“I am printing Bibles,” answered Simon. “For if by day to keep my wife and my children I publish the cruel and wicked edicts of His Majesty, by night I sow the true word of God and thus repair the ill I did during the day.”
“Thou art brave,” said Ulenspiegel.
“I have the faith,” replied Simon.
In very deed, it was from this holy printing shop that there issued the Bibles in Flemish that were distributed through the countries of Brabant, of Flanders, Holland, Zealand, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Over-Yssel, Gelderland, until the day when Simon was condemned to have his head cut off, thus finishing his life for Christ.
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Simon said one day to Ulenspiegel:
“Listen, brother, hast thou courage?”
“I have enough,” replied Ulenspiegel, “to serve to flog a Spaniard to the death, to kill an assassin, to destroy a murderer.”
“Could you,” asked the printer, “stay patiently in a chimney place to hear what is said in a room?”