God and Saint Leonard send ye all his grace, As many as been assembled in this place! Good devout people that here do assemble, I pray God that ye may all well resemble The image after which you are wrought, And that ye save that Christ in you bought. Devout Christian people, ye shall all wit, That I am comen hither ye to visit; Wherefore let us pray thus, ere I begin: Our Saviour preserve ye all from sin, And enable ye to receive this blessed pardon, Which is the greatest under the sun: Granted by the Pope in his bulls under lead, Which pardon ye shall find, when ye are dead; That offereth outher groats or else pence, To these holy relics which, ere I go hence, I shall here show in open audience, Exhorting ye all to do to them reverence. But first ye shall know well that I come from Rome; Lo, here my bulls, all and some: Our liege Lord seal here on my patent I bear with me my body to warrant; That no man be so bold, be he priest or clerk, Me to disturb of Christ's holy wark; Nor have no disdain nor yet scorn Of these holy relics which saints have worn. First here I show ye of a holy Jew's hip[169] A bone--I pray you, take good keep To my words and mark them well: If any of your beasts' bellies do swell, Dip this bone in the water that he doth take Into his body, and the swelling shall slake; And if any worm have your beasts stung, Take of this water, and wash his tongue, And it will be whole anon; and furthermore Of pox and scabs, and every sore, He shall be quite whole that drinketh of the well That this bone is dipped in: it is truth that I tell And if any man, that any beast oweth,[170] Once in the week, ere that the cock croweth, Fasting will drink of this well a draught, As that holy Jew hath us taught, His beasts and his stores shall multiply. And, masters all, it helpeth well, Though a man be foul in jealous rage, Let a man with this water make his pottage, And never more shall he his wife mistrist,[171] Though he in sooth the fault by her wist, Or had she been taken with friars two or three. Here is a mitten eke, as ye may see: He that his hand will put in this mitten, He shall have increase of his grain, That he hath sown, be it wheat or oats, So that he offer pence or else groats, And another holy relic eke here see ye may: The blessed arm of sweet Saint Sunday; And whosoever is blessed with this right hand, Cannot speed amiss by sea nor by land. And if he offereth eke with good devotion, He shall not fail to come to high promotion, And another holy relic here may ye see: The great toe of the Holy Trinity; And whosoever once doth it in his mouth take, He shall never be diseased with the toothache; Cancer nor pox shall there none breed: This that I show ye is matter indeed. And here is of our lady a relic full good: Her bongrace which she ware, with her French hood, When she went out always for sun-burning: Women with child which be in mourning By virtue thereof shall be soon eased, And of their travail full soon also released,