The.xv. chapiter

The author sheweth yt yf of those miracles that are told and wrytten to be done at dyuers pylgrymagys & cōmynly beleuyd for very trewe / we certeynly knew some falsly fayned / yet were that no cause to mystrust the remnaunt.

But be yt yt amonge so many myracles as be dayly told & wrytē dō at diuers pilgrimagꝭ / betwē which myracles and other why ye put a deference we shall as I sayd before knowe ferther your mīd hereafter / And be it also that of such as long haue be reputed and styll taken for trew / your selfe vndoutedly knewe sum for very false / wold ye therfore thynk that among all y• remnaūt / ther were neuer one trew? what if ye fynd som fayer womā paynted whose colour ye had went wer naturall / wyll ye neuer after beleue that any woman in the worlde hath a fayre colour of her selfe? If ye fynd som fals flatterers that long semed frēdly wyll ye take euer after all y• world for suche? If some proue starke ipochrytes whō the world wold haue sworn for good & godly mē / shall we therfore mystruste all other for theyr sake and wene there wer none good at all? By my troth q he I rode ons ī good cōpany / & to say y• troth for good cōpany to walsynghā in pylg[…]mage / where a good felows hors so fell in haltynge yt he was fayne to hyer a nother and let hym goo lose / whych was so lene and so pore and hallted so sore y• empty as he was he could scant kepe fote with vs. And when we had went we shuld haue left hī behīde / sodenly he spyed a mare / and forth he lymped on thre legges so lustely / that hys masters hors wyth foure fete coud […]āt ouer take hī. But whā he caught hym & cam agayne / he sware in greate anger all the othys he myght swere yt he wold trust haltyng syr Thomas the worse whyle he lyuyd. what was that haltīg syr thomas quod I. Mary q he theyr paryshe preste as he told vs / as lene and as pore and as haltynge as hys horse / and as holy to. But syn he wold whyle he lyued mystrust y• haltīg preste for hys haltīg horse / yf I fynde an holy horeson halte in ypochrysye / I shall not fayle while I lyue to trust all hys felowes the worse. well quod I ye speke merely / but I wot well ye wyll do better what so euer ye lay. Nor I ā sure though ye se sum whyte safyre or byrall soo well counterfete / and so set in a ryng yt a ryght goode iueller wyll take it for a dyomound / yet wyl ye not dowt for all yt but yt there be in many other ryngꝭ all redy set right diamoūtꝭ in dede. Nor ye wyll not mystrust saīt Peter for iudas. Nor thoughe the iues were many so noughty that they put chryst to deth[…] yet ye be wyser I wot[…] well than the gētyllwomā was / whych in talkyng ones wyth my father when she harde saye yt our lady was a iewe / fyrst could not beleue it / but sayd what ye mok I wylle I pray you tell trouth. And when it was so fully affermede y• she at last beleued it / & was she a Iewe quod she so helpe me god and halydō I shall loue her y• worse whyle I lyue. I ā sure ye wyll not do so / nor mistrust all for some neyther men nor myracles