A67922:1698
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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But to cut of this matter of shaving,1 more worthy to be laughed at than to be storied, let us now again return where as we left at king Ive, of whom W. Malmesbury, and Fabian in his chronicle do record that when the foresaid Ive had ruled the west saxons by the term of 37. years, by the importunate persuasion, and subtle policy of his wife Ethelburga, was allured to go to Rome, & there to be made a Monk. Which Ethelburga, after she had a long time laboured ⟨p. 127⟩him to leave the world, and could not bring about her purpose:2 upon a season when the king and she had rested them in a fair palace richly behanged, & were upon the morrow thence departed: she by her commandment caused the palace to be replenished with all kind of filth & dung,3 and hogs and vile beasts therein to be said, as well in the chambers as other houses of office. And in their own chamber where they did lye, there was a Sow laid with her young pigs. And when she knew that this palace was thus deformed, being a certain space out of the town, she besought the king to visit the said palace. And when she had brought him thereunto, she said to him: I pray you my Lord behold now this house, where are now the rich tappets and clothes of gold & silk,4 and other rich apparel, that we left here this other day? And where be the delicacies & pleasant servitors, and costly dishes, that you and I lately were served with? Be not all these passed & gone? My Lord (saith she) in like manner shall we vanish away, as suddenly as you see these worldly things been passed. And our bodies which now be delicately kept, shall fall and turn into the filth of the earth. Wherefore have in mind my words that before time to you I have often showed & told, and busy you to purchase that palace that ever shall endure in joy without transmutation.
But to cut of this matter of shauing,1