wnsfolk. The fear is that the Mayor will have Margery burned on a stake, quite common for heretics like Joan of Arc. But this doesn't happen.Again Margery is in white clothing. It may suggest that she is claiming something that she does not have, virginity. This might be another strive to be closer to God (her husband). But I don't know. We find Margery at York again having to deal with hostility. Evil talk about her has preceded her, but she also finds many who won't pay attention to that and who care for her. Again, her white clothing seems to get her in trouble. She finds herself being questioned again for being a heretic. Then in the next chapter she is in trouble again, this time taken before the Archbishop of York. She is not convicted of anything, but the Archbishop would like to get her out of his diocese as quickly as possible, and to stop her teaching, though she claims she neither teaches nor preaches, and has every right to talk. There in York Margery tells a little tale or fable of a priest and a bear, which is about false or impure priests, and certainly annoys some priests, though the Archbishop approves. Finally, she is given an escort and allowed to go back to York and then to leave. To conclude we find Margery crying and weeping all through out the book. I find this to be some sort of depression, maybe it is because she can't be with God in heaven so she feels the need to cry. All through out the book Margery is getting people into trouble with her reputation of being "evil". Just one of the instances is the time her travel companions were thrown into jail in Leicester. Then there is the thing of having no sex with her first husband. I know that effected him, like it would with any husband. Personally I don't think that Margery was a "mystic". I think the reason why she weeped so much is because she always had to lie to keep up her life. The more she lied about seeing God to stay live the more she realized that she wa...
