Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.31.5

42.31.5

The Jew is seized, placed on the highest church steeple, chained to a stake, and roasted slowly, to the mighty exultation of thousands of people, who pride on their having assisted at such a spectacle. All these, to a man, were zealous Romanists to that very hour, as far as ten o'clock at night ; as far as eleven ; as far as twelve ; as far as one in the morning. It is now two o'clock hark what an horrid noise ! what screams ! Good God ! is the town on fire ? No. It is only the multitude of yesterday, which is totally altered ; they plunder the churches of their riches, beat and abuse those Priests and Monks (whose sleeves they had been kissing two hours ago, and whom they now call shavelings), pull down and break to pieces all those wooden Saints, that had performed miracles yesterday, and throw down and trample under foot whole chalices filled with consecrated hosts, those tremendous hosts that contained two hours ago in flesh and blood a man that had suffered two thousand years ago, and now passed for no less than God Almighty himself. Nor is there amongst that multitude, that now tramples on them, and who two hours ago firmly believed, that a wafer as big as a shilling could shed blood in torrents ; nor is there one single individual, afraid of having trampled on flesh and blood and bones.