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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68972	Here begynneth the lyfe of saynt Radegunde	Bradshaw, Henry, d. 1513.	1525 (1525)	STC 3507; ESTC S104675	21,988	60

Shewyng howe for thy vertu and mekenesse Thy vigils fastynges and deuocion Thy wepynges waylinges and tendernesse Thy bytter penaunce and sharpe affliction Thou shalt haue merite and glorificacion And in my diadem thou shalt sure be A precious gēme resplendent with beaute Swete virgyn to the I playnly expresse To Iesu thy spouse thou shalt come hastely From wordly vexacion payne and besenesse To abyde and endure in ioy perpetually Whiche singuler comfort and visyon gostly Secretly she shewed vnto systers twayne Uertuous in lyuyng suche grace to optayne Sone after this sayd gostly reuelacion Sickenes approched her and infirmite The messanger of deth and wordly seperacion Dayly increasyd with wo and penalyte Her body was brought to suche debilyte That she sore dred her lyfe euery day The panges and passions doubled alway As she endured suche langore and sickenes She send for her systers and all the couent Exortyng them to vertu and goodnesse Principally to kepe our lordes commaundment With gostly perfection and be euer pacient Use mekenesse in hert and true charite With loue vnto god from the hert fre She sayd dere systers I pray you euerychone Dayly to obserue the essencials thre Of saynt Benettes rule your holy religion Parfyt obedience and wylfull pouerte With the floure of clennesse and pure chastite Kepe your doctrines and customes sperituall With gostly obseruauntes and cerimonies all Honour and loue our lorde aboue all thyng Occupy the tyme in meditacion In deuout prayer and discrete fastyng In vigils penaunce and contemplacion Call vnto mynde your strayte profession Obserue the order ye be professyd vnto Remembre this lesson what so euer ye do Also my counsell is that ye shal be content With the visitacion of god all myghty Whether he send you pleasure or punysshement Quietnes vexacion helth or infirmite For this ye knowe by his auctorite The childe whome the father loueth most dere He doth most punysshe tenderly in fere ¶ With what pacience and deuocion lady Radegund receyued y e blessyd sacrament extreme vnction afore her departure AFterward she askyd the holy communion With mycle reuerence and humilite To comfort the soule agayne temptacion At the sharpe passage of this mortalyte Where preistes and clarkes were all redy Theyr offyce to supple right conuenient And brought with them the blessyd sacrament At whose commyng this reuerent Radegunde With gostly comfort humbled her body Sayeng to the sacrament with hert iocunde Welcome my maker god sonne almighty Welcom my redemer and kyng of glory Welcom my ioy comfort and solace My trust my treasure in euery place As the church techith I beleue stydfastly That thou descendyd from blis eternall And was incarnat in mayden Mary Suffred passyon and deth moost thrall Man soule to redeme from payne infernall And that thou institute thy blessed body In furme of bredde to vs sacramentally Thus with great wepyng and feruent deuocion In true fayth hope and charite Radegunde receyued the holy communion To preserue the soule from ieopardy With all obseruaunce and suffrage gostly After all this she askyd extreme vnction For spirituall comfort and saluacyon And as she lay in suche extremite Sufferyng great payne abyding the houre She be toke her soule vnto the custodie Of Ihesu her spouse our blessyd sauyour Also to visyt her they came with great honoure Many sad citesyns wyddowes virgyns pure Lamentyng and wepyng for her departure They held vp theyr handes towarde heuen on hye Pyteously cryeng made great lamentacion Sayeng O blessyd lorde god almyghty Why suffers thou this mayde departe from vs alon Fatherles childerne without consolacion Good lorde if it be thy wyll and pleasure Permyt her to abyde with vs and endure O blessyd abbasse thou art our succoure Our singuler comfort both day and nyght Our helpe and refuge agayne all langoure Our speciall defence vnder god almyght Alas swete maistres and lady bryght Why wyll you departe from vs so hastely But agayne deth may be no remedy ¶ Of the departure of this holy abbasse and howe she apperyd y e same houre to a noble prefect curyng hym from sickenesse of his throte THis venerable virgyn exspired sothely The .xiii. day of August to blis eternall Angels were present with mycle melody To receyue the soule from the lyfe temperall For euer to reigne in the see celestiall To haue her merite and glorificacion For her great vertue and contemplacion And at the same houre of her departyng Quareours laboryng in the mounte therby Herd swete armony of angels singyng One sayd howe the voyce of a sad company Ascendeth to the eares of god almyghty Suffre her no lenger to endure distres Take her to ioy and eterne quietnes Whan the angels sayeng thus endyd was They receyued the soule of this fayre lady And brought it syngyng to the celestiall palace As afore is sayd to reigne eternally Unto whiche place of endles glory Pray for vs abbasse and holy moniall That we may thyder come both one and all Manyfolde merites and myracles memoratyue Magnifien this mayde with great magnificence Enduryng the tyme of this present lyfe And at her departure knowen by experience For she apperyd gostly in presence The same houre she passyd from this lyfe dolorous To a great gouernoure called Demolemus This sayd Demolemus was paynfully cruciat In his brest and throte by host and swellyng His breth restrayned with passyons tortuat Ryght like to exspire at euery hours endyng Radegunde bad hym straytely commaundyng To lose .vii. presoners within his Iayle and holde And he shulde haue helth and pleasure manyfolde Whiche visyon past he waked sodenly Callyng to mynde her wyll and commaundement Knewe well by the visyon that this noble lady Than was departed from this lyfe present Prouyng the trueth by messangers diligent Afterwarde he sende his seruaunt to the prison Deliuerd all captyue from payne and affliction Incontynently by merit and grace of this abbasse Demolemus mended of sickenes and infyrmite His throte and his heed whiche wofull was Were sone delyuered from all penalyte His breth restored at his owne lyberte This forsayd ruler and the prisoners all Praysed this virgyn with mynde speciall Whiche sayd myracles notyfied playne Thorowe the countrey and all the region Many poore prisoners sufferyng great payne Made dayly prayers and humble supplicacion Unto this lady promisyng an oblacion Desiryng her suffrage with humylite Were saued from deth and put at lyberte ¶ How saynt Radegund cured one of her seruauntes from the plage of fier sittyng in her chayer without auctorite and right SOone after the departure of this pure virgin A woman of Uiuoberga one of her famylye Of hye ambicion willyng to domyn Sat in her cha●er right presumptuously Commendyng her selfe that place moost worthy So whan she had done this offence greuous The punysshement of god fell on her dolorous Her body brenned as doth a hote furnace The finde ascended to the ayre on hye The payne continued and neuer ceassed was Thre dayes and .iii.

went To tell whan and whyther and whiche way y t she is Auoydyng great displeasure shewyng nat amys Worshipfull maisters the husbande than can say Suche a fayre lady we se this way gone Rennyng fast and spedely the same selfe day That we cast this corne in the erth alone Sweryng to them depely for more affirmacion The courteours beleued this honest man certayne And heuely retourned to the kyng agayne ¶ How Radegund was made relygious after elect abbasse of Pictauis howe by grace she was preserued from daunger of her husbande y e kyng WHan nyght aproched this forsayd fayre lady Priuely departyd to the place of Pictauens Thankyng our lorde and his mother Mary Of her expedicion with micle reuerence The abbasse of the place gladed of her presence So dyd the couent and the company all Of this noble quene to be conuentuall Mekely she made singuler peticion To be religious vsyng lyfe monasticall Thabbasse graunted and the couent echone Receyued her gladly and made her a moniall Where fyrst she layde a syde her purpull and pall All riche vestures of golde and tissewes fyne Her crowne and coronall set with stones celestyne She was reclothed with religious vesture The mantell of mekenesse the vaile of blacke colour The wympull of wayling of humble gesture With other many vestures of vertue that same hour Thus for the loue of our sauyour All wordly pleasures vayne and transitore She hath refusyd obedient to be Whan the yere passed of her probacion She truly professyd the essencials thre Made a solempne vowe afore the congregacyon Obedience to kepe also pure chastite Enduryng her lyfe with wilfull pouerte She receyued the ryng of heuenly spousage Was maryed to Iesu enduryng this pylgrymage And as myne auctour playnly doth expresse The venerable Antoninus in his historie This lady Radegund of her great goodnesse Bylded afore tyme the sayd monastery By the helpe of her husbande kyng Lothary Where after she was elect lady and abbasse By helpe of saynt Medarde a man of great grace Whan she was abbasse she toke to her company A nomber of virgyns in hye perfeccion To whome she gaue the example dayly Of pure humilyte and perfyt deuocyon Of vertuous lyueng and contemplacion Perfourmyng in her persone for goostly mede All thyng commaunded to her systers in dede But the mortall enemy of all mankynde Consideryng in her suche grace and vertue By malyce and enuy forcast in his mynde By some subtylte this mayd to subdue He tempted her husbande a prince full of vertue By power and slouth to take his wyfe agayne Out of religion the more pyte certayne This sayd kyng Lothary in conscience blynde Came with his company to the citie of Turon Under craft and polesy prepensyd in mynde With the notable prince Sygibert her son Dyssemblyng pylgrymage and goostly entencion Approchyng Pectauis the rather that he myght Take from religyon his wyfe that same nyght Whan Radegunde hard tell his subtell polysy Howe he was paruerted as man without grace She wept and wayled in soule tenderly For sorowe of her husbande whiche somtyme was In her hert no confort was founde nor solace For drede of deceyte and ymagined treason Prayeng to our lorde for helpe that same season She made secret letters and send her entent Closed and sealed vnto saynt Garmayne Bysshop of Parise whiche than was present With kyng Lothary makyng her complaynt Wofully lamenting expressed in dede playne Desiryng the bysshop with humble supplycacion To conuert the kyng from his wrong opynion Whan saynt Germayne these letters had reed He prostrat hym selfe to the fete of the kyng Afore saynt Martyns tombe prayeng hym in dede By the order of charite many salt teares wepyng And for the loue of god to conferme his askyng That he no further wolde procede in way Nor come to Pectauis for drede of deth that day The kyng consideryng in soule his great trespace With bytternesse of hert remembryng his peticion Shulde come of Radegund by singuler grace With contrit hert and mynde made playne confession Excusing his defaute by euyll suggestion Prostrat his person vnto saynt Germaynes fete Desiryng indulgence with salt teares and wete Reputyng his presence symple and vnworthy For to call agayne his wyfe from religion Whiche is the spouse of our lorde almighty And vnder his licence entred professyon Required the bysshop spedely to gone To lady Radegunde absolued for to be Lest punysshement fell on hym soone and hastele Whiche thynge the bysshop was glad for to do Came to Pectauis vnto her oratorie And kneled at her fete desiryng her also To forgyue the kyng his entent and miserie Whiche thyng she dyd in hert and worde gladly Thankyng our lorde that she was at lyberte To serue hym day nyght delyuered from captiuite ¶ Of the feruent deuocyon of saynt Radegunde and of the great penaunce and charitable warkes she vsed in religion WHat hert may thynke or tong is sufficient To expresse the vertuous of this moniall In deuout orison in vigils conuenient In discret abstinence in vestures small Example gyueng vnto her systers all To the common people howe they in great vertu Shulde dayly encrease pleasyng our lorde Ihesu This abbasse vsed silde to eate whyte brede But of rye or berly kept secretly That no man perceyued howe that she fedde Her drinke was water or litell better dayly From her profession by saynt Medarde truly Her repast was potage and herbis for to eate Nother fysshe flesshe egges frutes ne mylke meate Also after the vsage and rite of saynt Germayne She had a litell mylne in her secret cell alon In whiche all the lenton she laboured certayne As wolde well suffyce for .iiii. dayes refeccion A maruell howe she dyd satysfy euery person Where nothyng wanted that was necessary The more that was gyuen euer the more plenty Whan obsruaūtes were done eche saturday at nyght She toke a lynen cloth cloused about her body And wasshed the heedes of all poore folkes aright Rubbyng all theyr soris sekenesse and malady She ayded and succoured and dyd them remedy After combyd them or they passed the place Nothyng abhorring suche mekenes in her was To all poore creatures the prouince round about She euer ministred the warkes of pytie Gyuing to them clothyng of almes without dout Bothe lynen and wollyn sytting for theyr degre Whan they were greued with any infyrmyte She toke theyr vestures and wasshed them echone With her owne handes after dyd them vpon She send for poore folke in her hall to dyne Afore the ryche estates for all theyr clothyng ryall She serued the sayd poore after Christis doctryne Fyrst water to theyr handes with a towell to them all To persons impotent she ministred speciall Wasshyng theyr mouthes theyr handes louingly Suche was her custome she was so full of pitie Whan all the seruyce on the table was set She wolde stande fastyng to make them good chere And deuyde theyr vitayls as she myght get Shewyng them