From Windsor this Saturday, at five of the Clock,
By your,
William Makefyn.
[4] = figure of St. George, i.e. part of the insignia of the Garter.
[5] = horse.
[6] = lead green.
SUPERSTITION (1509).
Source.—Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, p. 90. 1887. Hamilton Adams, Glasgow.
The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies. Never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily they are swallowed, and the more devoutly believed. And those diversities do not only bring an empty pleasure, and cheap divertisement, but they are a good trade, and procure a comfortable income to such priests and friars as by this craft get their gain.