PALMER

N Owe God be here who keepeth this place Now by my faith I cry you mercy Of reason I must sew for grace My rewdnes shows me no so homely Whereof your pardon axt and won I sew you as courtesy does me bind To tell this which shall be begun In order as may come best in myndy I am a palmer as you see Which of my life much partly hath spent In many a fair and far country As pilgrims do of good intent At Jerusalem have I be Before Christ's blessed sepulture The mount of Caluery have I seen A holy place you may be sure To Josephat and Olyuete On foot God wot I went right bore Many a salt tere died I sweet Before this carks could come there Yet have I be at Room also And gone the stations all arrow Saint peters shrine and many more Then if I told all you do know Except that there be any such That hath been there and diligently Hath taken heed and marked much Then can they speak as much as I Then at the Rhodes also I was And round about to Amias At Saint Toncomber and Saint Tronion At Saint Bothulph and Saint Anne of Buckston On the Hills of Armony where I see Noah's ark With holy Job and Saint George in Suthwarke At Uvaltham and at Walsyngam And at the good rood of dagnam At Saint Cornelys at Saint James in Gales And at Saint Wynefrydes well in Walls At our lady of Boston at Saint Edmund's byry And Straight to Saint Patrykes purgatory At rydybone and at the blood of Hails Where pilgrims pains right much avails At Saint Dauys and at Saint Denis At Saint Matthew and Saint Mark in Venis At master Johan shorn at Canterbury The graet God of Katewade at King Henry At Saint saviours at our lady of Southwell At Crome at Wylsdome and at Muswell At Saint Richard and at Saint Roke And at our lady that stands in the oak To these with other many one Devoutly have I prayed and gone Praying to them to pray for me Unto the blessed trinity By whose prayers and my daily pain I trust the sooner to obtaye For my salvation grace and mercy For be you sure I think surely Who seeketh saints for Christ's sake And namely such as pain do take On foot to punish thy frail body Shall thereby merit more hyely Then by any thing done by man ¶Forsooth this life I did Begin To rid the bondage of my sin For which these saints rehearsed or this I have both sought and seen Iwys Beseeching them to be record Of all my pain unto the lord That gyveth all remission Upon eke men contrition And by their good mediation Upon mine humble submyssion I trust to have in very deed For my soul health the better speed. ¶If this be true that you have moved Then is my wit in deed reproved But let us here First what you are ¶Nay by my troth we be like friars We are but beggars we be no byers ☞What helpeth will where is no skill ¶Sir for lying though I can do it Yet am I loath for to goo to it ⚜Here were a hopper to hop for the ring But sir this gere goes nat by hopping. ⚜Sir I will n there boast ne brawl But take such foe d'un as may fallen And if you win S mastery I will obey you uietly And sure I thine that quietness In any man is g to richesse In any manner continued pany To rule or be rul worser indifferently. ¶You judge all hallows breath unknown If any breath stink it is your own. ⚜Sir I will kiss them with all my Heart. ⚜Even so am I and say thy worst Now let us here of all thy lies The greatest lie thou mayest devise And in the fewyst words thou can ⚜There said you much but yet no lie. ⚜You marry I for I would you knew I think my self and honest man. ¶Though neither of us as yet had lied Yet what we can do is untried For yet we have devised nothing But answered you and given hiring Sir though you were bound of equity To do as you have done to me Yet do I thank you of your pain And will requit some part again. ¶Then would some master perhaps clowtye But as for me you need nat doubt you For I had lever be without you Then have such business about you. ¶Sir I am nat on them so fond To compel them to keep their bond And yns you list nat to wait on me I clearly of waiting discharge you. ¶Then to our reason God gyve us his grace That we may follow with faith so firmly His commandments, that we may purchase His love, and so consequently To believe his church fast and faithfully So that we may according to his promise Be kept out of error in any wise And all that hath escape us here by negligence We clearly revoke and forsake it To pass the time in this without offence Was the cause why the maker did make it And so we humbly beseech you take it Beseeching our lord to prosper you all In the faith of his church universal ¶Why sir despise you pilgrimage ¶Truly a pardoner that may be true But a true pardoner does nat ensue Right selde is it seen or never. That truth and pardoners dwell together For be your pardons never so great Yet them to enlarge you will nat let With such lies that oftimes Christ wot You seem to have that you have nat Wherefore I went my self to the self thing In every place and without feigning Had as much pardon there assuredly As you can promise me here doutefully How be it I think you do but scofte But if you had all he pardon you keep of And no whyt of pa on granted In any place where I have haunted Yet of my labour I nothing repent. God hath respect how eke time is spent And as in his knowledge all is regarded So by his goodness all is rewarded ⚜Long life after good works in deed Does hinder man's receipt of mede And death before one duty done May make us think we die to soon Yet better tarry a thing then have it Then go to soon and vainly crave it ⚜By our lady and I would be loath To wait on the on you both ❧ You by my troth I am content. ⚜His tale is all much parellous But part is much more marvelous As where he said the devils complain That women put them to such pain By their conditions so crooked and crabbed Frowardly fashonde so waywarde and wrabbed So far in division and stirring such strife That all the devils be weary of their life This in effect he told for to veth Whereby much muruell to me ensueth That women in hell such shrews can be And here so gentle as far as I see Yet have I seen many a mile And many a woman in the while Nat one good city, town, nor borough In christendom but I have been through And this I would you should understand I have seen women .v. hundred thousand And oft with them have long time married Yet in all places where I have been Of all the women that I have seen I never saw nor knew in my consyens Any one woman out of paciens. Sir whither that I loose or get For my part judgement shall be prayed.