“Most Holy Father,” replied Ulenspiegel, “I hold the same belief as my hostess.”
The Pope sent for the goodwife.
“What dost thou believe?” he said to her.
“What your Holiness believes,” she answered.
“And I the same,” said Ulenspiegel.
The Pope then asked him why he had turned his back on the Holy Sacrament.
“I felt myself unworthy to look upon it face to face,” replied Ulenspiegel.
“Thou art a pilgrim,” said the Pope.
“Yea,” said he, “and from Flanders I come to beg the remission of my sins.”
The Pope gave him his blessing, and Ulenspiegel departed with the hostess, who told him out one hundred florins. Thus ballasted he left Rome to return thence to the land of Flanders.