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VISIT TO A MONASTERY.
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man was a heardman. Yeate, for all this, Myghell Watson
swore that he would goo no farther, com of it what would.
Edward Hale sayd somthinge fayntly that he would not
leave me, but se the end. So we tow traveled forwarde,
and when we cam somthinge nearc the topp, we saw tow
horsis grasinge, with packe sad Is on ther backes, and one
man cominge downe the hill towardes us, having nothinge
in his handes. Cothe I to my fellow: Nede, we shall sec
by this man what people they be that inhabit heare.
When this man came unto us he lay his hand upon his
brcste, and boucd his head and bodye with smylingc coun-
tinance, makinge us a sine to go up still. Yeat than Ned
Hall began to diswade me from goinge any further ; but I
tould him it would not stand with my othe to go backe
untill I had bene as farr as I could go. Cominge to the
top thare was a prittie fair grene, and on one sid of it a
whyte house bulte of lyme, and some square, the whyche
had bene the house of an ancoriste, who, as I harde after
wardes, Died but a litle before our cominge thether, and
that she had lived five hundrethe years. Ryghte before us,
on the farther side of the greene, I saw a house of som 20
pacis longe, and waled aboute one yarde hie, and than
opene to the eaves, which was aboute a yarde more. And
I se a man on the inside reatche oute a coper kettell to one
that stood with oute the wale. Than saide I to Ned Hale:
I will go to yendcr house and gitt som drinke, for I have
greate neede. The wether was verrie hote, and I was
fastinge. But Ned Hale tould me that I had no reason to
drinke at there handes, nether to go any nearer them.
Yeate I wente bouldly to the sid of the house, whear I
saw another man drinke, and made a sine to him within
that I woulde drinke. Than he touke up the same kctle
which had water in it, and offer it me to drinke. And
when I did put out my hande to take it, he would
not give it me, but sett it further of, and than cam
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man was a heardman. Yeate, for all this, Myghell Watson
swore that he would goo no farther, com of it what would.
Edward Hale sayd somthinge fayntly that he would not
leave me, but se the end. So we tow traveled forwarde,
and when we cam somthinge nearc the topp, we saw tow
horsis grasinge, with packe sad Is on ther backes, and one
man cominge downe the hill towardes us, having nothinge
in his handes. Cothe I to my fellow: Nede, we shall sec
by this man what people they be that inhabit heare.
When this man came unto us he lay his hand upon his
brcste, and boucd his head and bodye with smylingc coun-
tinance, makinge us a sine to go up still. Yeat than Ned
Hall began to diswade me from goinge any further ; but I
tould him it would not stand with my othe to go backe
untill I had bene as farr as I could go. Cominge to the
top thare was a prittie fair grene, and on one sid of it a
whyte house bulte of lyme, and some square, the whyche
had bene the house of an ancoriste, who, as I harde after
wardes, Died but a litle before our cominge thether, and
that she had lived five hundrethe years. Ryghte before us,
on the farther side of the greene, I saw a house of som 20
pacis longe, and waled aboute one yarde hie, and than
opene to the eaves, which was aboute a yarde more. And
I se a man on the inside reatche oute a coper kettell to one
that stood with oute the wale. Than saide I to Ned Hale:
I will go to yendcr house and gitt som drinke, for I have
greate neede. The wether was verrie hote, and I was
fastinge. But Ned Hale tould me that I had no reason to
drinke at there handes, nether to go any nearer them.
Yeate I wente bouldly to the sid of the house, whear I
saw another man drinke, and made a sine to him within
that I woulde drinke. Than he touke up the same kctle
which had water in it, and offer it me to drinke. And
when I did put out my hande to take it, he would
not give it me, but sett it further of, and than cam