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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08190	Saynt Nycholas of tolle[n]tyne		1525 (1525)	STC 18528; ESTC S104420	7,861	18

her sone and wete it in water / and anone he sholde amende And as he was cōmaūded in his slepe he dyde whā he waked trustȳge in almyghty god the blessed vyrgyn mary and saynt Austyn to be heled / so he was lctō v. THis blessyd saynt Nycholas punysshed his flesshe his body with grete hardnes correccyon And for more correccyon he ware moost often chaynes of yron And also softe easy beddes syttynges softe and easy clothes raymentes he euer refused He laye vpon chaffe the whiche he thoughte was to easy for his body Also the clothes the he ware was sharpe course and harde and often chafed his body in many places Also in hym was grete stedfastnes / for on a tyme whan he was entysed counsaylled of a certayne ryche kynnesman of his / that he sholde leue so sharpe harde a lyfe and go backe to an other place the he coude gete him to where he myght lyue more plenteously / and more delycyously saynt Nycholas euer refused it vtterly with a stronge mynde in god / for he coude neuer bowe his mynde therto His mekenes obedyence was excedynge without mesure / for not alonely to his superyour / but also to his euenall and his inferyor He was obedyent in goodnes and suffred them all He had to all folke a synguler and a meruaylous pyte and charyte / namely to poore folke / and nedy / to theym that were in ony trouble or sekenes / whome often he vysyted conforted whan he was very seke and weyke hymselfe Somtyme he comforted them releued them with wordes and somtyme he exhorted theym to kepe pacyence with good doctryne of scrypture And somtyme he refresshed theym with bodely fode and clothynge euery man after his nede Also he caused thrughe his swete exortacyon and grete dyly gence many men that he knewe had rychesse to do the same too the poore and nedy Whan this blessed saynte Nycholas had knowledge of ony folkes synnes or fautes eyther by preuy confessyon / or by ony otherwyse he was so sory that he wolde wepe and praye for them and punysshed his body sore with fastes and correccyon to gete them forgyuenes and grace to amende themselfe and to contynue in goodnes This blessed saynt Nycholas was pale of face shamefast and gladde / and mery of countenaunce / of a smothe and fayre flesshe / and kynde to euery body And he was moost myse / redy / and dylygente to ony thynge that he sholde do that was good goodly Lctō .vi. ALso this blessed saynt Nycholas sayd masse euery daye / but he neuer sayd masse but he was clene shryuen afore / ne there can no tongue tell the deuocyon that he had euer and in especyall at masse / for the streyght of his masse was so spedy towardes god that on a tyme whan he wente to a place called Pethaurus in a certayne wyldernesse by the waye and layde hym downe vpon the grounde for fayntnes / and was halfe a slepe there appered vnto hym the soule of a certayne man whome saynt Nycholas knewe well ynoghe and loued in his lyfe / the whiche prayed hym instauntly that he wolde saye masse for hym / the whiche sholde not delyuer and do profyte alonely to hym but also it sholde profyte vnto innumerable other soules the whiche soules were in a certayne playne there nye by that he shewed to saynt Nycholas / where they were punysshed and tormented with greuous paynes / and that same soule the whiche was comen vnto saynt Nycholas for socoure and helpe was also tormented with them with the same selfe tormentes that they hadde And euen so it was done ¶ For seuen dayes after this blessed saynt Nycholas had done the masse he sawe than in his slepe the same soule in grete infynyte Ioy and myrthe thankynge saynt Nycholas entyerly besechynge hym that thrughe his helpe the other grete innumerable multytude of soules myght be delyuered from theyr greuous paynes / and that they myght come to heuen to euerlastynge Ioye and gladnesse Feria ij lec j. THe custome of syngynge of this blessed saynte was euer to be besy so that he slepte neuer a nyght almost / but prayed contynually / and the daye also / saue whā he was besy eyther in refresshynge his body with mete or drynke / the whiche he toke full soberly and full seldome as it is shewed before / or elles in herynge confessyons or doyenge other necessary thynges that were good and vertuous He prayed with so grete stedfastnes and entencyon was eleuate fyrmly set with so grete attendement vehemente of deuocyon that he semed holely rauysshed in god / vtterly delyuered done of fro man / nor there was nothynge so hygh and grete to obteyne but with the excelente delyte besynes as who sayth with soo hote affeccyon hyghe deuocyan of his moost stedfast prayers this blessed saynt obteyned it gate it lctō .ij. FOr the whiche namely he vsed a certayne oratory praynge place Ioyned fast by an aulter where nowe his moost holy bones are rest Also in his celle laye a stone the whiche he kneled vpon / another the he lened his armes vpon whan he was so wery that he coude in no wyse holde theym vp no lenger / and wynter and somer kneeled on the colde stones lectio iij. HErof the fendes had grete dyspyte so that they cesed not alonely to tempte hym with dyuers temptacyons / but also they seynge that they coude in no wyse cause hym to consente to no maner suggestyons of temptacyons / sette agaynste hym open bataylle / and vexed hym with moost sharpest rebukes / threttes vexacyons and sore woundes More ouer more Inwardly and hardly than a man can thynke ¶ And more ouer on a tyme whan this blessed saynt Nycholas amended his garmentes the deuylles toke it awaye frome hym bycause his prayer was of soo grete effecte / they wolde haue caused hym to leue of his prayer / and muse on thynges vnprofytable to his soule the whiche this blessed saynt Nycholas knewe ryght well bycause of his good lyuȳge mooste grete payne in resystynge temptacyon the whiche two thynges good lyuinge and forsakynge the consentynge of temptacion for the same cause another tyme they put out his lampe cast it on the grounde and brake it lctō iiij ALso oftentymes these forsayde deuylles made grete noyses in his celle houlynge abhomynably / bycause his prayers was of so grete effecte / made russhynge claterynge of stones / and crackynge of the tymbre as all the celle shold haue fallen downe And forall this they seynge that they coude not in no wyse let hym of his prayer / nor ones too make hym to loke asyde for he thought on god And ones he sayd yf it be tēptacyon I wyll praye moche more to haue grace to with stande it yf it be goddes sonde I wyll praye feruentely to