Excerpt from A Modern Prose Translation of the Ancient Poem of Guillaume De Guileville: Entitled the Pylgrymage of Man, With Illustrations and an Appendix She (aid (he would conceal nothing from him. She led him into a room, which had a large coffer, and told him to open it. He was (urprifed that it had holes, and that by each hole entered a great hand, open ready to take and receive quickly. He inquired what it meant. This is the place, (he replied, where all the goods are received by night, but however much is brought nothing ever remains, for it is fcarcely received before it is confumed by all thefe hands; nothing, therefore, remains to give to the poor monks, who in this place (erve God mo('t devotedly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.