A01981:682
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. The gods are good to us, for I likewise Am made a Poet by remembering now An answer which last night some spirit gave me Who seemed to say this, ⟨image 39⟩To morrow shalt thou with the maid escape Arsaces hand. And soon be b•ought with her into the Ethiopian land.
Theag. The gods are good to us, for I likewise Am made a Poet by remembring now An answer which last night some spirit gave me Who seem'd to say this, ⟨image 39⟩To morrow shalt thou with the maid escape Arsaces hand. And soone be b•ought with her into the Aethiopian land.
Caric. That Oracle hath but a sad construction, Which thus I dar• interpret, Ethiopia Is meant that land that is beneath the ground, That with the maid is meant with Proserpine, And the escaping of Arsaces band Doth signify the soul and bodies parting.
Caric. That Oracle hath but a sad constru•tion, Which thus I dar• interpret, Aethiopia Is meant that land that is beneath the ground, That with the maid is meant with Pros•rpine, And the escaping of Arsaces band Doth signifie the soule and bodies parting.
Theag. Still how you err! calamity hath made you Forget your self, and always doubt the worst, Turning all things to a sinister sense, The Oracle is plain, you are the maid The gods do point at, whom I shall convey Out of Arsaces power into your Land Of Ethiopia, but how this shall be Effected, unto us doth not appear, Yet it is credible the gods can do it; We must leave that unto their secret workings. Now what your verse should mean I cannot guess. Which doth contain so many contraieties, For Pantarbe, in its true signification, Is taken for all fearful, yet it would not Have you to fear the […].