HICKSCORNER.
Harken, and I will show you their names each one:
First was the Regent, with the Michael of Brikilse;
The George, with the Gabriel, and the Anne of Fowey;
The Star of Saltash, with the Jesus of Plymouth;
Also the Hermitage, with the Barbara of Dartmouth,
The Nicolas and the Mary Bellouse of Bristow,
With the Ellen of London and James also:
Great was the people that was in them,
All true religious and holy women:
There was Truth and his kinsmen,
With Patience, Meekness, and Humility,
And all true maidens with their virginity,
Royal preachers, sadness and charity,
Right conscience and faith, with devotion,
And all true monks that keep their religion,
True buyers and sellers, and alms-deed doers,
Piteous people, that he of sin destroyers,
With just abstinence and good councillors,
Mourners for sin, with lamentation,
And good rich men that helpeth folk out of prison,
True wedlock was there also,
With young men that ever in prayer did go,
The ships were laden with such unhappy company,
But at the last God shope[129] a remedy,
For they all in the sea were drowned,
And on a quicksand they strake to ground;
The sea swallowed them everychone,
I wot well alive there scaped none.
IMAGINATION.
Lo, now my heart is glad and merry;
For joy now let us sing "Derry, derry."