A dialoge or communication of two persons / Deuysyd and set forthe in the late[n] tonge, by the noble and famose clarke. Desiderius Erasmus intituled [the] pylgremage of pure deuotyon. Newly tra[n]slatyd into Englishe.

by Desiderius Erasmus

Ogy. Yis, y^t I haue, in a certayne Inne within thys thre dayes, ther I fownde a certayne man y^t was bestraght of hys wytte, whiche shuld haue be bownde, but thys woden relyque was put vnder hys nekke pryuyly, wherapon he gad a sadde and sownd sleape, but in the mornynge he was hole and sownde as euer he was before.

Me. It was nat the phrenysy, but the dronkê dropsye, sleape ys wontyd to be a good medicyne for y^e dysease.

Ogy. Whã you be dysposyd to skoffe Menedemus, yt ys best y^t you gette a nother maner of gestynge stokke than thys, for I tell you it is nother good nor holsome, to bowrde so w^t sayntes. For thys same mã dyd say, that a woman dyd apere to hym, in hys sleape, after a maruelouse fashion, which shold gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon.

Mene. I suppose it was

Elleborum wyll restore a man to hys senses that hathe lost thê.

Elleborû.

Ogy. That is vncertayne, but I kno well y^e mã was well broght into hys mynde ayen.

Me. Dyd you other come or goo by Sante Thomas of Cantorbury that good archebishope.