The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion by Desiderius Erasmus
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we wyll come. _Me._ I had leuer haue no tales at all.
Well go to, you shall haue a dyner, but vnsauery, except you spyce it with good & mery tales. _Ogy._ But here || you, are ye not mouyd and styrrede in your mynde, to take vpon yow these pylgremages? _Me._ Perauenture it wyll sett me a fyre, after ye haue told me the resydew, as I am now mynded, I haue enough to do with my statyons of Rome. _Ogy._ Of Rome, that dyd neuer see Rome?. _Me._ I wyll tell you, thus I go my statyons at home, I go in to the parler, and I se vnto the chast lyuynge of my doughters, agayne frome thense I go in to my shope, I beholde what my seruauntes, bothe men and women be doynge. Frome thense into the kytchyn, lokynge abowt, if ther nede any of my cownsell, frome thense hyther and thyther obseruynge howe my chylderne be occupyed, what my wyffe dothe, beynge carefull that euery thynge be in ordre, these be statyons of Rome. _Ogy._ But these thynges saynt Iames wold dow || for yow. _Mene._ That I shuld se vn- to these thynges holy scriptu- re commaundethe, that I shuld commyt the charge to sayntes I dyd rede yt neuer com- maun- ded. God saue the kynge |
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