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A tragedy of Abraham's sacrifice, written in frenchA tragedie of Abrahams sacrifice, written in french
A tragedy of Abraham's sacrifice, written in french by Theodore Beza, and translated into English, by A.G. Finished at Powles Belchamp in Essex, the xj. of August. 1575A tragedie of Abrahams sacrifice, written in french by Theodore Beza, and translated into Inglish, by A.G. Finished at Povvles Belchamp in Essex, the xj. of August. 1575
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier, 1577
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.
Isaac. Good mother God you guide.
Isaac. Good mother God you guyde.
Abraham. Farewell.
The Company. God guide, and keep you through his grace.
The Company. God guide, and keepe you through his grace.
Abraham. Go on Sirs, let us hence apace.
Abraham. Gowe on Sirs, let vs hence apace.
Satan. But is not this enough to make me mad, That whereas I make every man to gad, And all the world to follow after me, If they my finger do but held up see, And there withal set all things on a roar: Yet for all that I never could the more This false old fellow bring unto my lure, For any thing that yet I can procure? Behold he is departed from this place Gods will full bent to obey in every case, Although the matter never be so strange. But yet it may be that his mind will change, Or that he shall him sacrifice in deed, And so he shall if I may help him speed. For if he do, then Isaac shall be dead, Whereby my hart shall be delivered Of that same fear least God in him fulfil, The threat whereby he promised me to spill. And if he change his mind, then may I say