"`In this world?' Well, but little, methinks. But--there will be some things in the other." "What things?" bluntly demanded Blanche. "To see His Face!" said Lysken, the light breaking over her own. "And to hear Him say, `Come!' And to sit down at the marriage-supper of the Lamb,--with the outer door closed for ever, and the woes, and the wolves, and the winter, all left on the outside. If none of these earthly things move me, Blanche, it is because those heavenly things will." And after that, Blanche was silent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note 1. The Gentiles (saith Saint Augustine), which seem to be of the purer religion, say, We worship not the images, but by the corporal image we do behold the signs of the things which we ought to worship. And Lactantius saith, The Gentiles say, We fear not the images, but them after whose likeness the images be made, and to whose names they be consecrated. And Clemens saith, That serpent the Devil uttereth these words by the mouth of certain men: We, to the honour of the invisible God, worship visible images.--(Third Part of the Homily on Peril of Idolatry: references in margin to Augustine Ps. 135; Lactantius l. 2. Inst.; Clem., L. S ad Jacob.) Here are the "Fathers" condemning as Pagan the reasoning of modern Papists. Note 2. "Credit et defendit que in eucharistia sive altaris sacramento verum et naturalem Christi corpus ac verus et naturalis Christi sanguis sub speciebus panis et vini vere non est; et quod _ibi est materialis panis et materiale vinum_ tantum absque veritati et presentia corporis et sanguinis Christi."--Indictment of Reverend Lawrence Saunders, January 30, 1555; Harl. MS. 421, folio 44. "Tenes et defendes in prout quod in eucharistia sive sacramento altaris verum naturalem et realem Christi corpus ac verus naturalis et realis Christi sanguis sub speciebus panis et vini vere non est, sed _post consecratione remanet substantia panis et vini_."--Indictment of Reverend Thomas Rose, May 31, 1555; Harl. MS. 421, folio 188. Note 3. There is the initial M on the pedestal of one or more of these black Virgins, which of course the priests interpret as Mary. This is certainly not the case. It has been suggested that it stands for Maia, a name of the Tuscan goddess. May it not be the initial of Mylitta, "the Mediatrix," one of the favourite names of the great original goddess? Note 4. See Hislop's _Two Babylons_, pages 22, 122, 491, et aliis; and Shepheard's _Traditions of Eden_, page 117, note (where many references are given), and page 188. CHAPTER TEN. COUNSEL'S OPINION. "A cross of gold, of silver, or of wood, Or of mean straw, hid in each shape of life; Some trial working for eternal good, Found in our outward state or inward strife." "Bab! Art thou yonder?" "Is it Jennet?" "Ay. There's a gentlewoman i' th' bower to see thee." "Nay,--a gentlewoman! Who can it be?"