LAURENCE ALDERSEY ad. 



1581. 



worst creature in the worlde, and consider you your selves 



also, as I doe my selfe, and then use your discretion. 



The Frier preached, and the sermon being done, I was 



demaunded whether I did understand him : I answered, 



yea, and tolde the Frier himselfe, thus you saide in your 



sermon, that we were not all good Christians, or else 



it were not possible for us to have such weather : to 



which I answered, be you well assured, that we are 



not indeede all good Christians, for there are in the [II. i. 152.] 



ship some that hold very unchristian opinions : so for 



that time I satisfied him, although (they said) that I 



would not see, when they said the procession, and 



honoured their images, and prayed to our Lady, and 



S. Marke. 



There was also a Gentleman, an Italian, which was 

 a passenger in the ship, and he tolde me what they said 

 of me, because I would not sing. Salve Regina, and Ave 

 Maria, as they did : I told them, that they that praied 

 to so many, or sought helpe of any other, then of God 

 the Father, or of Jesus Christ his onely sonne, goe a 

 wrong way to worke, and robbed God of his honour, 

 and wrought their owne destructions. 



All this was told the Friers, but I heard nothing of 

 it in three daies after : and then at evening prayer, they 

 sent the purser about with the image of our Lady to 

 every one to kisse, & I perceiving it went another way 

 from him, and would not see it : yet at last he fetched his 

 course about, so that he came to me, & offered it to 

 me as he did to others, but I refused it : whereupon 

 there was a great stirre : the patron and all the friers 

 were told of it, and every one saide I was a Lutheran, 

 and so called me : but two of the friers that were of 

 greatest authoritie, seemed to beare mee better good will 

 then the rest, and travelled to the patron in my behalfe, 

 and made all well againe. 



The second day of August we arrived in Cyprus, at Cyprus. 

 a towne called Missagh : the people there be very rude, ^^^^^S^- 

 and like beasts, and no better, they eat their meat sitting 



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