He tells how the parson, in gown and cassock, with the parish Bible in his hand, and a sickle strapped behind him, opens the harvest by leading a laneful of farmers, laborers, wives, and children to the first ripe field, where he heaves up the rail across the gate, offers a prayer, reads the Scripture, and then cuts the first three swipes of corn.

They only go to church on Christmas.

This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues.

At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all / Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie / Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball / In them was no fayth, but infydelytye