Volume 3

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne.

Date:: 1864-1866

Credit: Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$dumb animal, which will run about all this land ? Wilt thou give it Jill to the queen ? And soon after these words the earth opened (beneath him). Dame .Eafe meets her daughter Mildn^, a candidate for admission to the nunnery of Minster in Tanet. She receives nuns vestments, and the abbess {usually the bishop) thereupon blesses her, with the ^uorcls, Benedicta et beata sis, etc. When her mother had thus received her with this Kituai of the blessing, MildriS stretched herself before the holy altar jJiS? with extended limbs, and with a flood of tears prayed to the Lord. When she had ended her prayer, she stood up and bowed to her mothers knees, who then greeted her with the kiss of peace, and so did all the societies, and they brought her water for the hands in the Eegular manner. To them, then, all sitting together, the abbess began to sing out of the Psalms of David, and thus to say: Suscepimus, etc.. Psalm xlvii. 10, Vulg., as Anna the holy widow and the aged Simeon sung and made music when they embraced with their arms the great and illustrious child Jesus, and bore him into the temple, and made offering. She sang then the other verse, Con- lirma, Psalm Ixvii. 29, Vulg. She sang the third. Sal- vos nos. Psalm cv. 47, Vulg. With these and many other divine words she earnestly instructed her deai- child, and drew her to God. It was also easy to be done Virtues of for her, as long as her conscience was all tilled with the M^'^*'- Spirit of God, she was not, as nobly born men now are, filled with presumption ; nor with worldly pride, nor malice, nor envy, nor opprobrious words ; she was not calumnious nor a wrangler; she was not a deceiver in any of those things which seemed good to her. She was mer- VOL. III. dd7-^$