A01981:540
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.
Enter Aristippus and Cnemon.
Arist. Hold, hold thy hand, drink not the poison down, Thou desperate woman.
Arist. Hold, hold thy hand, drinke not the poison downe, Thou desperate woman.
This. Not to gain a crown, Tis done, and past prevention.
This. Not to gaine a crowne, Tis done, and past prevention.
Arist. Thisbe yet Make thy confession, and subscribe thy hand, That innocent Cnemon die not.
This. Write it then. Cnemon writes. I Thisbe do confess young Cnemon was Unjustly banished, I and Demeneta Did forge that plot against him, for the which We have our condigne punishment.