Bot with heore flesch and with heore blode.”
The enumeration of the churches thereupon begins, and for each of them are invariably told the amount of {385} indulgences attached to it and of relics kept there. The benefits are proportioned to the merits; thus when a man sees the vernicle, that is, the holy sudary which received the image of the Saviour, he gets three thousand years of pardon if he dwells in Rome, nine thousand if he comes from a neighbouring country,
“And thou that passest over the see,
Twelve thousend yer is graunted to the.”
When you enter Sts. Vitus and Modestus, the third of your sins are remitted. Then, you descend into the catacombs:
“But thou most take candel liht,
Elles thou gost merk (dark) as niht,
For under the eorthe most thou wende,
Thou maight not see bifore ne bihynde,
For thider fledde mony men