A01981:191
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Nebul. Master, come Away for shame, the captain of the Aenians Embassage stayeth for you at the gate For to begin the sacrifice.
Nebul. Master, come Away for shame, the captaine of the Aenians Embassage stayeth for you at the gate For to begin the sacrifice.
Calas. Pray Sir, What are those Aenians? what their holy message? What sacrifice make they?
Caric. They are the noblest Of all Thessalia, this same sacrifice They send to 'Pyrrhus, stout Achilles son, Every fourth year (at such time as the feast Agon is kept unto Apollo here) For here was P•rrbus massacred before Apollos altars by enraged Orestes, ⟨image 12⟩This message is more honourably done Than any of the rest, because they say The Captain is sprung from Achilles line. Indeed, such is the beauty of his person And brave majestic carriage, as confirms He is some goddess son.
Caric. They are the noblest Of all Thessalia, this same sacrifice They send to 'Pirrhus, stout Achilles sonne, Every fovrth yeere (at such time as the feast Agon is kept unto Apollo here) For here was P•rrbus massacred before Apollos altars by enrag'd Orestes, ⟨image 12⟩This message is more honourably done Than any of the rest, because they say The Captaine is sprung from Achilles line. Indeed, such is the beauty of his person And brave majesticke carriage, as confirmes He is some goddesse sonne.