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The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against…The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against…
The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishops and clergy of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobility, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realm.The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.
Geneva: printed by J. Poullain and A. Rebul?, 1558
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.
How long shall wicked doers speak? their great disdain we see, Whose boasting proud doth seem to threat no speech but theirs to be.
How longe shall wicked doers speake? their great disdaine we se, Whose boastīg prowd doth seem to threat no speach but theirs to be.
O Lord they smite thy people down, not sparing young or old: Thine heritage they so torment, as strange is to behold.
O Lorde they smite thy people downe, not sparinge yonge or olde: Thine heritage they so torment, as strange is to beholde.
The widow and the stranger both they murder cruelly: The father less they put to death and cause they know none why.
The widdowe and the stranger both they murther cruelly: The father lesse they put to death and cause they know none why.
And yet say they: tush, tush, the Lord shall not behold this deed, Ne yet will Jacobs God revolve the things by us decreed.