Book: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Quotes of Book: A Distant Mirror: The
wicked ecclesiastics who show the worst example to the people," and, above all, nobles who empty the purses of the poor by their extravagance, and disdain them for "lowness of blod or foulenesse of body," for deformed shape of body or limb, for dullness of wit and uncunning of craft, and deign not to speak to them, and who are themselves stuffed with pride-of ancestry, fortune, gentility, possessions, power, comeliness, strength, children, treasure-"prowde in lokynge, prowde in spekyng,… prowde in goinge, standynge and sytting." All would be drawn by fiends to Hell on the Day of Judgment. book-quote
