At his burial many miracles are wrought on the sick.
"With mochel[1] sighs, and mochel song,
That holy corse them all among
Bishops to church-e bare.
"Amidst right the high street,
So much folk him gone meet,
That they rest a stonde[2],
All they sighed that to him come,
And healed were very soon,
Of feet, and eke of honde."
"The history of Saint Alexius is told entirely in the same words in the Gesta Romanorum, and in the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voraigne[3], translated through a French medium, by Caxton. This work of Jacobus does not consist solely of the legends of the saints, but is interspersed multis aliis pulcherrimis et peregrinis historiis, with many other most beautiful and strange histories[4]."—Warton.
As it may be amusing to the reader to compare
- ↑ Many.
- ↑ A moment.
- ↑ "Hystor. lxxxix. fol. clviii. edit, 1479, fol. and in Vincent of Beauvais, who quotes Gesta Alexii Specul. Hist. Lib. xviii. cap. 43. seq. f. 241. 6." Warton.
- ↑ Warton seems to be in error respecting this work, which he confounds with "The Lives of the Fathers, translated
