and bear it away. But many had liefer to here a song of robynhode or tale of rebaudry where for God's word shall not be pchith to such. And some he giveth grace so in understanding of diverse language As Englische French walche Irische with out any great travail in learning it is a great gift and a miracle and a special grace of almighty god that any man can understand our in speaking There be v. letteres that maketh all the words of all the world and of all languages that be under heaven. And with out one of these letteres may no manner a man make no word and that been these 〈…〉 A E I ● and D▪  
And also some he giveth grace of counsel for to do after good counsel And some he enspirith with ynn for they that he showeth hem and maketh them to know to fore what will come after and fall And ye●ithe hem grace to de●e the better from the worse where for they do so wisely and discretely that all the people be glad to hear 'em speak and to do after her counsel.  
And some he giveth grace also to do after counsel as our lord Jesus christ gave himself counselling a man that would leave a perfit life to leave all that he hath and go in to a religion and be there governed by his wardens counsel and by his own this counsel cometh of god And some he ●●●th also grate of suffering much bodily sickness gr●te wrongs and moche dissese both in body and in soul loss of cattles lordships masterships friends and all that he sufferithe with a meek heart thanking almighty god of his sonde this cometh of the grace of the holy ghost. Also he giveth some grace of learning in diverse science some to learn one craft and some another so be ●he which he may get his luing with troth so th●● a man will put to hi● good will and his dilgence and truly to labour and not to slo●●●●e and sleep slew the fuly and unthrifty but ● dew time to labour bes●ly the holy ghost hath yeven every man somm● knowing to get his luing with truth. Also some he gevythe grace of pite and filleth her hearts so full of pit● and compassion of her even christian that he in dissese & adversity that they yeven 'em of their goods to help and to succour 'em at her ●●de and to comforts hem in all that they may for christus sake and also merciable that they for give 'em all that they have trespassed to 'em in any wise. Somme he yevithe also to d●●de god in so much that they be ever a fe●de to displease almighty god and ever thynken of great vengeance that god will take for sin at the day of doom Tim●r domini expellit peccatum. the dread of god and the horrible pains of hell puttithe a weigh sin & thus nyghthe and day some be ever a feared to offend god and ever busily to do well in privity as in opyn sight of people he that hath this gift hath a special grace of the holy ghost. Her sunt septem dona spiritua sancti. These be the yefts that, the holy ghost departed among all mankind and giveth some more than sum But there may no man excuse him but that the holy ghost ●assignithe him somewhat of these in time of his christening where the bishop at the confirmation rehersithe these words of the sacrament I will tell you an ensample to fere you the more to the sacrament of christening that is founden in the lysse of saint James  
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There was an holy bishop that turned low is the king of France to christian faith and so when the king come to christian at the hallowing of the fount there was great press of people that the clerk that bore the bishops crismatory might not bring it to the bishop. and so when the font was hallowed & come to the Anointing he might not come to his crismatory. than the bishop lift up his eyen to god preying god devoutly for help and a none there with there come a done as white as any milk that was the holy ghost bearing in her bill a viol with oil and cream to the bishop And when he opened the viol there come out there of so sweet a savour that all the people had wondre there of and were greatly comforted there by and that continued till the service was done. Here by ye may well see though the pressed say the words the holy ghost worchith the sacrament and doth virtue of the words.  
Now that the holy ghost may descend and lighten in us that we may come to receive him to our saluacione Amen.   

In die penthecosten  
GOod men and women this day is called wit sunday for be cause that this day the holy ghost brought wit and wisdom in to christus disciples. and so by her preaching after in to all cristendome Than may ye understand that many hath wit but not wisdom for there be many that have wit to preach well and to say well but there be few that hath wisdom to do well There be many wise pchories and techouries. but her leaving is no manner thing after her preaching. Also there be many that labourith to have wit and cunning but few travelith to come to good leaving for who so have witted and cunning to get good with fair subtle words be they never so false he is wise but wit of holiness is not set by For he that can get good falsely with knackies and mowus he is a wise man but he that for sakyth the wit of this world is ● sole But look what holy scripture saith Dominus recitavit nom̄ pa●peris quia ipsum approbavit et nomen eins in libro scriptum fuit Our lord hath received the name of the poor man for he hath proved him in his poverty and wretyn his name in the book of life  
Sed nomen divitia tacuit quia ipsum non approbavit. But he left the rich man for he hath not proved him but thought a man be never so rich at the last he shall be poor For nought he bryngythe with him but his good dediss and his bad he that leaveth well and techithe well for a good ensample in leaving is a good doctrine. This grace as this day was yeven to christus disciples for they taught well and levied well for they gave good information ●● teaching of good ensample in leaving sore her teaching and her leaving is spread a bout in all the world. Than how the come to this grace ye shall here Post ascensioneml domini. after when that our lord Jesus christ was stayed up in to heaven his disciples were in great heaviness & morning for they had lost her master that they loved full well and for him had lost all their goods for his love and for sake all her frenchipp and sewed him full poor in hope that they should greatly be helped by him. And thus they were all heavy and greatly stonyed and sore a feared to be take of the ie●oes and caste in prison & after to be put to death  
This made 'em sorry that they durst not go a 'mong the people sore to get 'em meet & drink▪ but yet as christ bad 'em in his ascension they went in to the Cite of Iherusaleth and there they were in an hall of stage and there they sat to gedyr preying unto god with hole heart and one sperite of help and succour and some comfort in her dissese Than as they were thus preing to gedyr suddenly there was a great cloud made in the eyre like a blast of thoundre and even there with the holy ghost come among 'em Et apparnerunt illis dispertite liugne tan quam ignis. And light come down among 'em in likeness of tongues brenning and not smerting warming and not herming lightning and not flattering Et repletisunt omnes spiritu sancto And fillid 'em full of ghostly wit for as they where to sore but lewd men of sight and unlet tere and verray Ideottes as of co●yng and nothing could of clergy suddenly they were the wisest men and the best clerks in the world And anon they spoke all manner languages under the son and there as before her hearts was cold for dread and for fere of death then were they so comforted with the holy ghost in brenning love that they went and preached and taught the word of god sparing for no dread but ready to take the death for christus sake then at that time there were in Iherusalem people of all nations and drew in to the temple for great fere of the blast of thoundre that was in the eyre and stodyed what it might be.  
then come the posteles in to the temple and preached and all manner nations understood hem and they understood all manner nations & so they preached the word of god then were the people a stoyned when they heard the posteles speak all manner of languages. Than saide some these have drunk so moche must that they wot not what they do say neither what they mean for they be all dronkyn Than answered Peter and saide we be not drunk but this was the prophecy of johel the prophet how the holy ghost should be yeven plenteous to the people so that they should speak with all tongues that is to preach and all in the worlds the law of christ.  
then the people tuened fast and so with in sew years the saith was in all the world. Now it is to weet why the holy ghost more appeared in to likeness of tongues rathir than in any other party of man's body & why he come to hem sitting rathir than standing. As to the fursces this is the cause. a tongue is the best member of a man's body when it is in▪ good rule and well disposed but when it is out of rule it is the worsces. Denenum aspidum sub labiis eorum Bitter venemé is under the tongues that speakithe evil seythe David in the sawter. And as saint gem saith Acursed tongue is fired with fire of hell and may not be chastifid while the fire burneth it And also for tongues must speak words of fire that is sharp and sperkeling to say truth and not spare in preaching and teaching to reprove miss dediss for as holy men in old time overcome and drove a weigh the fire of lightening with holy words and good prayers with the brenning love to god right for the fire of the holy ghost should drive a weigh and overcome the fire of hell that envy hath and evil leaving that regnyth now in the tongues of moche people and in her heart And for the apostles & other prechoris that comythe after hem should speak brenning words that is neythir to sharp neither for dread nor for love to say the truth & to tell the people her defaults and to reprove the sin that reigneth in hem in many diverse wise and so to do and say the word of god and to reprove sin. and but they will leave sin they shall with out remedy be damned in to the fire of hell for though thou shuldiste die spare not to preach the word of god and tell the truth Item deus est misericors penitentibus pecca tasua. Also god is merciful to them that be sorry for her sins & will leave 'em T●m vero confessus fuerit et relinuerit ea misericordia conse qua tur For though a man have do never so much sin and he will shreyve him and for sake his sin mercy shall follow him and he shall have for yevenesse and so come to the bright fire ever lasting bliss that is the precious love of god that brennythe among angels and saints in heaven Also he cometh in likeness of tongues of fire for it is the kind of fire to make low that is high and to warm that is cold to make soft that is hard and make hard that is soft And also the holy ghost maketh hearts that be high of pride and envy he maketh 'em low and warm in love and charity and also hard hearts that have be gathering and holding of worldly goods the holy ghost maketh 'em soft and liberal to give and to de deal alms deed for the love of almighty god and makythe them hard also▪ in suffering of hard and strait leaving and in doing of great penance for her sins. Thus the holy ghost is ever ready to make salve ●or to hele all manner of sins  
That other skill is why the holy ghost come to the apostles rathir sitting than standing for sitting be to kenythe meekness in heart with rest piece and unite the which any m●ner a man must nediss have that will resceyve the holy ghost for right ●s the dry wode wool bren clearly with onte stering so should every christian man love othyr with brenning love and charity clearly with out feigning of wrath or envy or any manner of malice each with other and every man should be f●yne of other is welfare and this ma●ythe to have a good tongue. But as soon as the brands be cast a twin by descension of malice and envy a none the fire of the holy ghost quencheth and than risithe up smoke of great wrath and envy between party and party and also great grievance and heaviness for the soul and causithe it to fail grace that it may have no consideration to reason than anon the wicked spirits been ready rise & up smoke in the same man's heart that is for to say great wrath and envy and evil will that it may have no manner rest but ever stodying and thinking also how he may avenge him and do vengeaunre unto his enemies and so is a man ever tro●blid and busy in cursed deed is and like to be dampened body and soul in hell to euerlasty●g p●yne but if he have succour and help of the holy gosse and all such things that may come of cursed and wicked tongues.  
There for the holy ghost cometh in the likeness of tongues of fire to burn out the malice & envy and anoint 'em with sweetness of grace love and charity. And therefore we shall pray to the holy ghost to give us grace so to tempre our tongues that we may ever more speak good & that our hearts may be fed with meekness that we may be abil to be fed with the holy ghost. As saint Gregor was when he exponed the prophecy he took to him his dekon saint Petyr to write as he exponed. and made draw between him for petyr should not see how he died in his stodyyngg. then as Gregor sat in his chair stodying holding up his hondel and his eyen to he venward the holy ghost come like a white down with foot and bill brenning gold and sat on Gregor right shu●dre and put her bill in Gregoris mouth. and when he with drew it than he bad Petyr write and so continued till he had made an end. but he exponed the gospel so boldly that Petyr had marvel there of and privily made an hole in the cloth that was between gregor and him and saw how the holy ghost fed him. And a none the holy ghost showed Gr●gor how Petyr had done Than Eregor blamed Petyr and charged him that he should never say no thing while he lived. But when gregor was deed an eretike would have burned his books that this holy man made & than Petyr with stood him and saide nay and told all how the holy ghost had done to him while he exponed the prophecy and so saved his books unburnt that he had made by the grace of god and gift of the holy ghost the which give us grace to be fed of him here in our leaving that we may have the bliss that never shall have end Amen.   

In die s●ncte trinitatis  
GOod men and women this day is an high and a solemn feast in holy church for it is of the holy trinity For as holy church at wytsontyde maketh mention how the holy ghost come unto christus disciples Now at this time is made mention of all iij. people that is for to say. Pater filiue et spiritus father and soon and holy ghost three persons and one god in trinity where for we be bound to d●● all the reverence and worship that we can or may to this holy trinity Also ye shall understand why how and what the cause that this f●ste was ordained  
This holy feast was worshipped for the trinity feeding for heretics confounding and fore the trinity worshipping first hitwas ordained for the form of the trinity finding And a great clerk johan Bellet telleth that form trinity was in the first man adam onre form father that come of the earth one person and Eve of Adam the seconnde person of hem both come the iij. persons as her child.  
Thus the trinity was found in man where fore man should have mind to do worship to the holy trinity. For holy church ordained that in wedding of man and woman to gedyr so that the mass of the trinity is songon. and atte his death one bell shall be rung in worship of the trinity where for all christian people be bound greatly to worship the holy trinity. The second cause is that feast is ordained in confounding of heretics and of lolleris for to destroy them and their false opynyones that they had a yenste the holy trinity fore right as he retikes in the be gynnyg of the faith with her sweet words and false opynynes where a bout to destroy the faith of the holy trinity in the same wise lolleris now a days with her false spece of guile be a bout also to with draw the people from the true believe and faith of the holy trinity and the believe and faith of holy church 〈◊〉 marteres and confessors to the death Right so now this lolleris pursewithe men of holy church and be a bout in all manner ways that they can and may find to destroy and undo 'em so that they might have her purpose. And thus they show opynly that they be not goddis servants for they be out of charity and he that is out of charity is fer from god but he that suffered tribulation persecution and dissese fore the love of almighty god and prey for his enemies and wool not do no vengeance but put all in god almighty and he wool quite hem full well in ever lasting bliss for our lord saide thus. Michi vindictam & ego retri●●am Put all thing to me and I shall quite every man after his deserving for though god suffer holy church to be pursewid by such miss and proud leveris but at the last he ordained such a remedy that holy church is holpyn and her enemies con●undid and shamed. Thus it happed on a time with the Emperor of Rome that high ghte Attyl● and he was made by heretics as johan bellet telleth the which Emperor pursued christian people sore and hatid hem and holy church greatly. wherefore he made to do burn all the books that might be found of christian faith. But as almighty god would there was a good holy man and that was a great Clerk and that clerk was called Alpynyons that in meytening of the faith of holy church he made the story of the trinity and the story also of seinte Stephyn and brought it unto the pope for to have 'em songon and red in holy church But be counsel of that great clerk they took the story of saint stephyn and left the story of the holy trinity till to the time that saint Gregory was pope than for to reprove 'em and do 'em shame that be so the miss believing people and would not believe in the trinity but made after her reason many he retykes and in consideration of 'em seinte Gregory the pope ordained this feast to be hallowed and this story to be songon and read in holy church in worship of the trinity with all christen people The thrid cause is for the high trinity worshipping and fore all christian men should know how and in what manner they should believe in the trinity for as holy church techithe he that belevithe in the trinity shall be saved and they that doth not shall be dampened. then is it full expedient and needful to all christian people to know how they shall leave. ye shall understand that perfect love to god is the believe for he that believeth persitely maketh no questions that little a vaylith. Fides non habet meritum ubi humana racio prebet experimentum. Feithe hath no meed ne merit where man's wit giveth experience. than is it good for all christian people to make love to be mediator to the holy ghost praying him to lyghton us with in our souls that we may have grace to come to his persite believe There for this day was set next with sunday hoping that the holy ghost will be ready to all christian people that will call him and specially in learning of the faith but yet for many wits be doulle to learn tha● they may not see nor here but they be brought in by great ensample But that people is not most commendable if we may be ensample come the sooner to the believe in the father and the son and the holy ghost iij. persons and all one god take heed of this ensample Of ice snow and watyr how that these iij. be diverse each in substance and yet is all but watyr. ye may understand by the watyr the father by the ice the son. and by the snow the holy ghost watyr is an element that hath great might and strength and as the master Alysaundre saith it is above heaven in the manner of ice like a crystal & doth worship to heaven and anon it is vudir earth and the earth is grounded upon water And david saith in the sauter it is all about the world and in all thing for in hard stones and iron some time sweet wa●●● for this water is so full of 〈…〉 ghte is to understand 〈…〉 adir that his power is so moche that he governithe all the world. and knoweth all thing and all is at his will & commandment▪ By the son Ihesu christ ye shall understand ice that is water congelid hard and ●●●till that is Jesus Christ verray god and man that took the substance and fraye●te of mankind when he was conceived of the holy ghost in the virgin marry and borne of her body god that suffered passion under pounce pilate done upon the cross died and was buried and the third day rose from death to life and after on holy thoursday stied up in to heaven and shall come a yene at the day of doom and dame the quick & the deed. By the snow ye shall understand the holy ghost for right as snow is but water and ice and lihht● in the eyre but how no man can tell So cometh the holy ghost from the father & the fone Spiritua sanctua a patre & filio non factu● nec creatu● nec genitu● sed proceden● but how it is for no man to study for it excedit all men's wit to study there upon. but sadly believe the father is full god almighty. & of him come soon full god and of 'em both cometh the holy ghost full god. This trinity was known in the fulling of christ as the gospel tellithe. In baptismo christi tota trinitas se manifestanit scilicet pater in ●oce fili●● in carne spiritu● sanctu● in columba et totum celum apertum erat. Than our lord Jesus christ was baptisid in the water of fli● jordan and all the people nigh of the country there about were baptised there with him and as they were in her prayers Et aperti sunt celiet spiritu● sanctu● descendit sicut columba. The holy ghost come down in likeness of a white dove and lighted on christus heed. Et vo● de celo dice●● Hic est fili●● men● dilect●● in qno michi bene complacni. And the father spoke in heaven and said Thou art my well beloved son that pleased me well that was the holy trinity that spoke in his person and the son was there bodily in his person when johan baptiste saide to the people Ecce agn●● dei. See the lamb of god. & the holy ghost was say in his person. Sicut columba descendentem as a white dove come down and these iij. be but one god in trinity wherefore it were full needful to all christian people to pray busily so that we may have grace to have the perfect love to believe in the father the son and the holy ghost three persons and one god●in trinity  
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we find that the mother of saint Edmund● of pounteney as he study studied of this holy trinity she appeared unto him and laid in his hondel iij rings each with in o their. And in the first was wreton Pater the father in the second Filiva the son and in the thrid Spiritua sanctus. the holy ghost and saide my deer son to such figures take heed and learn what thou mayst and tak● good heed to this ensample for right as a ring is round with out any beginning & ending right so iij. persons in one god but for to study how it might be it is but folly for it exdithe any man's wit to mense there upon but sadly believe there upon  
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we read of a clerk that was greatly learned in divinity the which stodyed busily to have brought this in a book why god would be believed on god and three persons and so as he walked on a day stodying in this matter by the see sonde he was ware of a fair child sitting on the see sonde & had a little shell in his hand and there with he took watyr out of the seeland cast it in to a litil pit fast then saide this master to this child son what dost y● and he saide Sire I am a bout to have all this watyr that is in the see in to this litil pit Than saide this mastyr. that shalt thou never do it passithe any man's power. Sire saide he as soon shall I do this as thou shalt do that thou art a bout to do and anon the child vanishid a weigh Than this master thou ghte it was not God's will and left his stodying in that matter & thankythe god highly By this ensample we may see that it is not God's' will that we should mense yn that matter but seedefastly believe in the father the son and the holy ghost Deni per fidem trinitati● come by faith and love of this perfect faith of the trinity. Deni per opera miseri cordie come by the works of mercy doing Deni per opera insticie come to this believe be doing of works of right wisnesse and thus ye shall come to this perfect believe father and son and holy ghost Et tunc coronaberia corona glory eterne And than thou shalt be crowned with a crown of everllasting Joy and bliss to the which bring us to the holy trinity Amen   

De corpore xp̄●  
GOod friends ye shall understand that this das is an high and a solemn feast in holy church the feste of corpus christi it is the feast of our lords his own body the which is offered to the high father of heaven at the altar in remission of our sins to all christen people that leave here in perfect life and charity. and great succour and help in releving hem that be in pains of purgatory there a biding the mercy of god ye shall understand that this feast was found by a 〈…〉 that was callide urbane the v▪ the which had great grace and devotion in the sacrament in the Autee considering the great me the help and succour to man's soul and to the furthering of leaving to all christian people here in this present world there fore he ordained this present feast to be hallowed in the next thoursday after the feast of the holy trinity for all christen people that wool be saved must have ●adde believe in the holy sacrament that it is God's own body in s●●me of breed made by ●●● virtue of christus word is that the pressed saith and by working of the holy ghost then for this holy 〈…〉 thought to draw the people to more devotion and bettir will to this holy sacrament and to do the service this day he grauntith to all that be worthy that be though that be very contrite and shrevyn of her sins & be in the church at both evynsonges at mateness and at mass for each C. days of pardon and for each our of the day xl. days of pardon and every day of the v●●s a C. days of pardon in remission of all her sins for ever more enduring then ye shall understand that our lord 〈…〉 christ on sheareth ours day at night when he had souped and wist well that in the morrow that he should suffer passion and death and pass out of this world vnt● his father in heaven he ordained a perpetual memory of his passion to a bide for ever with all christian people here in earth He took breed and wine and made his own flesh and blood & gave it to his disciples to eat and to drink and saide Accipite et manducate hoc est corpna meum Take ye this & eat it for it is mine own flesh and blood and this he deed for they should have mind of him. And so he gave to all other priests power to make his own body of breed and wine thus every pressed hath power to make the sacrament be he good or bad for the sacrament may no man a mend nor a peyre but he that is a good man and a holy lever helpeth greatly though that he preyith for And he that doth the office of the pressed worthily and truly. shall be glad and joyful that ever he was borne. For hour lord hath ȝevine a pressed a yefte and pour here mirth that he gave nevyr to angel in heaven that is to make his own body in form of breed.  
There fore ye schall have worschipe more in heaviness thene any tongue can tell or heart think and he that is an evil liffer and know is himself in deadly sin & presumith to minister that worthy sacrament & will note a mend him he may be sewer of perpetual damnation with fyndis of hell in evyr lasting pain.  
Then schall ye undirstand that he grauntith this sacrament to be used for ever more in holy church for four causes that be need full to all christian people The first is for man's great helping. The second for christus passion minding The third for great ●one showing. And the fourth for great meed getting. Nota anod proper novem raciones prodest homini a●dire miss● secundum Angusti n● saint Austyn seith it profitith greatly all christian people to here mass and in special for ix. causi● & saith thus. Quia illo die qua audierat missam necessaria cibaria et conced untur. For that day he heareth a mass he shall fail no bodily food nor no necessary thing that shall be longing to him nor no let shall have in his journey where that ever he travelithe The second is all venial sins shall be for yeven him and ydull word is The third is if a man dy● it shall sconde for his ho sell The fourth he shall not that day lose his sight The v. all ydull oaths the day shall be for yeven him The vi. that day he shall not die no sudden death. The seven. as long as he heareth that mass he shall not wax old. The viij. all his steppis toward and fromward the church his good angel rekenythe to his salvation. The ix. all the while that he be holdithe the holy sacramental wicked spirits i'll from him and have no power over him be he never so great a sinner. This help and so coure we have of the holy ghost and of the sacrament here in earth and at our last end all christian people will send after the pressed to come to him with god is body & to receive it knowing well that▪ he believeth stedefastly that it is the same flesh and blood that christ took of our lady sinttmary and was borne of her body verray god and man and after suffered passion and death on the cross for all mankind & laid in tomb▪ And rose from death to live and now sittithe on his faderis right hand in heaven and shall come a yene at the day of doom and dame the quick and the deed every man after his deserving So this perfit believe all christian people shall be armed and made strong to withstand the fiends that will come and a sail at the departing between the body and the soul for than fiends come busily to bring him out of the believe. than shall the sacrament that a man hath received in his life make him mighty & strong that he shall set all the fiends at nought & so over come 'em. A nother skill that the sacrament is brought to a man to ask mercy of Christ & remission of his sins having full trust & believe that christ is ever ready to for give all them that will ask mercy with ● meek heart. As David saith. Cor contritum et bumiliatum deus non despicies A contrite heart & a meek our lord shall never despise & that we may see ensample when he hung upon the cross between ij. thiefs that were men of cursed leaving And therefore they where ordained to be deed and that one askid mercy with a meek heart ad saide Domine dum veneria in regnum tumn memento mei Lord qd he when thou comyste in to thy kingdom have mind on me and anon at his first asking he gave him mercy & more over he said to him thus hody mecum eria in paradiso This day thou shalt be with me in paradise And that othyr theffewolde ask no mercy in no wise for pride ● he had in his heart and therefore he was dampened in to hell. Thus our lord ●hesu christ shed his blood on the cross in health to all mankind so in the mass every day he showeth his blood in great succour help and salvation to all mankind and the same flescht and blood is showed every day in the mass for we should believe stedefastely there one And he that believeth not there on verily that it is so shall not be saved at the day of doom.  
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therefore I tell you this ensample that is in the life of wood the bishop of canterbury this bishop had with him clerks that believeth not perfectly in the sacrament of the altar & saide they might not believe that the body & blood of Criste might be ministret in the mass then was this bishop sorry and prayed to god busily for her amendment And so on a day when he was at the mass & had made the fractione he saw the blood drop from the host in to the chalyse than he made a sign unto hem that believed not to come ne●● him & to see and when they saw his fingeris bloody & the blood ran from the host in to the chalisse a none for great fere they cried & saide. O thou blessed man that haste this grace to hold christus body in thine hands that dropped blood in to the chalisse we believe verily there upon & we beseech the to prey to him for us that thou haste in thy hands that he take no vengeance on us▪ for our missebeleve and we cry meekly mercy And a none the host turned in to the form of breed as it was before & than they were perfit men of believe everaftir Anothir freewill is that the sacrament is made in the Auter to make a man be often sight there of the sooner to have mind on Christ's passion & to have it in mind for it is the best defence a yenst tamptation of the fiend. For saint Austyn saith the mind of christus passion puttith away all temptaciones & the power of all wicked spiritis And for this cause rodi● and ymag ● be set on high in the churches for as soon as a man cometh in to the church he should see it & have it in his myde & think on christus passion where for crosses & other images be full necessary & needful. what some ever these ●ollers say for & it had not be full profitable holy faderis would have destroyed 'em may yeris a gone. For right as the people do worship to the kings seal not for lou● of the seal but for reverence of the king that it cometh fro So rodis and images be s●●●e for the kings seal of heaven and other semtes in the same wise for Images belewde people is ●ok●● And▪ as ●ohan bellet saith there be many thou sands of people that cannot imagine in her h●●tis how christ was done on the cross but as they▪ see by images in churches and in othir places theras they be And to have the betyr mind on christus passion I tell you this ensample  
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There was a christian man of england that went in to the holy land and hired an hethyn man to be his guide and as he come in to a fair forest and saw many fair things but this christian man marveled greatly that he heard no noise of byrddus and there of he had great marvel and saide to this hethyn man I marvel moche that there is no song of byrddus in this wood than saide this he thine man this is the work that ye call passion work that your great prophet died y●●● where for on sunday that last was that ye call palm sunday all the fowls of this wood die for sorrow and all this work shall lie as deed But on sunday next cometh that ye call Estyr day they quick a yene and all the year after make melody. where for look up in to the trees and see & than he saw every bow of the treeslye full of birdus as fladde as they had be spread on the cross then seethe birddus have mind one christus passion and make ●oche morning & sorrow mo●h● more cause hath man kind that were bought from ever lasting damnation to ever lasting salvation by his passione  
The third cause is why the sacrament is usidin the altar for a man should by the sight there of think on our lord ihe sulcriste father of heaven that hath but oon son that he lovithe passing all thing but he sparid not to send him down in to this world to suffer passion and death and to shed his precious blood for manknde to by him out of the fiends bounds and to write a charter with his own precious blood of freedom for ever more to all man kind so that a man forfete not his charter by deadly sin but he that lovithe god will keep his charter for god askithe of a man but love where he saith thus. Damichi cor tuum et sufficit michi son give me thy heart and it is enough me then take heed of this ensample.  
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There was an Earl of venies was called sire Ambryghte that loved the sacrament in the aut●r passing weal and did it all the worship and reverence that he could and might. So when that he lay sick and should be deed he might not receive the sacrament forcasting than was he sorry and made dole and thaune he let make clean his right side and to cover it with a fair cloth of sendell and lay gods body there on And said thus to the host lord thou knowiste that I love the with all my here and would fain resteyve the with my mouth and I durst and therefore that I may not I lay the on that place that is next to my heart and so I show the all the love of my heart that I can and may where for I beseech the good lord have mercy on me an● even there with in sig●● of all the people that ●●●re about him his sydde opened and the Host went there in to his sydde And than his sydde closed a yene And soo● none after he died & departed out of thi● world So let us love the sacrament in our life and do it reverence and worship and than at our last end when we shall die & pass out of this world it will succour us and bring us to everlasting bliss. Thus the sacrament is used for great meed getting to all that believe there in. for though it have the likeness of breed and the taste it is flesh and semythe breed it is quick and semythe deed ye mo●e believe verily that it is God's blessed body that took flesh and blood of the virgin mary and after died on the cross and rose from death to live and stied up in to heaven and now sittithe on his faderis rigthe hand and shall come a yene at the day of doom to dame the quick and the deed and he that receiveth it here and believed verily there upon shall have ever lasting life in the kingdom of heaven as the gospel saith.  
Qui manducat hunc panem vivet in eternum. Who so etith of this breed shall leave ever and never be deed and he that receiveth it and believeth not thus Renaerit in judicio at the day of doom he shall be dampened in to ever lasting pain. Augustinus in person● xpristi. Manducas me non mutabis me inte sed ●n mutabis in me. saint Austyn saith in the person of christ Eat me but I shall not turn and chance in to the but thou shalt turn and change in to me.  
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We read that there was a jew that went wi●h a christian man a fellow of his in to a church of christian people and her●e mass Et post misi● dixit indeva And oftyr when mass wa●d●● the jew saide to the christian man Si ego tantum edissem quantuntu comedisti no●esuriem ut puto in tribus diehus. if I had eton as much as thou haste eton I should not be an hungered as I trow in many days And than saide christian man Dear nichil comedy For south quoth he I eat no meet this day than saide the ●●we Ego vidi te comedere puerum pulcherrimum qua●em sacerdos eleranit ad altar I saw the eat a child the which the pressed held up at the altar Et tunc venit pulcherrimus bomobabena multos pueros in gremio sno.  
then come a fair man that had many children in his arms. Et dedit unicuique ue●irum unum puerū●alem qua●em sacerdos ●●medit An● yafeche criston a child such as the pressed eat. yet to sharp your be leave the more to this holy sacrament I will tell you this ensample  
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We read in saint Gregorius time there was a woman that hight laciva and she made breed for the pope and othyr presties to sing with and for to hosell with the people Also when the pope come to this woman to give her hosell and saide take here God's body than this woman smylid and laughed than the pope with drew his hand and laid the host upon the altar and turned to this woman laciva and saide to her whismylest thou when thou shouldst receive christus body and she saide why calliste thou that christus body that I made with mine own hands Than was Gregor the pope sorry for her mys●e believe & bad all the people prey to god to show some miracle for this woman's help and when they had prayed long Gregor went to the altar a yene and found the host turned in to read flesh and blood bleeding and he showed it to this woman Than she cried & saide lord now I cry the mercy I believe that thou art verray god & man and God's son of heaven in form of breed. then bad Gregor the people pray ayen that it should turn a yene to bredis likeness and so it deed and with the same host he hoselid this woman lacina and therefore late us do all the worship that we may to the sacrament that we can or may and be in no misbelieve  
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Also we find that in devynchere be side exbrigge was a woman lay sick and was nigh deed and scent after a holy person about mydnyghte to have her rightis than this man in all the haste that he might he a rose and went to church & took God's body in A box of ivory and put it in to his bosom and went forth toward this woman. And as he went thourghe a forest in a fair meed that was his next weigh it happed that his box fill out of his bosom to the ground and he went forth and woste it not and come to this woman and heard her confession And than he asked her if she would be hoselid and she saide y● sere. than he put his hand in his bosom and sought the box and when he found it nought he was full sorry and sad and saide dame in will go after God's body and come a none a yene to you and so went forth sore weeping for his simpulnesse and so as he come to a ●elow tree he made there of a rod and stripped himself all naked and to beat himself that the blood ran down by his sides and saide thus to himself O thou simple man why haste thou lost thy lord god thy maker thy former & thy creator And when he had thus beat himself he deed on his clothes and went forth. And than he was ware of pilour of fire that last from earth to heaven and he was all asto yned thereof yithe blessed and went there to and there lay the sacrament fallyn out of the bore into the grass and the pilour schon as bright as any son and lasted from God's body to heaven and all the be sties of the forest were come about God's body & stood in compass round about it & all kneeled on four knees save on black horse that kneeled but on that on knee Than saide he if thou be any best that may speak I charge the in God's name here present in form breed tell me why thou kneliste but on thy one knee. then saide he I am a fiend of hell & wool not kneel & I my ghte but I am made a yense my will for it is wreton that every kneeling of heaven & of earth shall be to the worship to the lord god. why art thou like a horse & he saide to make the people ●o steel me & at such a town was one hougid for me & at such a town another Than saide this holy person I command the by God's flesh & his blood that thou go in to wilderness & be there as thou shalt never dissese christian people more And a none he went his weigh he might no longer a bide And than this man went forth to   

De festo sancti andree apostoli.  
GOod men and wymme●●och a day ye sha● have saint Andrewis day and ye shall fast the even & come to god and to holy church and worship this holy saint that day for three special virtuous One is for his great holiness in his ded doing. The second for his good leaving. The thread for his great compassion suffering. He was a man of holy leaving for when he understood and heard of saint johan the baptist that he was preaching in desert anon he left all his worldly occupation and went to him and was his disciple. And so after on a day as christ come walking by the way and saint johan baptist saw him walking he saide to his diseiples. Ecce agnus dei qui tollit peccata mund See the lamb of god that shall do a way the sin of all the world. And when saint Andrew he●de that anon he left saint johan baptiste and sewed forth christ  
And when he heard Christ preach it pleased him so well that a none he went and fet Petyr his brother to here Christ preach than they cast great love to god and soon after as they where in the see of galyle fisching christ come and called hem & a none they left fisching ship and net and all that they had and sewed christ ever after and where with him till he stied up to heaven.  
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then after that saint Andrew preached a 'mong the people than on a day as he preached it happened so there was a man among the people that was called nicol that had levied many winters in lechery but yet by the g●●ce of god he thought to amend his life and when he heard that the word of god was of so great virtue that it should put a way all temptations of sin he let writ a gospel and bare it with him where some ever he went and with the virtue there of he abstained himself from sin. But yet on a day by temptacione of the fiend he for gate himself and went again to a brothellus house as he was used to do before and when he come thedyr and when the women looked up on him they cried out on him & said o thou old silly man what dost thou here go home again for we see so many marvelous on the that we may not have to do with the. then this nicol be thought him that he had the gospel upon him and a none he went to saint andrew and told him all the cause and prayed saint andrew to pray for him that his soul might be saved. then saint andrew would never etene drink till he wist whether nicol should be saved or no then saint andrew fasted .v. days breed and watyr and prayed busily night and day. then come a voice and said as thou haste fast and prayed make nicol to do the same and than he shall be saved. Than saint andrew bad nicol fast .v. days breed and water and pray busily unto god and so he deed and than come a voice to saint andrew again and said thy preyours and thy fasting hath made nicol that was lost found again and he shall be sau●d.  
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Also another miracle that another young man come to saint andrew in a time and said privily to him sire my modyr hath be long about me that I should lie with her and for I would not do her will she hath acused me to the bishop & said that I would have done that sinful deed with her where for I wot well that I shall be deed and yet I had liefer die than sclandyr my modyr so soul There for I beseech you prey for me that I may take my death patiently to the salvation of my soul then said saint Andrew go forth to thy doom and I shall go with. and so there with the people come and set him be fore the bishop And when his modyr accufid him he said no thing but held his pese Than said saint Andrew.  
Innocena sangnia eiva sine causa dam nabit. This cursed woman for lust of her body wrongfully is about to damn her own child to death vengeance will come to the. then said she lo sire justice ever seethe he might not have his will he hath drawn unto this man for counsel and succour then the justice commanded to cast this young man in to the watyr to drown him and to put saint andrew in prison till he where a vysid what death he should die. then saint andrew prayed busily unto god for help and succour and than a none come a great thoundyr and made all the people so a feared that they where fain to set saint Andrew out of the prison. And even there with come a lightning of fure and burned the modyr of the young man in sight of all the people. And thus was this man saved and the justice by this great miracle turned to christian faith and much other people with him and ever after believed in god and saint Andrew there by ye may see that he was holy in leaving.  
Also he was great in miracles working for on a day as he went by the see side he saw a drowned man cast out of the watyr than andrew prayed to god to rear him again to life and anon this man rose Than andrew asked him where that he was drowned. and he saide we where ten men to gedyr & herd of an holy man that height Andrew And we where coming to here his preaching and as we where in the see there come a great tempest and drowned us all to gedyr but would god that we had be cast to land to gedyr that we might have been raised to life to gedyr again. then anon saint andrew prayed to god that all the bodies might come to gedyr & so they deed. and where razed up in diverse countries Than saint andrew made and ordained to gedere hem all to gedyr. Than he kneeled down and preyed god long for them till they where raised all to life. Than saint andrew made 'em all to kneel down & thank god and preached hem and taught 'em christian faith and cristened hem all and when they where stedefaste in the faith he sent 'em home to their own country with moche joy to hem and many other miracles he dead that where to long to tell thus ye may see that he was mighty in miracles working that raised so many men to life Also he suffered great passione for christ sa●ke for when he was in the cite of pateas there he turned to the faith the wife of Egeas. And this Egeas was a great man and made moche people to do sacrifice and ofringes to maumenties but for saint andrew reproved him there of anon he made to take him and would have made him to do sacrifice but he would not and stedefastly ayenstode him and proved be many ensamples be cause that he and all the people should worship god and not the fendis of hell then was egeas wood for wroth and made men to take andrew & stripe him naked and beat him with storges that all his body ran on blood and than made to bind him hand and foot and made do him on a cross for he should pain there on long or he died but when Andrew come to the place there the cross was he kneeled down and said thus. Salue cr●x que in corpore christi dedicata e●. holy be thou xrosse that art hallowed & made holy by the precious body of our lord Jesus christ I desire to clip the to me where for take me to the for I yield me unto my mastyr Jesus christ that died on the cross And than andrew stood up and dead of his clothes and gave hem to the tourmentoures and bad hem do as they where charged to do of the justice then they bound him to the cross hand and foot and his heed downwards and streyved him so that the blood barste out at every knot of the ropes & so he hung there three days a live preaching the people and so there come to the preaching many thousands of people & for pite that they had of him they bade Egeas take him down or they would slay him. then for fere of the people egeas come to take him down Than saint Andrew ayenstode him and said Quid tu venisti adme egeas what comist thou to me Egeas weet thou well thou shalt have no might to take me down for on this cross will I die And even there with. Hiis enim dicti● splendour nimis circuiens eum quasi per median horam. a great light come a bout him that there no man might see him in space of half an our and more then said saint Andrew. Obsecro tedn̄e miserere mei. I be seche the lord have mercy on me and so in that light he gave up the ghost. And than when egeas saw & know this that he was deed he went homeward than after that day he waxed wood and soon after he died among all people And when maximilla his wife heard there of a none she took andrewys body and buried it in a tomb. and out of the tomb welled manna & oil to gedyr and by that people of the Country know when it should be dear and when great plenty For when it shall be cheppre it wellyth plentifully and when it shall be dearth sharsely.  
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Hit fell so there was a bishop that loved well saint andrew and for the find might in no wise bring him out of his purpose he come to the bishop in likeness of a feyr woman preying him that she might speak with him in counsel of confession And he granted there to Sire said she I am a knights daughter and have be much cherished and norishid in great tenderness and for I see this world is but a vanity to trust upon I have avowed chastity & now my father would marry me to a worthy prince and for I would not brecke my vow I am come privily a weigh in poor array and thus I heard of your great holiness & am come to have your council and succour & help of you. wherefore I pray you that ye ordain for me that the fiend have no power to let me of my purpose then the bishop comforted her and bad that she should thank god that had set her in such purpose and that he would send her grace there with to continue And saide to her Esto secura filia. Be thou sekyr daughter this day thou shalt dine with me and than we shall by good advice when we have dined ordain so for you that ye shall do right well Nay sir said she left the people would have any suspessione of bad rule ye said the bishop there of no charge Plurima erimus & non soli. For there shall be so many in company that there she'll be none suspessione then she thanked him feyre and scho was set to for the bishop in a chair at meet And ever when the bishop looked on her he seemed her so fair that he was greatly tempted on her so that he had all most foryete himself. And than anon there come a pilgrim to the gate and beat fast on the gate that all that were in the hall were sore a stonyd of the noise so he cried let in let in then saide the bishop shall this man come in. than said she late him answer to some question first whether he be worthy or no to comesonye in presence. then saide the bishop I pray you makeye the question for I am not a vysid at this time then said she to the massinger In terroga quod est magis miraculum quod deus umquam in parva re fecit Ask him what was the grettyste miracle that ever god made in a foot of earth. then when the pilgreme was asked this he answered & said a man's face the which is but foot and but a man's own face For thou all the men and women that ever where borne stood a fore me ȝytte should I know one from a nother be some degree. when he gave this answer he was greatly commended therefore Than said she I see that he is wise. bid him gave a nother answer to another question Ask him whether earth is heuyer or heaven Than he answered & said thus There as christs body is there is earth for christs body is of our kind and our kind is earth. therefore there as Christ's body is earth is heyer than heaven. when he had yeven that answer he was well a lowed and was bidden come in Nay said she late him a soil the third question Ask him how far it is fro heaven to hell than when he was oposid of this he answered the messengere Go again to her that setteth in the chair be fore the bishop and bid her give this answer for she can better than I. Quando de celo in abissum ●ecidit For she is a fend and hath metyn it and so did I never She fill down with lucifer And when the messengere heard this he was all heavy but he gave this answer that all men might here. Than this fend vanished away with an horrible stink Than the bishop bethought him of his temptation & was sorry in his heart and anon he made to send after this pilgrim but be that the messenger come again to the gate he was gone. Than the bishop made all men to pray to god to send witting what the pilgrim was that so goodly halpe him at his need Than come there a voice to him and said it was saint Andrew that come and to succour him for the good love & service that he did to him and bade him preach this miracle to the people to see and know how graciously he helpeth all that well pray to him And therefore late us worship and pray to him to be our succour and help against the find now and ever.  
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Festum sancti nicolai.  
GOod men and women such a day ye shall have saint nicolas day the which is much praised in holy church and specially for three causis. the first for his meek leaving The second for his heavenly techily The third for his great compassion having first he was made lowly Pater eius epiphanus matter eius iohana dicta est. Hit is said that his radyr hight epiphanus and his modyr ione the which in their thought goto saint nicolas And when he was borne they made her ●owes both to keep and to leave in chastity and no more come to gedyr but hold 'em pleased of this one child that god had sent 'em the which they made him christian and called him Nicolas that is a maunes name but he keepeth the name of the child for he chose to keep virtuous meekness & simpleness and with out malice. Also we read while he lay in his cradyll he fasted we●●nysday & freyday these days he would soak but ones of the day and therewith held him pleased Thus he levied all his live in virtuous with this child is name And there fore children done him worship be fore all othyr feinties for he was ever meek with out any malice so that all people praised him for his meek leaving here. Also he was bishop of the cite of myrrh by the which that come from heaven. For when the bishop was deed all the bishops of the country come to gedyr to cheese another than ne come a voice to on of 'em and bade him rise early in the morrow and go to the church door & make him bishop that ye find there that is called Nicolas And so on the morrow he come to the church door and there he found Nicolas And than he said thus to him Quale nomen habeatu what is thy name. Inclito capite And lowting with his heed answered meekly & said Nicolas than said the bishop Fili ●eni mecum. son come with me for I have to speck with the in counsel and so lad him to the other bishops and said lo seris here is he that god hath ordained to be. And so they made him bishop of myrrh by heavenly choosing. He had also a great compassione of though that where in dissese and apparel for when his father and his mother died they left him worldly good enough which that he spent on them that where poor & needy.  
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Hyt fell so that there was a rich man that had iij. fair daughters young women but by mishefe he fell in to pourte so that for great need he ordained his eldyste daughter for to be a common woman. And so after the tothir to daughters for he might not find 'em And so by this mean got his leaving and hairs both for he woste not how to leave for the great poverty that he stood in And when Nicolas heard there of he had great compassione of 'em all and come privily in a night to this man's house & at a window he cast a b●gge of gold in to this man's chanbre. and on the morrow when this man ●ose and found this gold a none there with he married his eldest daughter then come nicolas & brought another soon after and there with he married the second daughter then this man had great marvel how this gold come the their and waked privily to know there of a●● the third time Nicolas come and this man heard the gold fall anon he went out and overtook Nicolas and when he know that it was he that had helped him so in his need he kneeled down and would have kyssid his feet but he would not suffer it but prayed him to keep counsel while he levied.  
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Also another time men where in the see like to be drowned in a great tempest they cried to god & saint nicolas seeing thus Domine rex eterne succurre nobis misery. Lord king ever lasting succour us wrechiss & anon nicolas come and said. Docasti● me ecce assum presena ●o I am present at your calling and so brought 'em forth save and sound to land.  
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Also there was in the count●● in a time great dearth of corn Fame● valida and great hounger in so moche that the people where all most lost for the fault of meet then it happened there come ships of the emperors frayghte in to an haven with wheat in that country. then went saint Nicolas to hem & prayed hem that he might have of every ship a. C. bushels of her wheat for to relieve the people with And he would undyr take that they should lake none of her met when they come home than he had all his asking and when the ships come to the emperor they had her full measure and lacked no thing of her corn that saint nicolas had through his holy prayer Oquam probat sanctum dei farris augmentacio. O how marvelously be grace of god and prayer of this holy man this wheat was multiplied and increased for of that wheat was so great plenty that it found all the people to eat and drink and sowgh enough year after.  
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Anothir miracle there where two knights that where accused of treason to the emperor of a false matter and where commanded to preson for to have been put to death soon after then they cried to god and to saint nicolas for help and succour so that the night before that they should be deed saint nicolas come to the Emperor as he lay in his bed and said thus to him why haste so wrongfully dampened these knights to death a rise up anon and deliver 'em o●te of preson anon or else I will pray to god to raise battle up on the in the which thou shalt die and wild beasts shall eat the. Than said the Emperor to him what art thou that so boldly speaketh and so thretenyste me then said he I am nicolas the bishop of myrrh than the Empero 〈…〉 sent after the knights and ●●yde to hem what which craft can ye that thus hath traveled me to night know ye any man that hight Nicolas bishop of myrrh then as soon as they heard this name they fell down to the ground and held up her hands thanking god and saint Nicolas. when they had told the Emperor of his life and how holy he was the Emperor ba● hem go to him and thank 'em of her life and so they deed and he preyed the knights to prey Nicolas to thretyn the Emperor no more but prey to god for him and for his ream and so they deed. Thus ye may see that he hath great compassion of him that where in dissese. then after when saint Nicolas should die he prayed to god to send him an angel to fet his soul. And when he saw this angel come saint Nicolas lowted and said. In manua tu●● domint commendo spi ritum meum redemisti me domine dt no veritatis. And so he yield up the ghost. and when he was bery●d at the heed of his tom be sprang a well of oil that deed medicyns to all sores then it hap pyd many yeris after that turkys destroyed the cite of myrrh there as seinte nicolas lay and when the people of the cite of Barus heard that the eite of myrrh was destroyed. xlvij. knights where ordained to go the dyr than they arrayed ships and went the thyr and be telling of four monks that where left there they knew saint nicolas tomb and undid it a none and there they found saint Nicolas bones swimming in oil than they took 'em up and brought 'em to the cite of Barus with great solemnity. then for great miracles that where wrought there in the cite of mirre encrefid ●yene And so after saint nicolas was deed they chose another bishop in his stead and anon after by enmity of the people he was put down from his bishopric and than anon the oil seized and ran no more. then was the bishop called again to him 〈…〉 than the oil sprang●oute again as it deed tofore and deed many miracles.  
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Theridamas was a criston man borrowed a certain some of money of a jew and the jew said he would leanly none but he had a borrow. and this christian man said he had none but saint nicolas & he granted to take saint nicolas to borrow Than this christian man s●ore up on the altar that he would well and truly pay this money ayeny & so departed and went her weigh till day of payment come and when this day was passed than the igwe asked his money and this christian man saide that he had paid him & the jew saide nay he had not. and that other saide he had and that he would do his law and swear up on a book And so when the day come that they should go to the law the christian man made him an hollow staff and put the gold there in and so come to the law. And when he should swear while he went to the bo lie he took the jew his staff there the gold was in to hold. And by this mean swore he had paid the jew and when he had sworn he took his staff of the jew a yene and went homewards And as he went by the weigh he was pass sing sleepy and he laid him down to sleep in the high weigh then it happened there come a cart running and went over this man and slew him and broke his staff that the gold was in and the gold fill out. then the people saw that this come of great vengeance for the falsehood that he had done And they fet the jew and bade him take up his money. then was the jew sorry and said he would not but if that they would prey seinte nicolas to rear him again than he would be christian. ●eleuauit a defuncti● defunctum.  
then this deed man was reared from death to life by the prayer of saint nicolas Baptisator auri viso indeus indicio then this igwe that was out of the believe by the fight of this miracle he was christened.  
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Also there was anothyr jew that saw the great might of saint Nicolas in miracles worthing and he let make an image of saint Nicolas and set it in his ship to keep his good and charged the image to keep well his good while he was absent and when this man was gone there come thiefs of the see and rob this man and bare a weigh his good And when this jew come home again and saw all his good gone he was full wroth with saint Nicolas and took a staff and all to beat this image & saide. Ecce omnia bona mea posui in veltra custodia joqd he I took all my good to your keeping for great trust and it is stole a weigh ye have disseved me and there for thou shalt a buy every day till I have my good again. Than as these thieves departed the good saint Nicolas come to hem and said Cur tam direct fe cistia me flagellari why have ye made me be betyn thus sore Than they said Quia eatn what art thou that spe●yste thus to us Than he said Ego sum Nicolava serwa dei. I am Nicolas the servant of god that ye have made thus sore be betyn and showed 'em how sore he was betyn for the good that they had borne a weigh that was taken him to keep and he bade hem go and bear this good again a none or else God's vengeance shall fall one you and ye shall be hanged in hell everyone. Than they were sore a feared and bore again the good that same night And one the morrow when the jew come and saw his good brought again anon he was christened and after that he was an holy man And every year after on seinte Nicolas day for the great love that he had to saint Nicklas and also of a son that he had that was a clerk he made a great feast on saint Nicolas day than it happened on a time up one a saint Nicolas day he bad many clerc●ys to his feast then come the find to the gate in likeness of a pilgreme and a shyd some good for God's sake. then the good man that made the feast took his son elmesse to bear the pelgre me so the child went to the gate than was the pelgreme gone And the child followed after the fiend. And when he was a good weigh from his fadyris place the fiend caught the child and slew it And when the father heard there of he was full sorry and took the child and laid it in his chambre and tried for sorrow and said a saint Nicolas is this the reward and meed that I shall have for the great worship that I do to the and anon the child rose from death to life than this man was full glad and thanked god and saint Nicolas.  
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Anothir miracle there was a man that prayed to god and to saint Nicolas that he might have a child and if he had a child he would lead it to the church of saint Nicolas and there he would offer up a couppe of gold and than soon after he had a child. And when this child was of reasonable age his father deed do make a couppe of gold And when it was made it liked him so well that he let make another and than he went towards saint Nicolas church and he must pass over the see. So when they were in the see the father bad the son take up some water with the couppe. And than the child would have caught water and the couppe fill out of his hand in to the see And than the child would have caught the couppe again and fill after in to the see and so the child was drowned there in the see. then the father made moche sorrow but yet he went forth with the othir couppe to do his pilgrimage And when he come to saint Nicolas church and offered up his couppe and set it on the Auter anon it was cast from the altar and he set it again & it was cast ferther and yet the thrid time he set it again and than it was cast moche ferther then come the child with the othir couppe in his hand and said to all the people that saint nicolas took him up by the hand when he fill in to the see and let him save out. then was the father glad and of feared up there both coupes and went home a yene with great joy and mirth.  
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There was anothyr rich man that be preyores of saint Nicolas had a child and he made a feyre chapel in worship of god and saint Nicolas. So it happened on a day this child was take wi●h enemies and lad in to another straying country & there he was in service in the kings court And as it happened on a saint Nicolas day he be thought him of the great mirth and solemnity that was made that day in his fathers chapel at home and he was heavy and sikyd wonder sore. then the king heard there of then said the king Nicolas what meneste thou to sight so sore be merry for thou must needs a bide here with us And anon there come a great wind and smote the house and burst it And the child was caught up with the cup that he bore in his hand and was set be fore the gate of the Chapel there as his father made his feste. then was there made great joy and mirth of this miracle. To thus ye may see how great compassione that saint Nicolas had of 'em that where in misheve and dissese some books say that this child was of Normandy and was take with a sowdon be yond the see and oft he was betyn. And once when he was betyn up on a saint Nicolas day and put in to preson than he wept sore And with that he fell on sleep And when he work he was in the church of his fathers.   

De concepcione heat marry virginie.  
Ood men & women soche a day ye shall have the conception of our lady the which day and feast holy church maketh mind and mention of the conception of our lady for three special causes The first is for her fathers holiness The second for her modres goodness And the thrid for her meekness She had a father that was called joachim that was so holy a man that when he was but xu winter of age he departeth all his good in to three parties. And one part he dealed to widows and to fadyrles children The second part he gave to them that where poor and needy. The thryde part he kepithe to himself and his household And when he was xxxij winter of age for the great goodness of Anne he wedded her And when they where wedded they where to gedyr xxij year in the which time Anne never displeased him with no manner thing nother night neither day. For she was so gentle to him for they where both good and holy yet god sent 'em no fruit of her bodies but where barren. where fore they made a vow to god that if he would send 'em a child they would offered unto him up to the temple for to serve god both night and day.  
then on a day as joachim went with his neyborus to the temple to do his offerings The bishop that hight Isachar whukyd him openly before all the people and said joachim it falleth not for the that art barren and haste no fruit to do offerings with other people that god hath sent fruit in Jherusalem Than was joachim sore dismayed and distonyed with this rebuke Than he went home weeping and took his schepard privily with his schepe and went forth into a far country a mongt mountains and hyllis and purposed to have be there all his life and never more to come home to Anne his wife then when ioachym was gone Anne was sorry and prayed to god and said lord that me is woe that I am barren and may have no fruit and now more my husband is gone from me I wot not whethir he is be come lord have mercy on me. then as she prayed thus an angel come down and comforted her and saide anne be of good comfort for thou shalt have a child in thine old age there was never none like ne never shall be. then was anne a feared of this angels his word is & of the ●ighte of him and lay all weigh in her prayers as she had be deed. then went the same Angel to joachim & saide these same words and bad joachim take a lamb and offyr it in sacrifice to god and so he deed and when he had done so from midday till evensong time he lay on the ground in his prayers thanking god with all his heart. then on the morrow as the angel bade he went homeward to Anne his wife with his sheep And when he come nigh home the Angel come to Anne and bad her go to the gate that was called the goldyn gate and a bide her husband there till he come. then was she glad and took her meydenes with her and went to the gate and there schemette with ioachym and said lord I thank the for I was a widow and now am a wife I was barren and now I shall have a child I was woe and weeping and now I shall be in joy liking And soon after anne conseyved our lady And when she was borne she was called marry as the angel bad before.  
Than after that she was weened she was brought to the temple and left there among othir virgins to serve god both night and day. Than was she so meek among all other virgins in all her leaving that all virgins cally● her queen of virgins So she is the mekyste of all the saints that be ●● heaven and most redye●● to help all them that calleth to her in any need.  
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we read in holy write a miracle of our lady.  
There was a lords man that had gathered much good of his lords for he was his rent gaderar and went to bear it to his lord Than was their theses that set for him to rob him by the weigh in the wood there as he must needs go thourghe So when he come in to the wooed he be thought him that he had not saide our lady sauter as he was wont to do And he kneeled down and began to say. then come our lady like a fair madyne and set a garlounde on his heed and at each ave she set a rose in the garlounde that was so bright that all the wood shone there of and when he had done he kissed the earth and went his weigh. then come the theses and took him and led him to her master the which had sayen all these doings than saide he to him what woman was that that set the garlaunde on thine heed and he said ●irre for so the y sye no woman ne garlaunde Than said these master these I wot well thou art a lords man & haste much good with the but I would fain weet what woman that it was that come to the and why thou knelyst down and he said when I sigh you I was a feared and also y be thought me that I had not said our lady sauter and kneeled down to say it preying our lady to help me at my need than said he for her love go thy weigh and prey to her for us and so he went his weigh safe and sound be help and succour of our dear lady.  
But now ye shall here how this feast was first found. There was a king in england that hight wyllyam conqueror he sent the abbot of ramsey to the king of denemarke on his message and when he come in to the see there come a darkness and a tempest that he and all that where with him went to have be drowned. And every man prayed busily to god and to our lady for succour and help and other diverse seynt●s and this abbot prayed to god and to our lady full devotely Than come to hem a fair woman and said to them if ye will have the contepcione of our lady in worship that is two days after saint nicolas day she will be ready to help and succour you at this time and than this abbot said ye with good will and y woste what should be the service of the feste. then said she the same that is in the nativity safe turn the nativity in to the conception And the abbot saide it should be done with full good will. than anon the tempest ●●ssed and all was well and they saylid forth & the Abbot deed his message and come again safe and sound & sped well in every degree. And when he come home he told the king this vision the king made him preach it in all the ream about  
And thus it was a lowed in all holy church.  
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Also we find that there was a secular canon that one a time went over a water to have done a vowtrey with a woman And as he was a bout to be gynne to say our lady matenes & as he was at the invitatory that is ave maria there with the fiend cast him down and drowned him & would have had him to hell. than come our lady & said why haste thou take this man the fiend said for we find him in our service going to do a vowtrey. than said our lady he was in my service & anon restored him to life again & bade him do no more sin And bade him to hallow also her conception so he deed and was a good man ever after all his life.  
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Also there was a clerk that every day used to say the service of our lady than it happed be council of his friends he should have a wife and when he should be wedded he be thought him that he had not said our lady service. Than he made all the people to go out of the church while he said his service And than he kneeled a down and said his service till he come to an antem of our lady Quam pulchra es amica mea. then our lady appeared unto him and said why saist thou that I am fair and honest why wit thou than leave me and take another then said he on to our lady what wolte thou that I shall do than said our lady if thou wolte leave thy fleschely wife and serve my son and me I shall be thy spouse and thou shalt have with me a crown of ever lasting life in the kingdom of ever ●astyng bliss the which god and his blessed modyr saint marry and all holy seinties in heaven bring us all thethir now and ever Amen.   

Sequitur sermo brevis de sancto thoma apostolo.  
GOod men and women such a day ye shall have saint thomas day that was christs apostle and ye shall fast the even & do him worship specially for three causes The first for the preving of our believe And for great wounderes in his weigh And great miracles in his day. This holy apostle proved so our faith that he left no trouble for when the disciples said that our lord was resyn from death to live and they had say him and spoke with him Thomas said he would not believe it till he had put his hand in to his side in to the wound that the spear had made. then eight days after when all the disciples were to gedyr and Thomas wi●h hem then our lord Jesus Christ come bodily to hem and saide Par vobis Pees be with you and than our lo●de said to Thomas of ynde. Mitte manum tuam in latus meum Put thy hand in to my side in to the wound that was made with the spear that smote me to the heart. Et noli esse incredulus. And be no longer out of the believe but be stead fast in the faith then when thomas had do so a none he cried and saide for great wonder. Dominua meus et deus meus. my lord my god I believe that thou art very god and man.  
then our lord said to him Beatiqui crediderunt et non viderunt. blessed be though that believe and see not. for now thou haste sayne thou beleviste but yet the taring of Thomas brought us to sadder believe and to the blessing of our lord Jesus christ Of this speak saint Gregori and saith thomas of ynde thou haste holp more to the faith that wouldst not believe till thou haddiste feeled his wound than did mary mawdeleyne that did believe at first sight M●nus est enim in maria magdalene que cicius credidit quam Thomas qui diu dubitavit Thus Thonas proved our faith and our believe that we needed never to vary nor be in doubt. Also thomas did many meruallies & great wounderies that were in his days.  
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Hit happid that a king of ynde send his messenger Abbanus. In die requirens artificium to seek some crafty man in to the country of cesar to seek a carpenter that could make him a palyse to his pleasance then our lord Jesus Christ meet with this abbanus and sent him to Thomas in to ind also when thomas and Abbanus were passed the see they come in to a cite there as the kings daughter was wedded the same day where fore all manner of people were commanded to meet so among othir people thomas and abbanus come in and where set to meet but thomas eat not for his thoghte was ever of god and had no lust to eat then come a botelere to thomas and smote thomas on the cheek and bade him eat than said Thomas to him Non hunt surgam donec manus qui me percussit a ●anibus affertur. I shall not rise from this place till that hand that smote me be brought in with a dog then anon after the Boteler went after water and a lion met with him and flew him and drank his blood & eat of his body and than come a black dog and caughde that hand that smote thomas and brought it in to the hall in the sight of all the people and laid it down before thomas than was there a woman that understood thomas words and anon kneeled down to thomas and cried and said thou art god or else on of his disciples for right as thou wolte so it is than the king prayed to thomas to bless his daughter and her husband. than thomas was glad there of. Cepit ergo predicare beatus thomas. therefore the blessed thomas be gan to preach & told 'em of our Jesus christ that he turned the man that was wedded the same day from his wife and made him bishop of the same cite and his wife a nun and they were marteries after for christs sake then went thomas forth in to ind to the king to make him a palace to his pleasance so when thomas was come to the king he was glad and delivered Thomas a great sum of gold to make a palace with. than road the king forth in the mean time And so when thomas should have made this palace him thought it was better to make a palace in heaven than in er●h and dealed his gold a 'mong poor people and converted 'em to the faith then come the king home and went that his palace had be ready made And when he heard how Thomas and Abbanus had done he would have put 'em to death but it happed that his own brother was deed the same time & therefore he put 'em both in prison in to the time that he had buried his brother then as god would when his brother had long lay deed he rose from death to life and told the king that he had say his palace in paradise that thomas had made for him and prayed the king that he might have it and he would give him as much gold as he took thomas then the king took his counsel and said nay I w●ll have it myself let him make the another for his brother had say this paleyce in paradise made with gold and ●rayed with precious stones and cloth of gold. then the king took cristendome and many a thousend with him and when the bishops saw that the king and so moche othir people for soak her lawus and turned to cristondome they where so wroth with thomas that one of them saide he would venge his god and with a spear smote thomes thourghe the body and slew him Than christian people buried him in a tomb of crystal and there god wot wrought many miracles for him For the hand that was in christs side would never come in to the tomb but ever lay with out Also in his teaching and preaching he taught Duodecim gdua virtutum assignare Primua est ut in deum crederent ●ui est unua in essencia et trinua in personi●. Dedit eis triplex exemplum se●sibile quomodo sint individencia una▪ tre● person▪ Primum est quia una est in homine sa●iēcia et de una procedit intellectus. memoria et ingenium memoria est ut non obliviscaria in tellecto. ut intelligas que ostendi possunt vel doceri ingenium est ut quod didiceri● invenias Secundum est quia in una vinea tria sunt lignum folium et fructus. Et her omnia tria sunt vinea. Tercium est quia caput nostrum ex quatuor sencibu● constat In uno autem capite sunt Disu● a●ditua adoratu● et gustus et hec plurasunt et tamen unum caput. Secundus gradua est ut baptismum suscipiat. Terciu● gradus est ut a fornicacione abstineat. Quartu● ut se ab avaricia teperet. Quintua ut gulam distringeret. Sertu● ut penit●ciam teneret Septimus ut in hiis perseverarent Ocrauns' ut hospita litatem amarent. Nonus ut voluntatem dei requirant Decimu● est ut facienda quererent Vndecimu● ut caritatem amicia et innimici● impenderent Duodecimu● est ut custodianthiia vigile● curam exhiherent Item apostalus Omnea qui oderant deum de tribus breviter instruxit scilicet ut ecclesiam diligerent Sacerdotes honora rent Et assidue adverhum dei convenirent. Also there be many marvelous & wonder full things done on this day for on that day all the country cometh the dyr to take pardon of that hand that lieth out of the tomb in the use of the bishop of the cite that goeth to mass. And when he hath said Confite or than he taketh a branch of a vine and put it in to thomas hand that is out of the tomb and than he goeth forth to mass and the branch burgeneth out grapus and be that time the gospel be said the grapis be ripe than the bishop taketh the grapis and wryngith the wine in the chales & so singith with the same wine and hoselyth the people. and when any man or woman cometh that is not worthy to receive this hosell anon the hand closithe to gedyr and will not open till he be shriven clean and than it will open Also if any people be in debate they shall be brought be fore thomas tomb & there the cause shall be rehearsed than will the hand turn to him that is in the right and so they be made at one. Thus thomas proveth our believe and did many wyntres in his days. Also johan crisostomus saith that thomas come in to the country there as the three kings of coleyn were and thomas christened 'em for they had shipped god in his birth And there fore thomas come to hem and taught 'em the faith & the believe of christ to that believe that we may be saved god bring us all Amen.   

De nativitate domini nostri Ihesu cristi.  
GOod men and women as ye heryn and sayne as holy church maketh mind and mention of the great mirth and me lodye of the blessed birth of our lord Jesus christ very god & man that was this day borne of his modyr marry in succour of all man kind But in e special for three causis first to give pese to man of good will and to light 'em that were dark in sin and for to draw us with love to him. then as to the first cause he was borne to give men piece of good will I may well prove this for when he was borne angels songhe thus Gloria in excelsia deo etc. joy be to god in heaven & pese in earth to man kind of good will At midnight our lord was borne for be kind all thing was in peace & rest inshewing that he was and is Princepa pacia Prince of piece & come to make peace be twyxe god and man and be twyxe the angel and man and be twyx man and man And for to be true mediator be twyx god and man he took nature and kind of both and was both verray god and man and by his mediation he knit the love of god to man so sadly that the father of heaven spared not him that is his own but sent him in to this world to buy man kind with his precious blood thourghe his great meekness to joy of paradise that man had lost be covetise of unbuxsumnes.  
Thus he made peace be twyx god and man and man and man. for when angels say her lord wroth with man for his unbursumnes for it is a sin that angels hatyn greatly. Ther fore they kept the gates of paradise and would let no soul come in till they say her lord borne of man kind then a none for love of our lord the angels did mankind worship & spoke goodly to mankind as to the sheperdies that keptyn her sheep in the country by They bade 'em go to the cite of Bethlem and there they should find a child borne and laid in a crache and bad hem do him worship and so they dedyn And ever sin angels have been friendly to man and lowly end have done reverence to mankind for the incarnation of our lord Jesus Christ. Thus he made peace between angels & man Also he made peace between man and man for a yene the time that our lord would be borne he made so great peace that in all the world there as kingdoms and countries were in debate and warred each with othyr on to the time of our lords birth. Than there was so great peace that a man that was called octavian Emperor of rome and he had the governance of the world for all the world was subiete to rome and it dured. thirty. winter in so much that there was a maumment sent out from rome in to all the world comaunding to all manner of people should go to the cite that he drew lineage of & lay a penny upon his heed and so offer it up in knoleching that he was sogette to the Emperor of rome. Than must Joseph our ladies husband needs go to the cite of Bethleem for to offer with other people but for he had no money to offer he took an ox with him to sell at the cite to make money to do his de●te with but for he durst not leave our lady be hind him for she was nigh her tyme. And there fore he set her upon an ass and took her with him. And so when they come to the cite of Bethleem it was so full of people so that Joseph and our lady might have no loging but turned in to a cabon that was made betwyxse two houses there as the people of the country set her horses and their asses and other bestis when they come in to the town to the market and so there they found a crache with hay And they set the ox and the ass there to and so there they tarried all that night. And when hit was a little be fore midnight our lady bad Joseph go in the town and look her for a myddewyffe when the time was come she should be delivered asked her where there should after him any be borne that should be greater than he then at mid day Sibyl looked in the son and there she say a circle of gold a bout the son Et in medio circuli virgo pulch errima And the mid dies of the circle a fair maiden and a child in her arm with a crown of gold And when sybil had showed this to the Emperor she said to him this child shall be greater than those art or ever were or ever shall be and ther fore do him worship and reverence Than a none the emperor took incense and deed worship to him and charged all the people to do the same and to call the child her god & him but a man as other were. Thus all christian people may learn to do worship and service to this child this day And there fore the third mass this day is said at mid day in tokening that christian people should come and offer in the worship of this child and his modyr and shown him servant and subject to him and knoleche this child for his lord and his god and each man should come to him for love and not for dread And there fore the office of the mass this day beginneth thus Puer natus est nohis. A child is borne to us he saith and not a man for all christian people should be bold and not a feared to come to him to have grace for he is full of grace and ready to give mercy to hem that askith it meekly with dew reverence he is ever ready to give mercy and grace.  
In tokening that same day that christ was borne in Bethleem a well of water in rome turned and ran oil all that day showing that the well of grace and mercy was borne that day that should give mercy and grace to all them that would come to him and ask mercy and grace and that ye shall here be ensample.  
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we read of a woman that was defouled in lechery and all most fill in despair of dread. for when she be thought her of the streytenesse of Christ's doom and the gre●● horrible pains of hell that were ordained for such sinners as she was ●or● a feared and be thought her of Christ's passion what love he showed to all christian people she thought she was unkind to him and he suffered so sore for h●● And than she be thought her how children be they never so wroth and show never so great vengeance how lightly they will sese and for give where fore this woman a none cried to Criste preying him for his child he de to for give her and to have mercy on her and a none she heard a voice an high in the eyre and said thy trespass is for yeven the Amen.   

Sequitur ●●●uis sermo de sanrto stephano.  
GOod men and women such a day ye shall have an high day and a holy feast in the church of saint Stephen the martyr the which was the first martyr that suffered death for God's sake after Christ's ascension. Than for to steer your devotion the more to this holy martyr. I will tell you some what that he suffered for Christ's sake as the book of apostles telleth Post ascensionem domini. after the ascension of our lord that he was styed●vp in heaven the apostles labour was all to preach and to teach the word of god to christian people And for they where to few to serve all the people that room. there come so many to turn to the faith there for they chose vi holy men and good livers for to help 'em in God's service of the which saint stephen was one of 'em and the first and the wisest and was so full of grace and might of the holy ghost that he did many miracles and marvelous among the people. But though a man be never so holy ●it he shall have enemies wherefore of diverse countries that had enmity to stephene and come again him and disputed with him for to have over come him with disputation and for they might not they brought false wyttenesse against him to put him to death But when saint Stephene saw and know her malice anon he thought to sese 'em be on of these three ways othir be shaming in disputation or be dread of revolation or be preyours of holy orysones. But first he said be shamyngm disputacione For when they be gone to dispute with him he was so full of the holy ghost that they had no pour nor no might for to a gain say him And so he over come 'em in all her matters and proved all her matters false that they saide against And there for he said he was ready to take the death in very fiing of all that he said And so put 'em that where great clerks and knew the law and the prophecy to great shame and villainy. But yet they would not leave but alway again stood him.  
But he was so full of the holy ghost that he proved that he said be great reason and truth yet would not they be leave it for all that the holy ghost spoke in heart and yet for all that would not they believe in their conscience that they deed a miss and there as they say the commynte turn to the faith for words and miracles that god showed in her sight yet they again stood him and set God's miracles at nought be malice and enmity of her cursed hearts and by none othir reason of scripture. And so they fretid her hearts within himself and grugged with her teeth for anger and how that they might over come him with disputation Than they sought if they might have take him with some word of Cristes' death where by they might have made them a cause to have put him to death then saint stephene knew her malice and lift up his eyen into heaven Et vidit celos apertos And he saw heaven open and our lord ihe so christ sitting on his father right hand ready to help him. And there with his face shone as bright as it had be an angel of heaven But when they heard him speak than where they fain and stopped her ears as though they had heard him speak false slander of god and so a none drow him out of the cite to stone him to death as for adisclaunderer then they took two young men that could best hurl stones and took of his clothes and laid him at the feet of a young man that hight Saul and after was saint paul Than when saint stephen saw that he might not sese her malice be revelacione showing he turned to devout orison preying and yet it would not be And than they hurled stones at him and smote out his brain and than he cried to god and said Domine i●e su suscipe spm̄ meum O thou lord take my spirit for he would pray more devoutly for his enemies than for himself he kneeled down to the ground and saide Pater ignosce illis quia nesciunt quid faciunt. father for give 'em for they wot not what they do and anon he slept in god. Now take heed what brenning love he had in his heart to god that prayed more devoutly for his enemies than for himself In this he gave an ensample to all christian people to be in charity echon with other and to pray for his enemies and hem that pursue him and do him dissese ●ni●ersa delicta cooperiit caritas charity hidith every trespass for he that preyth for his enemies that martyr him with any dissese and sufferyth patiently he is a martyr be fore god For there is▪ iij. manner of martyrdoms. The first is be passion and will there to be will with out passione be passione with out will The first is showed by saint stephene that is set next the birth of christ for he suffereth passione and had will there to saint johan the evan geliste he had will but no passione The innocentes they suffered passion and no will there to but not against will Thus may a man be a martyr though he shed not his blood that is when he suffered great wrong of cursed people and thankyth god there of and taketh it with good will and preyth for his enemies devoutly in clean charity Now take heed and ye shall see how these three where in perlite love and charity saint stephen when he should die he kneeled down and prayed for his enemies saint johan when he went to war dies his end he said oft to hem that lad him children love to gedyr fo● charity is now to salvation The innocentes for they were so young that they could not speak yet they showed love be signs for the deed laugh and played with her hands when they saw the knights come with her bright swords to slay 'em. than for saint stephyn was so glorious a martyr god showed many fair miracles for him.  
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There was an honest man that had seven. sons and iij. daughters but in miss hap on a day all they wrathed the mother at ones and in a great anger she cursed 'em all at ones & a none there ●ill great vengeance upon hem for there come such a sickness one her privy membres that they were so for gnawyn that they might nethir a bide for woe but walkithe up & down in the country like mased bestis that all the people that saw 'em had great ●ite of hem  
then happed it so that one of the breshere● that hight paul and a sustyr hight palida come in to church of saint stephyn and there they heard people tell how devoutly saint stephen prayed for his enemies that martyred him a none they kneeled down & prayed to saint stephene to prey to god for hem & they would be his true servants & kneeled down in the church preying saint stephene heartily of his help & a none they fill a sleep in sight of all the people & so were hole. And an on they went after all her other brethren & ●usteren and they were holpen all in the same wise  
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Anothir miracle saint Austyn telleth how there was a senator of rom● went to Jerusalem and there he made a fayrt chapel of saint stephen and there he died and was wearied in the same chapel. Than long after his wife would home in to her country & would fain have had her husbands bones with her in to her own country & prayed the bishop that she might have 'em  
Than the bishop brought saint stephenes' bones & her husbands bones to her & saide I know not thy husbands bones from saint stephenes' bones & she was glad and said I know my husbands bones well enough took saint stephen bones in s●ede of h●r husbands Than when she come far in the see angels song with great melody in the eyre & there was a passing s●●ete savour that come out from the bone that passed any spicety in the world. And a none they heard fiends cry in the eyre & said woe woe is us for stephen be▪ dithe us & burnyth us bitterly & there with reysid a great tempest● that the shippemen wend for to have be drowned for great fere cry▪ d to saint stephen & a none the tempest ses●d Than the people heard the fiends cry thus thou cursed prince our master thou nor we may do n●ne harm to this ship for stephen our adversary is ●herynne Than the prince of fiends sent v. fiends for to have burned the ship▪ but than God's angel was ready & drowned the fiends in the ground of the s●e And so when they come to the land with the ship fiends cried & saide God's servant cometh that was stoned to death with the iewis And than in worship of saint stephene the people made a church & laid his bones ●her in where god wrought many a fair miracle for him.   

De sancto io●āne evangelist.  
GOod friend is such a day ye shall have an high feast in holy church the ●este of saint johan evangelist the which was God's own d●rlyng. where for all holy church maketh mind and mention of the specialte that once lord gaffe to him for any other of his disciples Our lord gave him grace to keep his ● ginite and of keeping of his mother and our lord showed him his prynyte He gave him grace to keep his virginity that is maydynhode. For this story telleth and the people have opynned when johan should wed Mary maudeleyne Christ callidr him and he come & sero●d him and johan left the worlds vamte & sewed our lord and so kept himself clean maiden till he passed out of this world In preving of this when Domician the Emperor of Rome heard the people tell that johan preached in a country that was called asia and there johan made to build many churches and when the Emperor heard that he sent after johan and made him be put in a brayson ton full of seething oil. and when johan had long sodyn there in that all the people wend that he had be all to sodyn and deed then the Emperor bad open the ton and when the ton was open johan come out of the ton and as ●e was clean of all sin so was he clean of all manner of b●ennyng or harm in all parties of his body. A nother hard torment he had on a day johan saw a temple of jews and was full of mawmentry and than he prayed to god to destroy it & a none there with it fill down to the ground ●all to powdyr. where fore Aristodimus the bishop of the temple was so wroth that he put johan in to prison then saide johan yet wolte thou that I shall make the believe in Jesus christ Than saide aristo dimus I will mak● venom & make it drink be fore the & when thou seyste hem deed drink thou there of with out harm & than will I believe on thy god than said johan go & do as thou seyste than ordained the bishop poison & fet ij. men out prison that were dampened to drink of the poison & anon they were deed than saide johan if thou give venom to drink I shall call to my god And than johan took this poison and blessed it and drank there of & he was never the worse but rathir seemed the better and the fairer for as he was clean from sin so he was clean from all grenaunce of the poison yet saide the bishop he would not believe unto the time he had say these ij. men ar●rid from death to life that where deed. then johan cast of his cote and saide Dade et mitte ●a●c tunicam super corpora defunctorum. Go and lay this cote upon the deed bodies and say thus Ihesu christus apostle sent me to you and bad that ye should a rise up in God's name and a none they resyn to life again. Than the bishop with many other turned and believed in christ and johan christened hem and after the bishop was a full holy man Thus johan had grace to kept him clean both body & soul and thus he was a martyr to fore god in with standing of sin Also he was keeper of christus mother for our lord saw the great cleanness that was in johan be fore all other when our lord should die he saide to johan. Ecce matter tua. See thy modyr and be took johan the keeping of his mother and our lord saide to his mother Ecce filins tuns See thy son and so be took eythir to othir and when our lord was deed and lay in his tomb johan took our lady home with him in to his house and kept her till our lord ●hesu christ was a reason from death to life ayen And when our lord was stied up in to heaven he kept our lady in the same chambre as long as she levied after thus he had grace of keeping of God's mother Also he had grace of knowing of christus puite for this was first when our lord sat at his supper on sherthursday for great love that johan had to our lord Ihesu christ he laid his head to christus breast and in the same wise as a man leythe his body down to a well & drynkithe his body full of water right so johan drank his soul full of ghostly wisdom at christus breast and at the same time our lord showed him all his privity be fore all other. And for he was old and would not leave to preach the word of god the Emperor exiled johan himself alone in to the isle of pache mo● And there god showed him the apocalippes of the world and of the day of doom and as he saw it he wrote it in great fermation of holy church But after wh● he Emperor was deed johan was called again in to the Cite of Emphesie for there he was Bishop and he come the dyr. And there was a widow that hight drusiana was deed and laid on a bear then johan saw much people weep for her and than he saide Drusiana arise up and make me some meet and anon she rose and went for ●he as she had rose from sleep  
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Hit happid on a time there were ij. young men be preaching of johan they sold all the good that they had and went forth with johan for they were rich men than on a day as they come to the Cite of Pargame they that were her servants a lite●● while tofore they were well a ●ayde and where rich men and they were poor men. then by temptation of the find they f●re thought all their purpose and were so●y that they had lost her goods So anon be revelatione of god johan know her purpose and her hearts and saide he saw that the send tempted you and maketh you for thinking your purpose that ye were in to serve god but go ye to the wood and ethyr of you bring with him a board on of small yerdies and so they deed. Than thourghe the prayer of johan god turned the yerdis in to gold and than saide johan to hem thus now take ye this gold and be ye as rich as ye were tofore and know well ye have lost the kingdom of heaven Than happed it that there was a man deed t●● same time and the modyr of him saw johan and a none fill down on her knees and prayed him that he would raise her son to live as he deed the widow drusiana Than prayed johan to god and this deed man ●ose ayen to life. Than said he to him I bid the tell these ij. men what thou haste sayn and what joy was ordained for hem and how they have lost it. And than the man told of the joy of paradise and of the pains of purgatory & of hell how strong and how horrible the were and how glorious the place was ordained for hem and how sorry her good angels were for they had lost that glorious bliss of heaven and how much joy the fiend's made of the turning of 'em And than the same men were sorry and cried to johan and prayed him to pray to god for hem and wept sore and johan saw 'em we●e he prayed to god for hem and yaffe 'em penance and when he had do so anon the gold turned in to yerdis a yene and after they were holy men.  
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A nother holy revelation Johan had showed by the privity of god it happed one a day he saw a child that was like to have be a man where for Johan brought him to abishoppe and bad him keep the child and teach him for in time coming he shall be a man and so this bishop kept him and when he come to man ne● state he ga●●e him all to folly and fill in company of ●heuys and in a while after he was a mastir thief and the leader of 'em Than be revelation of god johan knew all this well enough come to the bishop & asked him where this child was and the Bishop told him. than Johan blamed him & saide that he had misgoverned the child Than Johan was old & might not well go h● took in horse and rodè there as thefeo were and when thyffe saw Johan anon he fleye a weigh than Johan wooed after him and cried & saide Quid fugia O fili mi. thou my son why fleiste thy father a bide me dear son and speak with me thy father that is old and may not well go & than at the last this man abode then johan p ched so that he left his folly and after was so holy a man that he was bishop after. Thus had johan revelation of gods previte.  
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Hit is wreton in the life of seinte Edward the confessor that ly●he at wesomestre that saint Johan the evangelist appeared to saint Edward as he went a procession at the hallowing of the church seinte johan appeared to him in the likeness of a palmer & prayed the king of good for saint Johannes' love the evangelist for the king loved saint Johan well but it happed that the king had no thing ready there but as he took a'rynge of his fingir and gave him and so saint johan had the ring seven year after and than saint johan appeared to ij. knights of the kings that were be yond the see towards Jerusalem and asked hem how the king feared and bade great him well on this token & took 'em the ring & ask the king for whose love he gaffe that a weigh & bid him make him ready for he shall die soon & so he deed  
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A nother fair reuel●cion he had when he was sixti winter old & seven Than our lord ihe so come to him with his disciples & saide thus.  
Deni di●ecte min● tempus est ut in mea mensa cum fratih●a tuis epularia  
Come my well-beloved darling for now it is time that thou come & eat with thy brethren in my board or in my feste. than johan rose up ano●● would have go forth with him than saide our lord to him upon sunday thou 〈…〉 e be with me then by sunday he was passing feeble Die dominico convenit ad johannem universa multitudo populi So on the sunday there come to iohan a great multitude of people & than johan made 'em to lead him to the church and as he might speak he saide to hem that led him thus.  
In fide essetia sta hiles et in mandatia dei feruentea Be ye stable & sad in the faith & fervent in the commandments of god then saide on of hem to him why say ye thus oft to us than saide be if ye love to gedyr and be in perfit charity and stead fast in the faiths it is enough salvation & there for be ye stable in the faith and fervent in the commandments of god And thanue he commanded to make him a grave be fore the altar & when itw as made he went in to it and than come such a light about him a great while that no man might see him And when this light was gone the grain was full of manna & wellid up a● doth sand in the watyr And thus he departed out of this world into the bliss of heaven that never shall have end to that bliss bring us all to he that died on the road t●●● for all mankind Amen   

Sanctorum inno ●●●tum  
GOod friends ●● che a day is called Innocentes day some people ca●le but children mass day for children were slave that day for Cristus sak they be called innocentes that is to say with out sin for they deed no sin for god is ever greatly 〈◊〉 with sin and in special with proud people against her neighbours doing 'em wrong These innocentes deed never syn●s ●● consenting to sin where for I may well s●y that they levied here with out shame & d●●d with out blame & were christened in her own blood at home and some in her▪ moderes arms. holy church as this day singithe and redithe in the worship of these innocentes for they were with in ij. year of age and there for they were not a shamed of her own shape for they were not defouled with no manner spot of sin. but the sin that they had of the drawte of kind of our father Adam and Eue. For Adam and Eve were in the same wise in paradise the state of innocentrie fore they where naked but they were not ashamed of her shape all the while the were with out sin but as soon as they had do sin anon they saw her own shape and were ashamed there of and covered her shapp with levys of a fig tree Right so when sin beginneth to take rood in a child than innnocensie goeth a weigh from him for he know with good from ille & ille from good and leaveth the good and doth ille than he synnethe and than he is not innocent no longer for than grevithe he god. But these children levied not so long to know that on from that other but were slain with in age of innocentrie where fore they levied her life with out shame and blame For king herowde the king of iewis made to slay 'em with out guilt. For when the iij. kings come to king herowde and saide to him Obi est ●ni natua est re● indeorum where is he that is home king of ●e wis and bad him tell 'em for they w●re come to worship him far out of the East. then wa● king herowde foul a stoyned of her word is and asked his clerks where this child should be borne and they saide in Bethleem inde And than king herowde told 'em so and bad hem go thethir and worship him and come again by me that I may go & worship him. also and so the kings went thethir and worshipped christ and when they had done here offerings to Christ Per aliam ni● reversi sunt in regionem suam By an other weigh they turned home again For the Angel bade 'em do so in her sleep Than was king herowde wondyr wroth and anon ordained to slay ceiste and when he had made all ready there to it happed so that the Emperor of rome sent after him for to come to him in all the haste that he might for. n. of his own sons had accused him to the Emperor of treason Than herowde left all his purpose of christ as at that time and road to rome and had the better of his sons and come home again with more worship than he had tofore But yet he thought all weigh to slay Christ left christ had come to man's estate and would have put him out of his kingdom. Than sent he a none and had slay all the children that were in Bethleem and in all the country a houte that were with in ij. year of age & that were borne same day & so they deed. For king herowde was going and coming & so tarrying ij. year & there for he made slay all that ever were with in ij. year of age And for he was so vengeable in party it fill on him self for a child of his own was slain among other the same time But there come an Angel to Joseph & saide to him Accipe puerum et matrem eius et fuge in egiptum Take the child and his mother & i'll in to egypt & be there and so he deed Thus innocentes were slain with out blame & they were not ashamed of their own shape & they were christened at home in her own blood & not in no font. There fore ye shall understand that there is three manner of christening One is in water as we be christened in the font Anothir is as these children were christened in her own blood & a thousand martirres more that shed her blood for christus sake The iij. christening is in the faith in the which all patriarchs & prophets & othyr holy faderis that were before the incarnacione of our lord Jesus Christ that believed verily in the coming of crisce the were christened in the faith Thus ye may see what enmity this tir●unt king herowde had to shed so many childerens' blood for christus sake that trespassed not to him nor to none other. There wept many a mother for their children at that time but god wrought full feyre for hem & that tyrant showed enmity & it fill on himself for as he parted an appell with the same knife he slew himself Thus he was glad to shed blood giltelese. & there for at the last he shed his own, blood.  
For he that is with out mercy & ever vengeable oft time vengeance fall lithe on himself And he that loveth to do mercy shall have mercy.  
And this I may prove by ensample.  
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We find in the life of saint Siluestre how Constantyne the Emperor was mesell and by counsel of his lechiss he made to gadyr iij. thousand children for to be slay & all her blood should be gathered in to a● ssell & the Emperor should be ●athi● all hot there in till it were ●olde. Than these children were gathered in to a place & the emperor come riding in his chair. but when he come nigh there as the moderes of the children were the moderis of the children weptyn & cry ● din & made great weymen tation on the Emperor & made a derefull noise. Than asked the emperor what women they were that made that weigh mentation & the people saide they were the moderis of the children that should ●e deed for to hele him Than saide the Emperor hit where a delefull deed of us all to make thus many to be slain that be fair bodies to hele on fowl body & I am but one man as another is & many of these her after may be full good men & worthy & stand the Emperor in good stead. ●ay saide the emperor I will not do so but late every woman take her child ayen home with her for they shall not be deed for me. And than were the women glad & merry & took her children with great joy to hem & went home. Than the night after as this emperor lay in his ●edde Petyr & paul come to him & saide for the great compassion & pite that thou haddiste on the women & her children there for send after saint Siluestre & ●e criston & thou shalt be hole & so he deed & as soon as he was christened the leper fill in to the water & he was clean fair & hole. Thus ye may see how he that will do mercy shall have mercy and they that doth vengeance shall have vengeance So did herowde vengeance & it fill upon himself & Constantyne the Emperor did mercy & he had mercy & grace I hope for ever more and so must we all Amen   

De sancto thoma epon Ca●tuarien̄.  
GOod men and women such a day ye shall have se●●t Thomas day that was slain for the right of holy church and the law of this land. This holy man saint thomas was borne in the Cite of london & his ●adir was called Gilbert that was shrive of london. Than aftyrward he ordained himself & yode in to 〈…〉 e holy land & there 〈◊〉 was take & put in p 〈…〉 Than come a worshipful woman to him and sryde yif he would ●lighte her his truth to wed her she would help him and bring him out of dissese and he deed so Than come gilbert home in to england and when this woman saw her time she come after and met in london at the church of Paul'S Than Gilbert made the bishop to criston her and after ward for to wed 'em to gedyr and gilbert gate saint Thomas on this woman. So when scho was with child she dreamed in a night that she come to saint Paul'S church but when she would have gone in she thought her womb was so great that she might not in to the church by no weigh then on the more row she went ●n to her confessor and told him all the dream than saide he dame be glad & thank god highly for thou haste a child in thy body that all holy church shall be to little to receive him then was she glad and thanked god highly and so soon after this child was borne & was called thomas. than he waxed a man and so he was a man in all degree for he served the king manly and served god worthily and died fore the lewis of holy church meekly I may well say he served the king manly for when he was made chancellor of England this land was so full of outeland men and so sore over set with hem that there might no man go by the weigh unto rob. But in short● time after Thomas with his wisdom and his manhood he drofe them out of this land that all the people might go unrobbed. Thomas wa● also manly in repeyring of the kings manners that were let down and destroyed and in special the kings palace in london at westminster that was all let fall down But between Estye and witsonty de thomas made to repair it a yene for he had there so many workmen of diverse crafts that a man should onethe here his fellow speak for donning of strokes. He was also manly in dediss of arms for there as the king had many Castellis and towns out of his hands and he spent much good to get them and shed much blood for get 'em a yene at the first and they were hold out of his hondis Than thomas with his wit and wisdom get 'em a yene Also when he was in the kings wars of france he quite him so manly that when the king of england had exiled thomas the king of france was his chief help & succour Also thomas was as manful in his array for he was clothed in the best and richest cloth and fur that might be found And also his repair to his hose sadeles brydele s●hon● as bright as any silver he was also manful in his household for hi● hall was every day in some● cheson strawed with gr●ne ruschiss And in winter with clean hay fore to save the knights clothes that sat in the flore for de haught of place to sit o● for there come so many every day to eat of his meet and drink for he would have of all manner of daints that might he found in thi● land  
In so much that the king himself many time unwarned come to Thomas to meet both for love that he had to Thomas and also to see the array and also revel that was in thomas household for there sp●ke so much people worship by Thomas. And where fore more truer and also better love that than was between the king and thomas while it last was never between to men. where for I put this ensample Hit happed that it fill in a cold winter as the king and Thomas come riding to gedyr in to cheap side at london the king was ware of a poor man that was well near naked & had no clothes and was sore a cold then said the king to thomas it were a great alms deed to give to this poor man betyr clothes Sire said thomas of such ye should take heed then had thomas on a cloth of good scarlet and well furred with rich fur than the king laid hand on this cloth and would have pullid it from thomas for to have give it to this poor man but thomas held it fast and thus they wrastelid long in so much that they were like to full to the ground. but at the last be favour thomas suffered the king to take his cloth of and than the king cast it to the poor man and bade him run a weigh fast & sell it and obey him other and if thou be set it well thou mayst far the better ever whiles thou levyste Than thomas feigned himself wroth but in his heart he was well a paid that his rove was so well befette then the people marveled greatly first what was between the king and thomas but when they saw what it mened the people were glad and had great sport there of. This I say to show ensample how well they loved to gedyr thus thomas served the king manfully. also we must learn of our holy patron saint thomas to serve god devoutly. when he served god full devoutly for as soon as he was made archbishop of Caunterbury a none he turned his leaving in to better leaving and thought to serve the king of heaven as well as he had the king of this world before. then a none he laid a weigh scarlet and rich furrys and were cloth of middle prise and cast a weigh silk and sendill and wearied here next his body that was right hard and a bryche of the same hame side in the which was so moche vermyn that it was an horrible sight to see but this know but little people. Also every wedenysday and freyday he made his confessor to beat him with a rod on the bare body like as a child is beat in school Also he used every day to wesche ttre poor men's feet kneeling one the ground and than he yaffe each of 'em four pennies And also much more penance he used in preying and waking that were to much to tell at this tyme. then when thomas was in the abbey of pounteney upon a day whann he had saide mass he kneeled down be for the Auter in his preyour●s than the abbot of the same place had to speak with him and stood undyr a pilour and abode thomas And he saw how our lord The s● christ appeared to Thomas and told him how he should be slain in canterbury in his own church for his sake and bade him be steadfast and hold forth as he had be gone Than come thomas out of his chapel and a none the Abbot fill down to the ground and Sire ye may bliss the time and the hour that ever ye were y borne and also blessed mute shoe be that ever did bear you for to have such a visitacione as I have heard you have.  
then se●de thomas I charge the that thou tell it never to no man while I am a live no more he deed but when thomas was deed he told it opynly to all the people Thus I may well say that thomas served god devoutly. Also he died for the law of holy church meekly for whann he saw the king be 'gan to make laws to over set holy church and such law is as would have destroyed the land. Than thomas put himself forth and reproved the king of his miss dediss than was the king wroth ● made a parliament at northampton & for thomas would not set his seile to the cursed law is that the king & his sorry counsel had ordained & made a none they called him a traitor to the king & exiled him out of his land. then thomas went to the king of france for succour and help and full goodly & meekly he res●eyued him and all his clerks and found 'em all most seven year all that they be hovyd then great disseses & grievances thomas had of the king of england and all he suffered meekly Than by tretice & counsel of the 〈…〉 & of the king of France there was made a faynti loveday between the king & thomas But when the king should have kyssid thomas he would not for he saide he had made his a vow he would never kiss him but bad him go home to his church boldly Than by the counsel of the king of france & bidding of the P●p● thomas come home to Caunterbury Than were there iiij. cursed knights of leaving the thought to have had a great thank of the king and made her a vow to gedir to s●e thomas And so on child remasse day all most at might they come to caunterbury in to thomas hall Sire Reynolde ●eriston Sire william ●racy Sire Richard breton & sire he we morley then Sire Reynolde beryston for he was bitter of kind a none he saide to thomas the king that is he yond the see sent us to the & bad that thou shouldst a soil the bishop that thou cursiddiste than saide Thomas seris they be not a cursed by me but by the 〈…〉 & I may not a soil that he hath cursed well saide reynold than we see thou wolte not do the kings bidding and swore a great oath by the eyon of god thou shalt be deed. than cried the other knights sle slay & they went down to the court and armed hem then prestis and clerks drowe 'em to the church to thomas and spered the doors to hem. But when thomas heard the knights armed and would come in to the church and might not he went to the door and vnbarred it & took one of the knights by the hand and saide it be semythe not to make a castle of holy church & took 'em by the hand & saide come in my children in God's name then for it was murk that the might not see nor know thomas they saide where is the traitor nay saide thomas no traitor but archbishop then one saide to him i'll fore thou art but deed. Nay saide thomas y come not to i'll but to a bide.  
Ego pro deo mori parator sin et pro defension justice et ecclesie libertate I am ready to die for the love of god & for the fredomme & right of holy church Than reynold with his swords point put of thomas cap & smote at his heed & cuntte of his crown that it hung by like a dische Than smote a nother at him & smote it all of than fill he down to the ground on his knees & elbows & saide god in to thy hands I put my cause & the right of holy church & so died Than the iij. knight smote & his half st●oke fell upon his clerks arm that held thomas cross be fore him & so his sword fill down to the ground & brake of the point & he saide go we hens he is deed And when they were at the door going whert broke went a gain & set his foot to thomas neck & thrust out the brain upon the pam ●t Thus for right of holoy church & the law of the land thomas took his death.  
then how this martyrdom was known in Jerusalem ye shall here. there was an abbey of monks in the which that same day & the same time that thomas died a monk lay at the death than for he was a good holy man of leaving his abbot bade him if it were not to god displeasance when he were deed he should come a yene & tell him how he feared & so when he was deed he come again & told his abbot when he died an angel brought him be fore god & as he stood there he saw a bishop come with a great company of angels & other saints & he stood be fore god at his iug●●ment & his heed droppid down of blood of wounds that he had▪ than said our lord to him thus it be semythe a man to come to his lords court & a none our lord set a crown on his heed and said thus to him As much as I have give to p●tir & to paul so much joy I grant the And the monk said here by I know well that this is the grettiste Bishop in england & is slain for God's sake & weet ye well that I go to ever lasting bliss. This told the patriarch of iheru salem soon after that thomas was deed there come in to england after people to fight ayen the he thine men  
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Also there was a bird that was taught to speak & could say seinte thomas as she had her the other pilgremes speak moche of saint thomas & it happed on a time this birdde sat with out his cage & there come a sparhawke & would have slain him & anon the birdde cried on saint thomas help. & a none this sparhauke fill down deed than saint thomas of his great grace & goodness herd the birdde & woste not what she meant much more he would have herd & moche sooner he would here a christen man or christian woman that cried heartily to him▪ for help & succour  
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Also there was a man that thomas loved passing well in his life. & it fill so that this man fill sick on a time & come to saint thomas tomb preying him of succour and help & anon he was hole but aftir he be though t● him ● his sickness was encresid to his soulis heal & so went a yene preying thomas that if it were more meed to his soul to be sick than hold that he might be sick a yene & so he was & thanked god & saint thomas than when the king herd how god wrought so many miracles for seinte thomas he went to canterbury barefoot & wolwarde & all most nakid save a feeble cote to bind his body in going in the fen & in the lake as he had been a poor man in this land preying to seinte Thomas of forgiveness of his trespass. & at the tomb he made all the covent by and by to give displyne on his bar● body with a yard & there he dampened all sorry custumes and false laws that was cause of the debate between thomas & the king before & granted the church her freedom a yene and went his weigh. Thanue these iiij. knights when they heard how god had wrought for thomas they were full sorry of her cursed dediss and cursed the time that ever it happed so with hem and left all her lands and went to iherusalem in to the holy land to were on God's enemies But william tracy was letted by the weigh and fill sick and rotted all his body in so much that him sell fe with his own hondis caste a weigh his own flesh lump mel● and so dyede an horrible death And the other three also dyede in a pitevous death soon after. And thus with in iij. year after thomas death they died all four but as long as they levied they cried ever mercy to god and seinte thomas and so I hope they had   

De circumcisione domini.  
GOod friends such a day is called new years day and is the first day of the beginning of the New year that is coming and is the last day of the year that is gone. And there fore this day ye shall come to god and holy church to here your divine service forth this year. For like as a good servant that hath a good master makithe his comenaunt but ones but holdithe forth from year to year having full trust in his master that he will for his good service yeffe him a good toward in his great need at his last end. In the same wise God's seruauntis maketh comenaunte with him once that is at christening at the fount and there he maketh comenaunte to be God's servant having full trust in god that at his great need that is at the day of doom quite him for his service in ever lasting bliss of heaven and so will he do to all that be good true servants Thus this day is call●d new years day.  
Also hit is called Circumcisi●●●mini the circumcision ●● our lord  
Also this day is called new years day for this day is the first day of the calendar & the year goeth moche he kalendyr there for his is called new years day Seinte Austein seith this day & this night he thine people use many false opinions & which crafts and false be leave the which be not to tell among christian people lest they turned to that use where fore ye that be christen people be well were left ye be deceived be any false sobery as be taking counsel of on man be fore a nother or in being or selling or in borrowing or sening in the which some have diverse opimons. And if they be well shriven they be worthy for to have great penance for their miss believe for that cometh of the fiend and not of god This day is called the circumcisione of our lord for as holy chuche telleth this day he was circumcised & bleed his blood for our sake for when the flesh was cut he bleed fast & was full ●ore for he was but young and tendyr and but viij days old & there fore he bleed the more. then ye shall understand that he bled v. times fore us. ●ni●●● enim ●i ci●●a sa●guin● s●● pro nobi● eff●dit The first time that he shed his blood was as this day when he was circumcised. A nother was for far of his passione for right as a child weepeth for fere when he seeth the rod & hath no harm so the flesh of our lord swede blood for dread of a stronger passion that was coming. The third time was in his flagellacion▪ when he was betyn with stourges so that all his body ran on red blood. The fourth time was when he was nay led hand & foot on the cross. The fift time was when that longinus perisched his heart with a spear that watyr & blood come out of his wounds And than they took up the cross with the body & lift it up on high & with a sudden fall they let the cross fall down in to the mortesse that all the senowiss & veins and joints burst a two and blood & watyr come out of every wound this he suffered for us than seeth Christ was cicumcised and shed his blood thus for us that was with outyn sin & circumcision is for sin remedy & help why would he be circumcised that did no sin Sanctus augu stiwa dicit ●ropterquat●or causal saint austin se●th it was for four causes. the first was to make a seeth with the jews for else they would & might have saide that he had be of her law where for they would not receive him consent to his teaching. this was to deceive the fiend For right as the fiend deceived a dam & Eve and so all mankind was dampened So it fill to christ to deceive the fiend where thourghe all mankind might be saved. than when the fiend saw that he was circumcised as a no●●ir child he wend that he had take that penance in remedy of original sin. and so he know him not from a nother child for if he had know him verily that he had room to have bought mankind he would never have tysed the jews to have put christ to death. And this was all the cause that our lady was wedded to Joseph for to deceive the fiend for the fiend should wend that Joseph had be his father and not consceyved of the holy ghost The third cause why he was circumcised that was in conferming the old law in great comfort to the old fathers that were of the old testament fore & if he had be christened and not circumcised it had be a great discomfort to all that were be fore the incarnation of our lord Jesus Christ The fourth cause of his circumcision was for our lord woste well that there would come heretics after that would have saide that Christ had a body of the earthly fantasy and not of flesh and blood as on of us have for a body of the eyere may not bleed And there for to put a weigh all such errors christ was circumcised and bleed in his cutting of his flesh the which flesh was cut from his member an angel after brought it to king charles for the most precious relic in the world and for the greatest worship that he ●owde do there to he brought it to rome to a church that is called Saneta sanctorum For these iiij. cause's christ was circumcised This day also it is called the utas of the nativity that is the viij. day of our lords birth in great tokening to all us that bethe good servants to think on these viij. days that followeth the birth The first day is to think y●wardly on the seed that we were conceived of that is fowl and abominable in hit self that as a man or a woman be they never so feyre that & they saw the matter they would have be a shamed of himself to think ● he were ever conceived of that foul think.  
The second day is to think how grievously he ●aynithe his mother in his birth in so much that it is an great miracle of god that she may have her life The iij day is to think how feeble and how wretched he is borne for all the bestis of kind somewhat can help 'em self sau man kind he nothir may nor can help himself in no degree but die a none but he had help & succour of other. The iiij. day is to think in how much apparel and dread he levithe here fore in e●●ry place death followeth him and is ever ready to fall on him what time newer no man knowithe but only god himself In certum est locua in quo mor● te exspectat. It is in certain the place there as death a bidithe the The v. day is for to think how horrible death is when he comythe for in short space and time he maketh a man to stink that all the best friends that he hath be a vysed to put him in to the earth and hide him there. The vi. day is to think how rueful is the departing of the body and the soul that may not be departed till the he rte in the body br●ke fore dread of the sights that the soul shall see that for great fere the he rte breaked. O mor● quam amara est memoria tua. O thou death how bitter it is to think upon when th●w art coming to any man.  
The seven. is to think how dreadful is the doom that he shall go to a none and how strait his judgement shall be than he that will think one these seven. days busily on the viij. day I hope he shall be circumcised that is he shall be cut a weigh from the lust of his flesh and of sin and so do part from this worlds likking. and thus cometh the viij. day that is the ●tas of christ that is the joy of bliss that shall never have end to the which god bring us all to Amen.   

Judie epiphany  
GOod friends this day is called the xij. day but it is the xiij. day of christus birth The which day holy church called it the Epiphania domini that is to say the showing of our lord Jesus Christ verray god and man for this day he was showed verray god and man be three offerings be his christening and also be turning of water in to wine. The xiij. day of his birth be offering of the three kings and that same day thirty. winter and xiij. days after his birth he was christened in the water of flom Jordan and that same day twelfemonthe after he turned water in to wine at the wedding of cane galilee. But the feast maketh moste mind and mention of the iij. kings offering and there late us follow the form of holy church. & here ye shall here how it fill of her offering to our lord Jhesu Christ verray god and man These three kings where of the lineage that prophesied how a star should shine of Jacob but they were no jews of kind but they had herd by prophecy of this where fore the had great desire and ●usce to see it and so often time when might come to gedyr upon certain high hills than they would dispute among 'em of this star So it happed upon Cristemas night the same time as our lord was borne they were to gerdyr and were disputing of this star Super montem auctorelen. upon the hill  
Dominna enim erat ●at●a Our lord was borne Et appart it illis And appeared to 'em in the star as fair a child and undyr his heed a bright cross of gold and saide thus to 'em go ye a none in all the haste that ye may in to the land of jury & ta●e with you Gold myrrh and incense And offer these three things to him that ye shall find there new born● king of jews verray god and man and I shall be your guide and lead you the weigh. then they anon for great haste they took beasts that be called dromedaries that be of such a kind they be so swift that they will run further in on day than any other best wool run o● go in three days And so they come to Iherusalem that was the che●e Cite of all jury hoping that they should here there some tidings where that this child was borne. But as soon as they turned in to the Cite of Iherusalem than they lost the sight of the Star that lad 'em ever the weigh till that they come the dyr brighter than the son then when they come in to the Cite of Jerusalem they road to king he rowed for he was there the same time and saide to him ●bi est qui natua ēre● indeorum where is he that is borne that is king of jews. ●idimus enim stellam eius in oriente. we saw his star in the este ●eniemus adora●e eum we be come to worship him. then king he rowed was troubled and all the Cite with him but more fore flattering of him man of any love that they had to him then king he rowed asked his clerhies where this child should be boar and they said in Bethleem ●de. Than king herowde askid the kings privily of the star and bad hem go in to Bethleem and worship the child and come again by him and tell him where he might find the child that he might go worship him. then when the kings where passed towards bethleem anon the star aperid to hem and when they saw the star was come again they were glad in their hearts and as it is in many places painted the king that is in the middle for great joy of the star he looked backward to his fellow be hind h●m & with his finger showed him the star And that is the cause that the myddyll king looked backward. And thus the star brought 'em to bethleme and when the star come over the house there as our lord was in he stood still Than the kings lighted down and go in to the house and with all the reverence that they could knyling a down and offered each of he in these iij things Anrum tusse et mirram Gold cense and myrrh knowledging by the gold that he was king of all kings And by the ●ncense that he was very god And by the myrrh that he was very man & sholld be deed & laid in grave with c●te roting.  
For golld is chief of all metallis Ensens is brent in holy church in worship to god. myrrh is an ointment that kepithe deed bodies from ●tyng. Thus when the kings had do her offering be teaching of the angel Per altam viam reversi sunt in regionem suam By a nother weigh they went towards her own lands and left king herowde. and the ster●● vanisched a weigh from 'em. then as saint Bernard saith Joseph kept of this gold as much as him nedith● to his tribute that he should pay to the Emperor and also more to keep our lady with while she lay in child bed and the remanant be delid to poor people such as had great need there to. The sense he brent to put ● way the stench of the stable there as she lay in. And with the Mirre our lady a nointed her child to keep him from worms and disseses  
But what be fill of the kings after I find nothing in certain but some people have an opynyone how that saint Thomas of Ind christened 'em when he come in to that country of Ind. and than as the star lightened 'em to christus birth So the holy ghost lyghtenithe hem in her souls and taught them the perfit weigh of the be leave and also of perfit & gracious leaving in so much that they left all her kingdom and went forth one pilgrr●mages that is for to say to Iherusalem and in many other places and so they come forth to milan and there they died all three. And so after that they were translated to coleyne and there they be yet. Now have ye heard by these three kings how our lord Jesus christ was this day showed verray god & man where for like as they offered with great devotion so should ye do your offerings when ye come to holy church kneeling down with all the reverence that ye can or may not on your one knee as to a temporal lord but on both your knees & do him worship with good prayers Than offer ye precious gold for there is no gold so precious as is the good preyoure devout And than hold up your hands to him with all the reverence that ye can and devout heart prey to him and show him all your love of your hearts and than ye offer to him incense. For there is none incense saverithe so sweet byrning in the fire as doth good preyoure that is devoutly saide with a byrning love in clean charity And if thou do thus than thou offereste kneeling on thy knees make a cross on the earth & kiss it and think well thou art but earth. than must ye offer myrrh for right as myrrh kepithe a body from rotting so the mind of death kepithe a man's soul from deadly sin in this wise do ye your offering and than shall ye have as much meed as had these iij kings. Also he was showed both god and man at his christening For he come to the water of flom jordan he went in to the water & hallowed it for right as he was circumcised to confirm the new law and for no need that he had there to for he was clean with out sin but for to make the sacrament that should wasthe 'em took christening in his name from all sins  
then was johan baptiste ready there & moche people with him that come thethir to the cristo ning. Than said johan to our lord all qua king and tremeling. blessed lord thou art god dislambe with out sin thou haste no need to be christened of me but that I ● man gotyn & borne in sin have need to come and be christened of in remission of sins  
then saide our lord Christ jhesu johan suffer at this time for thus we must fulfil all right wisneste and johan christened our lord Jesus Christ and as it is credible our lady was christened after with other of christus disciples and all the people that were come thedyr Than when all were christened our lord went out of the watyr and as he went out of the brink of the watyr and all the people with him Apertisunt ●eli heaven opened and a great light be clipped him in sight of all the people the holy ghost come down in likeness of white dove and lightid on christus head and the father spoke & saide thus in hearing of all the people her est filiu● mena dilectua in quo michi bene complacui. This is my well-beloved son the which pleaseth me This was to teach all criston people the faith of the be leave of holy church for all criston people be bound to be leave stead fastly in the father and the son and the holy ghost.  
In baptismo christi toto trinitas semauifesta●it scilicet. Pater in noce filing in carne▪ spiritus sanctus in columba et totum celum apertum est  
In christus baptism all the holy trinity was shewed for the father spoke in voice when he said Hic est filing men● dilectu● This is my well-beloved son and was there bodily when johan baptiste saide  
Ecce agnus dei and the holy ghost was sent Sicut columba as a white dove These been three persons in on godhead for the father spoke above and the son was there bodily and the holy ghost in likeness of a dove ye shall be leave that these iij. persons be but one god in trinity This be leave ye shall know on the watyr brink that is in your christening at the fount where fore he that belevythe thus and doth works of be leave shall be saved Qui crediderit et baptisa●u● fuerit sal●●● erit He that belevithe and is christened shall be saved and followeth the works of believe.  
Qui ●ero non crediderit condem●na bitur And he that belevithe not nor doth not the works of believe shall be dampened The works of believe be meekness and charity for with out these ij. shall no man be saved and he that hath these ij. he is wreton in the genealogy of our lord Jesus Christ the which is radde in christmas that beginneth a 'bove with Abraham And so cometh downwards to Joseph and to our lady ●n showing that he that is most mekyste in heart is moste next our lord Jesus Christ and such he a vaunsith in everlasting bliss And there for the genealogy this night begynnythe at Jesus Christ & goeth upwards to abraham and so to god Also he was showed verray god in trinity whann he turned watyr in wine at the wedding. Hit happit so the people ●●ackyd wine at the meet.  
then bad our lord that they should take vi. steves or potties that were empty and bad fill hem with watyr and they did then our lord blessed hem and bad they should ●ere them that be gan the table and late him begin and than he be gan and said it was the best wine that ever he drank. Thus our lord showed himself both god & man god in that he turned watyr in to wine and man in that he et● and drank with 'em This miracle he showed at the wedding in tokening that he blessed all weddings that he done after the law of holy church And there for keep your wedlock and be in full faith and believe of holy church as holy church techithe and so ye shall come to ever lasting bliss Amen   

De con●ersi●●● sancti pauli.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have 〈…〉 lis day that is callide ●●● conversion of saint paul for that day he was cōuertid● and ●●●●ned from a cursed tyrant in to God's servant from ●● high man and a proud in to a meek man and a good man and from the disciple of the devil in to God's holy apostle so for this man was tournede from all wickkednesse in to great goodness in great strength help and succour to all holy church There for holy church holdithe his ●ouersion and so we do of no more but of him only and that i● for iij. causes. The first for great miracles in his turning and for the great joy in his defending. and fore the ensample of his amending first or he was turned he was called soul for right as Saul the king of Jherusalem pursued holy david to have slain him right so the soul porsewed Christ and his disciples to bring 'em to the death. There for while Christ went one earth here this soul would never come to him to here his teaching but as soon as christ was steied up in to heaven than anon this soul for he was learned & could the Jews law he be gan to with stand and a yense saide christus disciples disputing a yense hem and poursewed 'em in all he might in full intent to have destroyed 'em and christian faith. then on a day he disputed with saint Stephyn and for he might not over come him he be thought him how he might bring him to his death and so he left him never till he was deed then it is the manner of the fiends children when they have done a cursed deed to be glad & fain there of proud in her hearts and ●encrese her malice ●o was soul glad of the death of saint Stephyn and fore he would have gotyn him a name of wickedness passing all his fellows he went to hem that had the jews law to keep and get him a letter of warrant for to take all that believed in in Christ where they might be found & to bring 'em to Jherusalem for to be put to the death there. then when ●e had these letters he took such a pride there with and envy in his heart a yenste cursten people that when he heard any man speak of 'em a none fore great anger he would snefet the nose and froth at the mouth for anger and grudge with his teeth threatening and masesseing towardis hem that all christian people was sore a feared of him. then on a day he heard that in the Cite of damask was moche christen people hid for dread & road the dyr wards but a none our lord Jesus cristeshewed the sweetness of his grate when this soul was in his high●pride and in will to have do most harm Than a bout midday our lord cast a light of grace a bout that was moche lighter than the son & the light spoke to soul thus. Saul Saul quid tu me perseq̄ri●. Saul soul what followest thou me and a none he was a feared and fill down of his horse & cried and saide for great fere Quis es tu domine Lord what art thou than saide our lord. Ego sum ihesus va sarenua. I am Jesus of nazareth for that was the name of his manhood then Saul a none believed on him & saide lord what wolte thou that I shall do then saw the people● a bout him the light and heard the wire but they saw no thing but a none went, to soul and took him up by the hand fore he was blind and might not see and so lad him in to the Cite to a good man's house and there he was three days and three nyghtiss fasting and neither eat meet nor drink ●e might not fee but ever prayed to god fore dread of that vision The which time the holy ghost taught him christus law Than the third day on of christus disciples that hight Ananyas as god bade him come to him full sore a feared and said Saul frater dominua ihesua misit me ad te qui apparuit tibi in via Saul the lord hath sent me to the ihesus that appeared to the in the weigh and that thou shouldst see and be christened. and when Ananias laid his hand upon his heed a none he saw and there fill from his eyen like scales of fisches. And when he had christened him he called him Poule. & than eat and was comforted and had his strength and was there a few days with the disciples. Than went ●e in to the temple and preached openly of our lord thesu christ puing clerckly that he was both god and man and none othir. Stu●ebant autem omn●a qui eum andiebant et dicebant. For fothe all that heard him were a stoyned and saide that it was a great miracle and grace of god and his ●o deigned conversion for he ● was of so cursed leaving so little before was ●o soon turned to god and man Thus may ye here how great miracle god showed in his conversion and how great joy holy church maketh of his defending it was great joy to all christian people that was a little before to destroy christian people & anon after as busy to increase christian people▪ And he that was so busy & so glad to shed christian men's blood. than was he so ready to shed his blood for 'em. And as busily as he went to put 'em to death than with as good a will h● was ready to take the death for hem and there as no man durst p̄●he the word of god for him after the comfort that they had of him they spared not for lord nor fore king but openly preached th● word of god and taught the faith after in every place And he that was tofore so proud & so feres and soon aftir was so meek and so lowly that he fill to the ground to every christian man's foot that ever he ●respased to and meekly be sought hem of mercy with a full patient heart where fore saint▪ austin likenyth him to an Onicorne of kind that beareth an horn in his nose and with that home he ●leithe all the beasts that he fightithe with Also he is so fierce in himself that thee may no hunter take him but thus they wool be guile him they wool aspey where the unicorn hauntith and use to walk & there they wool set a meyde and as soon as the unicorn seeth the maid anon be kind he will fall down and lay his heed in her lap & than all the might & streghte is gone And than they come and take him. Thus he saith saint Poule was first so fierce in himself that they durst not preach there as he was nor speak to him for dread. But when our lord Jesus christ showed him sweetness of his grace and this fair maid that is the law of holy church a none paul fill down to the ground & was soget to all christen people here fore holy church was glad of his defending He is set also in high ensample of high a mending for our lord is so gracious that all christian people may be saved that will for fake her mys●e leaving and be converted Multomagis gaudium erit in celo de uno peccatore penitenciam again re quam de nonaginta n●uem qui von indigent penitentia. There is more Joy in heaven upon on sinner doing pen●unee than upon xcix. that deed never sin And there for our lord would that all were converted and saved where fore in high ensample and comfort to all sinful people he set saint Poule to look upon for though a man had do never so much sin and he would fore sake his sin and sin no more then all the company of heaven maketh mirth and melody of his conversion as we do here in earth of the conversion of saint Poule but there is moche people that love more sin with lust and likeling in this world than they do god. Fore there be many that wool never leave sin nothir for the love of god nor for the desire of the bliss of heaven nor for fer● of the fiend nor dread of the great pains of hell But some people sayn god wool never lose that he hath bought dear with his passion. but they that say so be not wise god would that none were lost but be aware thou lose not thyself for all the while thou lovest, more sin than god and hadst liefer to serve the fiend than god thou art cause of thine own damnation fore while thou haste more will to serve the fiend & be his child than God's child thou lesiste thyself and god hath ordained fiends to tourmente hem in ever lasting pain But seinte Gregor saith they that shall be dampened begin her penance here in this world in party and after her death contin●ueth of ever more. where fore I tell you this ensample  
Narracio  
There was a man & that was an officer with a lord and stood a cursed and on a time ●● he road towards a manner of his lord is he fill out of his mind andon andon b●● dewid his horse and he bore him in to a manner of his lords And than a none the bailie conseyved how it was with this man that he was discranght out of his mind and a none made the people to bind him to a post in a barn so when the bailie and his servants had souped he bade one of his servants go look how that this man deed and he went to this man And when he come there he saw iij. 'gree black dogs plucking a weigh this man's flesh from the bone then was this servant a feared that onethe he had his mind but went to his bed and lay there sick long after And on the morrow when the people come the their as this man was bound the● found no more of this man but his bare bones and all the flesh was clean a weigh Thus ye may see he that contynualy lived in sin may be full sykyr of a foul end and thought his end semythe fair in the sight of a man yet it is right foul in the sight of almighty god and all his angels where for it is needful for every christian man and woman to a mend him while he is here in this world and hath time and space of a mendment And he that doth so shall come to saint Poule and be there with him in everlasting bliss to the which bring us he that died for us and all mankind Amen.   

Sequitur ●e parificacione beat marry virginia▪  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have candelmas day that day maketh m●de and mention of our lady & of her son & speciyally iij things our ladies purification in simeonis meeting and in cād●les offering. This day is called the purification of our lady in englische it is the cleansing of our lady but fore no need that she had there to fore she was clensid with the working of the holy ghost in conceiving of her son that there was in her no manner of spot of filth.  
But for that day was the xl. day from the birth of her son and was called in the jews law the day of the purificacione not only for our lady but for all other women where fore we call it the purification of our lady The law of the jews was such that a woman that was delivered of a man child was hold unclean seven. days after than the law gave her leave to go to her husband. but yet she was unclean xxxiij day●● but till xliiij. days were fulfiled she should hold her with out the church with her offering And the offering▪ in those days was of a rich man a lamb and for a poor mā●●s a peyre of turtle doves or else other doves and so offered our lady with her son And if a woman be delivered of a maiden child she should double all those same days afore said that is for to say the coming to her husband. and also the coming to the temple and so this is there son there of For it is so that all great clerks say that it to seven. days after when a woman hath conceived a man's child or that the same seed turn in to blood.  
And hit is also xxxiij days after o● it turn to any shape of man. & than god sent life in to it and if it be a maid child it doublithe all the days both in turning in to the blood & also in shape of body & this is the cause. eve that was the first ●ormyd woman that e●●r wrathid our lord more than did the man Adam therefore she is longer in forming Thus fore fleschly complexion of man & woman she is unclean in herself there for this purification is ordained But understandeth well that our lady had no need to this cleansing fore she conceived not with complexion of man but only of the holy gosce so that she was clean of all manner of filth touching consent of man But yet she went to the temple no other women deed specially for iiij. causes. The first was to fullfillethe scripture that saith thus Quanto mai●e● ta●to te humilie● The higher that thou art in degree the mekyr thou shulde●●e make the Thus did our lady for she wist well she was mother to God's son of heaven and had so great worship passing all other women yet she made her as the poreste woman that was in the company. The second cause was as she fullfillithe the law of circumcision of her son in the same wise she fullfillid the purification and in offering of her son in the temple doing for him as othir poor women did for her children.  
The third cause for to stop the jews mouths left they had saide that she had not do the law and so caught a great slander a yense hen in time coming.  
The fourth cause was for to give ensample to all other women that they should come to church after the birth of her child & thank god that he hath saved 'em from death in her traveling for in that time a woman is in great apparel of death for there is no sickness in the world that goeth so nigh death fore these causes holy church maketh mind of our ladies purification Hit maketh mind also of the coming of simeon and Anne simeon ille senex din vixerat ●ine etas cooperatur Anne  
This simeon was a passing old man but he had prayed to god busily all his lysse that he should never die till he had say Christ bodily in this world and so he deed And this Anne hath prayed the same Also ye shall understand that this was not ●ine our ladies mother but an other amna▪ that had a husband seven. year and when her husband was deed she would not be wedded no more but levied till she was lxxx. year old and served god in the temple night and day and prayed to see god or she dyede & our lord granted her. then when our lady come into the temple with her son the holy ghost warned simeon and Anne and a none they with moche joy went a yenste him and brought him in to the temple  
Et simeon accepiteum in uluaa sna●. And symeon took him in his arms with all the reverence that he could and might and saide. 〈◊〉 dimittis sernum tuum domine secundum nerhum ●num in pace & cetera. O thou lord now for give thy servant after thy word in pese. and so with all the worship and reverence that he could he loved & thankid him that he would let him leave so long to see him bodily with his eyen where in mind of this when a woman cometh to church of a child she a bydithe at the church door till the pressed come & cast holy water on her and takythe her in by the hand in to the church yeven her leave after to come to church and to go to her husband for and they have comened to gedyr before they must both shreyve hem there of and take her penance Also holy church maketh mind of candles offering and as ye see it is a common use for all christian people that be of convenient age to come that day to church and bear a candle brenning in procession as though they went bodily with our lady. But now ye shall here how this worshipful feast was first found Some time when the Romans by great might and vial power conquered all the world fore they had great domination they were so proud that they for get her god and made 'em diverse God's after her own lust And so among all they had a god that they called Mars that had be to fore a notable knight in battle And so they prayed to him fore help and fore they wol●● speed the better of this knight the people prayed and did great worship to his mother that was called februa after the which woman moche people have opinion that this moan that is called februarij where fore the second day of this moan is Candelmas day The Romans this night would go a bout the Cite of rome with torchiss and candles brenning in worship of this woman Februa for hope to have the more help and succour of her son mars. Than was there a 〈◊〉 that was called Sergius & when he saw christian people draw to this false maumentry and vn●●● we believe he thought to undo this foul use and custom and turn it in to God's worship and our ladies and yaffe commandment that all christian people should come to church and offer up a candle brenning in the worship that they did to this woman februa & did worship to our lady and to her son our lord Ihesu Criste so that now this feast is solemnly hallowed thorough all cristendome and each christian man and woman of covenable age to come to church and offer up her candles as though they were bodily with our lady hoping for this reverence and worship that they do to our lady to have a great reward in heaven and of her son our lord Jesus▪ christ and so they may be sekyr and it be do in clean life and with good devocione. A candle is made of week and wax So was Christ's soul hid with in the manhood. Also the fire be tokemith the god heed Also it be tokenithe our lady modirhode and maidenhead light with the fire of love Also it be tokenith every christian man and woman that doth good dediss with good intent and perfit love & charity to god and to all christian people. where for if there be any of you that his candle of charity be quaint go a none and be a cordid with his neybores and light his candle and than offer it up fore that is God's will And if ye do not thus ye shall lose all your me rite and your meed in heaven  
god kept them so that they had no harm.  
Than for this▪ Judas was one of the xij. apostles & the number of hem must be fulfiled. than was christ stayed up in to heaven & the xi. apostles were to gedyr with many othir people in a place then saide Petyr to 'em thus now all good men & brethren it is well know to you that Judas was one of the xij. & be cause the number may not be in perfect it is needful to cheese on of these ij. men that hath be with our lord chesu christ from the time that he was baptisid in to the time of his ascensione to bear witness with us of his uprising & of his doing. Than they setten these ij. men Joseph barsabas & mathie & laid lot upon hem & saide thus preying our lord O lord thou knowist the hearts of all men show to us which thou che●i●te of these ijjs men & the lot fill on mathie & so he was in number with the other xi.  
Than mathie went in to mirre to preach word of god & fore he had the grace of the holy ghost with him he did miracles & turned moche people to the faith of christ Than was the fiend sorry & appeared to the Bishop of the jews law in likeness of a young child with long hairs & hoar & bad him take mathie & do him to the death or else he would turn all the people to christus faith Than the Bishop wexed nigh wood forwrathe and sent out people to seek mathie & when they had him they bound him his hands be hind him & cast a rope about his neck & lad him to prison & there bond him fast with chains of iron then the night after our lord ●hesu, C●riste come to him with a great light and lousid his bondis and when he had well comforted him he opened the prison door & bade him go preach the faith & spare for no man Than there as he prechid there were some that a yenestode him & letid other that would have turned to the faith Than said mathie to 'em I tell you be for he shall fall down to hell pit. & so a none in sight of all men the earth opened & they sank down in to hell body & soul & never was sayen more of 'em. than was the people sore a gast of that sight & turned to the faiths a great number of 'em Than when the bishop heard there of they took him & bound him & set men to throw stones at him & when he was nigh deed he bad christian people to bear the stone that he was stonedwith in to the grau with him in witness of his martyrdom & he kneeled down & held up his hands to god & saide O lord I beseech thee take my spirit & gafe up the ghost Reynold of chester in his chronicles telleth a nother miracle like this & saith. when saint wolston visitid his bishoppriche the people brought a man be for him that did his neighbours much disease & would never be in pese preying the bishop to chastise him & when the bishop had preached this man he was ever longer the worse thou the bishop & all the people prayed to saint mathie to show some miracle be this man what he was worthy to have than anon in sight of all the people there come out of the earth ij. fiends with brenning hokes & pullid this quick man down to hell & when he was gone the people were well relieved & had rest & pese ever after Amen▪   

De annunciacione beat marry vir ginis.  
GOod friend is such a day ye shall have an high & a sole mpne feast in holy church the annunciation of our lady and he that had a vowed or joined in penance must fast the even ye shall understand that it is called the annunciation for this cause for the father of heaven sent his angel Gabriel Missus est angelus bailloll a deo in cinitatem cui no men nazareth In to the cite that was called nazaret to our lady that was new wedded be the bidding of god and revelation of the holy ghost to a man that called Joseph and as she was in her chamber in her prey ours the Angel gabriel come to her and said our lord i● with the  
then was she greatly a stoyned of this greeting for there was in that country a man that could moche which craft and so with help of fiends he made himself like an Angel and come to diverse maidens and said he was sent from god to hem on his message & so oft time lay by hem & did 'em great villainy then when our lady heard tell of that man she was a drade left it had be he for she had spoke with none Angel be fore nor there were no such wor●is ne such greetings made never none to her be fore Than Gabriel the Angel comforted there and said. Ne time as maria in●e visti graciam apud dominum. dread the not marry for sooth thou haste found grace of our lord for a 'mong all women our lord hath chosen the forto be the mother of his son & him thou shalt conceive be faith & be love of the holy ghost with out any deed of man that shall shadow the & quench all fleschly lust & tend the light of ghostly love that thou shalt conceive the son of the high god. And thus thou shalt be both mother & maid & so was never none before. then a none our lady heard this words a none there with come a spiritual swettenesse & joy in her heart that a none or any earthly mō●owde tell it & so with all the reverence of meekness that she could she answered thus a yene & saide. Ecce aucilla domini fiat michi secundum verbum tuum. Lo here God's own maid ready to do God's will preying it may be to me right as thou seyste. Thus that blessed body conceived our lord Jesus criste in ever lasting joy to all the world. Thus I may likyn our lady to a precious stone called enix & he is as clear as any criscall & shall of kind when the son shynythe hot on him it openithe & received a drop of the dew of heaven in to him & closithe a yene till ix months after & than it openithe & fallithe out a stone of the same kind & so closithe a yene as ever it was & never openithe after. Thus our lady was as clean as any crystal for the hot love of the holy ghost at the ix. month is end she was delivered of her son our lord Jesus Christ & she after as clean meyden as she was tofore Than when the Angel had done his message he went his weigh to heaven & our lady went to her cousin elisabeth that was great with child with seinte johan baptist & whom she come to Elisabethe she great her meekly & as soon as our lady spoke to Elisabeth the child in Elisabethes' womb played & made great joy for●●●●we that our lord had take mankind & was come to save he in that were lost. Thann● our lady dwelled therewith Elisabeth her cousin till the time that seinte johan was borne & was myddewyffe to elis sabeth & took saint johan from the earth & there she learned all that her needed for to know again the time that her son should be borne & was perfect enough of Than meekly she took her leave & went home again to Nasareth Than thought joseph he would go ●oke how his wyffe deed & went towards her & when our lady heard of his coming she went again him & great him full mek●ly. But when joseph saw her great with child he marvelled greatly how that might be for well he wist it was not his fore he had never part of her body in that degree fore he know well that she had made a vow before she would never have part of man's body & thought how he was made to wed her by the bidding of the holy ghost & great miracle showing & thought right in his heart he was not worthy to dwell in her company and thonght in his heart to have gone home aghene and to leave her there Thene come an angel to him & said be not afeard to take Mary thy wife to thy keeping fore it is of the holy ghost that is quick in her body for thou shall be her keeper and norse to her child and when▪ it is borne call it ihesus for he shall be saviour to all the world. Than ye shall understand that for iiij. causes as saint Ambrose saith our lady was wedded to this old man joseph The first was if she had conceived with out wedloke the jews would have said that she had be an evil woman of her body & so have stoned her to death. The second cause was fore she was so shamefast that & she had heard any have put any defame to her she would have dyede fore sorrow. The third cause was for joseph should bear witness of her maidenhead The fourth cause fore joseph should help her at her birth & bring her to bethleem and after in to Egipte & so again in to her own country fore these iiij. causes she was wedded to this old man joseph And also to be guile the fiend that he should not know him from a nother▪ child. Now have ye heard of the Annunciation. There be some people that ask a question why there stondithe a wine pot with lyllyus between our lady & Gabriel the Angel at her salutation. This is the cause fore our lady atte her salutation conceived be faith  
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Hit be fill thus upon a christmas day that a christian man and ● jew sat to gedyr and spoke of the conception of o●re lady and as they were there stood a wine pot tofore he in with a lily there in then said the christian man we be leave that our lady conceived like as this lily conceyvythe colour of green and after bryngi●h forth a white flower with out craft of man or any pay ring to the stalk right so our lady conceived of the holy ghost and after brought her son our lord Jesus christ without any wemme of her body that is flower and chief of all women.  
then saide the jew when I see a lily spring out of the death stalk that standeth in this pot than wool I believe that thou seyste it is true and a none there with sprang a white lily out of the deed stock that stood in that same wine pot And when this jew saw that a none he fill down unto the ground upon his knees and saide thus. lady now I see well that though conceived with the holy ghost our lord Ihesu Christ goddies son of heaven And thou were clean maiden both be fore the birth and also after the birth And so a none he was christened and so after he was a full holy man. And this is the cause where so: that the pot with the lylyus is set between our lady & the Angel for right as the jew disputid with the christian man of the manner of the conception So our lady disputid with the Angel of the manner how she should conceive and be both mother and maid or she consented there to then ye that will fast the v. eu●●ys of our lady in worship of her v. joys that she had of her son The first was when she conceived of the holy ghost & know that she was mother to God's son of heaven.  
The second was on christmas day when she was delivered of her so ne with out any pain of her body for as she conceived with out lust of her body also she was delivered without pain of her body. The iij. joy was one Estyr day when her son rose from death to live & come to her & kissed her & made her more joyful of his ●prysing than she, was sorry of his death The fourth joy was whann he●s●yed up to heaven on holy thurday in the same flesh & blood that he took in her body The v joy was in her assumption when she saw her son come with great multitude of angelis & semtis to fet her to heaven and crowned her queen of heaven & Emperes of hell and lady of the world & so all that be in heaven shall do her reverence and worship and all bethe in earth shall do her service  
These be the v. joys that our lady had of her son and ye shall understand that he that will great our lady with v. aveys shall never come in to the pain of hell  
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we find wreton of an holy maiden that was devout in our lady service and every day great her with v. joys Than it happened so on a day that she fill sick and felt herself well that she should be deed and for fere she ●ighed wonder sore and made great moan for be cause she wysce not whet●r she should go afher death then come our lady to her and said why art thou so sorry y● hast made me so oft glad greeting me with joys that I had of my son there fore be not sorry but know thou well that y● shalt go with me in to ever lasting bliss & joy ever with out end  
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we find of saint Gilbert that one a time he was nigh deed of the quincy & when his throat was so great & w●ll nigh deed ● he might unneath take breath our lady come to him & saide to him gilbert my servant it were evil do that thy throat should suffer penance that hath so often times gladid me with my joys & a none she took her feyre pap & myl●yd on his throat and went her weigh & a none there with he was hole & thanked our lady ever after.   

De sancto georgio martyr.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint George's day the holy martyr it is wreton in his life that there was an horrible dragon be side a Cite that was called Cirme of the which dragon men of the Cite were sore a feared in so much that be counsel of the king every day they give him a child & a sheep to eat fore fere left he would have come in to the Cite Than when all the children & shep were nigh eton for because that the king himself gave 'em that same counsel they constrained him that had but a daughter to give her to the dragon Than the king for fere of the people with weeping & great sorrow making delivered 'em his child and sent her forth in to the place there as they were wont to set her own children & a sheep with her to a bide till the dragon come.  
But than by the ordinance of god saint iorge come riding that weigh & when he saw this damsel in her array him thought she was a woman of great birth and asked her why she stood there with that sheep in such ●ray of morning then answered she and saide gentle knight well may I morn and make sorrow for I am a kings daughter of this Cite And now am I set here to be devoured of a dragon that had eton all the children of this cite and be now destroyed and now he must have me for my father gaffe hem counsel there to and therefore getyll knight ride hence fast and save thyself left the dragon slay both the and me Than said gorge damsel that were great shame and villainy to me that I am a knight well arrayed and should i'll and thou a woman and shouldest a bide Than with that the dragon put out his heed at an hole & spit fire & proffered battle to gorge A none Gorge made a sign of the cross be fore him & set his spear in gate & with great might bare down the dragon to the ground & than he bade the damsel bind this dragon with her gir dell a bout the neck & led him with her in to the cite and so the dragon followed after her as it had be an hound made for to bow patiently  
But when the people of the cite saw this dragon come they fled for fere a weigh then gorge called the people a yene & saide to 'em be not a feared for and ye will be leave in christ and take cristendome I wool save ●ew & ●●e this dragon & deliver you of your enemy then where they so glad that a none twenty thousand men without women and children w●re christened and the ●●●g & the queen were surs●e of all with all his ●usholde & than Gorge slew the dragon & bad the people tey oxon unto him & draw him out of the that the saver of him did the people no harm Than gorge bade the king edify & build churches in each corner of his land & be lusty to God's service & to honour & worship to all people of holy church & ever have & compassion & be sorry for 'em that be poor & needy & be in any dissese Thane when gorge had done thus and had turned all the land to christian faith he he●de of an Emperor that hight Dioclesian how he did many christian men to death than he went to him & rebu●rd him of his cursed deeds. Than the Emperor a none commanded to put Gorge into prison & to lay him upright & to lay a my stone on the breast to press him to death. Then Gorge prayed t● god for help & our lord kept him that he had no harm in no part of his body And when the emperor heard there of he dead make to whelis & set 'em full of hooks & Gorge was set in the mids between them ij. & than the whelie were turned & so to raze his flesh from the bones & when Gorge was in this torment a none he prayed to god of so coure & help & anon he was holpyn And than they put him in to an hot lime kill & closed him there yn for he should have be brent But a none our lord turned it in to cold & there in he was iij. days and than they wend to have found him all to brent and he was save from all manner harms and was merry. Than he was brought forth and set before the Emperor and Gorge reproved him of his false God's and saide they were but fiends with out might and power Than the Emperor to beat his mouth with stones till he was to powned & made to beat his bare body with dry besoms till the flesh fill from the bones and the people might have say his guttis yet after that they made him to drunk venom that was made strong for the nonies for to have pained him to death. And when Gorge had made a sign of the cross he drank the poison with out grieve in so much that the man that made the poison turned to christian faith and anon he was do to death then the night after as Gorge was in prison preying▪ god come to him and saide Gorge be of good comfort to morrow thou shalt make an end and come to ever lasting joy and bliss and set a crown on his heed & gafe him his blessing.  
Than on the morew for he would not do worship to the false God's the Emperor made to smite of his heed & than as the Emperor would have go to his palace there come a fire lightning & burned him and all his people.  
we find a scory of antioch wreton that be side Jerusalem a fayrt young knight appeared to a pressed & saide I am saint Gorge and a leader of christian people & commanded the pressed he should bear with him his relics & come with him to the siege of the rusalem But when they come to the walls of the rusalem the he thine people there ynn were so strong that the christian not durst come to the walls. Than come saint Gorge clothid in white and made a cross on his breast & went upon the ladder & bad the christian people come after him And so with the help of saint Gorge they got the Cite of ihe rusalem & slew all the he thine people that were found there. & there fore late v● prey to saint Gorge to help us a yense our go stely enemy new and ever Amen.   

De sancto mar●o evangelista.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint marks day that was one of the four▪ Evangelists that wreton christus gospel & p●●ched hem to she people This mark was first a he thine man & after he was crisconed of saint Petyr & he made him to go● & preach to the people God's word And than fore he was so holy a man the people would have had him to be a pressed. But he was so meek in himself that he made on of thumbs to cut of for him thought he was not worthy to be a pressed but for god would have it so saint Petyr with great instance made him take the order of prestehode upon him. Than was he busy both day & night to preach the word of god & all that he said with word he confirmed with good ensample and with doing of great miracles Thus by the e●spiracl on of the holy ghost he went in to the Cite of ●●●●aundir fore to turn the people to the faith then when he come to the cite uneath he was entered in to the cite his scho burst & there by he wist well that he should be deed. Than he saw a man sit & clout schon to poor people & mark prayed him to mend his scho Than for this man was poor him thought it was alms to help him at that time & took his scho & began to sew & a none with his na●● he hurt his hand & what sore ache & fore great penance he saide god help & when mark heard that he called to god a none Mark prayed to god fore him And than mark spatte on the earth & blessed it & anointed his hand there with & said In nomine patris Ihesu xpristi filii dei vi●i san●tur mann●tua. In the name of the father ●he so Christ the son of quick god thy hand be hole ●ocahitur autem homo ille anania●▪ For sooth that man was called anama & when anania saw such virtue in mark he prayed him to twelle still with him Comoratusq● i●. den du●●us annis And there dwelled he ij. year & christened him and all his household & afterward for great holiness that mark saw with this man he made him a bischopp then the people saw how mark 〈◊〉 in the Cite they took him and tied a rope a ho●●te his neck & drew him among stones till the flesh fill to the earth & said draw we the bugull to the bugull place So when he was draw nigh to death than they put him in to prison till on the morrow Than the same night Christ come to him in to prison & said Pese be to the mark our evan geliste be not a gast fore I am with the then on the morrow they co●●● & fe●te him out of prison & drew him till he was deed & when he should die he saide In ma nn● tuas And so gave up the ghost & aftirward they would burn his body & than there come sooth an earth quake with a lightning & thoundyr that there durst no man a bide Than in the night christian people come & took marks body and buried it Than fill it so that every christian land hallowed saint marks day save one country that is called appolonia the which country was so grieved with he●e and drowthe that all the country failed 'em of fruit so that they were well near famelyd And than there come a voice from heaven & bad hem hallow saint marks day & than they should be comforted & they deed so & anon god sent 'em plenty of all manner of frutesy now.  
Now hit is to weet why we should fast this day & go in precession.  
we read in the cite of rome one this day fill such a qualm & a sudden death that when a man yaned or gapid or fuesid anon he dyede and there dyede many suddenly. then was there a pope was called pelagius that commanded all christian people that when he yaned every man should make a cross over his mouth And when any man heard a nother fueses he should say Christ help the. & so many were saved. and there he made the people go a procession & so preying to all the semty● of heaven to prey to god for hem & so they deed Thom come after Gregory & made 'em do the same on seinte marks day to hallow & fast & go in procession & canoni●ed it to be done for ever more than come there a pope that was called Liberius in his time all manner frutis in this time of the year of great tendirnesse of hit self took great harm so what by thoundyr lightening & unkind heter by storms mildews by worms & by long tailed fleyes for vengeance that a none after Estyr day the people turned a yene to her old sin having no reward of the sacrament which they have received and there fore god sent more vengeance this time than in any other time of the year. where fore this holy 〈◊〉 to put a weigh all these things & in special God's wreath fro the people he commanded to all christian people to hallow & to fast & go in procession & he that saide that it is made be a constitution is a cursed till he come to amendment And there for I charge you & counsel you all that thynkith to be saved keep this day after the rule of holy church   

In die philippi ● jacobi.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have the feast of philippe & Jacob the which were holy apostles. But for this feast cometh with in feast of Estyr ye shall not fast the even but ye shall come to church to worship god & the holy apostles Than ye shall know well that philippe was ordained by all other apostles to go in to country that was called Sithia to preach to the unbeleved people. But when he come thither & prechid & yene the maumentes preving that they were fiends and no God's & so they took him & lad him to her temple & would have constrained him to have do sacrifice. Than as they were busy to do him dissese suddenly a great dragon come out of the ●● the & slew iij. of this miss believed people & venemed so the people with his breathing that there f●ll on 'em such a sickness that the woe & the sorrow that they had they cried after help. Than saide philipp to 'em if ye will be helped & helid of your sickness & also these men reaid from death to live first cast down the maumentes & set in her stead crossis like to the cross there as our lord died upon and do it worship Thann they deed so for they were glad to be holpyn of her sickness & as soon as they had do so they were holpyn And than philipp prayed to god for the iij. men to rise from death to live Tunc precepit phillippus draconi ut in locum suum redescenderet then philippe commanded the dragon to go down to his place a yene & never dissese man more. Than the cursed people of the Cite saw that philippe would have turned all the people & took him & did him upon a cross & so on a cross he died & went to ever lasting bliss Amen.  
Now shall ye here of jacob that was called among the apostles jacobus minor the less ●ames for to know from jacobus maior james the more that was saint johan evangelist brothir But when jacobus or james that is all one name this man was called christus own brother for he was so much like to christ Than when the jews would have take christ they could not know on from a nother but as judas betrayed Criste with kissing of him & by that kissing Christ was known & take This james was so holy from the time that he was borne as long as he lived he never drank wife ne a●● ne sid●rn● be re〈…〉 〈…〉 of drynthat 〈…〉 〈…〉 ● man d 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 i'll 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 ne 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 never t● 〈…〉 〈…〉 oy le 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 he countu● 〈…〉 〈…〉 ●he son 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 no linen 〈…〉 An● he lay upon 〈…〉 ●eyng fo●t● people that his kne● we●● so thykeewyll that they were bollyn out like ● camel.  
This was the first man that ever song miss in vestiments as priests doth no●● Than it fill so that time in t●● Cite o●●herus●lem with sin of c●istu●●● the t●at it must nediss be 〈…〉 yed where fore 〈…〉 holy man gem was made bishop of the cite ●●●he rusalem and there he was left to preach & to turn the people to better leaving but fore they were so cumbered with sin that they had none other grace of a mendment but needily for the prophecy of christ must be fulfiled & the cite destroyed where for these men took seint● Ia●●s & sett● him one an high place pieing him to 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 of crist● 〈…〉 〈…〉 ●he people ●●● ●●●rned to christ And ●● stood up & preached by good re●on how all th●●●● levied not in christ should be dampened at the day of doom in to hell pit Than the maiscre of the jews bade thrasce him down from the high● place that he stood ●nn● & with stones they ●e●e hy● down till he ●●s deed. Than he kneeled on his knees preying to god for give 'em his death ● there with a cursed ma with a s 〈…〉 smote him one the heed that ●●e beayne fill out. and so in this wise he give up the ghost then after fore vengeance of christ us death and fore this holy manues death the cite of Jerusalem that was the time the greatest Cite of the world and never like to have be won soon after was destroyed in to the utermeste in so much that every stone m every wall was turned up so down as christ saide xl. winter be fore that it should be so and it was And the jews were driven out in to diverse countries in so much that all the kingdoms were destroyed and yet be under othir kings & ever shall be sogettes & no possessors. yet ye shall hear more of th● destruction of this Cite of Jerusalem to show how vengeable god is to 'em that be glad to shed cris●en men's blood as they we●e ●hanne god would have 〈…〉 ●gea●nce of Cite. ●it happed so that a man of pilatus the which did christ to death come from Jerusalem towards rome but the tempest in the see took him and drove him upon a land by a temple with great tempest. And there dwelled a great lord that was called Daspasian And for this cause he was called fore he had such a malady in his nostreiles there droppid out of his nose worms like wasps then saide Daspasian to this man from what country comyste thou and he answered him and saide from Jerusalem and will towards Rome. then saide Daspas●an I am glad there of sore I have herd say that there be many go●d leches in that country. where fore I would well thou cowdis●e he'll me. And but if thowe do not hele me thou shalt be deed Than answered he and saide I am no leech myself but he that he lithe all sick and reysithe the deed to live he may hele the and ●f that it be his will how is that said vespasian Sire saide he Jesus of nasareth that the jews have slain And if thou wolte believe in him thou shalt have all that thou wolte desire & be hole Than saide vespasian I believe verily as thou sayst that he may hele me that reysithe men from death to loffe & anon with that word he was hole. Than was he glad that he was hole Than a none he sent a man to the empenrour of rome & gate licence & leave to destroy the cite of Jerusalem & than he gathered a great multitude of people & Titus that was his own son with him & went to Jerusalem Than in the mean while that he besieged the cite the Emperor died & than was he chosen Emperor & turned a yene to rome and left Titus his son there to destroy the Cite  
Than Titus lay so fore to the cite that he enfamylde 'em in so much that the eton her schon & her botis & the father took meet from the son & the son from the father and eythir took it from otheris mouth the husband from the wife the wife from the husband Than among all other there was a woman of great birth & was come of gentle blood & had a young child & fore hungir she saide my dear child I have suffered moche more pain for the than ever thou dediste for me where for her is more reason that I ease my hunger on the Than though I die & though both & so took her child & slew it & roasted half of it and kept half till on the morrow And than as the flesh rosty● the savour went in to the Cite and when the people felt the savour they wend there had be plenty of meet & come in to have had part and than this woman would have hid it. but they saide they would see what meet she had And than she brought it forth & showed it & saide lo here I have roasted my own child & here is that other half a yense to morrow. Than the people were sore a gresid there of and all a mased of that sight & went forth leaving the woman eting of her child Than hunger encresid so greatly that there died with in the cite so think that they cast the bodies over the walls out of the cite in to the dikes and so filled the dikes full of deed bodies & the stink smote forth in to the country and enfectid the people greatly Than so at the last great need made 'em to yield up the cite Than titus went in with his host & right as the jews sold christ: for thirty. pennies so they sold thirty. jews fore a penny and turned the cite up so down in so much they left not a stone standing upon another but destroyed it to the utermeste part Jo thus may ye see though that god almighty a bide & suffer long he smith sore at the last and takith great vengeance on 'em that be lusty to shed christian men's blood where for every christian man and woman a mend 'em self preying to this holy apostles to be mediators between god & hem that they may have verray repentance here in her hearts with shrift of mouth and sassaction in deed doing that we may come to the bliss that never shall have ending Amen.   

De invencione sanrte cruris.  
●Ood friends so 〈…〉 ht a day ye shall 〈…〉 have the invenci 〈…〉 the holy cross but ye shall not fast the even but come to god and to holy church as christen people should do in worship of him that died on the cross Than ye shall understand why it is called Inuencio erucis. the finding of the cross the which was found in this wise as I shall tell you when Adam our first father was sick for old & would fain have be out of this world Adam sent seth his son to the angel keeper of paradise ping the angel to send him the oil of mercy to anoint his body with when he were deed Than went seth to paradise & saide his message to the angel Than answered the angel & saide that he might not have it till the yeris be fullfillid but have this branch of the tree that thy father sinned in & serce it one his grave & when it berithe fruit thann shall he have mercy & not erst Than took seth this branch & come home & found his fadir deed Than he set this branch on his fade r●s grave as the angel bade him do the which branch goowed there till salomon was king and he made fell it down for it was fair to the work of his temple But it would not cord with the work of his temple Solomon made to cast it down in to the earth & was it hid there in time that the bishop of the temple let make a wayre in the same place there the tree lay to wess● in sheep that were offered in the temple Than when this wayr was made they called it in their language Probatica piscina in the which watyr every day come an angel from heaven & did worship to the ●tre that lay in the ground of the weyre and moved the watyr & what man or woman that come in to the watyr next after the angel was made hole what sickness that ever he had be virtue of the tree & so endured many wyntres in to the time that christ was take & should be done one the cross Than this tree by the ordinance of god swan upon the watyr & when the jews had none other tree ready to make the cross of fore great haste that they had they took the same tree & made there of a cross & so did our lord there on & than that tree bore that blessed fruit christus own body of the which wellith the Oil of mercy to Adam & to Eve & all other of her of spring But when christ was deed & was take down of the cross for envy that the jews had to him they took the cross & to ij. othir crosses that the thieves were hong●d● on eythyr side of christ & buried he m●depe in the earth for criston people should not weet where that they were done for to do it worship And there it lay a year & more in to the time that Elene the Emperes mother of constantyne gathered great people to fight with maxencius at a great watyvouer the which watye lay a great bridge for disobeyed of conscantyne maxencius let make a trap hopping up & down so for to have deceived Constantyne that he should have fallyn in to the watyr & as Constantyne lay in his b●d sore a feared of maxencius for he was moche bigger of people than he was. than come to him an angel with a sign● of the cross sheytrnyn●●s gold & saide to him▪ to morrow whannethon ghost to the battle take this sign in thy hand and by the virtue there of thou shalt have victon then was constantyne woundir glad & anon let make a Cross of the tree & to bear it to fore hem to the battle But when maxencius saw him nigh the bridge he was so feres of himself that he had for get the trap the which he had made himself & so come one the bridge & fill down in to the watyr by the trap & was drowned Than was all his oft woundir fain to yield 'em to constantyne with good will Than for Constantyne was not yet christened of him & also he was helid of a leper that he had Than a none be counsel of the pope he sent his modir queen Elene that was queen of Jerusalem ● prayed her to go & seek the cross there christ died on. This Elene was a kings daughter of england & the Emperor of rome wedded her for her beute & so she was made emperes of rome But after lxr husbands death she had the kygdome of Jerusalem to dowry where she made gadir all jews that might be found & saide but if they would show her the cross they should all be brent Than was there on of 'em that hight iudas & all saide that he knew best where the cross was. Than saide Elene to him. Si vis ninere ostende michi lignum crucia. if thou would leu● show me the cross that god died upon or else thou shalt be brent and so putt● him to great distress.  
Than he saw he mustened is tell or die & said to 'em I be seche you let me to the mount of Calvary there as I shall bide you & I shall show you the cross of Criste for he was blind & might not see And so when he was brought to the mount of Calvary he kneeled down & prayed long & when he had prayed the place there the ●rosse was menyd & the earth quoke & there come a sweet savour from that place there the cross lay that was as sweet as any spicery in the world. And than they diggid there long & at the last they found there iij. crosses but than wuste they not which was christus cross from the othir ij. And than took they a deed body & laid it now on that cross & now on that other & when it come to christus cross a none the body rose to live & thanked god Than saide this judas Thowe arte christ truly & saviour of all the world And after that judas was christened a none & was an holy man after. Than took Elene a part of the cross & send it to rome to her son & the remena● te there of she made to shrine it in silver & gold & left it in Jerusalem with all the worship that she could thus holy church maketh mind this day that the holy cross was found Than as we read we find in a cite that was called Birectus a christian man hired an house of a jew to dwell in Than had this man a road the which nichodemus had made in mind of christ. Than took he this road & set it up in a puy place of his house for sight of the jews & did it worship after his cunning Than after hit fill so that this man went in to a nother house & happed him to leave this ●ode be hind him unweting. Than come the jew & dwelled in the house there this christian man had be in. Than for to make him good cheer his neighbours come on a night and souped with him & as they satin at souper and spoke of this christian man that dwelled there be for this jew ●okyd be side him & in a corner he saw this ●●●e & when he saw that a none he be gone to grind with his teth and to chide with this other jew his neighbour & saide thou art turned to christian faith & haste a road & dost hit worship privily Than this other jew sworn nay as deep as he could that it was not so ne never saw it be fore that time yet not with standing that other jew go & told his neighbours & saide that this man was a privy christian man & had a road privily in his house Than anon come all his mybo●●●● wode forwrothe & all to bet this man & drew him & togged him in the worst manner that they could & so at the last they saide all this is the image that thou believest upon And they took the image & beat it & scourged it & crowned it with thorns & at the last they made the strongist of hen to take aspere & with all his might to smyghte him to the heart & anon there with blood & watyr ran out by the sides than were they sore a feared there of & saide take we pots & fill 'em with this blood & late ve bear it in to the temple there as all the sick people is of diverse malodyes and anoint 'em there with & if they be hole with the blood than cry we god mercy & a none lets us be christened man & ●om● Than they a ny●ted the sick people with this blood & a none they were hole than went these jews to the Bishop of the Cite & told him all the cause & a none he kn●lid down on his knees and thanked god of his fair miracle. And when he christened the jews he took violis of glass crystal & ambour & put of this blood in hem & sent it a bout in diverse churches & of this blood as many man vnderstondith rome to the blood of hailed Milites tellith in his chronicles that many years after that Jerusalem was destroyed the jews would have bildid it a yene thann as they went the their wards early in a morrow they found many crosses by the weigh and they were a feared there of & turned homewards a yene yet on the morrow they come a yene than were there crosses full of blood & than they flight homewards a yene eachone yet would they not leave there by but comes yene the iij. day than ●●● rose out of the earth & brent hem everychone in to asks.   

De festo sancti is hannis ante portalatinam  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint iohan● day at port latin why is this day called so ye shall here. Hit happy as this day this holy seinte preached the word of god in a Cite that was called ephesie the iusti● of the cite saw that he turned moche people to the believe of Criste & would have had him to do sacrifice to his false God's and for he would not but rathir lice his life. than this justice let take him & commaundid him to be set in person while he sent to the Emperor of Rome to weet what he should do to him and when his letteres were come to the Emperor in the which letteres he called johan all the worst that he could and said he was a false disceyver of the people than wrote the Emperor a yene to the justice and bad he should send johan ayen to him to Rome and so he did  
And the Emperor opposed him o● his dediss and johan stood stedfast● in the faith & fore great scorn the emperor made clip of some of iohans here of his heed fore he had a fair heed of here And when he wes so clippid all the people laughed him to scorn & so did him great dissese  
And they lad him to a gate of the town of rome the which is called port latin & there they put him in to a ton of fervent hot oil & closed him there in and put under fire to have brent him there in But for he was God's own darling he kept him so that he had no harm in no part of his body than when the people went that he had be deed they unclosed the ton & found him as hole & as found in all the partis of his body & clothes as no thing had touched him there for christian people let make a church there in the worship of god & martyrdom that suffered there Than fore the Emperor might not over come him by no weigh of martyrdom nor penaun he exiled him in to an isle that is called pathmos Than heard saint johannes mother that her son was sent to rome fore to be deed for great sorrow & compassion of him sch● went after to rome but whann she heard that he was exiled she turned a yene & went home ward ●●d ●● w●an s●● come to a cite that was callid ●etu●am & there she fill sick & died & there she was heryed be sides the cite in a rogue & when she had l●yne there many yery● semte James her other son come thither & took up his moderis body & it smellid as sweet as any spiceey & brought it in to the cite and buried it there with great worship & honour. Amen   

De festo sancti iobannis baptiste  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have an high feast & an holy that is called saint iohans' day the baptist & is called so for he baptized christ in the watyr of flom jordan where fore ye shall fast the even. And ye shall understand & know how the evenies were first found in old time in the beginning of holy church it was so that the people come to church with candles brenning and would wake & come with light to wards night to the church in her devotions & after they fill to lecheery & songs dances harping & also fill to gluttony & sin & so turned the holiness in to cursedness where fore holy faderis ordained the people to leave that waking & to fast the even & thus turned the waking in to fasting. But hit is called vigilia that is waking in English & yet it is called the even for at the even they were wont to come to church But in worship of seinte johan the people work at home & made iij. manner of fires on was clean bones & no wood & that is called a bone fire A nother is clean wood & no bones & that is called a wood fire fore people to fit & to wake there by The third is made of wood & bones & that is called saint johan fire The first fire as a great clerk johan bellet tellith was in a certain country for in the country was so great heat the which causithe the dragons go to gedyr in tokening that johan died in brenning lone ● charity to god & man. And they that dyen in charity schalle have part of all good prayers & they that do not schall never be saved Than as this dragon's fleith in the eyre they shed down to the wateres froth of her kind & so enuenymed the wateres and causithe moche people to take her death there by & many diverse sickness Than on a time there were many great clerks & radde of king alisa ●der how on a time as he should have a battle with the king of Ind & this king of inde brought with him many olyfauntes bearing castles of tree one her backs as the kin of hem is to have knights armed in the castle fore the battle then knew alisaundre the kind of the olyfauntes that they dread no thing so moche as the ●arryng of swynne where for he made gather to gedir all the swine that might be gotten & caused 'em to be driven as nigh the oly●aūtes as they might well here the jarring of the swine and thann they made a pig to cry and when the swines heard the pig cry a none they made a great jarring & as soon as the olyfauntes' herd that they began to i'll each on and cast down the castellis & slew the knights that were in hem & by this mean alexander had the victory in this wise. Also these wise clerks knew well that dragon's hatith no thing more than the stench of brenning bones. there for they gathered so many as they might find & brende hem & so with the stench there of they drove away the dragons & so they were brought out of great dissese. The second fire was made of wood for that will burn light & will be sayen far fore it is the chief of fire to be sayne fe●re in tokening that saint johan was a lantern of light to the people. Also the people made blasis of fire fore they should be sayn fer and specially in the night. Semt jeremy the prophet many a yeris or johan was born he prophesied & spoke thus with god is mouth and ●eyde. Pri●squam te for ma●● in utero no ●i ●e Before or thou were form in thy moderis womb I knew the Et antequa exires de vulua sanctifica ●●te. And before or thou yodeste out of thy moderis womb I hallowed the Et prophe tam in gentibus de dite And I give the ● prophet to the people Than for saint johan should be holy or he were borne ged sent his Angel gabriel to sacary saint iohans' father as he did sacrifice in stead of abia the bishop in the temple and prayed to god to have a child for both he & his wife were barren and old Than saide the angel to sacary Ne time as ●acarie dread the not zacarye god hath herd thy prayer. Elisabeth umor t●● pariet filium et ●ocabi tur nom̄ eius iobens elizabeth thy wife shall have a child & his name shall be called iohan he shall be fullfillid with the holy goset. Et multi in n●ti●itate eius gaudebunt And many shall joy in the birth of him than for zacarye was old he prayed the angel to have a token of his he hefte than said the angel to him he should be doom till the child were borne and so he was. than c●nceyned elisabeth & whann she was quick with child our lady come with child also to speak with Elisabeth and a none as she spoke to Elisabeth semt iohan played in his moderis womb for joy of christus presence that he saw in our lady And so there our lady was with Elizabeth unto the time that johan was borne & was mid dewyffe to elisabeth & took saint johan from the earth & when neighbours heard that elisabeth had a son they were full glad & come thither as the manner was that time to give the child a name & called it zacary after the father but elisabeth bad call him johan But for theridamas was none of the kynn of that name they asked zacary be signs what the child should height. Than be wrote to hem & bad call him johan. And there with god lousid zakaries tongue & spoke readily & thanked god highly Thus was johan holy or he was borne And fore he would give every man sight of grace & of good leaving he give him ensample for as soon as he was of covenable age he went in to desert & was there till our lord come to be christened of h●m & there he le ●yd full straightly. johannes vero habu●t vestimenta de pili● camelo●●m. johan hath his cloth made of the here of camel and a girdle about him of the same skin. Es●a autem eius erat locusta et mel silvester For fothe his meet was levys & soak honey of levys that the manner is like a white flower that groweth in trees And he eat all manner of worms that were norisched in that desert among her bis & the worms be as great as a man's finger & sokith honey of flowers that be called honey soak lys that poor people gaderithe & fryens in oil to her meet Also johan eat broad round leaves that growyn in trees in that desert And when they be broken between a man's hands they be sweet as honey And he drank watyr of a well that was in that desert This ●asiohans life in that desert till that our lord was thirty▪ winter of age. And th●n o●● lord & johan met at the watyr of flom jordan & than johan told ●he people of christ & saide ●●●e a 〈…〉 nu● dei Se the lamb of god there I have told you of that shall full fill you in the holy ghost then wen●● johan in to the watyr & there he baptized christ & whann he was baptised-Ecce apertisunt celi. He vyn opened Et vidit spiritum dei descentem sicut columba. And he saw the holy ghost come down as a dove. Et vox de celo dicens. And a voice from heaven spoke thus. Ecce filius mens di lectus in quo michi bene complacui this is my well be loved son that pleaseth me. Here learned johan first to know three persons in trinity & all this beto●enith ij. fires The iij. fire of bonce beto●●●nith ●hannes martyrdom 〈…〉 bo〈…〉 ye shall 〈…〉 hat 〈…〉 a bro〈…〉 Philipp 〈…〉 lo 〈…〉 her 〈…〉 where io 〈…〉 him & saide. 〈…〉 tihi habere ur●●em fratris tui 〈…〉 not lawful to the to have thy brother is 〈◊〉 And there for he put him in prison & ordained be between him & his wife how johan might be deed with out strobeiing of the people for the common people loved johan well phann herowde ordained to make a great fe●te of all the stan● of the country for they should hold with h 〈…〉 ple had ry 〈…〉 so ●●han the da●●●● come that the feast should the hold and all the pep● were served at mebe herowdes wife as covenant was be between 'em though she sent her thoughter in to the hall for to daunt & to tumble a fore the gestis And that pleased her father so well that he swore a great oath & saide. Peto a me quad vis et da●o tibi. Ask of me what thou wolte & I shall give it the than as the mother bade her say she saide Caput Johannis baptist The heed of johan baptist Than he road ●ayned him wroth & sorry that he had made so the an oath but he was glad & than sent in to prison to smite of iohans hede wi●h ou●e any othir doom & was brought to the damsel Than the mother let●e berry it in a privy place fer from the body Than the next night after iohans disciples come & to his body & buried it And there it lay till julian the aposteta the Emperor come that weigh than he made take up iohans' bone● & to bren hem and we now hem in the wind hoping that he should never rise a yene to life. Thus ye may understand how holy that this ●ā was that an angel come from heaven & told zakary of this conceiving & was ha'owed in his modir womb. & our lady took him from the earth in his birth & an angel brought his name from heaven & after he christened our lord Jesus Christ this was an holy man ye shall understand that saint iohan the evangelist died the same day. but holy church maketh no mention there of for his day is holdyn in christmas work. Than for these ij. iohans be holdyn for the worthyeste seinte● in heaven Than there were ij. scolero of divinity y● one loved johan baptiste & that other iohan evang list & on a day they puposed to dispute of this matter & the day was a syned but than the night be fore eythir iohan appeared to his lover & bad 'em leave her disputation for they were well a cordid in heaven & made no strife & than on the morrow be fore all the people eythir told his vision that were come to have heard 'em dispute & than all the people thanked god & both iohans of this fair miracle Also there was too mesoles that loved well these ij. iohans as so as they in comening they spoke of these ij. saints which were the greater in heaven And so that on said that one was greater than an other saide that other & so they be gan to ●ighte Than there comes voice from heaven & saide we ●ight not in heaven & there for ●ight not ye in earth for us fore we be in ●es● & so be ye and evynthere with they were both hole of her dissese & thankid god & both iohans And after ward they were holy men & there for let us worship these holy seyntes that they may pray for us that we may come to ever lasting bliss Amen   

Defesto sanctorū●etri et panli.  
〈…〉 odd friends so 〈…〉 he a day ye shall 〈…〉 have the feast of 〈…〉 & ●oule and ye shall fast the even and on the morrow come to church and worship god & prey to these ij. seyntes ● were holy apostles to prey fore us. Our lord hath Petyr one his one side and paul on that other side and he hath his wounds opyn and fresche bleeding schewing to all manner of christian people that he suffered the wounds for us that bethe the v. wells of mercy that he suffered for us ye shall understand that these ij. apostles were first great sinners.  
But for they left her sin & were sorry & contrite & sinned no more our lord took hem in ensample to all other that will leave sin they shall be saved For he that is shriven & for sakith his sin mercy followeth that. & do his penance & he shall have mercy & grace For as glad as the ●adir is to see the son rise from death to life also glad is our lord. & much gladder to see a man rise out of deadly sin & never to do it more & therefore showing by ensample Poule berithe a sword to all christian people to cut a weythe chains of sin with his sharp sword of confession for this deadly sin byndithe a man sore to the fiend & there for cut away that chain Petyr is also ready to open the gatis of heaven to all crisien people & to take 'em in that will fore sake her sin ye shall understand that pou●e was first so high & so fierce a yense all God's servants that there durst no pchour deal with him but after he left that great malice & there as he was fierce after he was gracious. And there he was before high & proud of heart after he was meek & lowly to all God's servants. Petyr also held himself most perfect & steadfast of all christus disciples where for he made boast by a vain glory that he was ready to go to death with christ & saide thus Hit be hovit me to die with the & whann Criste saide that all his disciples should fore sake him Petyr for the great boast saide though all men for soak him he would not. And yet more over when christ was take Petyr drowe out his sword & smote of a servants ere that hight malcus But soon after when he saw that christ was take & should be put to●e the than he swear & starid that he never know him & for soak christ but when he heard the cock crow than he was minded ● our lord had saide to him that or the cokke crow it thryes thou shalt for● sake me Than petyr went te forth. Et flevit amare & wept bitterly & hide him in a cave and durst not come among his breath ryn foe schame ti●● once lord sent to him by name Than was petyr ever after a shamed & sorry for his trespass. & there as he was a boster & unstable of his words afterward he was true & stable & grounded in stabelnesse of perfit leaving in so much that christ called him Petyr that i● a stone in english For there as thou leyeste a stone there thou shalt find it so was petyr so stead fast after that nethir for we'll nor for woe he never i'll tere but ever stood stead fast in christus law & had ever his sin in mind & to a mend that he had do a miss & was after of great abstinaunce that he eat but breed and oil wortes & full selden flesh and were but a singull kirtle with a mantel. And ever as often when he heard any manner a man mind Jesus' a none he be gone to weep full sore. And when he heard any cokke crow a none he rose up and would go and prey and suffer penance and he wept many times so bitterly that the tears of his eyen brent his face in so much that were he was he had a cloth in his bosom all weigh to wipe a weigh the teris.  
then so following he was so holy that where that ever he went and he might schadowe any sick body anon they were hole So on a time he sent ij. of his disciples in to a far country to preach & when they were go ij. days journey one of hem died & that other turned a y●ne & told Petyr. then petyr t●ke him his staff & bade him lay the staff on his fellow & bade him a rise in the name of god & he rose a none & went forth to gedyr & prechid Than were many wroth that petyr turned so moche people to the faith & put him in to prison & bond him fast with great chains of ●rom till he was nigh 〈…〉 he should be stole a weigh where for the knights work yi● one saint ●●●res night And thus t●e co●●n people to●e ensample of hem & make ●yres in worship of saint petyr & wake. than christ come to Petyr in prison. And than come an angel to Petyr with great light as our lord bad. & a none the chains break & fill from his hands & feet & he went to rome & was there pope xxxv. year & turned moche people to christus ●eythe But soon after come the fendeeleme that was called symond mague that could much of ●he fiends craft & made moche people sick in diverse sickness some blind some lame some death so that the people what fore fere & for wondyr believed in him.  
then petyr healed all though that magus had hurt & bade they should not be lean in him than was this symond magus wroth with Petyr that he might not ●aue his will & in special he might not raise a death body to live that petyr reysid Than thio symond tied a fiend in liken s●e of a great dog goe there as petyr should come to slay petyr but petyr blessed him & let this dog loaf & than he commanded to symond & pullid him down undir his feet & than petyr bade leave & do him no harm of his body but he ●ll to rent his cloth is so that symond werde all most naked a weigh. Than symond or deigned all the ways that he could to have Petyr deed Than our lord appeared to petyr & saide. Simon e● nero con●rate cogitant. Symond & near & othir have ordained thy d●th tomorrow I will send to the paul my servant in comfort to the & ye shall suffer matirdome to gedyr for my sake & so come unto me in to ever lasting bliss Than petyr told his bretheryn of his vision that he had in the night & so he took Clement by the ●onde & set him in his cheyre & made him pope & successor after him Than on the morrow come paul & prechid the people. Than this symond had so encharmed the emperour● in such a folinesse that he wend that he had be gods son So this symond magus come to the emperor & saide there be ij men of galilee come to this cit● that one hight petyr & that ●th●r p●●le that doth me so moche dissese that I may a bide no longer here in earth where for command such a day all manner of people to come to capiti●ion & there in sight of all people y will sty up to my father in heaven & wh●n all the people were come to gedir Symond went up in to a tour of capitilion than come ij. finds like ij. angels and set on his heed a garlaunde of lory and bare him up in to the eyre like as he had f●owyn Than said Peter to paul brothir ●oke up & see than saide paul. ●it falleth for me to prey and the to command & anon Petyr saide I command you angels of sathanas that ye late that man go down that all the people may see whom they have worshipped. Than simon fill down & all to burst than was the emperor wroth & made to lead petyr & paul fort●e & did petyr on a cross & his heed down wards & so put him to death. & pou●e for he was a gent●● man borne for the more worship they smote of his hed● Than the people saw angels stonding on the cross there as petyr hung with crowns & when Paul'S heed was smite of there come out feyre plenty of milk and after blood Than in the night after come christen people & laid her bodies to gedyr in a grave & there lay till christian fey●● was more opyn in rome Than would they have boar eythir body to his church but they could not know eythir bones from other Than come there a voice from heaven & saide the more bones be of the preacher and the less of the fisher▪ So after when christian faith come in to this ●●n●● king Etheberte let make a great church at westme s●re in worship of saint petyr & an other in ●ondon of saint paul An● so on a day when the church of saint petyr should be hallowed in the night before was a man fisching in the temmysse under wes● mestre and a lityll be for midnight come saint petyr like a pilgreme & preyed the fisher to let him over the watyr & he did so And petyr went to the church & there the fisher sigh a great light & there with was the greatest savour that ever he felt. & also he heard the merriest song that he woste not were he was fore joy Than come petyr to him a yene & saide has●e thou take any fisch tonyght & ●e saide nay fore I was so s●oyned with light & with the melody that I might do no manner thing Than saide petyr Mitte rete in mari caste thy net in to the see & I w●ll help the and so the took a great multitude of fisches than saide petyr to the fisher▪ I am semt Peter that have hallowed my church this night & took a great fish and saide have bear this to the bishop & say that I sent him this. & on this token bid him do no more to the hallowing of the church but si●ge a mass there & make a sermone to the people that they may be leave on this And for to pew the tron the bid him go to church & see where the candelis s●i ke on the walls & ●ll ●he church wet of holy water ●●o●he panther did his message & the bishop found ●●●●rew & kneeled down on his knees & moche people with him & song ●e deum la●dam●a. & thā●●● god & semt Peter   

●● translatione sancti ●●●me.  
〈◊〉 friends so 〈◊〉 day ye shall hau●●he translation of sem●●●omas▪ the martyr that ●●● he was take out of h●● grave & his bony● ley●● in 〈◊〉 & how ye shall how this man was ordained in his birth to be a● holy man & a worth● se●●e 〈◊〉 for that was 〈◊〉 first to his mo●●r & ●●tir to his 〈◊〉 in ●ld●●●ge. and no● is 〈◊〉 i● all cristendome 〈◊〉 ●hit was kno● t● 〈◊〉 ●●ir fore in a ●●gh●●● s●e lay in her b●●de lomg she thought 〈◊〉 ●a● in his crader an● 〈◊〉 & when she 〈◊〉 him weep she called 〈◊〉 ●he norse and said ●o●e to the child. ●nd wh●n the norse co●e to hi● she found h●● clothes al● to fr●plid And she would have a m●ndi● h●m and she  
where hit might be worshipped of all christian people Than the bishop ordained a da● whanne that should 〈◊〉 ●o. ●o over even 〈…〉 might have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 took with hy 〈…〉 op of salysbu 〈…〉 sonkyn & clerk 〈…〉 ● wen●● to the place 〈◊〉 ●●●mas lay l wy 〈…〉 they kneli●● 〈…〉 earth prey 〈…〉 s devotely o 〈…〉 than ii●j. o● 〈…〉 ha●● up the 〈…〉 g●●t● dread 〈…〉 ● there they 〈…〉 w●●tou h 〈…〉 rested Th 〈…〉 bishop of cau 〈…〉 prima● of E 〈…〉 ● the Po peo 〈…〉 for the right 〈…〉 irche the v●day 〈…〉sse. than sore great 〈…〉 that they h 〈…〉 that ●ighte all ●ry 〈…〉 Thomas An 〈…〉 took the he de 〈…〉 bishop to kiss 〈…〉 y kyssid it all & 〈…〉 I be held his wounde● & saide they were v●●●●●ious the wounded 〈…〉 us And so laid h〈…〉 shrine & covered h 〈…〉 i'th' cloth of gold & 〈◊〉 to●●●y● about hi● 〈…〉 ynge and the peo 〈…〉 w●ke 〈◊〉 all night 〈◊〉 on the morrow com● 〈◊〉 the statis of this land ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shayne to the ●lace the● 〈◊〉 is now with all ●he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & worship 〈◊〉 ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & there it 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉▪   

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GOod 〈◊〉 ●● ch● a day ye shall have the ●este of marry M●w deleyn that was so holy that Our● lord ●he ●● cri●●e loved her best of all 〈◊〉 next his own mother. where 〈◊〉 ye shall● come to god & to holy churthe & prey to that holy woman that she will pray to our lord for us that we may have grace. fore she was the first in time of grace that did penance for she had lost grace be fleschly lust where for she is made a mirror to all other syvers that will for sake sin & do penance they shall have grace the which was lost by sin. She had a father that was a great lord & nigh of the kings blood & had a great lordship in Jerusalem the which he gaffe to lazarus his son & he give marry the castle of maudeleyn with all the lordship longing there to. of the which castle she had her name & was called Marry mawdeleyn for she was lady there of. Than as many books say saint ichan evangelist wedded her & our lord bade him go with him & heap his virginity & so he did and was clean virgin. And than mawdeleyne went forth & gave her all to sin in so much she lost the name of mawdeleyne & was called the sinful woman But it was often said that our lord made of the grettyste sinners the hoolyeste aftyrwardes & so when our lord saw time he give this woman grace to know herself & to have repentannce for her sins Than when mary heard that christ was at a man's house that was called Simon the pharisee she took a box with oynement such as the people used that time for heat of the son & went thethir but she durst not for schame go to fore him but at his feet be hind him & hard him speak & thann she took a great soww in her heart & wept tenderly & so with the tears of her eyen she wosche christus feet. & with the here of her heed she wiped hem & with all the love of her heart she kyssid hem & a nointed 'em but no word she spoke that any man might here but softly in her heart she cried mercy & made a vow to him that she would never trespass more. Than our lord Jesus had pire on her & cast out of her seven. fiends & for gave her all her sins in hearing of all that there were. than she took such a love to christ that she left all he lordshippis the castle of maudeleyn with all other goods & sewed him for the with great love that in his passion there as his disciples flay a weigh from him she left him never till she with help of other had laid him in his tomb And when no man durst go thither for the knights that kept him she spared not Cumtenebre essent when it was murk in the dawning she took with her sweet balms to a noint christus body with thus she showed soon both in will and deed where for Christ in his live for her love he lid martha her sister of the red flux that she had seven. year tofore & pined her full sore Et resuscitavit lazarum a mortuia & resid lazar her brother from death to life that had lay iiij. days stinking in his grave And when our lord rose from death to life he appeared to her & suffered her to touch him & kiss his feet. Than when it was known to the jews that christ showed her so many tokens of lone for all other Than when christ was stied up to heaven the jews took marry & martha her sister lazarus maxencius & many other & put 'em in a ship that was old into the see to have drowned 'em. but god ordained so for ●ll things at his will and brought 'em save to a land called mercyzle & there they rested under a bank that was nigh the temple Than mary saw moche people coming towards the temple to do sacrifice to her mowmentes & the lord of the country come with hem but mawdelyn was gracious & with her gracious words turned 'em again. Than this lord had great lust to hear her speak & saide thus to her that if god that thou spekist of be so gracious & so great of power as thou sayst pray to him that I may have a child be my wife that is barren & than will I believe in him. Thann marry saide she would & with in short time after the lady conceived & was with child. Than this lord a none after ordained to go to Jerusalem to petyr to wete of him whether mawdeleynes preaching were true or no & vitaylid his ship & made him ready. Than come his lady ●yng him that she might go with him so with great prayer the lord granted her than by assent of hem both they made marry maudeleyn to keep all her lordships & goods that they had & marry serte a cross on eythir of her shoulders & bad hem go in the name of god so when they had seyled a day & a night a great tempest rose in so much that they went all to have be drowned Than was iady so a feared & there with be gone to travail and so was delivered of a man child & she in the birth fill down deed then this lord made great sorrow and lamentacione and saide Alas alas y wretch what shall I do with this child now is the modir deed and nediss must the child die also fore here is no woman's help to keep it Than he cried to mawdelyn and saide a 'las marry why dost thou thus to me thou be highteste me a child & now is the modir deed & the child must nediss die for fault of woman's help. And I myself look ever when I shall be drowned help marry & have compassion on me & of my child Than saide the shipman cast this body into the see for we shall never have rest while it is in the ship. Than saide the lord she is not deed but light in a sown fore fere But I pray you let us have the ship to yonder roche for I had liefer grave her there than to cast her in to the water. & for there was none earth to make her a grave he left her hanging on the blank of stone & the child be the mother & covered hem with his mantel & be took hem to god & marry mawdedeleyn to keep & went his weigh. So when he come to ●hrlm̄ he spoke with petyr & he bade him be of good comfort though his wife were deed for god might restore 'em to live again. Than Petyr showed him the places as our lord was quick & deed & told him of his birth & of his passione & of his resurrection & his ascension & informed him of the faith & made him stedefaste to christ And when he had be there ij year petyr sent him home a yene & bade him great well mawdeleyn & her feloshipp Than when the lord come far in to the see & saw the place there his wife lay he longid fore in his heart to go thither & thann he prayed the shipmen to bring him the di● Than he saw al● tell child sitting on the see sonde playing with small stones but as soon as the child saw him hit ran forth in to the ro●ke & he followed after till he come there he left his wife. And he took ●● the mantel & found th● child sokking one hi● moderis paps. Than thanked he god & maudeleyn & saide marry thou art great with god that haste kept a child ij. year sokking of a deed body in great comfort & joy to me But & thou woldiste pray to thy lord fore my wife that she might rise to life than were I ever bonndyn to be thine servant & will while I live then with that word she s●ake & saide blessed mote thou be marry that were mydwyff● to me & norse to my child whil● I have be in my pilgrimage Than saide this man wife art thou a live and she saide ye fire now I come fro my pilgrimage as ye do & told him of every place that he had be at then he ●●elid down & thanked god & marry mawdeleyn & when they come home they fond marry preaching & teaching the people. & ● none they kneeled down & thanked her & told her what petyr saide and prayed her to tell what they should do & they would do it with good will Than mary bad they should destroy the temples of maumentry & build churches & make fountes and christian the people and so with in short time all the land was christened Than for marry gave her all to contemplation she went far in to a wilderness & was there thirty. winter unknown to any man Descendebant angeli et eam in ethera lenabant And angels come seven. times a day & bore her up in to the eyre and there she was fed with heavenly sod. But when god would that she should pass out of this world he made an holy priest to see how angels bore her up in the eyre than went he near the place & askid in the name of god who was there if it were a christian man he should speak & tell what they were  
took a nother husband that was called cl 〈…〉 phas and she had by him a nother daughter that was called marry cleophe & than he died & she took iij. husband that hight salome & by him she had a nother daughter that was called marry salome and when she had these three daughters in worship of the trinity than would she have no more husbands but leave in chastity & holiness▪ Than was this marry cleophe wedded to a man that was callid ● pheus & had iiij. sons. James the less Joseph that was barsabas Simon & iuda The iij. marry was weddide to a man that was called zebedeus & she had by him ij. sons James the more & iohan evangelist Than as god saith himself that of a good tree cometh god fruit so of this god woman come an holy ho spring so let us serve this holy woman that she may pray for us now & ever Amen.   

De sancto lauren cio martyr.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint Lauren day God's own holy martyr his martyrdom as maxivis saith shynith to all holy church & lyghtenith all the world. where fore ye shall come to god & holy church & schall fas; ●e the even▪ this senite was holy in leaving & great in compassion of string Sei●t● austin saith that ensample i● doing is comendable● than is preaching & teaching There for saint La●rence gave all christian people to schewe a yense malice meekness & a y●● e●uetyse largeness a yense persecution & tribulation love & sweetness. Than sixtus the pope had be in spain he brought laurence with him to Rome & made him his arch dekon to serve holy church & poor people Than had the Emperor envy to him & purposed to do him to death Than laurence to schewe meekness against malice & enquerid fast after poor people & went to hem & gave 'em meet & drink & Clothes so he come to a widows ●ouse there as was much poor people logged the which widow had belong sick on the heed ache Than Laurence had cō●assion of her & made her hole & meekly wosche all the poor people feet & served 'em of meet & drink And for he heard th●● there was a poor man there be side in a place that was blind he went the●ir & helid him So ever the more the Emperor showed malice to him the more he give him to meekness & holy devotion ●e showed also ayen tovetyse largeness For● when 〈◊〉 si●iu● had take Laurence the tres●u● of holy church to keep & to hem that had need than blessed Laurence followed his master & said to him Sancte pater noli me derelinquere. Holy radyr for sake not me for I have delid all the treasure that thou took me where for go not thou to thy passion alone but late me go with the as we have served god to gedir so late us suffer death to gedir. than saide the 〈◊〉 I will go tofore & thou schall come after & suffer more penance than I may for I am old & thou art young & mayst suffer more than y & there for make the ready for there is great torment ordained for the. Than were there some herd Laurence speak of treasure than the Emperor sent after Laurence & saide. ostend michi thesa●r●a ecclesie. Show me the treasure of the church or ●lse thou shalt be put to such a torment that y● shalt be fain to deliver it Than how 〈◊〉 sixtus & semt Laurence come to ●●is treasure ye shall here. we read that there was an holy man that hight Origenee that converted philip the Emperor than the reme of france was rebel a yense the emperor of rome than this emperor sent a knight of his in to france with moche people to over come france This knight was called decius & in short time he made france sogettes to the emperor as the were to ●or● Than when this emperor philip heard that decius had do so well in great worship to Deciu● to thank him for his journey. The emperor took with him a few men & road of room a yense decius to welcome him home Than decius saw that the emperor did him so great reverence he thought it had be for dreads & not for love & thought to be emperor himself & so in that night next la●tyr as the emperor lay in his bed sleeping deci●● slew him & took all his people to rome with him Than when the romay romay▪nes & the senators heard there of what for dread & what for love they made decins emperor Than when philippus' son he●de tell that his father was deed in this wise he was a ●erde le●●● decius wol●● have ●ayn him & took all his ●●de●is treasure to holy church & bare it to 〈◊〉 sixtus & to Laurence preying 'em if cause were that decius slew him they should deal this treasure to holy chi●●he & to poor people that had need Than decius slew philippis son for fere left he would have vengid his f●deris death when he had come to ●annes state. & this was the treasure that ●●pe sixtus & laurence had and for this treasure they put Laurence in to person. Than was there a man that hight lucullus in prison that by great weeping had lost his sight than Laurence made him to see ayen & christened him. where fore many blind men & women come to Laurence & had her sight. than the emperor sent to Laurence to deliver the treasure than he prayed him of iij. days respite & so he would show the treasure So these iij. days laurence was let out of prison & went & gederid all the poor people to gedir that he could find blind lame or crooked & the iij. day he brought 'em before the emperor to his palace & said Lo here is ever lasting treasure this wool never fail fore it will endure for ever in heaven. so Laurence showed ● y●u●e covetise largeness for he dealt for God's sake all that he had & might have spent it in vanity & he had would. Also in torment of passion he schewde love & sweetness. than the emperor commanded to bring for the all manner of tourmentry scourges nails stones salt piche brimstone brenning coals iron schaftes barris of Iron gred irons & commanded all schuld be spent upon Laurence but he would show the treasure & for sake his god & to do sacrifice to mawmentis. than saide semt Laurence thou unblessed man these metus & drinks have I ever desired for right as sweet ●etis & drinks ●lese thy body so these tourmentis pleaseth my soul & makithe me strong & mighty to suffer passion for my lords sake. than was the emperor wroth & commanded to beat him scourges full of knots & leave not till the blood ran down on every side & than they saide chains of ●●on br●unyng to his sydus that bren●●the the flesh from the bones & ever laurence thanked god heartily. Than was decius wood for woe & saide though thou with thy which crafce scornest my torments yet thou shouldst not scorn me And than he commanded to beat him ayen wi●h wi●pis & knots of lead till the bones were bare Thann laurence gave up his heed to god & prayed. than there come a voice from heaven thou must suffer more tourmentis & passion for love of me this decius he●de hit himself & thou shalt come to me with great joy & bliss Than saide decius to the people ye may here all how fiends come & comfort him go and beat him a yene with sturges Than was there a knight of the Emperors that height romanus that saw an Angel with a schete of silk come & wipe laurence fidis than he for soak the emperour● & be come the disciple of semt laurence & laurence anon christened him. than decius made to smite of romanus heed. than decius did make a great fire & set a gridiron there on to roast laurence & thirst him down with fire for kiss & they did so Than laurence looked up on the emperor & saide show wretch the side is rostid enough there of while the othir side rostith I dread not thy torments & cast his eyon up to god & saide Lord ihe so Christ take my spirit & so he yield up the ghost▪ than the tourmentures went her ●ey & left the body ●ying there than come christen people & took the body & buried it with great lamentation. thus la●rence sheude meekness against malice & largeness against covetise & a yens passion love & sweetness for the great love that he had to god made him set nought by all his tourmen●s that were do▪ to his body saint gregory telleth how there was a priest that hight staculus & was ●ely to mend a church of saint laurence that was disiroyed with lombards but he wantid breed to his workmen & made moche sorrow there fore & he prayed to god & saint laurence besily of help & than he looked in to an ovyn & fond it full of new wh●re breed but he went h●● would have served hem but fore a week & it fond ●●●●y now all the time his work was a making  
we find that there was an emperor that a cursed man of leaving & when he was deed there come a leg●on of fiends to fech him & as they come by a holy ermytes sell they made a great noise the ermyte had great marvel there of & opened a window & spoke to on that come be hind & askid in the name of god what they were & he said fiends that were sen●● to the emperor that was deed to look if they might have him for their reward. than the ermyte commanded 'em to come ayen that weigh & tell him how they sped & he did so & saide when his sins were laid in the balance & was nigh over come than come that brenning dekon laurence & layed a great pot on the balance & it drew up all to gedir thy post was a great chelyse that the Emperor made in the worship of saint laurence by that he was saved. Thus ye may see & learn to make in sufferance a yense envious people also what merit & meed is in largeness to give 'em that hath need & what joy & merit it is to suffer tribulation & persecucione & dissese patiently learn of the holy marti● saint laurence & late us take him for a mirror and prey to him that he will be mediator to god for us that we may come to ever lasting bliss Amen   

De assumptione beat marry nirginiss.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have the assumption of our lady & it is called so for that day her son took her up in to heaven body & soul & crouched her queen of heaven for the angel of heaven come to fet her up Angelis yoing & singing come with procession a yense her with roses & lilies of paradise in tokening that she is rose & lely and flower of all women. & they did homage to her for all angels & saints in heaven made joy & melody in worship & hnoure of her & so holy church maketh mind of her assumption. And yet the gospel of that day makithe no mention but of ij. sisters that was martha & mary mawdeleyne & said thus. jutravit ●hesus in ●uada castellun et mulier ●dā●c̄. Jesus' entered in to a castle & a woman that was called martha that took him in her house & she had a sister that was called marry that sat at christus feet & heard him speak Than was martha busy to serve christ & she saide to him sire bid my sister a rise & help me. than answered christ. maria m●liorem partem e legit ave non anfere tur abea Mary hath chose the better part that shall not be take a weigh from her these be the words of the gospel of that day & here be no words of our lady as be seeming But he that readeth what saint ancesme saith there he may see that the gospel pertenith all to our lady & to the l●uing of her. for she was the castle that john's entered in to for right as a castle hath diverse properties that longeth to a castle that it should be mighty & strong right so was our lady be for all other women. For there as women be free ell & feeble ● esy to over come our lady was strong as a castle & ayen stood the can tells of the fiends engines & put 'em be side at all times for right as a castle hath first a deep dike right so had our lady a deep meekness in strength of the castle in so much she passed all other in virtue of meekness wherefore god chose her to b●niodir to his son be fore all other women. & there to Christ berith wittenes thus. Quia respexit bunilitatem ancille su● for god be held the makenesse of his hand maiden all generation shall bless me This dike if it be full of water it is the more strong to the castle this water is compassion that a man should have for his sins & to other people dissessed This water had our lady On this dike lithe a draw brygge that shall be draw up a yen● en●myes & let down against friends be this bridge ye shall understand discrete obedience for right as a man shall not late downe the bridge to his enemy though he bid him so man shall not let ●he fiend come to his soul though he tempt him But a none as he is bede any thing that is help & succour to his soul than shall he let down the bridge of obedience & the sooner the better thus did our lady when the angel Gabriel come to her of conception of her son she let not down the bridge a none till she knew were he was a friend or a enemy & said she should conceive & be a maid & by the vow of chastity that she made tofore & as she herd that she let down the bridge of obedience & saide Ecce ancilla dm etc Lo here God's own hand maiden be it do to me after thy word. This castle is triple walled. The first wall be took nithe wedlock fore first she was wife to Joseph for else the jews would have stoned her as for a l●chour if she had conceived with out wedlock & so the furthir wall be tokenith patience & the inner virginity that is may denhode but that is little worth but it be strengith with the wall of patience & litil help is fore mandenhode it is lityll worth that can no thing suffer of persecution nor disseses but ever plaing ●●grochyng & to be a claterer a iangeler a curser & a waryer & a scold of her tongue t●ese defend not ma●denhode but rathir cast it down for may denhode should be of few words & that she speaketh should be honest & worship both to her own person & to all that be in her presence. For it is an old englische a maiden should be sayne & not herd this vera● had our lady. For senit Bernard saith read all the gospel over & thou shalt not find that our lady in all her lyf●e spoke but iiij. times by her own but as schewas causeth The first to gabriel the ij. to elisabeth the iij. to her own soné in the temple & the iiij. at the wedding of cane galilee. Thus must the wall of patience defend the wall of maidenhead This wall of maidenhead & it be well kept it is passing all other. As Bede saith wedlock is high there as it is well kept but yet wedowehode is higher. but virginity passeth all & hath most worship in heaven passing all other This wall kept our lady fore schewas clean both be free will & by a vow & she had a degree passing all other maidens that ever were nor never shall be for sch●was both maiden & mother. And in this castle is a gate that be tokenith faiths for right as it is in possible fore a man to go thorough a wall of steel right so it is as in possible fore a man to please god with out faiths  
This faith had our laby passing all other fore as it seemeth in possible for a woman to conceive with out carnal concupiscention of man for it was never say before but be teaching of an angel she believed & so come Christ & entered be yates of be leave in to the castle that is in to the body of our lady This gate had a tour a 'bove be tokenith charity For that is a 'bove all things & that virtue had our lady well may she be called a castle For right as all manner people i'll in to a castle both old & young for dread of enemies in so much that the lest child that can cry or speak that is a feared of any thing a none crieth lady lady for succour & help for she is succour & help both to young & to old less & more in sick & in health The holy ghost is capteyn of this castle. & his knights be holy angelle that go with our lady night & day In this castle be ij. sisters martha & mary mawdeleyne Martha recepit illum in domū●● am. Martha received him in to her house & was busy to serve him & that other sat still & had great lust to hear him speak. Be these ij. sisters I understand ij. manner of leaving of the people that one is active & that other contemplative martha be tokenith active that is business in this world But that should be for christus sake that is to receive poor people in to his house & to give 'em meet & drink cloth herborowe visit 'em that be in prison comfort the sick crooked blind & lame & to berry the deed. be that other I understand the contem platyf life that is to people of holy church that should void in all that they may this worlds business & give 'em to all spiritu all occupation & though they do thus yet there be coveytus' people of this world that sayne that it is all lost that men of holy church h●n for it seemeth to 'em they do no good but ever complain on 'em & say they do no good saint austin saith that all the world is holy church and these worldly people heateth men of holy church But yet god answereth for hem & is her voket & so will at all times while they leave in rest & pese with in hem self But now see how our lady full fillythe both these lives. She was first martha further as martha was busy to receive christ in to her house our lady received him in to her body & there in he was ix. monthus & she feed him & after come poor and naked in to this world & she gave him meet & drink of her paps & so fed him & when he was nakid she clothed him & norisched him. & when he was sick be hind of youth she heli● him & when he was boundyn hand & foot in his cradle as in prison she come to him & unbound him● & took him & ●elid his soris with the milk of her paps. & when he was deed she holp to berry him in his tomb & thus she full fillithe the office of martha performing the seven works of mercy. & yet she was many time too beled in her heart ●ohan she must bear him from country to country that was full of mawmentes & there as she knew no man. & when that she saw him take & bound strepe naked beton with stour ges that all his body ran with streams of blood & naylid on the cross & so do to death that was to her ● great trouble. thus was our lady actyffe for as the gospel tellithe she give so great delight to her sons words that she bore in her heart all the life & teaching of christ in so much that she taught the iiij. evangelists mark ma ●h●w ●uce & Johan moche of that they wreton and namely saint Luke for he wrote moche of the manhood of christ. & thus she fulfilled the office of marrow for it was for the best when her son was stied up in to heaven she le●te all her business & gave her all to contemplation till her son fet her out of this world. Thus every man that can understand may see that this gospel is convement to be radde for it touchithe the life of our lady Than for this day was the end of her lift in this world. there fore holy church redithe this gospel in ensample to all christen people to perform the same leaving in as much as they may & as god will geue hem grace to serve our lady I schall give you ensample  
Narracio  
we find of a clerk that loved our lady well for he read of her bewte he had great lust to see her and prayed busily that he might once see her or that he died. Than at the last come there an angel & saide to him fore thou seruyst our lady so well thou schalt have thy pre your but on think I tell the if thou see her here in this world thou schalte lose thy sight for the great clearness of her Than saide he I wot well safe so that I may see her.  
Than saide the Angel come to such a place & thou schalte see her thann was he glad & thought that he would hide his on eye & looked with that other So when he come to the place he laid his hand over that one eye and saw her with that othir eye & so come our lady & he saw her & she went her weigh a none & he was blind with that one eye and saw with that other. than the sight likid him so well that he would fain see her a yene & prayed night & day that he might see her again. Than saide the Turrian gell if thou see her a yene thou shalt lose the sight of that other eye & he saide I wot well safe though I had a thousand eyon Than come to such a place & thou shalt see her so when he come he saw her Than saide our lady to him my good servant when thou saw me first thou lost thy one eye how wolte thou do now when thou haste lost thy other eye Thann saide he dear lady I wot well safe though I had a thousand eyon. Than saide our lady for thou haste so great liking to me thou shalt have thy fight with both eyon a yene as well as thou had diste & better & so he had Than served he our lady ever after to his lives end & went to ever lasting joy & bliss to which god bring us all to Amen.   

De sancto bartholomeo.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have the feast of saint Bartholomew God's own apostle & ye shall fast the even & come to church & here your service in the worship of god & saint bartholome ye shall understand that bartholome is as much to say as Fill in ●s uspen dentiame That is to say the son hanging upon me or upon wate●●s than ye schall understand that god is he that hongith upon the waters in ij. ways. The first is when he hongith upon the clouds in the firmament till he see time to late hem down Anothir weigh he hongith upon w● tears when a man or a woman is sorry for his sins & weeping sore for his trespass & bitterly then god taketh his tears & hangeth hem upon the high hill of heaven where all the saints in heaven may have 'em in fight in great joy to all saints & all angels that been in heaven when they may see man or woman that hath do a miss many trespass to for sake her sin & turn to no more there to fore of the tears of a man or woman that is sorry for his sin in this manner quenchithe the fuyre of hell of this tears speaketh johan crisostome & saith. O thou tere that art meekly let in orison & prayer with good devotion the might is so great that thou ghost to heaven & takyste the word of the jews mouth making him to turn the to saluacione ● before were in the weigh of damnation also thou makist thy●accusars dom the fiends & so thou q●●chist the fy●e of hell that fiends ma 〈…〉 dy a yense thy coming 〈…〉 god hongith upon 〈…〉 tres. Than fore saint bartholome was God's son as all been that serveth him he was honging up in iij ways in devotion of holy orisones preying & in faith full monition & in sufferyyg of passione he was honging to godward in devout▪ orison fore that he saide wit his mouth he did with his heart so that his heart was all weigh hanging up towards god both in word & in dedeas the priest saith in the mass. Sur●um ●orda holdeth up your hearts to god ●hus this holy man saint bartholo me had ever his heart to god for great devotion. we find wreton of him thus that he kneeled an C times on the day & a C. times on the night fore great 〈…〉cion that he had to god But for he should not be weary of the travel god sent an angel ever more to sew him & kept him thus hanged he up be holy orisens' preying. He was also hanged up be the faithful monition in this wise fore god gafe him so great power ovyr all findis that be his holy monition he suspended 'em whedir they were in man or woma● And all so in othir mawmentes. we find wreton of semte bartholome how he come in to ind in the temple in the which temple was an image & there in was a fiend a mammet that was called astroth & this image was made of gold than the fiend that was there in spoke to him & did him worship & by such words as he spoke he made the people be leave that he was god & yet the more be leave to the people that he helid many sick men & wyman both blind crokid & lame & of many diverse sickness that he had cast● upon hem tofore himself & so seeming to 'em that they were ●eli● by him but such sickness as god sent upon 'em he could not hele then was the temple full of sick people that was brought to this mammet to be made hole but as soon as bartholome come to the temple he suspended the fiends power that he might he'll no man not there was a nother mammet called barth asked 'em why her god gave 'em none answer he said bartholome the apostle of god hath bound him so sore that he dare not once speak nor crack than told him the fetru● of barth & saide he know every word that he speak now for he hath an angel of god with & telleth him all things that ever was said or down be him And more over though ye seek him ye shall not find him but if he will himself. Than went they home a yene & sought bartholome & might not find him. Than as bartholome walked a among the people ● mad man that had ● fiend with in him a none cried to bartholome God's own apostle thy prayers bind me so sore & burn me also Than saide bartholomew hold thy pese thou▪ fiend & go out of that man & with that word the fiend went his weigh & left the man & a none he was hole then it happed so that the king of that cite had a daughter that was mad & sore bounden with chains for harm that she deed among the people And when the king heard how this man was helid a● none he sent to bartholomew preying him that he would hele his daughter & so he did. then bartholomew prech●d so the king that he turned the king to be christian & than a none he cōm●undid to draw down the mawmentis that were in the temple Tha●● the pepull tied ropis a 'bout the images necks & would have draw 'em down the mawmentes but they might not for the fiend was so strong in 'em  
Than Bartholome commanded the fendis to come out of the images & to pull 'em to poudir & so they did for they had no power to withstand his commandment & so they all to broke 'em for the temples was so full of sick people bartholomew prayed to god that they might be hole & a none they were hole everycho ne Than come there an Angel that god sent fr● heaven & a none in the sight of all the people the temple shone so bright that no tongue co●de tell & fly all a bout the temple And in four partis of the temple he made a sign of the cr●●with his fingeres on the walls & saide right as all the people be hole of her sickness so shall this temple be closed from all the filth of sin & of the fiends craft that hath be there in & I will show you that same fiend that ye have worshipped fore your god Than the fiend appeared like a man of ynde all black & made a cursed noise Than the people began to i'll for fere he was so loathly▪ Than saide the angel make such a sign of the cross in your forhediss & be not a feared of him Than a none in fight of 'em all the angel unbound this fiend & bade him go there as was nostering neither of man nor of best & to be there till at the day of doom & never dissese the people more. than the fiend went his weigh & the angel stied up in to heaven. Than the king his wife his daughter & all his main & moche other people turned to the faith & bartholome christened 'em all. thus bartholome hongith be faithful monition for he suspended the fiends power that he might do nothing He was also hongid up be suffering of passion for when the bishop of the temple saw that the people were all most turned to christian faith & left the fiends mammetry he went unto the cite there as a king was called astrages & brother to the king Polmyes & plained to him sore & said there was a man come to 'em that was called bartholome that had turned his brother & all the people to the faith that they set not by her God's. But had draw 'em down & all to broke 'em & hallowed the temple only to christ. for this cause he preyed him of help then sent the king ● M. men after bartholome. Than when bartholome was come he astud him why he had turned his brother & made him be leave one a deed man that was hongid on the cro●●● than saide ●●rtholome I have boundyn that god that thy brother believed on & showed that send And if thou or he mayst do so to my god than wool I believe as thou does●e. then the king commanded to hang barthol mew on a cross and longet o torment him th●● on and after took him down and flay him quick and than to smite of his h●de. then rome cryseyne people and buried him with great reverence and worship and thus he was hanged up by great compascione suffuring. were the in gests romanorun that when frydwicke the Emperor had destroyed a great cite and there in was a feyre church of seinte bartholomewe. And other ●oo of divers scy●t●s  
And as a good holy man come by the cite and he saw a great company of men standing to gedir. then had this man great mervell of 'em & as●id what they were & what was there counsel Thane said they that it was seinte bartholmew and other seintes thate had churches in the●e city thate were dystroy●d and there they took their counsel what they mygtht do with the Emperor & they w●re in full purpose that he should come be fore god and answer for his dediss and so the Emperor died a fowlle death and was dampened. And also it is wretynne in the life of saint godlake thate first inhabit crowland in the fenny● and the first day that he come thythere was on seinte bartholomew's day. then be prayed to this holy aposttell to be his p●trone ● yense the wicked spirits that were in that place for it was called the habitation of fiends. fore there durst no man dwell there for fiends Than was this holy man come thither & near hand lost his wit for fere But than be great grace he had mind on saint bartholomew & prayed him with all his heart of help & succour. Than a none come saint bartholome & commanded the fiends to go fro that place than the fiends made a great horrible noise & went her weigh & saide Alas alas for now h●●e we lost our might 〈…〉 our habitation 〈…〉 shall 〈…〉 to him with good de●cion he wool help he● at her need.   

De nativit 〈…〉 ate marry 〈…〉  
GOod 〈…〉 che a d 〈…〉 have 〈…〉 she was 〈…〉 fast the 〈…〉 god 〈…〉 worst 〈…〉 saint 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 m 〈…〉 ●● the birth of o●re lady 〈…〉 adid the father & the more 〈…〉 where for● god sent 〈…〉 rute of he● bodies 〈…〉 e great than be kin 〈…〉 an all neighbours 〈…〉 mfortid anne 〈…〉 daughter sh〈…〉 ●ad or she 〈…〉 e gotten.  
〈…〉 nde that 〈…〉 hippid 〈…〉 f our 〈…〉 othir 〈…〉 d of 〈…〉 ewe 〈…〉 ry 〈…〉 child I may well believe than saint Anne our ladies mother had not so in her birth of her child our lady for she was hallowed in her moderie won be holy born & holy ever after So when she was borne & weened & was iij year of age joachim and anne & other friend is brought marrow in to the cite of Jerusalem to fore the temple as they had made her a vow tofore Than the temple stood one an hill & was xv. steyres up to the door & so they left marry nethir meste while they made hem ready to do her offering. than went ma●y t● 〈…〉 charmest gryce 〈…〉 her all to spiritual occumpation & every day fro morrow to undren she was in her pyoures & from undren to noon she occupied her craft of viewing of clothes in the temple & at non the meet & the drink that was brought to her to eat she gaffe to poor people & was in her devotion till an angel brought her meet Thus she levied so clean & so honestly that all her fellows called her queen of maidens & when any man spoke to her meekly she lowted with her head & said Deo gracia● For that word was comm in her mouth & there for she is likid to a spicers shop for she smellith sweet for pchens of the holy ghost that was with her & abundance of virtues that should bear the king of virtues and thus her birth daily is joy to all christian people how this day was first found. a great clerk johan Bellet telleth Theridamas was an holy man that prayed to god oft be night time & so on a night as he was in his devotion he herd a song of an angel in heaven that our lady was borne of her mother & no more of all the year after so in a night he heard this melody in the eyre where for this holy man prayed to god that he might have witting what was the cause that he heard that melody that certain night & no more of all the year after Than come an angel to him & said that night our lady was borne of her mother & there for the melody was made in heaven at that tyme. than went he to the Pope & told him how the angel saide then the pope commanded that day should be hallowed fore ever more. thus come this first into holy church Also our lady is borne by watyr wasching that is be christening for when our lord Jesus christ was baptised in the water of f●om jordan than our lady & the xij. apostles in ● time w●● christened there for right as our lord followed the old ●awe & the new both & all that fill to a man of right & so our lady fullfillid both law●● & all fill to a wom● at the same cristoning. for there her son took his right name & she both & as the gospel telleth when our lord thesus was christened the father of heuē●pake & saide Her est filins mena ●●. & saide he ●●is my well-beloved son but aftir he was called she sus God's son & fro that time our lady was called the wife of joseph & after that she was called the mother of ihu to much worship to her The third time our lady was borne to joy passing for when she should pass out of this world her son come with a great multitude of angels & brought her to heaven with moche joy & the●e crowned her queen of heaven emperes of hell & lady of all the world so she is in evyr lasting bliss  
we find of our lady how there was a jew that was borne in france & come in to england for diverse matters that he had to do with othir people & come in glo●ater & to Bristol & so would go in ●o wilke show but he was take by the weigh with the fes & lad in to an old house & boundyn to a post & his hands be hind him & so left him there all night & at the last he ●●ll in a sleep he saw a fair woman clothid in white he had seen never non such & enyn there with he work & felt himself lose Than he saw our lady bright that him thought she passed the son & saide what lady art y● & she saide I am mary that tho● & thy nation dispison & said that I bore never God's son. But yet am I come now to bring thy out of thine error & out of prison that thou art in & there for come thou with me and stand yonder at the stone & look downward & so he did & there he saw the horrible pains of hell that he was nigh out of his mind Thann said our lady to him these be the pains that been ordained to all th● that will not be leave in my sons passion & in the faith of holy church yet comfort & see more & she set him on an high hill & showed him a place of great joy & mirth in so much that he was rebaschid with that sight then said our lady Lo these be ordeynede to all that belevyn in the incarnation of christ & that he was born of me▪ & I clean maiden before & after. & that my son shed his blood for all mankind. Now haste thou say both joy & pain cheese which thou haddiste leaves Than he went moche of the night he woste not what weigh but walked forth. But on the morrow he come to bathe & there he was christened & named johan & after was an holy man Than● to come a gain to our purpose of our lady what time that joachim had offered our lady in to the temple to the bishop to keep her safe in ward till shewere xij. year of age & more. Than must the bishop ordain her an husband & than they let cry all about in the country that kings lords & other gentiles that were with out wyses should come at a montayn day for to wete who were best worthy to wed that fair maiden that was flower of all maidens. for right as the lely is white & fair a mouge breris & other flowers right so was our lady among othir maidens so when they come to ●he●a salem to se the maiden that was of the best blood of the world the bishop ordained an old staff of asche that he had kept in the temple many yeris & was all worm ●ton & he saide he that handelid that staff & it burgeoned & bare flowers he should have the maiden & she was brought forth in to the temple that all the people might see her Than bade the bischopp bring forth the staff. & when any man handild it he bade him hold upon high that the people might see if it burgemd Than went to kings princes lords & knights squires & other gentle men but it would not be the first day ne the second day so the iij. day they should make an end. th● come there an old man in to the temple & had herd of this but he saw it not & thought to go to see how the people did & come thither & stood all far in a corner & lokid on this maiden. Thenn he thought in himself I will not handle the staff for this maiden is not for me that is so passing fair & I so passing old. thann come there a white dove & sat upon his heed with a gyldin bill & her feet sihone as it had be bright burnischid gold that all the people saw her & some would have caught her but they might not. Than was the bischoppe ware & bad joseph come up to him a none & joseph saide nay she is not for me. she is too young & I am to old to govern her a state Thann saide the bishop handle this staff & so he did & a non it was green & be gan to burgyn & bare levys & blossomed & bare fruit Than was the bishop glad & Joseph sorry for to have her for he was full purposed never to have wife.  
then the Bishop. wedded hem worshipfully & bad joseph take her home with him & so he did Than soon after the holy ghost lightid in her with greeting of the angel gabriel & so began to wax great with child Than joseph looked one her & thought to have go a weigh privily from her & leave her alone Than come an angel to joseph & bad he should take marry to his keeping & stodynd more there upon & leave all such thought is fore that was God's will & god himself will that it be so Than he left all such fantasies & kept her well as a man should his wife   

De exaltacome sancte crucia  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have holy road day in the which ye shall come to church in worship of him that was done one the cross this day is called Exaltacio crucia the exaltation of the cross that is ●● say the lifting up of the holy cross when saint Elene had fet the cross in Jerusalem christian people did it great worship But than come the king of pierce that was called cosdre & he took the cross with him & made the cite bare & bore a weigh all that he might & went in to the temple & took all the treasure & jewel is & precious stonis & bare hem a weigh. Thus this cursed man did destroy many kingdoms & so bare the holy cross in to his own country Than the emperor Eraclius heard here of & was full wroth & sorry & sent to this king Cosdre to treat with him fore Eraclius was a christian man Than Cosdre answered cursedly & saide he would not treat till he had all his people to for sake cristendome & to do sacrifice to his mawmentes Than this Emperor Eraclius be took all to god & gathered him an host of people to fight with this cursed king cosdre hoping to god to get the holy cross ayen But when this cursed king cosdre come he fill in such a fansasy & madness that he took his son all the governance of his reme & let make an house for himself in manner of an altar like unto heaven & made it all shining gold & precious stones & set himself in the mids in a cheyer of gold & commanded that all people should call him god & so sat & the holy cross in his right hand in stead of his son & one the left hand a tame cock in stead of the holy ghost & himself in the middil in stead of the trinity. and thus he sat like a mad man Than his son heard that Eraclius was coming he went a give him & met him at a great water over the which water was a brygg● than been assent of both her h● stis they set bother chief cayns a mids the bridge to fight fore 'em all & both ends of the bridge should be draw up & which of 'em that had the victory should have both kingdoms Than was Eraclins so in full faith in the cross & trust in the prayers of the people that he over come his enemies Than all Cosdres people be stirring of the holy ghost that they turned to the faith be free will of 'em self and when they were all christened than went Eracli us with both ostis to the old king Cosdre as he sat in his throne & said to him thus. For because thou haste do worship to the holy cross thou shalt cheese if thou wolte be cri stoned & have thy kingdom ayen for a litil tribute in rest & pese or else to be deed & he for soak to be christened than a non Eraclius smote of his he the right there & made a cry that his tree four should be dalte a 'mong his men & scious stones & other iewles should be kept to restore the churches that were destroyed & took the cross & went to Jerusalem And when he come to the mount of olivete towards the cite of Jerusalem riding one a trapped ho●se he would have rydyn in to the cite of iherusalem ●ut suddenly the yati●●●● togedir & was plain wall than was he greatly a stoyned & marveled greatly of the vengeance & made a great moan Than come an angel & stood on the gates & saide Quādo●rex noster. when the king of heaven come this weigh & thourghe these yati● to wards his passion he road on no trapped horse nor in no cloth of gold but meekly one a simple ass y●uy●g ensample of meekness to all people. than the angel went his weigh Than the king with all devotion that could & might a none did of his clothes unto his shirt & bare foot Than the gate opened & he went in to the gate of Jerusalem & so in to the temple & offered the cross a yene as it was tofore Than for the great joy that the people had of this cross. & ●o●● the great miracles the good showed it was more 〈◊〉 ●ft●r than it 〈◊〉 to ●●re & the ●●● ship of the cross that was cast down after was lift up where this this day is called the exaltation of the cross ●●re as saint austin saith. the cross that was first of so great spite & velony now is of great worship that emperors kings worship it we ●●de in legenda aurea that aye we come to a church & for de●aute that no man was in the church he went to the road & for g●●t envy that he had to cri●●● he cut the rodis throat & a none the blood start out one his clothes & so his clothes were all red blood And than he hide the road in a privy place & as he went home a christian man meet him & said to him thou haste slain some man where haste thou done him & the jew said nay it was not so & the christian man said thy clothes be all bloody of him. Than this jew kneeled down & saide for sooth the god that this christian people be leave upon is of great virtue & might & told him how he had dove & cried mercy with all his heart & so he was christened & an holy mā●uer after & so went to ●uer lasting joy & bliss to the which god bring us all to Amen.   

De quatuor temporum  
GOod friends this week ye shall have ember deyes. that is wedenysday friday & saturday the which days calixte the pope ordained iiij. times in the year to all that bethe of covenable age for certain causes ye shall here. Our old faderis fastid four times in the year a yense four high & solemn festis & if we will show us good children we must fast & follow the same rule that they used and there fore we fast iiij. times. first in march. The second at witson tide The iij. bytwix her veste & sede time And the iiij. before cristemas March is a time that dryethe up the moistness that is in the earth where for we fast that time to dry the earth of our body of humerus that be full needful to the body & to the soul. For that time the humurus of lechery temptith a man most of any time of the year Also we salt at witfontyde fore to get grace of the holy ghost that we may be in perlite love & charity to god & to all the world Caritaa cooperit multitudiuem peccatorum charity couerith the multitude of sins Also we fast to have meekness in our heart is & to put a weigh all pride that reigneth in us. Al so we fast between harvest & sedtyme for to have grace to gedir fruits of good works in to the house of our conscience & so be ensample of good leaving a 'mong the people that we common with both rich & poor. Also we fast in winter fore y● sleith all stinking wediss of sin & fowl earth of fleschly lusts that makid good angels & good people to with draw 'em from us For right as net tell b●●nnith rosis & other flowers that be nigh it in the same wise a vicious man or woman sterith & settith on fire hem that bi●h in her company. And for these causes we ●aste iiij. times in the year and every time iij. days that be tokenith iij. special the tues that helpith a man to grace that is fasting devout preying & alms deed doing And be opinion of moche people these days be called ymbre days because that our elder faderis would one these days eat no breed but cakis made under as kiss so be the eting of that they reducid in to their mind that they were but asks & should turn again & wist not how soon. & by that they turned a weigh from all delicius metis & drinks & took no heed so that they had esy ●ustinaunce this causithe hem to think on death & that will cause a man to desire no more than he ne dith & abstain himself from all manner of bodily lusts & to increase in ver tue●be the which we may come to ever lasting bliss   

De festo sacti mathei.  
GOod friend is so ●he a day ye shall have saint mathe u●●ay the which was ●●●●tus apostle & ye shall f●●ste the even & come to holy church in worship of god & saint matthew he is greatly commended in holy church for certain holy virtues that he had Hewas obedient to christ at the first calling he preached the gospel with out feigning & he suffered passion meekly with out any devying first he was obedient to christ at the first calling for he sat in a certain place busy to get good & cris● c●me that weigh & looked on him & bade him come & go with him Thann he cast so great love to cris● that he left all his goodi● that he had & sewed christ forth full simple and full poor. Also he fed christ gladly for on a day he prayed Criste to eat with him & made christ a great feast not in delicate metis & drynkys But i●▪ feeding christ & all his compavy for he fed all that would come for cristns sake for moche people sewed christ where that ever he went Secuti sunt eum turhe multe For diverse causes many followed him sommto be helid of her sore● & of diverse sickness And some to see miracles that Christ did some to the & to drink with him. & some that were his enemies that were learned in the law if they might have take him with any word where by they my g●te have accused him. & some to be reform in virtues and to here his doctrine and teaching as the apostles and many other ●nde nersua Moribus signa cibua blasphemia doctrina fuere Causa ●um dominum turba secuta fuit And when matthew had fed ●●ist thus & all that come him Christ made him on of his disciples and gave him knowing to preach the be leave & god's word so boldly ever after that he spared neither fore love neither for dread. So this matthew apostle como on a time in to a cite & preached that was called Nadabar & there he found moche people taught be the fiends craft in nigransy & taught so many things & so marvelous that it was great wonder to here to many man's wit and all for the people should be leave in hem and do 'em worship then mathewe a none delivered her nigramansy so that all the people knew openly that it was the fiends craft where for this people that believed on this nigramansy made dragon's by the fiends craft to spit fire and breune so that the stench of hem slew much people and they brought this dragon's to have devoured seinte matthew & when matthew heard there of he made a cross be fore him & went a yense hem and a none the dragon's fill down deed be fore him. Than saide matthew to the people if ye have any might raise 'em a yene to live but they had no power. Than saide matthew if I were not gods servant I would make 'em to do you that as ye purposed to do to me. But it is the teaching of my master Jesus Christ to do good a yense evil wherefore I bid you dragons a rise and go to such a place as ye shall never grieve man nor best and a none they rose & went her weigh. thus matthew turned moche people that come to see that sight. & thanne● he preached the people and told 'em of the joy of paradise There he saide is day & never night the ●● is ever youth & never age there is ever health & never sickness there is roses lilies & flowree with o●●tewel owing their b● popyngaeys & nightingalings & diverse birds ever singing love rest and pese with ever lasting charity So they that leaveth in christ & do after his commandment shall come the their & be there without ending. Thus he preached in a cite where cursed people were they took him & put out his eyon & cast him in to prison till they took a visement what death he should die. But there come an angel than to saint Andrew as he preached in a far country & brought him over the se there as saint matthew was & when Andrew saw matthew so fowl done anon Andrew wept & prayed to god for him And a none god restored matthew his sight a yene and Andrew went ayen in to his own country to ●reche there as he come fro & when matthew was out of prison he went & preached in the cite of Nadabar in the which the kings son died Than sent the king after matthew ●preyde him to restore his son to life a yene & so he did where for the king & his wife & his daughter that was called eufagema took cristendome and the most part of the people & for god had chosen this eufagema to be an holy woman matthew blessed her & gave her the veil of chastity & charit● and so was after an holy womon & was keeper of many other virgins than died her father then come there a king that was called hertagus that loved this maiden Eufageme & prayed matheco to help him that he might have her Than saide matthew that might not before she was wedded to the king of heaven & might flot break that spousehode th● was her tacus wroth & bad slay matthew & so as he stood & saide mass at the Auter there come on be hind him & slew him & christian people buried the body in the same church. Than bad the king set fuyre on eufagema house & that on every side to have brende her there in. Than matthew appeared to her & bade her be a good there & a none turned the fuyre from her house in to the kings palyse & left there no thing save the king & a young child with him and the king was smetyn with meselry so fowl that fore great pain & woe he slew himself & so the vengeance fill on himself that he would have do to othir Now ye may well see by this great miracles that he was an holy man & therefore late us serve him and he wool prey for us all Amen.   

De festo sancti michaelia  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint michae●● day the archangel that day all holy church maketh mind & mention of all angels for the great succour comfort & help that mankind had of angels & specially of saint michael And for iij. prerogatives that he had for he is woundrefull in appearing marvelous in miracles working & victorious in fighting he is woundrefull in appearing for as saint Gregory seith when almighty god will worth any woundrefull deed than he sent for michael his servant as for his banerer fore he beareth a shield a sign of his arms. where fore he was sent with moyses & Aaron to egypt to wo●che meruelis for though the sign were in moyses the working was done by michael. For he departed partid the red see & kept the water in ij. parties while the people of israel went thourghe and so passed and lad 'em forth to flom jordan & kept the water like an hill of each side hem while they passed save & sound to the land of be he●t● Also michael is keeper of paradise & taketh in souls that bithe sent thither Also he shall slay antecrist in the mount of olyvete & he shall bid all the deed a rise & come to the doom & other angels with him shall bring all the instruments of his passion the cross the crown spear nails hamer sponge easel g●all scourges and all other things that was at christus passion to show 'em that shall be dampened that set nought ne believe not in his passion thus it appeareth woundrely. Also he worchid miracles marvelously for appolia is an high hill that is called gargus and is nigh a great cite & there dwelled a rich man of diverse cattles and as his bestis went one the hill● there happed a ball left be hind othir bestis than went this man & his servant to seek this bowl and found him standing be fore an hole in a great dene and than on of hem shut an arrow at him and the arrew turned a yene & smote him that shoot the arrow and hurt him sore then were they sore a feared and thought what that might mean & went to the bishop & told him all the cause than the bishop prayed to god to have knowledge what it was Than in the mount of gargan michael appeared to him & saide it was God's will that the man should be hurt for ye shall know well that I am kepir of the place where for go thou & make a church of that dene and so the bishop made a fair church there. Also michael appeared to a nother bishop & bade him go to an hill top to the mount of gardell & there as he found a bowl teyde he should make a church in the worship of god & semte michael then were there ij. ro●chis of stone on eythir side that the work might not up Than semt michael appeared to a man that hight baymo & bade him go & put a weigh the roche & dread no thing so this man went thethir & set to his shoulders & bad the roche go utter in the name of god & saint michael & so the hills went utter as much as nedich to the work  
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we read also in the life of saint gregory how there was a great multitude of people in rome and they saw arrows of fire come out of the eyre & slew moche people. then saint Gregory prayed to god to sese that pestilence Than he saw an angel standing one a castle wall wiping his bloody sword but that angel he saide was saint michael was sent thethir to punische the people for sin thus michael was meruelons in miracles working. Also he was victorious in fighting for when the citezenis of septutyne were oppressed with paynemes & should give hem battle they prayed oft to saint michael of help Than the night be for as the battle should be michael appeared to the bishop & saide to him have no dread but go to the battle boldly & he would help him & so on the morrow when the battle should be the hill of garganus was over covered with a great mist & arrows come out of the mist fleeing of fire & b●ltis of thoundir & hurt moche people of the paynemes in so much that they slew all that ever might i'll And so many were slay & though that were a life were saved be great miracle of god & were christened. saint johan evengeliste saith in his apocalypse how michael & his angels fought with lucifer in heaven that is called the dragon & his angels & with help of god▪ michael had the better & drove out the dragon & all his fellowship in to the eyre between heaven & earth & so they be there yet as thick as motis in the fonne And for christ come to heaven in a blast of thoundyr. & there for yet when they here thoundir they fall down to the ere the for fere & than they go not up a yene till they have do some harm. for than they make batis & strives & man slawter & make great winds both in land & in water & do moche harm & yet they would do moche more than they do near seynt● michael for all her sorrows is to see souls engeles in heaven in the place there they were in tofore Also other spirits there were that s●ode not stead fast towards god but flattering the which saint michael drove out heaven all in to an isle of the see as ye shall here As seinte Brandan seyled in the se he come to an isle & saw a tree was so great be the high & broad that it was woundir to tell on the which tree sat briddis thicker than the bows & were as white as snow. than he prayed to god to weet what they we Than come on of 'em & sat on the ships board & battered with his wings & made a sown like an organ Than said brandan if thou be come a messenger speak and tell me what ye been then he said we were angels that stood not stead fast in the be leave a● michael wa● & there for we were driven out when michael drove out lucifer & his angels But yet we have every day a remedy to woshippe god Thus was michael woundrefull in appearing marvelous in miracles doing & victorious in fighting where late us worship this holy angel that he may be our shield in fighting a yense our ghostly enemy the fiend so that we may have the victory of him now & ever Amen   

De festo sancti luce.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint lukies day the evangelist ye shall understand that christ had iiij. evangelists that is mark matthew luce and johan these wrote the gospel the gospel is no more to say but God's word these holy evangelists wrote not only that god spoke but also what that he did & what he suffered for mankind for it should be know to all mankind fore ever more to think on God's word & to do there after These iiij. be likened to iiij. diverse beasts & so they be portrayed in iiij. parties of the cross on every side of christ. for mark a lion for matthew a man for luce a calf & for johan an egyll But late no man suppose that they were such bestis but likened to such bestis for diverse causes▪ for be cause that matthew wrote most of christus manhood there fore he is likened to a man And luke wrote most of christus sacrifice & his death there for he is likened to a calf or to an ox fore a calf that was offered in sacrifice of the old law in tokening that christ should be offered for sin of the people in sacrifice in the altar of the cross And mark wrote most of the resurrection uprising & there for he is likened to a lion For as books say & tell when a lie on hath young welpes they shall lie as deed three days after they be welpid Than cometh the lion & seethe his welpes' deed a none he maketh so the a roaring & a cry that the deed welpes wake there with & quekon & take life So wh●n christ had lain iij. days in his tomb Than the father spoke to him & bade him rise & so rerid from death to live Also johan is likened to an egyll for be kind she fleith highest in to the eyre & next to the son so johan wrote most of the godhead & but little of the manhood these be the causes that they be likened to iiij. diverse bestio But now ye shall understand that Luke was likened to a calf. iij manner of ways that is in the thought word and deed he offered his thou ghte to god for there as he was first busy to get goods of the world with his craft for as bo●is tell he was a leech & for covetise of good he slew many a man bodily than had he offended god so grievously that a none he offered his thought in sacrifice for as bokys teach god is highly pleased with thought that is when a man is sorry for his sins in his heart & thynkith verily to for sake sin & a mend him Also he offered his word to god in sacrifice for as he was wont tofore to spend his speech in many ydyll words or he come to the apostle after he turned his speech in to profit to all christen people where for he went to our lady and she taught him the gospel though that he wrote and fore he was a clean maiden our lady cherischid him the more And so taught him full goodly how the angel come to her in message and what he saide & what answer she gafe again. & so all things that she did with her son & of all her doing till our lord was stied up in to heaven. & whann luke had learned this persitely than he looked what Mark had wreton & matthew & so took athem & there as they wretyn darkly he wrote openly all things. thus in preaching & teaching he offered his word to god Also he offered his deed to god in sacrifice. fore he pained his body with diverse penance of fasting & of hard leaving in keeping preying Also he wrote all the persecution that the apostelis suffered of the jews in Jerusalem when they had great pursewte & torment for God's sake & he wrote all the persecucione of saint stevyn how he was stoned to death Thann went saint luke to saint paul & sewed him in many mysthevys & dissese ● he had & in full great dread & never departed from him till paul was deed. then went luke to a country that was called betony & there he prechid the word of god & was there till he was xl. winter of age. than he died full fair full of the holy ghost for he levied in holy virtuous. & after his death god showed for him many fair miracles & so ended in christ & went in to ever lasting bliss to the which god bring us all to Amen.   

De simone & inda  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have the feast of Simon & Jude & ye shall fast the even & one the morrow come to church & worship god & these holy apostles. we shall on derstonde that eythir of these hath to names that one was called Simon ʒelotes and that other judas iacola and iudas tha deus showing be these how the name that a man hath in this world dieth & passithe out of mind when he is deed where fore every christen man should be busy to take him a name that should be wreton in the book of life that should last ever. And there for these ij. apostles suffered great penance travel tribulation and dissese & at the last pain of death fore christus sake with hearts meek & clean conscience Simon is as much to say as obedience that maketh a man meek in heart judas is as much to say as confessi on that clensith a man's conscience of all manner of fin And thus before or they died they gave every man ensample how they took her death meek lie for christus sake & die with clean conscience and than they shall be wreton in the book of life with great worship in the fra ternite of heaven but they that grochyn in her hearts of dissese & persecution & ever plaining they have need to prey to god to be helid of that sickness that they have in her spiritis  
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We read in the life of the apostle how a king that was called Abagarus & was leper & herd how that our lord Jesus christ did many miracles & helid all that were sick Than he wrote a letter in this wise king A bagarus gretith ihesus ●a uioure well that preached in the country of Jerusalem & I have herd of thy miracles that thou dost & so thou heliste all manner of sickness with out any herbis or salves & cureste blind & ●rokid & lame & that is more marvel thou raise deed bodies to live where for I think in my heart & in my believe that thou art very God's' sone & come down from heaven to earth & levyste here among the people as one of 'em where for I writ to the that thou wolte come to me & hele me of my leper that grieveth me full fore. & so I understand that the jews have orderned to do the to death & I have a little cite that is good & honest & plenteous & it is sufficiant I now for us both to leave by & there shall we both be in rest & pese. Than christ wrote a yene & saide y● art blessed that believest on me & haste not say me & for thou wouldest that I should come to the I say to the I must do that I come fore & than I wool send some of my disciples to the that shall hele the of thy leper Than for this king that christ might not come to him for great desire that he had to see him he sent to him a payntour that was a master of that craft to paint christus visag as he could But when this peyntour come to Christ & looked on his visage it shone so bright that he might not look there one. Than he made great sorrow & morning that he was come so far & might not speed of his purpose Than christ took a cloth of the peyntour & wypid his face there with & than was the forine of his visage there on & than the peyntour bore it to the king Than was the king woundre glad & did it great reverence with all his heart Than after christus ascension thomas of ynde be the scent of the apostles was sent to this king Ab●garus & when he saw thomas he saw such a shining in his face that he went it had be christ Than said thomas to the kyn● 〈…〉 in Christ & thou shalt ●e hole & he feyde I be leave holy in him and fain I would be wroke one ●●● that have done him ●o ●● the & a none he was hole Than judas went ●●●● mon & went both 〈…〉 dir in to pierce to preach & there they did many miracles so that they turned the king & lxij▪ M. to christian faith. & so the christian people increased strongly. So the king with all his main were christened & with drew her offerings from the mawmentes that was the bishops leaving where fore they were so wroth that they gathered hem to gedir & took these apostles & lad hem in to her temples to do sacrifice to her mawmentes or else they should be deed Than come an angel & asked if they would have her enemies deed or no and they saide they desired to have her enemies turned to the faith & the angel asked if they would suffer martyrdom fore christus sake & they said they would suffer death Than they commanded & turned to the mawmentes in the temple & commanded the fiends that were in 'em to come out & to pluck the images all to pecis & so they did. than was the bishop wroth that her God's fill so to pecis & anon there come a thunder & a lightning & cleave the temple in iij. parties down to the ground. & than these bishoppis suddenly slew these apostles. than the king took her bodies & buried hem rially & made there a fair church in worship of god & these holy apostles. Amen.   

De festo omnium sanctorum.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have all halowyn day & ye shall fast the even & on the morrow come to chirch & worship god & our lady & all halowyn. Friends ye shall understand that this feast was ordained fore iij special causes & that be these first fore the temple hallowing for omission fullfilling and also fore negligent leaving first for the temple hallowing for when the romans were lords of all the world they made a temple in rome as a doff house & named it panteon & set in the mids of the temple an image that was the chief mammet of rome & of every land in the world an other image all a bout the walls & the name of the land that the image was of wreton under the feet of the image & all was made so by necromancy if that any land turned from the emperor anon the image of the land would turn his back to the image of rome & his face to the wall So when the bishop come to the temple & found any image turned a none they would to the Emperor & tell him. Than would they ordain an host of people & send in to the land & set 'em at rest & pese And so this temple endured thus unto the time that 〈…〉 Bonif●ce the iiij. come then he went to the emperor that was called foca and prayed him that he would give him that temple that he might put out the multitude of mawmentis & to hallow it in the worship of god & our lady & all balowyn And so he give the 〈…〉 the temple Than come there an othir 〈…〉 that was called Gregory & commanded all holy church to hallow the feast like as it was be gone Also this feast was ordained by the same 〈…〉 to fullfille our omissionis For many seyntes days in the year we leaven unto fo●● there be so many that we may not serve each by hem self For as jerom saith that there be for each day in the year x. M. marteres out take the first day of Janivere. where fore holy church ordained that this day we should fullfille thatswe have left be hind all the year And thus ●ery saints even hath his worship of us if we keep well that day in worship to god & our lady & all halowyn Also this feast is ordained ●o be hallowed to cleanse us of our negligence and uncunning & also by worldly occupations doing we be full reckless in keeping our holidays. & there for the holy feast is ordained fore we should make a mendis as moch as we may of that we have trespasid in other festis & there for understand ye that they be in great apparel that brekithe this feast or any other in worldly occupaciones working or in any sin doing in buying or in selling or in any other falsehood contriving. Also ye shall understand that this day our prayers shall be sooner heard than any other day. fore this day all the saints in heaven come to gedir to prey to god fore us. & there fore ye may know well that all coming to gedir shall be sooner heard than one or to be 'em self. The saints that be in heaven were some time as we be now both in flesh & in blood body & bone and were our elder faderis & they be full glad & make moche joy whann they may get any prayers or al●es dediss of us with the which they may present god & our lady preying fore us. & to show you be ensample how all saints come to gedir as this day ye shall here  
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we find wreton in legenda aurta that in the same year this fe●te was ordained to be hallowed there was a keeper of seinte Peter's chirche in rome that this day after matenes at midnight when all people were go from matenes fore great devotion that he had he went to every altar in the church and saide his devotions & when he had gone all a bout than went he to the high anter & there fill a sleep & his spirit was raveschid & saw the father of heaven sitting in his majesty and a great multitude of angels a bout him And than come a fair queen with a crown one her heed richly a rayde & a great company of virgins & maidens sewing her Thann the king a rose a yene her & to set a cheyre of gold & set her there yun. than come one clothid in camel skyunes & him sewed a great company of aged men Than come a nother like a bishop & after him many other bishops And than come a great multitude as it had be knights & after 'em moche othir people & all they come be for the king & kneeled down before the king & did him worship Than the bishop began to say matenes Than spoke this in to the angel that lad him & asked him what all this people was in that a ray than saide the angel the king is god himself. & the queen is our lady & he that was clothid in camel skins was johan baptiste & other patriarchs & prophets with him The bishop was saint Peter & other apostles & confessors with him. The knyghntiss was saint gorge with othir marterers comyners that were good true levers & servants to god here upon earth & they come all to thank god for the great worship that they had here in earth & prayed be silly to god that bithen in earth that he should have mercy on 'em This is the cause that this feast was first found & there fore late us come to church & worship god and all halowyn that they may pray for us that we m●y at once last end ●● of ● number that shall worship god that book speaketh of & saith thus Diditurbam magnam quam nemo dinume rare poterit for they be so many that no mau can number hem and all they prey for us evyr more that we may come to that bliss that they be in Amen.   

In die avimarun.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have all soul day the day of the souls in purgatory there a biding the mercy of god & have moche need of help and right as holy church worshipped all semtes to be holpyn be the prayers of hem right so holy church ordeymth this day to sing & to read & to do alms deeds having full be leave to release 'em that been in purgatory of her pains where for god will that all christian people to her power this d●y relieve 'em for the ●●●●● prayer or alms deed that is done greatly relevythe hem. ye shall understand that there be iiij. thynhiss that greatly helpeth souls that been in purgatory & be these. Fidelium amicorum oracio elcon sinarun largicio salutari● boltia nimia racio. ieiuniorum obseruacio that is prayers of friends devoutly saide & alms deed doing & masses singing & abstmaunce in fasting prayers helpeth much a soul For like as a lord hath a man in prison or in any distress & at the preyoure of him that he loveth he relesith in party or all And that is showed be ensample  
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we find in legenda aurea that there was a man that had his house by a church yard side & his door opened to the church and be used be custom as oft as he come or went to say every time De●rofundis fore all christian souls. Than it happed so on a time that he was pursued with enemies as he went homewards But when he come in to the church yard he kneeled down & thought to say Deprofundis & these enemies come after. A nove the deed bodies resyn every eachone with such instruments as they wroughten with in her lives and a none they drove a weigh his enemies but when they saw that they cried god mercy & this man. And ever after prayed & deed alms deed for 'em that were in pain Thus I may well prove that devout prayers helpithe many a soul that been in purgatory. Also alms deed helpithe many soul's Sicnt a●na extingnit ig●em ita elemosina extingn●t paccatum Right as watyr quencheth fire so alms deed quencheth the fuyre that brenuyth 'em that bethe in purgatory if they be in good life & perfect charity y● down it And if alms deed be done for 'em that be in joy & have no need there to it is put in to the treasure of holy church & as God's will is it is dealt & relieveth hem that hath most vede there to & so god assynith it to 'em that have most need & than the souls that bethe holpyn there with thank the soul that it is done for Thus ye may know well that alms deed helpeth greatly souls that it is done fore & be in purgatory fore oft holy men have herd fiends cry & make great sorrow for with alms dedis souls were take from hem  
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we read in old time good people would on all halowyn day b●●● beede & deal it for all christen souls & yet there be some that vsyn it but all to few 〈…〉 find in legends 〈…〉 & of a ●uyghte that shul ●● go to a battles had a cousin that he loved pass ●●●g● well & said to him thus if he were slain in the battle he should sell his horse's deal the ●●●oure to ●ore people in alms to prey for all christian souls so it ●●●pid that he was deed & his cousin loved well thee, horse & took him to his own use Then soon oftir this knight ●● per●d to his cousin and said thus to him viij days for my horse thou haste made me to burn in purgatory & there for god will take 〈…〉 on the For sooth ●d ●e to day thy soul shall be in hell with the fiend. Et ego purgattus ●ado in regnum dei And I am purged & shall go to the kingdom of hepen And a none an horrible no●se wa● in the e●●● of sends & caught this man & hare him a weigh The iij that helpeth is mass so●● when any soul appeareth to any man to have any help he desireth masses & preyith to have massi● song for him For right as meet & dryn●●e comforted a man when he is febull so the sacrament in the anter comfortith the soul that the masses be done fore. Hit ie wreton in legend a aurea how a bishop suspendid a pressed, for he could say none othir mass but of requiem but he song every day devoutly after his cunning Thann one a day as the bishop went towards ●●●●nes it semythe to him that deed bodies ●●syn and come a bout him and ●eyde thou haste no mass for us & more over thou haste take our priest aw●y from us Look that this be a mendid or else with in short time god wool take oens g●●●nce one the fore our s●●e then was the Bishop greatly a feared and a none he bade the pressed sing of requiem as he did tofore & so he did as oft as he might  
Also we find that fiseheris set her news in he rueste to fische & they took up a great pese of Ice & that it was the coldiste ●se that ever they field & it would not melt for the son▪ Than brought they that ice to the bishop for he had a great brenning heat in his feet and it was the coldiste that ever he felt▪ Than spoke there avoyre to him out of the ice I am a soul y● suffer my penance here in this ice for I have no friends that wool do masses for me I shall be delivered of my penance and thou shalt be hole of thysikenes & he saide he would he would sing for him & bade tell him his name ● ever while he was at mass he laid the ice under his feet and ever as he saide mass the ice malt a weigh & so in a while the ice was molten & the soul ●ate of purgatory and the bishop was hole of his sickness then the soul appeared him with moche joy & saide with thy masses singing I am holpyn out of pain in to ever lasting bliss. & he told the bishop that he should die soon after. & to come to ever lasting joy with outyn end to thew hiche god bring us all to Amen   

De festo sancti martini.  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint martens day whann marten was but iij. year of age he cut his mantel in to pieces as he road among othir knights & was not yet christened & gave half his mantel to a poor man for god does saken that asked alms than the night after god had the sameclothe & said to his angel, Marten that is not christened hath clothid me in this cloth & marten heard this word out of heaven & anon he was cristoved & thann a none he left this worlds occupation & gave him all to holiness So as he road on a time be the ●ey the fiend come in likeness of a man and met with him & asked him whether he would & he saide thethir as god will than saide the feud y will be thine enemy in all that I can Then saide marten god is my help & there fore dread me not thann merten waxed holy that he resyd deed bodies to life & so for his great holiness he was chosen bishop of turon So ou a time as men were in great apparel & like to be spilled one of 'em knew the holiness of marten & saide marten help & anon they were holpyn. Also he road on a time in his visitation a hound at an hare under his horse feet than had he pite on this besc▪ & bade the hounds stand still & late the best go & a none the hounds stood as still as they had be put in to the earth. a othir he saw an addir swimming in a water & he saide to the addir In usmine do mini jubeo te reddire In the name of god I command the to go a yene there thou come fro & a none she turned ayen Thann marten sighed wonder sore and saide I am sorry that serpents herith me & men will not hear me An other time he come by the gate of a cite that hight padyse & there he kissed an horrible mesel a none he was hole with the same kiss Also he was so patient that many times his own clerkissmote him & yet he suffered it patiently & was not wroth So on a time as he road by the weigh in his visitation himself for that was his manner he had a row mautell of black & come a cart by the weigh with carriage & the beasts in the cart saw the black mancell wau●ring with the wind & flew a weigh & all to barsce her gear Thann the carters with her whips all to beat marten & gafe him many sore strokes & all he suffered meekly & said nothing Than would they have gone her weigh but they might not steer from the place till they knew that it was merten & than they cried him mercy-& than anon he for gave he & the bestis passed fair forth & all the harness was save enough Also on a time as marten sat in his sell the fiend come to him like a king with shining crown & saide I am common from heaviness to speak with the believe on me cristua ego sum for I am Christ & martyne lokis on him and saide my lord Jesus Christ wool not come in such a ray & thou be Christ show me thy wound is & a none the fiend went his weigh & left an horrible stench be hind him  
yet an other time he come to mertyu & reprevede him that he took p●ple to him that had sinned & were shrevyn and turned ayen to her sin that they had done tofore & saide though thou take hem to thy grace god will not Than said mertyn wretch & thou wolte leave thy pursuit of christen people & ask mercy with a meek heart I yonste to god he is so merciful that he wool gefe mercy. and when mertyn should pass out of this world & lay in his death bed the fiend come & sat by him disputing with him if he might have caught him in any word of miss believe in his end. marten saide to him. Go hence thou cruel best for thou shalt no thing find ● miss with me but god shall receive me & thann he made to ley him in asks & here & he saide the seven. psalms & latinie and gave up the ghost & was heried in his own church with moche honour and worship in turon Than liiij▪ winter after there come a bishop and translatid him. & when he had made all thing ready he laid hand one martens body to have borne it forth but he might not Than thought the bishop it is not martens will to be remenyd & left of Than come a fair old man and bade him go to a yene and he would help him & thann they bore the body in to the tomb with out letting and so whann the service was done this old man vanisched a weigh & there by they know well that it was saint martin And than god showed many fair miracles fore him  
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Hit happid on a time that there was ij. beggeris that one was halt and might not go and that other was ●●nde & might not see And so to make the people to have the more compassione of 'em the blind bare the lame & the lame taught the blind where he should go & thus they gate moche good & had esy live But they were ever a feared to meet with the shrine of saint marten left he would have helid hem of her sickness And so on a time at a stretis end at a turning suddenly at a corner they met with the shrine of saint martin & a none they were both hole And the blind might see & the lame might go And than they cried to saint marten and said marten we thank the fore the good that we have fore thy sake here tofore. we thank the not for our heel. For now we must go labure & travel & so get our leaving for the people well give us no more alms and here to fore we levied full esyly with little travel & feared well Alas alas that we come here this day fore now our mirth & well rare is gone Thus this holy man did many miracles where for I may see that he may do with god there for let us prey to him that he may pray to god for us Amen.   

●e sancta katherina virgine  
GOod friends such a day ye shall have saint katherines day the holy martyr she was a kings daughter & come of g●●t ●●e the But she set all her, mind to god and set, nought be the pride and richesse of the world for it is but a vanity but she set her heart all only on Jesus So when she h●d be at stole & learned a whil● a none she would dispute with any clerk that would come for she was inspired with the holy ghost But when she heard on a time that marencius was come to the cite of alexander with so moche people & so rially that the cite dommed of 'em For he come to make a solemn sacrifice to his God's that were of gold & silver in sickness of bollis & calves & other bestis. Than saint katherine saw that & blessid● her & went in to the temple & rebuked the Emperor bodily & saide that he did fowl a miss fore to do that worship to fiends & leave the worship of god in heaven that made all thing of nought & sent man life wit and hele & proved by great reason how christ was both god & man and how he bought all mankind with his passion one the cross with his death. & taught how every man should honour god and lean false mawmentes. Than w●s the emperor wroth & ●ad take her toward till he might be at leisure. So in the mean time he sent after the grettiste masters and the wisest clerks that were in any country far a bonte him And when they were come he bade 'em go dispute with katherine & over come her & they should have right well for her labour. Than were they wroth to come so far to dispute with a woe man & saide the lest scholar in the school had be enough over come her. But when katherine had disputid with 'em with help of the holy ghost she converted 'em every eachone to the faith of our lord Jesus criste in so much that they were ready to suffer death fore christus sake▪ Than a none maxencius commanded to make a great fuyre and ●renne hem in the fuyre. But by the help of the holy ghost the fuyre bre● the vo parties of he bodyēs ne the lest cloth of 'em & yet lay fair deed as they had be a sleep  
Than the Emperor made do katherine nakid & beat her with scorgi●● she was all blood & full of wounds & than he put her in to prison seven. days with out meet & drink then had the queen a great lust to speak with katherine & took a knyghre with her that hight porphirius & went to katherine & than they saw an angel set a crown of shining gold on the queens head & an other on porphirius he de and bad hem be steadfast for with in three days they should come to heaven be suffering of martyrdom then sent the Emperor after katherine & went to have found her nigh deed but all that time god sent her meet from heaven & whann the emperor saw her a life he was wood for word and made her to be set between ij▪ whelis & turned on upwards & another downwards full of ●oll●s & sword points for all to raze katherine. Than come an angel as ●it had be a wind & all to broke hem & slew iiij M. of the tyrants Than saw the queen that miracle and come be fore the king her husband & re●ukyd him that he saw the might of god so openly & would not be leave there on Than bade the king lead forth the queen and cut of her paps from the body with hooks and than to smite of her heed than for porphirius buried her lxxx. of her knights were martyred with her they smote of porphirius heed Than spoke the emperor to katherine & saide that he would wed her & she would fro christ & believe in his God's & she saide she set nought by him nor by his God's & when he saw that he made to smite of her heed Than a none in scede of blood come much fair milk. And than come an angel & bore the soul in to heaven And angels come & bore the body in to the eyre & so in to the mount of sinay and there buried it with worship & there god wronghte many fair miracles into this day At the foot of the mount there is an abbey of monks that liven in great abstinaunce & this abbey is strong & high wallid & barred about with iron for wild bestis & in that abbey lieth saint katherine in a fair tomb of alabaster for her bones were shedi● for the more worship & a bovyn in the church is the bnshe there god stood in when he spoke to moyses & wrote the law in to ij. tables of stone & that busche is also green & fair as it was the same day Also in that abbey is a great marvel and is this every monk hath a lamp with oil brenning & when he shall die they shall know be hislan he for as he drawithe to ●●e death so draweth his ●●mpe And when this ●●bot dieth his brethren shall sing a mass of the holy ghost & berry him so lemply & when mass is done they shall find a bill written on the altar how shall be abbot & so they these her abbot Also on saint katherins night all the briddi● in the country come thither & each of hem bringeth a branch of olive in her bill into the place & as pilgrims say the monks make oil of the branches to her lamps for all the year & some to sell  
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we find & read of a man that served saint katherine & fastid her even breed & water & on a time he come in felleship of reckless people & by comfort of 'em he left his fast & eat with 'em & so in the night after he saw a great company of maydenen coming by him & among 'em there was on passing all other & each of 'em had a crown but on had passing a fair crown & that was saint katherine. So when she come by this man she hide her face from him & would not look on him. than he asked on of 'em what they were & she saide we be virgins & the principal that thou s●iste is saint kather●● that hid her fate for the be cause thou haste left thy devotion from her even of fasting Than this man repented him sore that he had done this deed so & turned ayen to his devotion & fastid & after was an holy man. & there for seat us worship this holy virgin that she may pray for us Amen.   

De dedicatōne ecclesie.  
GOod friends s●che a day ye shall have your de●●▪ cacion day that is your●  
for devout 〈…〉 holy church was ordained to be hallowed fore god saith th●●. Domua me● domus oronvis ●o cabitur M● house is ca●●or an house of pre yours but it is now made an house of rowning whispering crying clattering scoruing ta●es & simple speaking mocking mowing of vanity & many simple words & lewd  
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We read how se●●t gregory was at mass on a time & semt austin was his dekon & bade the people turn to the ●opis blessing than he saw ij. women ●own to gedir in the Pope's chapel & the fiend sat in her necks writing on a great roll & yet lacked parchament & ●e drew it out with hist the & so it fill out of his clawis. & se●nt austin saw 〈…〉 & took it up t 〈…〉 pe was wroth 〈…〉 in why he laughed him to scor●● he showed him what the fiend had wreton of the women & than he come to the women & asked 'em what han ye said all this mass time & they saide our pater noster Than the pope bad read the ●●ll to hem that the fiend had wreton & se●nt Gregory red it & there was never a good word there in Than they kneeled down & asked mercy & be sought the pope to pray for hem & so he did & bronghte hem out of the fiends bokys. Also for long resting to holy church for when a man is deed he is bronght to the church to his rest Some time the people read buried at home as poor people and the rich were buried in hill tops & some at the fo●e of the hill in tombs made of ro●his But fore the savour was so great & ●o grievous holy 〈◊〉 or deigned church yard is obery the people in. ●ore ij causes on is to be prayed fore ●s holy church useth A no●hir is for the body shall lie there with out travel ●or the fiend hath no power to do no thing with in christen beriellis but if so be that the body be not worthy to be buried there. Johan Bellet tellith that there should no body be buried in the church but if it be the pat●●● that defend it from bodily enemies or the person 〈…〉 or cler●e ●●●● de●●●dith the church 〈◊〉 ghostly enemies 〈…〉 prayers for 〈…〉 be baried there 〈…〉 a you on the 〈…〉 all the cloth is left still in the grave. An 〈…〉 ll come on a time to 〈…〉 of a church & had him go to the bishop & ●id him caste out the 〈…〉 he hath buried 〈…〉 he shall be 〈…〉 days & ●o 〈…〉 old not 〈…〉  
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〈…〉 in the gestis of rome that an angel told an holy bishop that hight. Encres how that charles the king of france was dampened he took a weigh holy churches right that good people had yeven tofore & bade him go & open his tomb & see the sooth. Than the bishop took with him othir people & opened the tomb & there come out a great dragon & flay forth & left tomb burn with in as it had be anovyn mouth & thus berry in holy place is but little a veil to 'em that be dampened Also there be many that walkyn on nights when they aren buried in holy place but that is not long of the feud but of grace of god to get 'em help. & some be guilty & have no rest  
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Hit happid be side the Abbey of lilfill that iiij. men stolen▪ Ox of the abbotis of 〈◊〉 same place to her larder & the