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A brief and compendious table, in a manner of a concordance opening the way…A brief and compendiouse table, in a maner of a concordaunce openyng the waye…
A brief and compendious table, in a manner of a concordance opening the way to the principal histories of the whole Bible, and the most co[m]mon articles grounded and comprehended in the new Testament and old, in manner as amply as doeth the great concordau[n]ce of the Bible. Gathered and set forth by Henry Bollynger, Leo Jude, Conrad Pelican, and by the other ministers of the church of Tygurie. And now first imprinted in English. D.M.L. [sic] The third book of the Maccabees a book of the Bible also printed unto this book which was never before translated or printed in any English Bible. The contents of this book are contained in the next leaf.A brief and compendiouse table, in a maner of a concordaunce openyng the waye to the principall histories of the whole Bible, and the moste co[m]mon articles grounded and comprehended in the newe Testament and olde, in maner as amply as doeth the great concordau[n]ce of the Bible. Gathered and set furth by Henry Bollynger, Leo Iude, Conrade Pellicane, and by the other ministers of the church of Tygurie. And nowe first imprinted in Englyshe. D.M.L. [sic] The third boke of the Machabees a booke of the Bible also prynted vnto this boke which was neuer before translated or prynted in any Englyshe Bible. The contents of this booke are conteyned in the next leafe.
London: printed by S. Mierdman for Gwalter Lynne, 1550
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Zurich part P Thus Hermon had sore checks unlooked for, and was marvellously abashed and affrayed, and every one of his friends went there way with heavy cheer, and sent away those that were come, every man to do his own busyness. And when the Jews knew what the king had said, the praised the mighty Lord, *king of kings, of whom they had got ⟨image 138⟩this help. 2And when the king after his old custom had prepared a feast and exhorted them to be merry, calling Hermon unto him with great threats, he said. Thou wretch how oft shall I command the to do any thing, Let me see if now at the last thou canst prepare the elephants to kill the Jews. Then his kinsfolks that sat with him marvelling at the inconstantnes of his mind, said, thees words. O king how long wilt thou tempt us, as though we were mad, which now commandest them to be slain the third time, and changed again in doing the thing, breakest that the thou hast appointed. Verily the city for this cause is in a great rumbling, and many come together, threatening that they will go away. Wherefore the king full of madness, even in all points like an other Phalaris, not regarding the changing of his mind toward the saving of the Jews, sware stiffly, that he would kill them with out delay, and that they should be all to trodden with the feet and knees of the beasts. And that after he would go in to Jewry and there with sword ⟨image 139⟩and fire wast it all, and the holy place also of the Jews, *that he might not come into, and burn all them that there did offer sacrifice. Then his friends and kinsfolk, when they were gone appointed for the army the most convenient places of the city to be surely kept. Zurich part Q And the master of the elephants, had brought his beasts even almost to madness with sweet drinks tempered with frankincense, and decked fearfully to look to. And now about the morning the city being replenished with innumerable people, about the place where horses be coursed, one went unto the king, moving him to come to this sight. Then he with an angry and cruel mind, came out with all his mighty elephants with a fierce mind desiring to see the lamentable destruction of the aforesaid silly souls.