A Little Insight:

Here's a snippet of what I read everyday. This is an excerpt from 'The Lives of Saints Quirine and Juliet' included in Caxton's Golden Legend. This particular portion comes from the 1900 publication by J.M. Dent and Co. so it's readable in modern English. Enjoy!

“Then the provost took the child in his arms, and Juliet his mother refusing to do sacrifice, he made her to be scourged with raw sinews. And when the child saw his mother beaten he wept bitterly and made a lamentable noise, but the provost took it in his arms and danced it upon his knees, and would fain please the child with kissings and fair words. The child, alway beholding his mother, abhorred the kissings of the provost, and turned his head away from him with great indignation and scratched his face with his nails, and gave his cries consonant unto his mother, as he should have said: And I am also christian. Then he bit the provost, and wrestling with him all to-scratched him. Then the provost, having indignation hereof and in a great anger, threw down the child off the steps whereas he sad in judgment, that the tender brain fell abroad our of his head upon the steps.” Vol. III Pg. 225

Love,
Elizabeth