A01981:75
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.
Demen. Cnemon, sit on my lap pretty boy.
Cnem. No, I know my duty better.
Demen. I will have it so; the very picture of his father.
Cnem. Pray mother excuse me, this is no fit place for me.
Demen. There is not a prettier or wittier boy in Athens, but 'tis no wonder, that old men beget always the finest children, 'tis most commonly seen.
Demen. There is not a prettier or wittier boy in Athens, but 'tis no wonder, that old men beget alwaies the finest children, 'tis most commonly seene.