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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.
The Song. O Nereus god in surging seas, we praise thy *daughter dear, Whom Peleus at commandment of Jove did make his fere: Thou art the goddess we adore in Sea a glimpsing star, Who stout Achilles didst bring forth a very Mars in war, And Captain good unto the Greeks, thy glory scales the skies; To thee did thy red-headed wife cause Pyrrhus rough to rise. The Trojans utter overthrow, but stay to Greekish host, Be thou good Pyrrhus unto us a favourable ghost, Who here in grave entombed liest in Phoebus sacred ground, Bow down thy care to th' holy hymns that we to thee do sound, ⟨image 15⟩And this our City suffer not in any fear to be, Of thee and Thetis is our song, Thetis all hail to thee.
The Song. O Nereus god in surging seas, we praise thy *daughter deare, Whom Peleus at commandement of Jove did make his pheere: Thou art the goddesse we adore in Sea a glimpsing starre, Who stout Achilles didst bring forth a very Mars in warre, And Captaine good unto the Greekes, thy glory scales the skies; To thee did thy red-headed wife cause Pirrhus rough to rise. The Trojans utter overthrow, but stay to Greekish host, Be thou good Pirrhus unto us a favourable ghost, Who here in grave intombed liest in Phoebus sacred ground, Bow downe thy care to th' holy hymnes that we to thee do sound, ⟨image 15⟩And this our City suffer not in any feare to be, Of thee and Thetis is our song, Thetis all haile to thee.
- *Thetis.
The song ended, enters Theagines Captain of the Thessalians, very richly apparelled, followed by many gallants, who guarding him as he went, at last encompassed him round about; the maids overcome with the beauty of Theagines could not moderate their passions but began to cast flowers and fruit upon him, with that enters Cariclea most sumptuously adorned according to the manner, her hair was neither all bound up, nor all loose, but the most part thereof that grew behind, hanged over her shoulders; that which grew from the crown of her head down to her forehead, being of a yellow colour, was crowned with a garland of young Laurel; in her left hand she bare a gilded Bow and a Quiver of arrows hanged on her right shoulder, and in her other hand she bare a taper burning: after the young men had gone three times about Neoptolemus sepulture in their bravery, the women cried out piteously, & the men made a strange noise, with that Theagines speaks to Caricles.