The Church History of Britain From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year Mdc
The Church History of Britain From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year Mdc
Thomas Fuller
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8. A swinish Conceit of a Monk. Eoves also, a poor, plain man, was eminent in this age : a shep- herd, say some ; a neatherd, others ; swineherd, say the third sort, • Flores Sanctorum, written by Jerome Porter, in the Life of St. Guthlake, p. 348. T Idem, p. 347. VOL. I. L 146 CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN. A. D. 709. and that most probable. For whilst he lived in Worcestershire, not far from the river Avon, the virgin Mary is said to have appeared unto him, even where (farewell all good tokens !)... "he found a lost sow with seven pigs sucking upon her ;"* and to have given order, that in that very place a monastery shovdd be erected to her honour. The beastly monk, who made this vision, had even learned as far as VirgiPs ^neids ; whence he fetched the platform of this pretty conceit, a place, so marked, being foretold fortunate to ^neas, to found Alba (near Rome)-|- therein. Litoreis ingens inventa sub ilicihus sus, Triginta capituvi foetus eni. Va, jacebit j4lba, solo rccubans, albi circuni ubera nati : Hie locus urbis erit, requies -ubi certa laborum.
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