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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01200	The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.	Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.; Cape, William.	1618 (1618)	STC 11314.2; ESTC S4305	734,345	826

good groūd did alwayes conserue in his hart And therfore albeit in his youth he haunted and conuersed with his equals and with them did honestly spend his time in diuers recreations yet did he neuer permitt his pleasure so much to preuaile but that as an other Ioseph he most carefully preserued the inestimable treasure of his chastity Yea negotiating with merchants for the most part true ministers of auarice yet had he not for all that so sett vp his rest and desire on transitory ri chesse and siluer as that thy could hinder him from the exercise of the vertues of mercy towardes the poore to whom he alwayes shewed a natural inclination compassion to assist releiue them which was a particuler grace that God had giuen him as an infallible note that he was of his especiall elect which augmenting and growing in him euen from his tender yonth made him so milde and mercifull that he could not deny the poore any thinge they demaunded him particulerly when the party in necessity did mention in his request the loue of God Notwithstanding it one day chaunced that being earnestly employed he could not attend to giue an almose to a poore man that demaunded it for the loue of God His busines being ended this true seruant of God calling to minde that he had denyed a poore man he sharply checked and reprehended himselfe titling himselfe ill nourtured discurteous inhumane and cruell saying that if a freind or an other man of honour had sent to aske him any thinge he should haue neglected and layd aside all busines to giue him content and seruice and yet he had not done so in Godds cause and therfore he hastened to finde out that poore man to whome hauing giuen an almose he asked him pardon And to the end he might not thenceforward proue forgetfull in the like accident he againe confirmed his vow that as farre foorth as should be possible vnto him he would neuer deny that which should be demanded him for the loue of God and perseuering euen till death in this vow he continually encreased in diuine graces wherupon he asfirmed that being seculer he neuer heard word of the loue of God vttered but that it molified and moued his hart Francis then being yet yong worldly was mindefull of God in this sort wherin many that esteeme themselues good Christians and very spiritual doe not any way remember him considering that often times for a litle almose demanded of them by a poore creature they feele interiourly an anxiety therof and doe with choller disdaynfully reiect him This was the A. B. C. wherin S. Francis exercised himselfe with the greatest of the house of God and therfore he merited to obtaine of his diuine maiesty mercy and fauour for in that respect are the mercifull called blessed So was he naturally liberall remote from auarice perhappes more then he ought doeing it to be esteemed and honoured Therfore did the yong men of his estate much affect and honour him and in their sportes and recreations did ordinairily make him their capitaine because he did voluntarily and freely spend in musique bankets garmentes and other youthfull folies But one day considering these vanities he thus discoursed with himselfe Sith thou art so free and liberall towardes men of whome thou canst expect no other recompence but a litle vaine glory how much more reasonable were it for thee to shew this liberality towardes God in his poore people to whome that which thou possessest doth appertaine who doth afterward so bountifully and abondantly accept and recompence the same In this sort mouing himselfe he thenceforward employed in almose and other charities as much or more then in vanities Francis had besides a naturall sweetnes in his conuersations accōpanied with such a benignite and patience as made him gratefull and amiable to each one by reason that his good partes and conditions gaue hope of some worthy matter in him There was then in Assisium a very simple man but esteemed to be inspired of God who meeting the yong man Francis did alwayes cast his cloake on the ground and spread it where he was to passe saying before all the world It hath bin thus ordayned as if he would say of God that the yong Francis is worthy of all honour and reuerence There being continuall warre betweene the citty of Assisium and Perusia he was one day with many other of his fellow-cittizens taken prisoner by the enemies and they were all conducted to Perusia where they remained prisoners for a yeare till the citties were att accorde In this his imprisonmēt he shewed a right worthy proofe of his magnanimity being amiddes so many afflictions and discomfortes so constant temperat and merry that his companions did admire theratt and often reprehended him for it but he with alacrity answeared them What thinck ye you my companions What countenance would you haue me to carry Tell me I pray you if we haue cause of sorrow sith we shall in this respect from henceforward be more honoured of the world Thus did he comfort and encourage them all in the prison and euen serued them for the seruant which they had being expulsed as seditious he voluntarily serued them in euery thinge and was vnto them a greatfull companion By reason of these acceptable dispositions his conuersation and accointance was desired and sought of euery one and by this meane he was in manner constrained to doe many vaine thinges that were litle pleasing vnto him So did he very vnprofitably consume and wast his age and time his goods and graces of nature till about the fiue and twentith yeare of his age though God had endued him with so many prerogatiues and rare conditions not to abuse them but to employ them entierly in the praise and glory of his diuine maiesty for though he did alwayes keep and preserue aliue this sparckle of the loue of God in his hart yet did not the youthfull Francis as being ouer much possessed with a care to augment and conserue his wealth and to enioy his recreations vnderstand the celestiall secrett of his great and diuine vocation which was with reiection of earthly conuersations to employ himselfe meerly to contemplation of celestiall thinges and to attaine and aspire vnto them And in deed he could not know them till he felt himselfe touched by the seuere hand of God which hauing sharply stricken him in his body did by a long disease afflict him and purged and illuminated him interiourly therby to loose him from the bondes of the deuill the world and the flesh Of his first vocation from his seculer to a spirituall life by many apparitions and visions from God THE II. CHAPTER THe seruant of God Francis being cured of his foresaid corporall sicknes and confirmed in his soule by new purposes and new feruours hauing occasion to walk into the feildes he mett in the way a man that in his countenance and comportment seemed