Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Modern Day Translation
Good pilgrim, you don’t give your hand enough credit. By holding my hand you show polite devotion. After all, pilgrims touch the hands of statues of saints. Holding one palm against another is like a kiss.
The use of the word, "pilgrim" is almost obsolete, it means someone who travels to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. This may be because of the context, religion used to be a big part of many people's lives but it is not so much in modern times.
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