And when as well his wife, as himselfe affirmed fastly no, then hee looked aduisedly upon his eyen againe, and sayd : I beleue you very well, for me thinketh ye cannot see well yet. So happened it then, that duke Humfrey of Glocester, a man no les wise, then also well learned, having great ioye to see suche a miracle, called the poore man vnto him, and first, shewing himselfe ioyous of Gods glory, so shewed in the getting of his sight, and exhorting him to meekenes, and to no ascribing of any part of ye worship to himself, nor to be proud of the people's prayse, which would call him a good & godly man therby, at last, he looked well upon his eyne, and asked him whether he could see nothing at al, in his life before. Albones shrine had hys sight agayne, and a miracle solemnly ronge, and "Te Deum ” song, so that nothing was talked of in al the towne, but this miracle. But, to tell you foorth, when the King was comen, and the towne full, sodainly this blynde man at S. Sauing some Reliques of him, whiche they there shew shryned. John's Gospel, which the priest was directed to read.
? In principio erat verbum, the beginning of St. But of truth, as I am surely informed, he lyeth here, at S. Albones body shoulde be at Colon, and in deede suche a contention hath there bene. Albon, and that he had bene at his shrine, and had not bene holpen, and therefore he would go and seek him at some other place : for he had heard some say, since he came, that S. Albones a certayne begger wyth his wife, and was walking there about ye towne, begging fiue or sixe dayes before the Kinges comming thether, saying, yt he was borne blind, and neuer saw in his lyfe, & was warned in hys dreame, that he shuld come out of Barwik, where he says he had euer dwelled, to seek S. In the yong dayes of this King Henry the sixt, beyng yet under the gouernance of this duke Humfrey, his protector, there came to S. , and in which the name of Simpcox is given to the impostor. From “the Actes and Monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church, with an Vniuersall history of the same," by John Foxe, 1583 (4th edition), commonly called Fox's Book of Martyrs.ĭialogue concernynge heresyes” Sir Thomas More relates having heard his father tell the following story, and it figures in the First part of the Con tention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster (1594), which Shakspere subsequently converted into the Second part of King Henry VI. 14 And thus with fained flattering and japes, 16 He made the persone, 16 and the peple, his apes.Ĭirca 1430-35. But with these relikes, whanne that he fond A poure person dwelling up on lond, Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monethes tweie.
For in his male 8 he hadde a pilwebere, Which, as he saide, was oure ladies veil : He saide, he hadde a gobbet 10 of the seyl 11 Thatte seinte Peter had, whan that he went Upon the see, till Jesu Crist him hent.12 He had a crois of laton 13 ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. His wallet lay beforne him in his lappe Bret-ful 6 of pardon come from Rome al hote But of his craft, fro Berwike unto Ware, Ne was ther swiche? an other pardonere. With him 3 ther rode a gentil PARDONERE, Of Rouncevall,' his frend and his compere 6 That streit was comen from the court of Rome. For though a widewe hadde but a shoo, (So plesant was his In principio ) 2 Yet wold he have a ferthing or he went. 8 In the Vision of Peers Ploughman, Pride confesses that “none was so sturdy a beggar as myself none so bold in taverns or streets to affirm for truth what was never thought of.” * A woman who has the care of a tap in a public-house He was the beste begger & in all his hous : And gave a certaine ferme' for the grant,Ģ A friar licensed to beg within a certain district. It is not honest, it may not avance, As for to delen with no swiche pouraille, But all with riche, and sellers of vitaille.?Īnd over all, ther as profit shuld arise, Curteis he was, and lowly of servise. A Frere 1 ther was, a wanton and a mery, A Limitour, a ful solempne man Therto he strong was as a champioun, And knew wel the tavernes in every toun, And every hosteler 3 and gay tapstere, Better than a lazar 6 or a beggere, For unto swiche a worthy man as he Accordeth nought, as by hie faculte, To haven with sike lazars acquaintance.
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