Excerpt from A New Ploughman's Tale: Thomas Hoccleve's Legend of the Virgin and Her Sleeveless Garment, With a Spurious Link A Cistercian, accustomed to say 150 Aves daily, was repeating them as he went through a wood and a robber, who lay in wait for him, saw white doves taking roses out of his mouth and carrying them up to heaven (p. A clerk was drowned on his way from his mistress; and he was restored to life, because his last words, found imprinted on his tongue, were Ave Maria (p. 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.