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A02208	The dialogues of S. Gregorie, surnamed the Greate: Pope of Rome: and the first of that name deuided into fower bookes. Wherein he intreateth of the liues, and miracles of the saintes in Italie: and of the eternitie of mens soules. With a shorte treatise of sundry miracles, wrought at the shrines of martyrs: taken out of S. Augustin. Together with a notable miracle wrought by S. Bernard, in confirmation of diuers articles of religion. Translated into our English tongue by P.W.; Dialogi. Part 1. English	Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604.; Woodward, Philip, ca. 1557-1610.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. De civitate Dei. Book 22. Chapter 8. English.	1608 (1608)	STC 12349; ESTC S121026	216,240	619

thoughe in the channell there bad bene no vvater at all and so it fell out that Godes seruaunt hauinge resti●ution made him of his one horse that all the soldiars came likewise to enjoye the vse of their owne At the same tyme one Buccellinus entred Campania vvith an army of Frenche men and dycause it was commonly saide that the Abbey in which the holy man liued had great store of monye the Frenche men very gredy of so good a booty came thither and with raginge mindes went into his oratory where he lay prostrat at his praiers seekinge and cryinge out for Libertinus an● a strange thinge it was for thoughe they came in stumbled vpon him yet colde they not see him and so deceiued throughe theire owne blindenes awaye thy departed as empty as they came At an other tyme likewise vpon busines of the monasterye at the commandement of the Abbote who succeded his master Honoratus he toke his iornye to Rauenna And for the great loue which he bare to venerable Honoratus alwaies did he beare about him in his bosome one of his stockinges Being in his waye it sel Relicke● so out that a certaine woman was carrying the corpe of her deade sōne who no soner sawe the seruaunt of God but for the loue of her childe she laide holde vpō his bridle protesting with a solemne oathe that he sholde not departe before he had raised vp her deade sōne The holy mā not acquaīted with so straūge a miracle was much affraide to heare he● make such a request and willinge to haue gott away yet seinge no means how to effect his desir greatly did he doubte what was best to be done Here it is worth the noting to consider what a conflicte he had in his soule humility and the mothers pietye striuinge togither feare to presume vpon so vnusuall a mirac●e griefe not to helpe the desola● mother at length to the greater glorye of God piety and compassion ouercam that vertuous soule which therformay trutlie be called in●incible bycause it did yelde and was conquered for a vertuous soule it had not bene yf piety and compassion had not ouercom it wherfor lightinge from his horse he fell vpon his knees lift vp his handes to heauene drewe the stockinge out of his bosome laide it vpon the brest of the dead corpes and beholde whiles he was at his praiers the soule of the childe returned in to the body which he perceiuinge toke it by the hande and deliuered it aliue to his sorrowfull mother and so went on the rest of his iorny Peter What is to be saide in this case for was it the merite of Honoratus or the praiers of Libertinus that wroughte this miracle Gregorye In the worckinge of so notable a miracle togither with the faith of the woman the vertue of both did concurr and therfor in myne opinion Libertinus had power to raise vp that deade childe because he had learned to trust more vpon the vertue of his master then his owne for when he laide his stocking vpon the childes brest no doubt but he Sainctes in heauen pray for vs. 4. reg 20. thought that his soule did obtaine that for which he did thē praye For we reade the like of Heliseus who carryinge his masters cloake and comminge to the riuer of Iordane stroke the waters once and yet diuided them not but when straighte after he saide VVhere is now the god of Helias and then stroke the riuer with the same cloake he made a waye open for him selfe to passe throughe Whereby you perceiue Peter how muche humility auaileth for the worckinge of miracles for then the merit of the master had force to do that which he desired whē he called vpon his name and when with humilitye he did submitt him selfe to his master he wroughte the same miracle which his master had done before him Peter I am well pleased with your answer but is there I praye yowe any thinge els of him yet remayninge which may serue for our edisicatiō Gregory Surely there is yf there be yet any that list to imitate so notable an exāple for I make no doubt but that the patience of so worthie a man did far excell all his signes and miracles as yowe shall nowe heare Vpon a certaine daye the Abbot who succeded Honoratus fell so pitifully out with venerable Libertinus that he strooke him with his sistes and bycause he coulde finde neuer a staff vp he toke a foote stole and with that did so strike his heade his face that they both swelled and became black and blewe Beinge thus vnreasonably beaten without giuinge any wordes he went quietly to bed The next daye he was to go forth about busines of the Abbey therfor whē mattins were ended he came to his Abbotes beds side and humbly demanded of him leaue The Abbot knowinge howe greatlye all did honor and loue him supposed that he wolde for the former iniury haue forsaken the Abbey and therfor he asked him whether he ment to goe to whom he answered Father quoth he there is a certaine matter concerninge the Abbey to be handled where I must nedes be for yesterdaye I promised to come and therfor I am determined to trauail thither Then the Abbot consideringe from the bottom of his harte his owne austeritye and hard dealinge and the humility and meeknes of Libertinus suddainlye leapt out of his bed gat holde of his feete confessed that he had sinned done wickedlye in presuminge to offer vnto so goode and worthie a man so cruell and contumelious an iniurye Libertinus on the contrarye prostrat vpon the earth fel downe at his feete attributinge all that he had suffered not to any cruelty of his but to his owne synnes and demerites And by this means the Abbot was brought to great meekenes and the humility of the scoller becam a teacher to the master Going afterwarde abroade about the foresaide busines of the Abbey many gentlemen of his acquaintance that had him in greate reuerence much maruailed and diligently enquired by what means he cam by such a swolne and blacke face to whom he answered Yesterday quoth he at eueninge for punishmēt of my sinns I mett with a foote stole and gat this blowe which ye see And thus the holy mā preseruinge both truthe in his soule and the honor of his master did neither bevvraye the faulte of his father nor yet incurred the sinne of lyinge Peter Had not so venerable a man as this Libertinus was of whom yowe haue tolde so many miracles and strange thinges in so great a conuent some that did imitat his holy life and vertues OF A CERTAINE MONCKE that was gardiner to the same Abbeye CHAPTER III. Gregory FElix called also Coruus one whō yowe knowe verye well and who not longe since was Prior of the same Abbeye tolde me diuers verie strāge thinges som of which I wil passe ouer with silence because I hasten to other

THE DIALOGVES OF S. GREGORIE SVRNAMED THE GREATE POPE OF ROME AND THE FIRST OF THAT NAME DIVIDED INTO fower Bookes WHEREIN He intreateth of the liues and miracles of the Saintes in Italie and of the eternitie of mens soules WITH A shorte treatise of sundry miracles wrought at the shrines of martyrs taken out of S. Augustin Together with a notable miracle wrought by S. Bernard in confirmation of diuers articles of religion Translated into our English tongue By P. W. Ecclesiastic cap. 1. v. 1. 2. A wise man will searche out the wisdome of all the auncient and keepe the sayinges of famous men Printed at Paris 1608. In earth longe life with happie state Queene Anne Christ Iesus sende In heauen that blisse amongst his Saintes Which neuer shal haue ende TO THE HIGHE AND EXCELLENT PRINCES ANNE BY GODS SINGVLAR prouidence Quene of greate Brit●aine Fraunce and Irelande HAD the consideratiō of highe dignity most gratious Quone suggesting retiring thoughts more preuailed then the reports of your vertuous inclination inciting for warde neuer should I have presumed to make so meane a person knowne to so great Maiesty But the constant fame of your Princely partes and a soule not stouping to transitory toyes emboldened my feareful hart hoping that with gratious countenance you will beholde the poore and rich present of your deuoted seruant poore in respect of that which my small ability affordeth but most rich in regarde of the thing it selfe being a rare iewell worthy of any Christian Prince and of none more then your most excellent person For to whom coulde so heauenly a pearle more iustly be presented then to your royall Highnes whose hart Gods grace so touched that whē the glorious beames of an earthly paradise new kingdome first saluted it mounting aboue all corruptible creature and not complying in complements with this false flattering worlde thought rather vpon the perpetuall pleasure of the heauenly paradise and that kingdome which crowneth Queenes with the diuine diademe of eternall glory For I haue bene credibly enformed how at that very tyme in the middest of those meeting ioyes and the very thronge of those terrestriall pleasures you sent for out of England such principall bookes of piety and deuotion as were there to be founde A zeale verily commendable in the person of a meaner fortune admirable in the highnes of Princes whose eyes vsually the vanishing vapors of earthly cōtent doe with false reflexion dazell deceiue but surpassing all common conceipt in such a spring-tide of the worlds flowing felicity God the inspirer of such heauenly cogitations contine we them with the fire of his diuine grace to the inflaming of your soule with his loue that you may with encrease of spirit walke for warde in that heauenly path and goe sal 83. from vertue to vertue vntill the God of gods be seene in Sion Many alas be the allurements which carry many a mayne from the following of vertue to the embracing of vice from the sweete seruice of Christ to the sowre seruitude of Belial yet none are in such daunger as Potentates and Princes whose florishing fortunes and transcendent soueraigntye commonly so bewitch the powers of the soule that present pleasure profered on all handes is prosecuted with full saile and future endlesse payne the dreadfull dregges of delights enchaunting cupp is not thought vpon or els spedily banished not to disturbe the tiranny of false felicity And that which is lamentable and deserueth an ocean of teares whereas priuate persons finde either friends that of charity doe or enemies that of malice will put them in minde of their errors and imperfections only the eminent dignity of Princes are exempted who meete with fewe friendes so faithfull that in any spirituall nec●ssity whatsoeuer list to apply any such charitable corsiue not to incurre displeasure and fawning foes to many that with the pleasing venim of flattery will be ready to christen any vice by the name of vertue to gayne royall grace and fauour Holy Dauid though a man according to Gods hart yet was his court haunted with such vermin and his eares acquainted with the musicke of such Sirenes songs The wicked saith he haue Psal 118. v. 85. told me fables but not as thy lawe S. Iohn Baptist is not foūd in kinges houses and the text of Potent persons shall suffre potent Sapient 6. v. 7. paynes seldome soundeth in the Pallaces of Princes This being the dangerous estate of the worlds dearlings especially of Kinges Queenes passing necessary it is yf they desire frō the short variable pleasure of corruptible crownes to passe vnto the endlesse and immutable glory of an euerlasting kingdome that they should principally procure such faithful vertuous teachers to instruct thē in the way of truth and piety of whō no suspition can be had that either priuate interest causeth thē to speake to please or any feare conceiued that they vse silence not to offende such as be the spirituall bookes of aunciēt and learned fathers whose liues for holy conuersatiō were gratious in the eyes of men and their deathes for the sweete smell of vertue pretious in the sight of God For these be they which far vnlike to many courting Chaplins that chaunt litle other euensonge then in the pleasing tune of placebo teach the way of truth without respect of persons giuing the same documents to great and sinall and without all distinction of dignity powre wine and oile into the woundes of our soules launcing the festered vlcers of obdurate and seared consciences and applying comfortable lenitiues and sweete salues to them that be of contrite harts of tender and timorous disposition For as much therefore as diuine grace that inspired into your soule that heavenly resolution as to seeke for such spirituall masters as may without all feare of erronious direction guide you in the sea of this worlde where not only the surging waues of aduersity but much more the swete gale of delighting prosperity is dangerous to the barbour of true repose and happy tranquillity to whom more worthily coulde I present this rare ie well of glorious Saint Gregories Dialogues entreating of the miraculous liues of diuers renowned Saints then to the Princely person of your Maiesty wherein you may beholde the faith of the Primitiue Church to which by him our coūtry was first coūerted and in which so many Kinges and Queenes your predecessours through the current of diuers happy ages gloriously ended their dayes where in also you may finde so many heauenly lessons very delightfull to reade and passing profitable to practise viewe great numbers of familiar examples of diuers holy persons and see the comfortable endes sweete deathes and soueraigne rewardes of Gods seruantes rauishing our soules with the loue of vertue and drawing our thoughts from the shorte vncertayne and false ioyes of this worlde to the serious cogitation of the eternall permanent and true delight of the worlde to come and that in a most

discontentement and dislike cōcerninge suche secular affaires mighte plainely shewe them selues and all thinges that vsually bringe griefe mustered togither mighte frelye be presented before myne eies in whiche place after that I had satt a longe while in much silence and great sorrowe of soule at lengthe Peter my deere sonne and deacon came vnto me a man whom from his yonger yeres I had alwaies loued most intierelye and vsed him for my companion in the studye of sacred scripture who seing me drowned in such a dompe of sorrowe spake vnto me in this manner what is the matter or what bad newes haue you heard for certaine I am that some extraordinarye sadnes doth nowe afflicte your mynde To whom I returned this answere ô Peter the griefe wich continually I endure is vnto me both olde and newe olde throughe common vse and newe by daily encreasinge For myne vnhappye soule wounded with worldly busines doth nowe call to mynde in what state it was when I liued in myne Abbeye howe then it was superior to all earthly matters far aboue all transitory and corruptible pelfe howe it did vsuallye thincke vpon nothinge but heauenlie thinges and thoughe is was enclosed in mortal bodye yet did it by contemplation passe far beyonde earthly boundes and penetrat to the very height of heauene and as for death the memorye wherof is almost to all men grieuous that it did loue and desire as the ende of all miserye the rewarde of her labors and the very entraunce to an euerlastinge and blessed life But nowe by reason of my pastoral charge my poresoule is enforced to endure the burden of secular mens busines after so excellent and swete a kinde of rest defiled it is with the dust of worldlye conuersation and when it doth at the request of others attende to outwarde affaires no question but it returneth backe far lesse fitt to thincke vpon those that be inward spiritual and heauenly Wherfor at this present do I meditat what I suffer and consider what my soule hath lost and the memorye of my former losse doth make that more grieuous which I do nowe ēdure For do you not be holde at this present howe I am tossed with the waues of this wicked world and see the shipp of my soule beaten with the storms of a terrible tempest and therfor whē I remēber my former state of life I cā not but sighe to looke backe cast myne●eies vpon the forshaken shore And that which doth yet greiue me more is bycause I see my selfe so carried awaye amayne with the boisterous blastes of this troublesom worlde that I can not nowe scarse beholde the porte from whence I did first hoise saile for such be the downe falles of our soule that first it loseth that goodnes and vertue which before it possessed yet so that it doth still remember what it hath lost but afterwarde carried awaye more and more and strayinge further from the pathe of vertue it cōmeth at lenghte to that passe that it doth not so muche as keepe in mynde what before it did daily practise so in conclusion it falleth out as I said before that saylinge further on we go at length so far that we do not so muche as once beholde the swete harbor of quiet peace from whence we first sett forth Sometyme also my sorrowe is encreased by remembringe the liues of certain notable mē who with theire whole soule did vtterlye forsake and abādone this wicked worlde whose highe perfectiō when I beholde I can not also but see myne owne infirmities and imperfection verye many of whom did in a contemplatiue retired kinde of life much please God and least by dealing with transitory busines they mighte haue decaied in vertue Gods goodenes voutsafed to fre thē from the trobles affaires of this wretched worlde But that which I haue nowe saide will be far more plaine and the better perceiued yf the residue of my speche be dialogue wise distinguished by setting downe eache of our names you askinge what you shal thincke conuenient I byanswere giuing satisfaction to such questiōs as you shall demande at my handes Peter I do not remember any in Italye that haue bene verye famous for vertue and therfor ignorant I am who they be that comparinge your life to theres yowe shoulde be so muche inflamed to imitate theire steppes for althoughe I make no doubte but that there haue bene many goode men yet do I verily thincke that none of thē wroughte any miracles or at least they haue bene hitherto so buryed in silence that whether any suche thing hath bene done or no not any one man can tell Gregorye Yf I sholde Peter but report onlye those thinges wich my self alone haue vnderstoode by the relation of vertuous and credible persons or els learned by my selfe concerninge the life and miracles of perfect and holy men I sholde soner in myne opinion lacke daye to talke in then matter to speake of Peter Desirous I am that yowe wolde vouchsafe to make me partaker of some of them and not to thincke much yf vpon so goode an occasion you interrupt your other studie of inter pretinge the scripture because no lesse edification doth growe by the relation of miracles For as by the exposition of that we learne howe vertue is to be founde and kepte so by recountinge the miracles of holy mē we knowe how that wich is founde out and possessed is declared and made manifest to the worlde And some there are that be soner moued to the loue of God by vertuous The profit of sainctes liu●s examples then by godly sermons and of●ētymes by the liues of holy fathers the heart doth reape a doble commoditye for yf by comparing of his owne life with theirs he findeth him selfe inflamed with the loue of heauen althoughe before he had haply a goode opinion of him selfe yet seing novve hovve far others do excell him he becommeth also more humble and is broughte to haue a more lowly conceipte of his owne actions and vertue Gregory Such thinges as venerable and holy men haue tolde me I will now without any further delay make you partaker of and that following the example of sacred scripture for sure I am that S. Luke and S. Marcke learned that gospel which they wrot not by sighte but by the relation of others yet lest any in reading sholde haue occasiō to doubte whether such thinges as I write be true or no I will sett dovvne by vvhat meanes and of vvhom I haue learned them yet in some of them yow haue to knovv that I remember not all the particulars but only the matter in other some both the matter and also the vvordes And besides yf I sholde haue bene so curious as to haue kept in mynde each mans particular vvordes many vttered after the countrye manner vvolde haue made the stile of my discourse nothinge handsome nor semelye That story vvhich I meane first to begin vvith I had by