A01981:256
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. So burns my heart as doth this Alter here, ⟨image 15⟩The taper that did set my heart a fire Was fair Caricleas beauty. aside.
Theag. So burnes my heart as doth this Alter here, ⟨image 15⟩The taper that did set my heart a fire Was faire Caricleas beauty. aside.
Cariclea. How my soul Could sacrifice to fair Theagines. aside.
Cariclea. How my soule Could sacrifice to faire Theagines. aside.
Caricles. Great god of Delphos in whose sacred temple We celebrate these funeral obsequies Of great Achilles son, vouchsafe to send A happy ômen which may crown this work Of our devotion offered at thy Altar.
Caricles. Great god of Delphos in whose sacred temple We celebrate these funerall obsequies Of great Achilles sonne, vouchsafe to send A happy ômen which may crowne this worke Of our devotion offered at thy Altar.