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The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise
The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take great pleasure in the reading thereof. Translated out of French into English, by John Brooke of AsheThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take greate pleasure in the reading thereoff. Translated out of French into English, by Iohn Brooke of Ashe
London: printed by Thomas East, 1579
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.
Thomas. But I would gladly know, from whence those cries and mournings did proceed, whether they came 1from the Devils, or from the souls of the damned, or from those which are kept in Purgatory, or of some other natural cause.
Thomas. But I woulde gladly knowe, from whence those cryes and mourninges did procéede, whether they came 1from the Diuels, or from the soules of the dampned, or from those which are kept in Purgatory, or of some other naturall cause.
- 1Lu•r. li. 1. Hic Aetnea minantur. Murmura flame marum rursum see colligere iras.Lu•r. li. 1. Hic Aetnea minantur. Murmura flam• marum rursum se colligere iras.
Hillarius. The cause is easy to be known of him who will understand what is the situation ⟨image 32⟩and nature of the place. For of the one side is the 1roaring of the Sea, which maketh an horrible noise, on the other side the great golfs of fire that arise and come out of the mountain. Wherefore when the vehement▪winds do blow, and enter violently into the holes and caves that are▪there, and mingle themselves with those veins of brimstone kindled with that impetuous fire, we must not marvel when all those things mixed and confused together, do meet, if there are fearful cryings, and such which the Poet hath described, saying. Lo here the hill that Aetna height, most horrible to behold