A01981:583
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.
Actus quarti, Scena septima.
Enter Arsace and Cibil.
Ars. Now will he bend or break, yield or endure More punishment? how do his setters please him? How doth he bear his stripes?
Ars. Now will he bend or breake, yeeld or endure More punishment? how doe his setters please him? How doth he beare his stripes?
Cib. With patience And manly fortitude beyond belief, Takes glory in his sufferings, and becomes More unrelenting now then heretofore.
Cib. With patience And manly fortitude beyond beliefe, Takes glory in his sufferings, and becomes More unrelenting now then heretofore.
Ars. What a strange nature hath this savage man, Will nothing work upon it? cannot love Persuade him, nor the force of punishment Compel him to humanity? some Tigress Or she Wolfe in the forest was his nurse. Is there no hope he will relent in time?