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1 I| such as modern ears are little accustomed to, and therefore
2 I| a territory hitherto but little explored. ~In such histories
3 I| believed that within that little valley all might be enclosed,
4 I| about. Nevertheless, in a little space of land may be men
5 I| saith that, it lacked but little that God would not become
6 I| circumcision must he cut a little of the skin at the end of
7 I| it be demanded how, in so little space of thirteen days they
8 I| knees. O blessed tigury or little house, O holy seat of God.
9 I| Ye worship the child in a little foul house wrapped in foul
10 I| you. But this seemeth a little thing to them that be full
11 I| visiting, and do to her so little honour. And peradventure
12 I| prayeth that she have but little flesh, that is to make the
13 I| amendment of my manners how little and small that they be.
14 I| other elements hath but little matter, but strong virtue
15 I| maketh them to have but little love to earthly things,
16 I| vestments hot, for it availeth little to him that goeth to the
17 I| that I may go into the little city hereby and may be saved
18 I| I pray thee to give me a little of the water in thy pot
19 I| was he that right now a little tofore thy coming brought
20 I| and him thought it but a little while, because of the great
21 I| present to that man gifts, a little raisins, and honey, storax,
22 I| gone out of the town and a little on their way, then Joseph
23 I| longer hide him, took a little crib of rushes and wickers
24 I| which then, when she saw the little crib or fiscelle she sent
25 I| sound of the trump grew a little more and continued longer.
26 II| historial matters and but little touched. ~After the death
27 II| the poor man had but one little sheep, which he bought and
28 II| this day that thou settest little by thy dukes and servants;
29 II| but stretch out thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath
30 II| abundantly, if thou have but little, yet study to give and to
31 II| son, that when thou wert a little child I lent to Gabael ten
32 II| and said: If thou take a little of his heart and put it
33 II| For when ther cometh but little of manna, the earth shall
34 II| earth shall bring forth but little fruit, and when it cometh
35 II| In this time present is little glory or joy, but it shall
36 II| marvel that ever God made in little space. And then one went
37 II| his oldest daughter. And a little while after this holy servant
38 II| woman, and put him in a little boat, and encountered pilgrims
39 II| Amiens, and passed by a little village named Gains, and
40 II| mankind withdraweth him a little from contemplation, he after
41 II| his table, and took but little refection thereof, and lived
42 II| me so soon, which have so little seen thee? Then he had so
43 II| He was so debonair that little birds came and ate on his
44 II| good woman which had but a little wine in her tonnel or vessel,
45 II| penance, and shut him in a little cell seven years long, and
46 II| said to him: Abide thou a little, and I shall pay to thee
47 II| they went their way. ~And a little while after the paynims
48 II| to him in the form of a little child all black, and fell
49 II| platter vanished away as a little smoke. And in likewise it
50 II| And S. Basil gave to him a little meat for to comfort him
51 II| middle void for his body. ~A little time tofore his death there
52 III| the ground, and took but little rest. For the most part
53 III| when they were passed a little they called their fellow
54 III| raising, when thou sawest a little child of thee born on that
55 III| and syor, which is to say, little. And thus he is said glosing
56 III| his habit of virtues, and little by humility of manners and
57 III| head and the feet with a little bread and a candle, she
58 III| And so then with the two little children he was beheaded
59 III| Lord, or else humble or little. For he was given of our
60 III| among the apostles. He was little for he had all very meekness
61 III| Then they put him to a little fiscelle or basket well
62 III| the sea, and beheld this little nacelle and the child therein,
63 III| was set to school and in a little time he learned all the
64 III| took it with great joy. And little while after, this angel
65 III| suddenly, so that they have little time to die, wherefore every
66 III| sighed sore and praised little his poverty, which he had
67 III| death. Some time my pain is little, and some time right great,
68 III| great, but it is not so little that it departeth from me,
69 III| of flesh as great as the little finger of an hand, and anon
70 III| believed in our Lord.~A little time after the evil provost
71 III| that were come with him. A little while after died S. Maur
72 III| Jesu Christ, and did but little profit by his predication,
73 III| devil, in likeness of a little black child, drew him out
74 III| stones, and there dig a little and ye shall find water,
75 III| heavy. And when they had a little made the wall high, the
76 III| answered, I have eaten a little. O fair brother, the devil
77 III| told to him, and bowed it a little, and anon a serpent issued
78 III| Gallas to torment him a little, but he bound him with the
79 III| Benet heard, he lift up a little his eyes and beheld the
80 III| more in the abbey but a little oil, and he commanded yet
81 III| of inobedience and of the little hope that he had in God;
82 III| and of sior, that is a little child that is a father of
83 III| holy Scripture, and was little in his humble conversation.
84 III| him. After, when he was a little grown, he beheld his mother
85 III| resurrection of our Lord. And a little tofore that he lay sick,
86 III| thousand persons, great and little, good and evil, and as well
87 III| he should bear with him a little of the relics of S. George.
88 III| prosperous. Then he took a little clay and spittle and meddled
89 III| healed of a cancer by a little of the earth of the sepulchre
90 III| against kind. After this a little time, about going down of
91 III| said Julian had slain a little tofore. They buried it not
92 III| made. And after that, a little time, he went to the virgin
93 III| lightly as it had been a little straw, and bare it two miles
94 III| emperor Diocletian said: My little child, I warn and counsel
95 III| king Edgar. And within a little while after the see of London
96 III| bishopric, and so he was; for a little after S. Amadour died and
97 III| palace, and bare it to his little house. Then went S. Germain
98 III| took it debonairly of the little good that he had, and when
99 III| strange, and of syor, that is little, for he was holy by merit
100 III| of the world, and he was little by despising of himself.
101 III| shalt find at their heads a little book, wherein is contained
102 III| break all his members, and a little while after, by the merits
103 III| son, Ethelred, king, and little loved the King Edward. For
104 III| for dead upon the sand a little before, enforced himself
105 III| it and anointed it with a little oil, and anon it was guerished
106 III| despiting his sentence. A little after this the said priest
107 III| forthon he began to believe a little in him, but he durst not
108 III| how he might see him. A little while after, the child,
109 III| had seen of our Lord. A little while after he returned,
110 III| Chaldee and of Greek. A little while after, S. Eutrope
111 III| right nigh the city, a little lodge of boughs, wherein
112 III| night he returned unto his little lodge, where he abode in
113 III| as long as she lived. A little while after, she departed
114 III| with which she touched a little her husband, and incontinent
115 III| said to them: If ye be not little and humble as this child
116 III| Holy Ghost, espied out the little maid S. Genevieve, and made
117 III| of this world surmount a little your thought, ye shall lose
118 III| anon she bepan for to see a little. When she had twice or thrice
119 III| save that her jowes were a little red. In this space and time,
120 III| warned her to increase a little her fare. The holy woman
121 IV| shall strangle him. And a little after that, Peter and Paul
122 IV| vouchsafe to come to so little and poor a servant, and
123 IV| in Hebrew, or it is said little, in Latin. And by this be
124 IV| and therefore he is said little. Of this name, Paul, be
125 IV| called Paul, as it were little and humble of spirit, and
126 IV| Nero, I shall suffer a little while, but I shall live
127 IV| which he wrote Paul the little servant of Jesu Christ.
128 IV| by them than we do by a little ashes or filth, and abode
129 IV| child, wherefore he said: My little children, whom yet I bring
130 IV| falling he felt in his mouth a little salt water; and added more
131 IV| death and martyrdom. For a little tofore his death a young
132 IV| margaret. Which gem is white, little and virtuous. So the blessed
133 IV| was white by virginity, little by humility, and virtuous
134 IV| sacrifices. And after that a little while, Mary Magdalene appeared
135 IV| said: Abide and suffer a little, and if ye will not spare
136 IV| yet at least spare the little child that cryeth, I pray
137 IV| and the father laid his little son at the breast of the
138 IV| thy wife sleep, and the little child rest with her, for
139 IV| arrived thereon. And the little child, whom Mary Magdalene
140 IV| when they came they saw the little child playing with stones
141 IV| that if he had thundered a little higher, all the world might
142 IV| was there he profited but little, for he had converted unto
143 IV| shall die to-morn, make a little clay, with my blood tempered,
144 IV| And the king then took a little of his blood and laid it
145 IV| amarvelled. But he thought little on the stones, for he thought
146 IV| palace, and bare it to his little house. And he saw the blessed
147 IV| them debonairly with the little good that he had. And when
148 IV| mantle in which there were little ouches or crosses of gold
149 IV| her sleep that she bare a little whelp in her belly which
150 IV| have slain me suddenly, but little and little ye should have
151 IV| suddenly, but little and little ye should have hewn member
152 IV| occupation and ministry, and in a little moment him seemed that he
153 IV| patriarchs and prophets, and little have they amended them.
154 IV| attemper thy wrath and tarry a little, I have a true servant and
155 IV| but as he doubted yet a little he made his prayer to Almighty
156 IV| inclined him on his chair a little, and him seemed that seven
157 IV| to that dean health for a little time. And suddenly the queen
158 IV| friars, and they had but little bread. Then S. Dominic commanded
159 IV| eyes to heaven and prayed a little, and as he had a little
160 IV| little, and as he had a little thought he looked upon the
161 IV| would do their pains. And a little while after they said: How
162 IV| Be ye firm and tarry a little, and ye shall see what Lord
163 IV| fiend their enemy. And a little while after, all those friars
164 IV| and then she turned her a little, and after came again and
165 IV| like as she had said. And a little while after Satirus the
166 IV| in his first form. And a little piece the devil took away
167 IV| Laurence, cease thou a little, I conjure thee to cease
168 IV| multitude of angels, and a little while after she was taken
169 IV| melody into heaven. And a little while after, Elizabeth demanded
170 IV| mounted into heaven, the little rod of Jesse, not without
171 IV| said to him: If thou wilt a little obey to me, thou shalt abound
172 IV| not well suffer to be a little while thence from your children,
173 V| as he stood tofore him a little, suddenly a marvellous comfort
174 V| was nigh unto that wood a little village in which some noblemen
175 V| and go their way. And a little while after Gotard, and
176 V| And as Bernard was yet a little child he was sick of the
177 V| younger brother, which was a little child and played with the
178 V| after, the child abode a little while with his father, but
179 V| him, so that he felt him a little alleged and eased of his
180 V| thing there was that moved a little the prior of the place,
181 V| over precious and showed little poverty of the brethren,
182 V| folly, said to him: Depart a little from me, and begin thy paternoster
183 V| had followed S. Bernard a little time he began to be grievously
184 V| that had denied to do a little time, they gave to God after,
185 V| much divinity and right little, and that the gospel is
186 V| his beard long and hoar a little, and of a straight and seemly
187 V| head of a man, in which the little world is. And the apostle
188 V| bishop was a Greek and but little lettered in Latin tongue
189 V| humility, that the right little sins which we repute for
190 V| book he accused him of that little delectation which sometime
191 V| reverence thou suffer me a little to praise thy engine. The
192 V| at matins, he slumbered a little, and the lessons of S. Augustin
193 V| found by the sea-side a little child which had made a little
194 V| little child which had made a little pit in the sand, and in
195 V| sand, and in his hand a little spoon. And with the spoon
196 V| and thy pit and spoon so little? Yes, forsooth, said he,
197 V| and his divinity into thy little understanding as to the
198 V| this great sea unto this little pit. And therewith the child
199 V| that she would there rest a little. And there came a noble
200 V| there found a pit, and a little well, and a fair hind, which
201 V| prince that was dead. And a little while after he denounced
202 V| he was a child he had a little book of the history of the
203 V| for Celestin lived but a little time, and therefore it might
204 V| to him and spake to him a little cruelly: O fool and unhappy,
205 V| transgressor, my joy certainly hath little endured, and it shall be
206 V| shalt not suffer here but a little, but thou shalt be anon
207 V| thy crown and realm with little hostages, and I shall let
208 V| he made to them, and set little by that his enemies said.
209 V| should be drawn out. And a little while after, Eutropius had
210 V| now. And because that a little labour hath given to thee
211 V| and unnethe found they a little of his bones with his clothes
212 V| then, ye that be not but a little people, and contrary to
213 V| Wherefore is your strength so little, which is overcome of a
214 V| delivered from all temptation. A little while after, the devil transfigured
215 V| and then she offered a little gift to S. Damian, but he
216 V| and made like as one of my little children, ye shall not enter
217 V| show the small things and little, because that their service
218 V| ne strength is but right little, and that we may overcome
219 V| man. For when he is yet little in the womb he may be dead
220 V| was no vital heat save a little which he felt in his breast.
221 V| take it S. Francis prayed a little, and after, commanded him
222 V| man appeared to him with a little staff that he held, which
223 V| alive and whole. There was a little child in Rome fallen out
224 V| for the love of God. And a little while after she fled away
225 V| hermit and set herself in a little cell, and there served our
226 V| water, and that in right little quantity. And when the monks
227 V| with lead. And the cell was little and straight, and but one
228 V| and straight, and but one little window open, by which was
229 V| they should give to her a little bread and water. And when
230 VI| him reigned his brother a little time, and died also, as
231 VI| having in either hand a little stool to go with. His legs
232 VI| four men how the king a little before had healed a blind
233 VI| his falseness, said but little. But in a time, as the king
234 VI| simplicity hath been but little set by among us, but our
235 VI| heard the gospel, how a little child was born and given
236 VI| Christ, and so proceeded little and little unto his last
237 VI| so proceeded little and little unto his last consummation.
238 VI| said: He that is true in little things, he is true in great
239 VI| Victoria and Aurea, and her little son Adrian, which, for love
240 VI| and came with her and his little sister Florence, then also
241 VI| all they withdrew them a little after, and soon came again
242 VI| the holy bodies into the little boat, without oars and governail
243 VI| therefore to me, for I have a little city, but it is honest,
244 VI| slew them all, and in a little while after, all his horses
245 VI| and that the work was a little seen above the earth, they
246 VI| Peter, and there rested a little, and saw there a vision.
247 VI| that there, because of the little penance doing in this life,
248 VI| retained it for himself. And a little while after, he that was
249 VI| Lifardus, and there lived a little while in a convent. And
250 VI| because that place was over little for the great multitude
251 VI| keeping. And when he went a little out and came again, he found
252 VI| mountains. And then he abode a little in that diocese, and began
253 VI| Christ. And when he had a little while been tormented with
254 VI| that they would remove a little his body, and he said: Brethren,
255 VI| his life, as he slept a little after Matins, like as he
256 VI| that for the quantity of a little vesture, which was but half
257 VI| there she was inclosed in a little cell which S. Francis had
258 VI| part, how well it was but little, the divine grace multiplied
259 VI| save the Sunday she took a little wine. And shortly, she lived
260 VI| might not bear her over a little brook. And the men that
261 VI| and sung and enjoyed of little Jesus that was born, all
262 VI| Then she began to think on little Jesus, and was sorrowful
263 VI| and made him to sleep a little, and after, she took him
264 VI| young people that knew but little of religion, and she was
265 VI| Clare herself spake so little that she restrained them
266 VI| edifying than a fair polished, little profiting.~On a time it
267 VI| hath she changed her poor little life, which hath brought
268 VI| be. Now hath she, for the little life of humility and of
269 VI| made her to light upon a little bough of a tree which hung
270 VI| devotion, fell asleep a little. And S. Clare appeared to
271 VI| martyrs, and laid them in a little town in which many miracles
272 VI| girdle, both bound in a little cloth of purple, and said
273 VI| his girdle wrapped in a little purple cloth, anon Euphemius
274 VI| would lie and rest her a little. She had ordained that one
275 VI| following, she came with her little children to a place and
276 VI| come to you? And after a little while she cried with a high
277 VI| great abstinence, and ate so little meat that men wondered whereby
278 VI| well beloved that after a little while he was made procurator
279 VI| take a precious, to give a little corner, and to take a right
280 VI| And she said: Thy power is little to dread, for it is like
281 VI| cause that culex, which is a little beast, hath six feet and
282 VI| the lamb stood, he took a little pickaxe, and smote one stroke
283 VI| woman went thither with a little child, and when the solemnity
284 VI| these things and came unto a little city named Georgia, and
285 VII| Katherine may be said as, a little chain, for she made a chain
286 VII| us. And then she put the little child from her, and them
287 VII| hand, and cut off first the little finger, and S. James said:
288 VII| great thou wouldst be made little for us, and therefore I
289 VII| left foot and cut off the little toe, and S. James said:
290 VII| toe, and S. James said: Little toe be comforted, for the
291 VII| comforted, for the great and little shall have one resurrection,
292 VII| in so sober words in so little space of his life time.
293 VII| tyrant smote it off.~But a little before this appeared before
294 VII| stars, bearing in his hand a little basket shining as gold,
295 VII| purveyance of God they found a little haven and there went aland
296 VII| that land, but because of little depth in some places, and
297 VII| because our trespass is but little, therefore our Lord hath
298 VII| that trouble that they set little price by their lives, and
299 VII| came at the last into a little haven, but it was so strait
300 VII| and then they came to a little island, wherein were many
301 VII| therefore dread ye not of these little fishes. And then S. Brandon
302 VII| feeble and sick, and had but little joy of this world, but ever
303 VII| him the most part, and a little tofore him, and they demanded
304 VII| sorrow for them. And this little that I have before me be
305 VII| servant, and then would take a little sleep sitting, and would
306 VII| saying that: An archer took a little bird called a nightingale,
307 VII| lifted up his eyes and saw a little honey that hung in the boughs
308 VII| to the sweetness of that little honey. The unicorn is the
309 VII| himself, and loved the third a little or naught. And it happed
310 VII| and have not forgotten the little benefit that thou hast done
311 VII| whom she said: Like as a little medicine oft delivereth
312 VII| God thankings, always of a little gift is made a giver of
313 VII| returned into his cell.~And a little while after, the king heard
314 VII| save my soul grant to me a little request, lie with me only
315 VII| Lombards to Milan, and in a little time they subdued to them
316 VII| a whole goose, he drank little or nothing, and that was
317 VII| with water. He drank so little at his dinner that he would
318 VII| emperor was crowned in a little church, there was so great
319 VII| and there hid them in a little house. And as the emperor
320 VII| needs abide there in that little house all night. And the
321 VII| said to his mother: Abide a little and we shall see you if
322 VII| cruse by night wherein was a little serpent, and it avaled down
323 VII| in his prayer, and went a little aback under the shadow of
324 VII| and did do shut him in a little house unto the time that
325 VII| David, but in us that be thy little creatures which thou hast
326 VII| he was content to have a little bread made of barley and
327 VII| bread made of barley and a little water, and ever most secretly
328 VII| where he did do make a little house, and made himself
329 VII| beasts, where he made a little house with some monks that
330 VII| or store I ne have but a little beer within a little vessel
331 VII| but a little beer within a little vessel and a little bread,
332 VII| within a little vessel and a little bread, if it please to God
333 VII| needeth. And soon, with that little drink and bread that they
334 VII| was Archbishop of Dole in little Bretagne, and was born in
335 VII| write some letters within a little pair of tables that he had.
336 VII| part of thy bishopric a little place within a wood where
337 VII| Blessed Lady, and beyond it, a little way thence, he builded a
338 VII| way thence, he builded a little house wherein he dwelled,
339 VII| Ives.~S. Ives was born in little Britain in the diocese of
340 VII| brown bread, and sometimes a little pottage. And among them
341 VII| and for hanging, only a little straw. Ever before the celebration
342 VII| all vain words, spake but little and with pain, save the
343 VII| sometimes he put in it a little flour and a little butter,
344 VII| it a little flour and a little butter, and on Easterday
345 VII| within his water he put a little wine only for to change
346 VII| instance of his friends, a little straw. Three days before
347 VII| things, he was covered with a little and bad coverlet, saying
348 VII| aggrieved with an axes took a little bread that before had been
349 VII| tents for to dwell there a little time. And in this meanwhile
350 VII| others did, and after a little while that he thus kneeled
351 VII| woman's eye in form of a little whelk, red as any blood,
352 VII| make. And anon the same little whelk began to bleed as
353 VII| comprehend is contained in so little a hostie, for we see that
354 VII| comprised and contained in a little hostie. The eighth miracle
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