The NorthEnglish Homily Collection Author:Gordon Hall Gerould Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: William of Wadington and Robert of Brunne give the story but with some differences. See Handlyng Synne, ed. Furnivall, p. 175.' Piers was an " okerere." The begg... more »ars didn't talk of him till they saw him come out of his gate. The beggar met him on his return. "The ship-broken mariner '' becomes " ... a man As nakede as he was bore J,at yn J,e se had alle lore.'' Piers saw this man sell the garment which he gave him. The incident of selling Piers is told in detail. The clerk sold him to an old acquaintance named " Zole." The nickname is not given. Another rather free version is that in Jacob's Well, chap. XXIX. (ed. Brandeis, p. 192). In this the fact of the wager is merely stated. " Perys bare rye-louys fro pe oven to pe pantrye." In his dream the loaf did not outweigh the sins. The latter part of the story is told with great brevity. The incident about the mantle bears a certain resemblance to the well-known legend about St. Martin which appears as no. 25. (23) The Hermit and the Thieves : A hermit in a desert was robbed by thieves, though he had few possessions. When they were gone he remembered a sack which they had not found, and he ran after them with the sack. They were so moved by his meekness that they repented and were good men from that day. I have found this story nowhere but in Caxton's Vitas Patrum, fol. 300. There it occurs without essential differences from our version. (24) The Man in the Devil's Leash : A holy man stood in a churchyard praying and saw a fiend pass by with a man in leash. By God's grace the man broke away and went into the church. He made confession to the priest and came out again. The fiend who was awaiting his prey at the stile did not know him and was both astonished and angry when the holy man told him that his vic...« less