The Chronicles of Desmond, Chapter 41: Of Matthias the Intrepid

Yea, nowe thate I hauve disckussed and adressed all konserns regarding the most excellent natioun and prinsipalities of Isselande, nowe I shall begin the jorneye of explayning the most excellent Tayle and Chronickle of the good Sir Matthias. Yea, good wausse hee, firm adherent of the good and moste holie Churche of the Timmerack, yea, though sin and vyse hath tempeth him on manie ockasions, hee did holdeth true to hisse beliefes, and hee did remaineth goode and loyale to the Pathe of the Goode, and Righteous Way of the Mathematickal Truthe, and hee did have manie adventures in the goode Landes of the Area, and hee did Summone the Magick Dragounne Kinge often, for 'twas the waye that was goode and Righte, and Desmond did often joyne himme, and it was good.

And it came to pass, that one fyne daye, whene young Matthias, then a lowlie monke, in the temple and most goode and sackred churche of the Timmerack, who wausse devoute, and purre, didde happene to findeth a magickal charoiut, whiche wausse in the gardens, and forbiddeene to the publick and the lowere memberes of the chruch, for it wausse indeed fylled with sin and yea, it wausse sodomous. And yea, the greate Chariout wausse bigge, and faste, and well-konstruckted, fulle of the modern innovaytions, and the like, and stronge, and durablle, and yea, it wausse indeed beautaceous, and it wausse good. Disckoverying thisse chariout, hee desided uponne the momente, that it shall be the propertie of himselffe, and only, for he wausee indeed temptedde by the splendour of it, and its designne. Yea, decidded hee that the disckoverie of the chariout should be keept surreptitious, and yea, at the Nighte-tyme only wausse to ride the magickal devyce, for fear of being disckovered with itte, and confronted withe the evydense.

And it came to pass that Matthias, whou hath benne temptyed withe sin befoure, didde fynde it uncomfortalbele to the mouste degree for hee strove all-wayes to be a goude man of the clergie, and a wyse and honourable man. So it wausse desided in hisse heade that hee should tell the churche of thisse greate disckoverie, and yea, one daye, at the prayer halle, amidst the murmeriung, and the sacred Mathematicks beinge performedde, involving the Vecktours, and the most Holie Crosse-Produckte, hee didde imforme his superiours of the magickal chariout, however, furious they werre notte, as it was not the waye of the Churche. So to repente four hisse sins hee shalt dryve the memberes of the League of Desmonde in the Charoiut, and it wass goode.