A01981:258
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.
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.
The Oracle speaks touching Theagines and Cariclea.
The Oracle speakes touching Theagines and Cariclea.
Ye men of Delphos sing of her, and her rare beauties praise, Who now in grace begins to grow, but fame shall and her days, Who leaving these my temples here, and sailing surging streams Shall come at length to countries scorched with Phoebus burning beams, Where they as recompenses due that virtues rare do gain In time to come ere it be long White mitres shall obtain.
Ye men of Delphos sing of her, and her rare beauties praise, Who now in grace begins to grow, but fame shall and her daies, Who leaving these my temples here, and sailing surging streames Shall come at length to contries scorch'd with Phoebus burning beames, Where they as recompences due that vertues rare doe gaine In time to come ere it be long White miters shall obtaine.