Thus, in the _Colloquies_, he describes his pilgrimage to St.Thomas's shrine at Canterbury, the bloody bones and the handkerchief covered with the saint's rheum offered to be kissed--all without a disapproving word and yet in such a way that when the reader has finished it he wonders how anything so silly could ever have existed.

Thus again he strips the worship of Mary, and all the {60} stupid and wrong projects she is asked to abet.

In the conversation called _The Shipwreck_, the people pray to the Star of the Sea exactly as they did in pagan times, only it is Mary, not Venus that is meant.

They offer mountains of wax candles to the saints to preserve them, although one man confides to his neighbor in a whisper that if he ever gets to land he will not pay one penny taper on his vow.

Again, in the _Colloquy on the New Testament_, a young man is asked what he has done for Christ.