ousness,
their host, who was less overpowered by the effect of drink,
determined to play them a practical joke, by daubing their beards
with melted wax. The distress of these poor fellows, on awaking from
their sleep, at this strange unction of their beards, was very
great, because it was impossible to get rid of the wax without
greatly injuring that hirsute appendage, upon which so much of their
personal respectability rests. They became the laughing-stock of
their congregations, and the story made a great noise over all the
country.

127 The Greek Church admits no carved images, as being prohibited by the
second commandment.

128 They have considerably more, as will be shown presently.

129 Every altar in a Roman Catholic church must contain some relic.

130 It is said to have been made of pasteboard.

131 There are, besides the five water pots mentioned by Calvin, thirteen
others, at St Nicolo of the Lido at Venice, at Moscow, at Bologne,
at Tongres, at Cologne, at Beauvaia, at the abbey of Port Royal at
Paris, and at Orleans, though the Gospel mentions but six. The
materials of which they are made are very dissimilar to each other,
and so are their respective measures, whilst those mentioned in the
Gospel seem to have been all of the same size.

132 There are, besides these, thirteen more, unknown probably to Calvin;
but it would be too tedious to enumerate where they may be seen.

133 If a diligent inquiry were instituted after these relics in
particular, four times as many as are here enumerated might be found
in other parts.

134 I have employed the term Sudary, which has been adopted by Webster,
from the Latin word _sudarium_, to designate the relic in question.

135 It appears that a kerchief with the likeness of the face of Jesus
Christ imprinted on it, and covered with blood and sweat, was kept
in a church at Rome in the eleventh century, for it is mentioned in
the brief of Pope Sergius IV., dated 1011. We do not know what tales
respecting this relic were related at that time, but it appears that
copies of it called _Veronies_, _i.e._, a corruption of _verum
icon_, "the true image," were sold; and no doubt this appellation
gave rise to the legend of _Sancta Veronica_ who wiped the face of
Christ with her kerchief as h