"In pilgrym's wise. He bare a burdoun[202] y-bounde with a broad list, In a withwinde-wise y-wounden about; A bolle[203] and a bagge he bare by his side, An hundred of ampulles; on his hat seten Signes of Synay[204] and shells of Galice,[205] And many a crouche[206] on his cloke and keys of Rome, And the vernicle before, for men sholde knowe, And se bi his signes, whom he sought hadde. These folk prayed[207] hym first fro whence he came? 'From Synay,' he seide, 'and from our Lordes Sepulcre: In Bethlem and in Babiloyne I have ben in bothe; In Armonye[208] and Alesaundre, in many other places. Ye may se by my signes, that sitten in my hat, That I have walked ful wide in weet and in drye, And sought good seintes for my soules helthe.'" The little bit of satire, for the sake of which this model pilgrim is introduced, is too telling--especially after the wretched superstitions which we have been noticing--to be omitted here. "Knowest thou?" asks the Ploughman-- "'Kondest thou aught a cor-saint[209] that men calle Truthe? Canst thou aught weten[210] us the way where that wight dwelleth?'" "Nay," replies the much-travelled pilgrim-- "'Nay, so me God helpe, I saw nevere palmere with pyke and with scrippe Ask after hym, ever til now in this place.'" CHAPTER II. OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM AND ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY. We shall not wonder that these various pilgrimages were so popular as they were, when we learn that there were not only physical panaceas to be obtained, and spiritual pardons and immunities to be procured at the shrines of the saints, but that moreover the journey to them was often made a very pleasant holiday excursion.