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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.
Theag. Most sacred Priest of this high Deity We make request unto you to begin This sacrifice to Neoptolemus.
Caric. The sacrifice indeed belongs to me, But you sir, as the Captain of this charge, And sacred message, ought to take the taper Of her there, who of all those ceremonies Is precedent, and burn the alter of; This is the order and our Country fashion.
Caric. The sacrifice indeed belongs to me, But you sir, as the Captaine of this charge, And sacred message, ought to take the taper Of her there, who of all those ceremonies Is presedent, and burne the alter of; This is the order and our Countrey fashion.
Theagnes takes the taper with a great deal of reverence from the hand of Cariclea, and sets fire to the Alter, but first he was in a maze at the exceeding beauty of Cariclea, and she as much taken with his, then they both smiled a little and blushed and then became pale again: in conclusion he falls in love with her, and she with him.
Theagnes takes the taper with a great deale of reverence from the hand of Cariclea, and sets fire to the Alter, but first he was in a maze at the exceeding beauty of Cariclea, and she as much taken with his, then they both smiled a little and blush'd and then became pale againe: in conclusion he falls in love with her, and she with him.