ABSTRACT
Good men and women, suche day is þe fest of Seynt Barnabe, 16 Cristis holy apostul. But for he was not one of þe nombre of þe twelfe apostulis, þer fore his day is not halouet but in diuer se 20 places ; bot in eure iche place 2 his day ys womons holy, and plees for Godis loue men. Thys man was an holy man ; for when he herd Crist pre che, he dude anone as he concelet hym, he 3ode and sold al his lond and al oþyr thyng þat he hade, and broght þe pr ice 24 to þe apostules, and put hit into her dysposicione. And he hym-self sewet Crist, pore boþe in body and in spyrite. For he hade ful beleue in Godis mercy, and þat he preuet. When he hade con uertit Saynt Poule, he come to Ierusalem forto haue ben in 28 company wyth Cristis disciplus ; but þai al fled from hym as schep from þe wolfe, and durst not be in his company be no way. Then Barnabe trust in þe mercy of God þat makyth 3 of lyons schepe ; 176 þat is, of prowd men and hye he made symple and meke ; and prowde he made hem lowe, and symple, and ful of al vertu. Wher-fore he 3ode to Poule, and broght hym to þe apostlus, and was wyth 4 Poule, and sewet hym in mony myscheues, and dyses, and per-seeueion.
