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22 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
fay, look how the painter or carver hath made them, fo we do worfhip them; and
they worfhip none before they be chriftened. They fay we be but half chriftians: be-
caufe we obferve not part of the old law with the Turks. Therefore they call them-
felves more holy than us. They have none other learning but their mother tongue,
nor will fuffer no other in their country among them. All their fervice in churches
is in their mother tongue. They have the Old and New Teftament, which are daily
read among them: and yet their fuperftition is no lefs. For when the priefts do read,
they have fuch tricks in their reading, that no man can underfland them, nor no
man giveth ear to them. For all the while the prieft readeth, the people fit down,
and one talk with another. But when the prieft is at fervice no man fitteth, but
gagcle and duck like fo many geefe. And as for their prayers, they have but little
{kill, but ufe to fay As bodi pomele: as much to fay, Lord have mercy upon me.
For the tenth man within the land cannot fay the Pater Nofter. And as for the creed,
no man may be fo bold as to meddle therewith but in the church: for they fay it
fhould not be fpoken of, but in the churches. Speak to them of the commandments,
and they will fay they were given to Mofes in the law which Chrift hath now abrogated
by his precious death and paflion; therefore (fay they) we obferve little or none
thereof. And Ido believe them. For if they were examined of their law and com-
mandments together, they fhould agree but in few points. ‘They have the facrament
of the Lord’s Supper, in both kinds, and more ceremonies than we have. ‘They pre-
fent them in a difh in both kinds together, and carry them round about the church
upon the prieft’s head, and fo do minifter at all fuch times, as any fhall require. The
be great offerers of candles, and fometimes of money, which we call in England,
Soul-pence, with more ceremonies than I am able to declare. They have four
Lents in the year, whereof our Lent is the greatelt. Look, as we do begin on the
Wednefday, fo they do on the Monday before, and the week before that they call
the Butter-week ; and in that week they eat nothing but butter and milk. Howbeit I
believe there be in no other country the like people for drunkennefs. ‘The next Lent
is called Saint Peter’s Lent, and beginneth always the Monday next after Trinity
Sunday, and endeth on Saint Peter’s even. If they fhould break that faft, their be-
lief is, that they fhould not come in at heaven gates. And when any of them die,
they haveth a teftimonial with them in the coffin, that when the foul cometh to heaven
gates it may deliver the fame to Saint Peter, which declareth that the party is a true
and holy Ruffian. ‘The third Lent beginneth fifteen days before the later Lady-day,
and endeth on our Lady-even. ‘The fourth Lent beginneth on Saint Martin’s-day, and
endeth on Chriftmas-even: which Lent is falted for Saint Philip, Saint Peter, Saint
Nicholas, and Saint Clement. For they four be the principal and greateft faints in
that country. In thefe Lents they eat neither butter, eggs, milk, nor cheefe; but
they are very ftraitly kept with fifh, cabbages, and roots. And out of their Lents they
obierve truly the Wednefdays and Fridays throughout the year; and on the Saturday
they do eat flefh. Furthermore they have a great number of religious men; which
are black monks, and they eat no flefh throughout the year, but fifh, milk, and but-
ter. By their order they fhould eat no frefh fifh, and in their Lents they eat nothing
but coleworts, cabbages, falt cucumbers, with other roots, as radifh and fuch like.
heir drink is like our penny ale, and is called qua/s. ‘They have fervice daily in their
churches, and ufe to go to fervice two hours before day, and that is ended by day-
light. At nine of the clock they go to mafs: that ended, to dinner; and after that
ro fervice again; and then to {upper > you fhall underftand that at every dinner and
fupper
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