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The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…
The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2. The second service, 3. The breaking up of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Physic from heaven / published by Thomas Adams ...The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Vi• dicam quid sis? magnus es Ardelio. Thou hast great lands, great power, great sins: and than D•st ask me what thou art? th'art a great man.
Vi• dicam quid sis? magnus es Ardelio. Thou hast great lands, great power, great sinnes: and than D•st aske me what thou art? th'art a great man.
The Giants, in the Scripture, 1were men of a huge stature, of a fierce nature. The Poets feigned their Giants to be begotten and bred of the Sun and the Earth, and to offer violence to the Gods: some of them having an hundred hands, as Briareiu was called centimanus: meaning, they were of great command; as Helen wrote to Paris of her husband Menelaus. An nescis longas regibus esse manus? This word Giants, if the original did afford it, must be referred, either to the guests; signifying that monstrous men resorted to the Harlots table, & that it was Gigantoum convivium, a tyrannous feast: or else (and that rather) to the tormentors; which are ⟨p. 176⟩laid in ambush, to surprise all the comers in, and carry them as a pray to Hell. But because the best translations give no such word, and it is far fetched, I let it fall, as I took it up.
The Gyants, in the Scripture, 1were men of a huge stature, of a fierce nature. The Poets fained their Gyants to be begotten and bred of the Sunne and the Earth, and to offer violence to the Gods: some of them hauing an hundred hands, as Briareiu was called centimanus: meaning, they were of great command; as Helen wrot to Paris of her husband Menelaus. An nescis longas regibus esse manus? This word Gyants, if the originall did afford it, must be referred, either to the guests; signifiing that monstrous men resorted to the Harlots table, & that it was Gigantoum conviuium, a tyrannous feast: or else (and that rather) to the tormentors; which are