"Not that hit nowe is full of woundes and plages, or nowe deede"

John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln,
as depicted in his Missal, British Library

"Yonder it lyes, yonder is hys bodye, in yonder tombe, in yonder sepulchre.  Lett us goo thidre, lett us wepe with these Maryes, lett us turne and wynde thys bodye of Christe, lett us turne it thys wayes and that wayes, to and froo, and pytussely beholde hit.  And what shall we fynde.  We shall fynde a bloody bodye, a body full of plages and woundes.  Not that hit nowe is full of woundes and plages, or nowe deede:  but y[e]t thowe oughtest nowe as the tyme of the yere falleth, with the churche to remembere this body.  Howe it was for the broken, howe it was for the rente and torn, howe bloody it was, howe full of plages, and howe it was wounded.  And in recollection and remembrance thereof, wepe and lament, for it was doon for the."

Yonder it lies, yonder is his body, in yonder tomb, in yonder sepulchre.  Let us go thither, let us weep with these Marys, let us turn and wend this body of Christ, let us turn it this way and that way, to and fro, and piteously behold it.  And what shall we find?  We shall find a bloody body, a body full of [blow-inflicted] sores and wounds.  Not that it now is full of wounds and sores, or now dead:  but yet thou oughtest now as the time of the year falleth, with the church to remember this body.  How it was for thee broken, howe it was for thee rent and torn, how bloody it was, how full of sores, and how it was wounded.  And in recollection and remembrance thereof, weep and lament, for it was done for thee.

     John Longland, A Sermond made be fore the kynge 1535, RSTC 16795.5, sig. R4, as quoted on p. 36 of Eamon Duffy, The stripping of the altars:  traditional religion in England 1400-1580, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 2005 [1992]), 36.