72 Mabillon on the Unknown Saints, p. 10. _Apud_ Basnage, p. 1047.
73 "Vie de St François Xavier," par le Pere Bouhours, 1716. _Apud_ Maury, p. 22.
74 "Liber Aureus Inscriptus, Liber Conformitatum Vitæ Beati ac Seraphici Patris Francisci, ad Vitam Jesu Christi Domini Nostri." It went through several editions.
75 The title of this curious work is "Histoire de St François d'Assise, par Emile Chavin de Malan." Paris: 1845.
76 "Edinburgh Review," April 1847, p. 295.
77 History of St Waltheof, p. 2 in the 5th vol. of the collection.
79 Life of St Augustine of Canterbury, Apostle of the English, p. 237, in the 1st volume of the English Saints, mentioned above.
80 There is a German story which is evidently a parody of this legend. It says that an individual who was passionately fond of playing at nine-pins committed a crime for which he was sentenced to be beheaded. He requested, as a favour which was usually granted to culprits before their execution, to indulge once more in his favourite game. This demand being conceded, he began to play with such ardour that he entirely forgot his impending execution. The executioner, who was present, got tired of waiting for the culprit, and seizing a moment when he stretched his neck picking up a ball from the ground, cut off his head. The culprit was, however, so keen in the pursuit of his game, that he seized his own head, and having made with it a successful throw, exclaimed, "Haven't I got all the nine?"
81 An old German ballad gives a fair specimen of the ideas which people entertained of the joys of heaven. It says, amongst other things:--"Wine costs not a penny in the cellar of heaven; angels bake bread and cracknels at the desire of every one; vegetables of every kind abundantly grow in the garden of heaven; pease and carrots grow without being planted; asparagus is as thick as a man's leg, and artichokes as big as a head. When it is a lent day, the fishes arrive in shoals, and St Peter comes with his net to catch them, in order to regale you. St Martha is the cook and St Urban the butler."--See Maury, p. 88.
82 Zimmerman's "Solitude Considered with respect to its Dangerous Influence upon the Mind and Heart." English translation. Ed. 1798, p. 102, _et seq._