to the emperoure Of Constantynople for a porcion Of the holy crosse on whome our sauyour For vs suffred deth and payed our raunsom The messangers opteyned theyr meke peticion Receyued a litell part of the crosse certayne From thens departyd to theyr lady agayne And as they passed saylyng on the see Sodenly rose vp wyndes moste hideous The ayre for derkened by craft of our enemy Great stormes aproched myghty and meruelous The tempest encreasyd euer more greuous The maryners were besy in eche part to attende And laboured full fast theyr lyues to amende The stormes and tempestis continued â—â—uly Fortie dayes and fortie nyghtes withouten ceasyng The mariners were mased mated and wery The ship was euer in parell of perysshyng So whan the messangers knewe no other thyng But deth approchyng of theyr lyues desperate They called on Radegund sayd with mynde eleuate O louely lady and blessed abbasse O holy virgyn and kynges dougther dere O vertuous moniall replete with great grace Helpe nowe thy seruauntes from paryll and dangere Defende vs from deth which aprocheth nere Ceasse these great sees O swete maistres Spede vs in our Iorney thorowe thy goodnes Suffre neuer the enemy of all mankynde By malyce and enuy to drenche vs all Also swete lady call to thy mynde That we haue nowe brought a relique speciall And don well our message by grace supernall Therfore madame in this necessite Pray for vs all to the blessyd trinyte Ryght shortly apperyd in all theyr syght A whyte doufe flyeng the ship all about The tempest ceasyd by myracle right The wyndes were layde within and without The see was quiet withouten dout The marchandes the maryners with voyce Iocunde Magnyfied our maker and mayden Radegunde The messangers came whome all in prosperyte And brought with them the relique of reuerence Whiche solemply was set in the monastery With honour worshyp and mycle dilygence And whan it came to open syght and presence Myracles were shewed by it euery day Unto the people of the sayd countray ¶ Of dyuerse myracles in generall and how this abbasse saued dyuerse seke persons from Ieopardy of deth WHat memory or reason is sufficient To remembre the myracles of this lady What tong can expresse or pen is conuenient Playnly to describe all the noble story It were a plesaunt werke for the monke of Bury For Chaucer or Skelton fathers of eloquens Or for religious Barkeley to shewe theyr diligens yet vnder licence speke we in generall Part of the myracles of this virgyn bright Where a sicke man in slepe by monicion speciall Receyued of Radegunde a candell lyght Soon after by her grace comfort and myght He was well cured from all infyrmite Restored to helth and to prosperite Also another man feble and impotent Endured suche sickenesse and debylite That by the space of .x. dayes consequent He toke no sustenaunce meate nor drynke truly To whome this mayden of her great charite Came for to visyt and the pacient anone Cured from sickenes receyued refection ¶ How Radegunde thabbasse cured .ii. sycke women from sickenesse and in fyrmite vnto helth and prosperyte A Noble gentill woman Bella nominat Wyfe vnto Gylbard of the realme of Fraunce With sundry sickenesse and blyndnesse cruciat Long tyme enduryng suche wofull penaunce Was brought to Radegunde for helpe of her greuans Her frendes wofull pensyue in mynde Desyred this virgyn for to helpe the blynde This abbasse replete with grace and pitie Signed this woman vnto our sauyour With the signe of the crosse for helpe and remedy Makyng intercession for her that houre The sicke was delyuerd from payne and langoure Cured from blyndnes had her sight agayne She thankyd our lorde and Radegunde certayne Also another woman was cured from payne By merite of this mayde and singuler supplicacion Hauyng a great byle bytwene her shulders twayne Of long continuaunce full of corrupcion For the wofull woman she made intercissyon Unto our sauyour and kyng of mercy To sende her helth helpe and remedy And whan the sayd orison endyd was This swollyn bonche horrible to nature Dyd braste a sundre with the skyn in that place A worme yssued out of a great stature Whiche was distroyed afore them full sure The pacient was healed from payne in sight By grace aboue kynd and myracle right ¶ How this abbasse healed dyuerse sicke women som from feuers and some from vexacion of our gostly enemy A Certayne deuout religious moniall Was vexed all y e day with great colnesse And in the nyght tyme with hete ouer all As a feruent feuer of wo paynfulnesse That she myght nat serue our lorde god doutlesse Nother nyght nor day for sore vexacion Whiche was to her soule a dowble tribulacion This blessyd mayden replete with grace certayne Commaunded warme water to be had in hye Which water she touched with her handes twayne Gaue it to her syster the payne to mortyfy So whan she touched the sayd sycke body The moniall receyued helth and prosperite Cured from all qualites of suche contrariete Another woman long had in possessyon Of a wickyd sprite prostrat in the pauement Was brought to this mayde for preseruacion On whome she had pyte and prayde full delygent Our lorde to delyuer the spyrite from the pacient She blessed this woman and the deuell right sure Departyd shortly by the secretis of nature Acertayne mayden dwellyng in Fraunce Nominat Roda was vexed day and nyght With the colde feuers and paynefull greuance Whiche mekely was mesured to this lady bryght By whose humble orison all payne ceassyd right The feuers were fled helth aproched nere Or the candell was endyd sayth the story clere A religyous abbasse manassyd full sore Blessyd Radegunde excoÌ„municat to be Except she wolde heele and saue from langore A woman possessyd with a spyrite paynefully By grace so it fortuned that within dayes thre Our olde aduersary departyd her fro The woman was delyuerd from payne gostly wo. ¶ Of the gostly visyon she had afore her infyrmyte of the noble exortacion she made to her systers in her sykenes payne HOwe to the glorious passage of this abbasse Passe we with gladnesse and felicite Whiche in her tyme was a floure of grace An example of vertue and benygnite A myrrour of mekenes and pure chastite A vertuous gouernour of her congregacion To bryng them to glory and heuenly mansyon Suche grace she obtayned of our sauyour That afore her passage a hole yere full right Our lorde sende his angell with mycle honour To be her comfort helpe day and nyght The angell aperyd to this lady bryght In fourme of a yong man moost fayre to be tolde Whiche gladdyd her soule and mynde manyfolde The angell shewed Radegunde in vision A glorious place in the celestyall see Prepared for her to haue fruicion Where ioy is infinite and endles glory Rehersyng these wordes with great Iocundite O glorious abbassâ— quene and moniall Our lorde to the sendyth gretyng speciall
¶ Here begynneth the lyfe of saynt Radegunde The table ¶ The prologue of the traÌ„slatour of the lyfe of maydeÌ„ Radegunde ¶ Of the progeny of saynt Redegunde and howe she was taken in batell and brought in to frauÌ„ce and theyr maryed to kyng Lothary ¶ Of the vertuous lyuyng of saynt Radegunde vndre spousage and howe she contynued a virgin ¶ Of the great deuocion of mayden Radegund in the tyme of lenton and of the great mercy pitie she vsed to all captiue prisoners ¶ Howe quene Radegunde shewed a myracle delyueryng prisoners out of captiuite ¶ Howe blessed Radegunde desired to be religious and of a myracle shewed at her departure by the way goyng to religion ¶ How she was made religious after electe abbasse and how by grace she was preserued from daunger of her husbande kyng Lothary ¶ Of the feruent deuocyon and the great penauÌ„ce and charitable werkes this moniall vsed in religion ¶ Of the great perfection and strayte penaunce this abbasse Radegunde vsed in tyme of lenton ¶ Of the great affliccion and hard punysshement lady Radegund vsed aboue the course of nature in the sayd tyme of lenton and of her gostly conuersacion to euery creature ¶ How this holy abbasse refourmed her syster negligent with a lytell exhortacion folowyng ¶ Howe blessed Radegunde deliuered a woman possessed with a fende from daunger and payne to helth and prosperite ¶ How a ratte was slayne without hand approchyng to hurt the vertuous labour of saynt Radegunde ¶ Howe saynt Radegund by prayer reuiued a laurell tre to burge bryng fourth leaues without rote ¶ Howe saynt Radegunde by humble supplicacion restored a yong Nonne from deth to lyfe agayne ¶ How saynt Radegund saued her seruauntê from perell of perisshynge whiche brought a parte of the holy crosse from the emperour ¶ Of dyuerse myracles in generall and howe this abbasse saued diuerse sicke ê‘sons froÌ„ Ieopardy of deth ¶ Howe Radegunde thabbasse cured two sicke womeÌ„ from infirmite vnto helth and prosperite yet some be disposed to contemplacion To prayer to study of theyr goodnesse And some the more pitie to slouth and ydelnesse Nowe syth that I am lowest of degre A man of holy churche by true profession Consyderyng the condicions of people worldly As afore is sayd my fully entencion By diuyne grace and gostly supportacion Is for to write the lyfe historiall Of Radegunde the princesse quene and moniall After my reason me thynke more conuenient To spende wynter nyghtes in suche besynesse For drede of temptation and causles insolent Rather than to lose suche tyme in ydelnesse Whiche to all vyce is rote and maistresse Enuy to vertue a stepmother to study Occasyon of ruyne and mycle malady A secondary cause mouyng me therto To write the lyfe of this virgyn glorious Was the instant desyre and peticyon also Of speciall frendes honest and vertuous Whiche lately requyred me fall memorious With synguler request and humble instaunce This lyfe to discrybe with due circumstaunce To whome I graunted vnder this condicyon That of their wysedom they wolde excuse me And take this poore dede of no presumpcion Nor done for vauntage auoyding vaynglore But alonly to content theyr mynde and satisfy Where they knowe well my insufficience My great ignoraunce and also necligence The thyrde cause mouyng moste princypally Is for to extolle the glorious name Of this holy virgyn and gracious lady With honour reuerence and excellent fame To the coÌ„men people desiryng the same Whose lyfe hath ben kept scilent many a day Knowen to fewe persons within this countray Therfore I require and pray you euerychone That this litell treatyse shall reed or se To accept my mynde with your discrecion And it to correct after your charite Amende the mater where is necessite For syth it is knowen that I am no clarke Under protestacion I procede to Warke And where I vnworthy this treatyse begyn I humble beseke our blessed sauyour His mother also mary the virgyn To be my helpe comfort and succoure Nowe swete Radegunde of virgins the floure Make supplicacion vnto the trinite And direct my penne to describe thy stori ¶ Of the progeny of saynt Radegunde and howe she was taken in batell and maryed to Lothary a kynge of Fraunce THe yere of our sauyour by full computacion Fyue hundreth fully from the natiuite As dyuers auctours makyn discripcion Reyned in Fraunce in honour and ryalte Two noble kynges Childebert and Lothary Euery kyng knowing his parte and regyon To them belonging by ryght and custome At the same season as sayth the history A noble prince reyned in Affrica Named in cronicles kyng Berengary Borne at a citie named Thorynga within the sayd kyndome now called Barbarea Whiche prince Whylom famous in renowne Tyll that dame fortune vnfrendly put hym downe Whiche forsayd prince kyng Berengarius Had in succession a noble princesse A deuout lady and a virgyn glorious Nominat Radegunde a gemme of holynesse A floure of vertu and a myrrour of mekenesse whose gostly gouernaunce enduryng her lyfe Unto all people may be a perspectyfe This kynge Berengary by mysfortune in batell Was piteously subdued by kynges of Fraunce His realme conqueryd piteously to tell Losing his honour lande and gouernaunce And Radegunde taken suche was her chaunce By power remoued from her land naturall Amonge strangers to be continuall Whan the kyng and the realme subdued were And mayde Radegunde taken for a pray Than the kynges of Fraunce for her in fere Entended batell whiche shulde haue the may For she was beauteous and pleasant verray Humble gentyll courtese and moste fayre truly yet she by lot fell vnto kynge Lothary For if Radegunde had nat delyuerd be Great cruelte besynesse and vexacion Had fortuned among kynges thre Through great disdeyn pryde and ambicyon For the realme of Fraunce in a triniall kyndome Than was deuided cronicles do expresse As the sequence of saynt Martyn doth reherse This lady Radegunde thus taken away And by chaunce delyuered to kyng Lothary Was brought with worship in to a countray Callyd Ueromandensis vnto the kynges citie Nominat Atheras to be kept in suertie There to be norisshed and haue refeccion Doctryne and disciplyne with hie discrecyon ¶ Kyng Lothary considering her gentilnesse Her vertue pacience and proued wysdome Her great humilite constaunce and sobernesse Dayly encreasyng with augmentacion Entended to mary spedely and soone Lady Radegunde and virgyn serene To make her his spouses and louely quene Unto this mariage and feast there was Made great preparacion and rialtie The halles were hanged with clothes of arras Rychely embrodered in ryall Imagery The .xii. apostelles well set in degre Martyrs confessours and virgyns withall were theyr purtered with crowne victoriall Ouer the syde tables curiously were wrought Auncient histories of auctorite Of patriarkes and prophetes wisely out sought Of the olde and newe testament set properly Histories were paynted of poetrie Chambers were strawed with floures fragrant well dect with hangynges
and feestes principall The quene was reuest with clothes of golde With tissewes fyne and veluettes at all And whan the comon people yong and olde Praysed suche garmentes with fame manyfolde She vtterly abhorred suche riall riche clothyng Sende them to churhces for preestes in to syng By fortune if Lothary her lorde were absent Who wolde than byleue her singuler deuocion Her prayer abstinence and hert penetent Her great contricion and humble supplicacion Euer remembryng our lordes passion Submittyng her selfe as vnto his fete Wasshesyng his woundes with teares salt and wete She refused glotony by vertuous temparaunce Our sauyour Iesu was her hole refeccion Upon bodely feding gaue litell attendaunce Dayly prouidyng her soules sustentacion Great vigilles penaunce and holy orison Refresshed her soule and the body also No penaunce was tedious for her to do If any transgressour were Iuged to dye Or any man suffred wrong accusacion She was so mercyable and full of pitie For them to the kyng she made intercession Knelyng full mekely desyring peticyon And to his counsell with prayer continuall Tyll she had pardon and grace for them all All the kynges court example myght take To vse humilite and great gentylnesse At lady Radegunde and synne to forsake For why she was called of more and of lesse Rather a minister than to be a maistresse Deligent to serue euery tyme and season Pore as well as ryche with great deuocion Nother man ne childe dwellyng in the palace Was discontent at this swete lady She had suche wysdone and singuler grace Transcendyng other ladyes of memory Dukes erles and barons and all theyr progeny Example may take at this quene ryall To encrease in mekenesse and vertuous morall By her great prudence and exortacion The kyng was moued to grace and pitie Merciable to the pore in all his region Hauyng compassion lyberall and fre To execute Iustice prompte with mercie A good benefactour to places religyous By the instant mocion of his quene vertuous ¶ Howe quene Radegunde shewed a great myracle deliueryng prisoners out of captiuite THis noble quene euery solempne day Of custome wolde ryse erly as the lyght And go to her chapell secretly to pray Seruyng our sauyour with all her hert and myght Ensuyng mary Magdalayne in mynde full ryght To mattens and to masse after she wolde gone And all day folowyng vse meditacion Thus by contynuaunce in grace and goodnesse In prayer abstinence vigils and chastite This lady Radegunde quene and princesse Replete with mekenesse vertue and charyte Shewed dyuerse myracles within the countre The fyrst myracle was done in the palace As saythe the history by deuyne grace As Radegunde passed the palace by a prison where many prisoners were fettred in durances For her pastyme solace and consolacion With lordes knyghtes and other seruauntes Whan the prisoners perceyued beynge in penaunce That it was the quene theyr souerayne lady With loude voyce they began on her to call and cry O noble princesse O kynges doughter dere O lady of grace and quene imperiall Succoure vs thy seruantes whiche lye bounde here Extende thy charite vpon vs wretches all Delyuer vs from deth saue from paynes thrall Be mercyfull to vs hartfully we the pray And we wyll amende our lyues after this day This lady heryng suche great lamentacion Inwardly was moued to mercy and pitie Required to knowe with tender compassyon What people cryed on her so piteously The seruantes answered agayne verite Sayeng that they were beggers at the gate Comon to haue almes of so great estate Also the Iayler agayne all conscience Rebuked his prisoners vnpiteously Causyd them be styll and kepe scilence Manasing them to beate punisshe and mortyfy Conciled the truethe from his souerayne lady Thus the sayd prisoners put to more payne Had payne vpon payne without mercy certayne But the next nyght folowyng by myracle ryght The fetters the bondes of the prisoners all Sodenly were broken and losed in theyr syght And they were delyuered from paynes thrall They passyng from prison the gates downe dyd fall They came the sayd nyght to Radegunde theyr lady Thankyng her echone for her grace and mercy They knelyd on kne for gladnesse wepyng Sayeng O souerayne lady and maistresse Honour be to the grace and long lyueng Whiche hath delyuered vs from distresse Personally this nyght or els one in thy lykenesse Nowe blessed Iesu redemptour of vs all Rewarde you this dede in the blysse eternall ¶ Howe quene Radegund desyred to be religyous of a myracle shewed at her departyng by the way goyng WHiche myracle knowen this blessed lady Made instant desyre and hūble supplicacion To her husband and lorde kyng Lothary That she myght haue lycense to go to religyon Whose meke request and singuler peticion At last was graunted with dis ficulte Of the sayd kyng to be at her lyberte She loued our lorde in hert worde and dede Of this fre graunt and good expedicyon She send to saynt Inedard bysshop in good spede Desyring hym for charite and of his deuocyon For to receyue her in to holy religion The palce was apoynted the tyme secretly Of her comyng to Pictauis religious to be In the meane whyle Radegund gaue to the poore Moche ryall rychesse and vestures liberally Reseruyng to her person and her vse no more Than she dayly vsed for honour necessary So alone proseded vnto the monastery From the kynges court priuely in the nyght Unknowen to eche creature saue to y e kyng of myght Upon the other day where the kyng perceyued The sodayne departure of his lady sufferayne He bitterly wayled that he was dysceued Sende dyuerse messangers with a sure capitayne Fyrst to enquire and bringe her agayne Supposyng to haue her in short tyme and space After she aproched to the religious place But the holy goost confortour of all care Defendyd Radegunde at this extremite For as she passyd the fayre feldes all bare She sayd to an husbande besy in husbandry People wyll folowe after for to persue me From whiche company I declyne certayne Prayeng the consyle my presens and it layne It behoueth the nat from the trueth to varray Say that thou seme come this same way The season day and tyme rennyng full hastely Thou dyd sowe this corne affirmyng it varray And thus excuse me hertfully I the pray She passyd this plowman in to a secrete place For drede druly daryng trustyng our lordes grace Incontinently the corne newly cast in grounde Began for to blade and bere in euery place To eare and to rype her enemyes to confounde All redy to be shorne within an houre space The otes began to shede the husbande besy was And made great prouisiō with sicle sythe that morne To cut downe the otes in sauyng of the corne After the sayd virgyn messangers made great haste Shortly to to supple theyr lordes commaundement They founde the husbande repyng corne full fast Whome they required to shewe on payne of prisōmēt If any fayre lady or mayde by hym
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 geÌ„me 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 chaâ—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.