thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and hearest a great
affection to the adversities of the miserable, as a loving mother thou
takest no rest, neither art thou idle at any time in giving thy
benefits, and succoring all men, as well on land as sea; thou art she
that puttest away all stormes and dangers from mans life by thy right
hand, whereby likewise thou restrainest the fatall dispositions,
appeasest the great tempests of fortune and keepest backe the course of
the stars: the gods supernall doe honour thee: the gods infernall have
thee in reverence: thou environest all the world, thou givest light to
the Sunne, thou governest the world, thou treadest downe the power of
hell: By thy meane the times returne, the Planets rejoyce, the Elements
serve: at thy commandment the winds do blow, the clouds increase, the
seeds prosper, and the fruits prevaile, the birds of the aire, the
beasts of the hill, the serpents of the den, and the fishes of the sea,
do tremble at thy majesty, but my spirit is not able to give thee
sufficient praise, my patrimonie is unable to satisfie thy sacrifice,
my voice hath no power to utter that which I thinke, no if I had a
thousand mouths and so many tongues: Howbeit as a good religious
person, and according to my estate, I will alwaies keepe thee in
remembrance and close thee within my breast. When I had ended mine
orison, I went to embrace the great Priest Mythra my spirituall father,
and to demand his pardon, considering I was unable to recompence the
good which he had done to me: after great greeting and thanks I
departed from him to visit my parents and friends; and within a while
after by the exhortation of the goddesse, I made up my packet, and
tooke shipping toward the Citie of Rome, where with a prosperous winde
I arrived about the xii. day of December. And the greatest desire that
I had there, was daily to make my praiers to the soveraigne goddesse
Isis, who by reason of the place where her temple was builded, was
called Campensis, and continually adored of the people of Rome. Her
minister and worshipper was I, howbeit I was a stranger to her Church,
and unknowne to her religion there.
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