alle men whiche schulen se him go or meete with him, be remembrid therbi that he gooth in pilgrimage and that thei bi thilk ensaumpling be stirid for to at sumwhile make her pilgrimages. [pilgrimage, MS. (first hand).] And so a ful good and a ful resonable cause mai be, for which a pilgrime may bere an ymage openli in the wey, other than the cause which the xe. argument spekith of, which is the vein glorie of the berer.
And ȝit ferther in this mater thus: If thilk ymage be offrid up in the place into which the pilgrimage is mad, and be hangid up into open siȝt forto there abide, vndir this entent that who euer schal aftirward come into the same place he schal weel se bi thilk ymage that sum man, (as the offrer of thilk ymage,) hadde deuocioun forto visite thilk place bi pilgrimage, and mai therbi be stirid forto do pilgrimage into the same place, (and the mo suche ymagis up offrid hange there, the more ech comer thidir and biholder of hem mai be stirid forto visite thilk place bi pilgrimage); and if a notable ymage be offrid up there, [A hyphen (at the end of the line) joins the words up there in the MS.] it schal moue the seers for to enquere who offrid thilk ymage; and if it be answerid, that a bischop or an other notable man it offrid there and it brouȝt thidir bi pilgrimage, the seer and heerer hereof schal thinke that the offrer therof hadde sum notable cause forto so bringe thilk ymage thidir and so offre it, and therbi be the more stirid into deuocioun toward God or the Seint in thilk place. Wherfore it folewith, that a ful good cause is forto offre and leue such an ymage for to contynueli abide openli in the place of pilgrimage, (ȝhe, a myche better cause than is the feyned scornefully cause of which the xe. argument makith mension,) and therfore alle tho persoones whiche blamen pilgrimes, (and namelich notable per|soones,
