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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.
Hillarius. There is also an other point, that when we shall have ended 1the voyage, we shall not go by the gates of dreams, as Aeneas: or as our holy father, whom we have heard dream so well, as all such as he is do, which repose & rest themselves in any other bed, then upon the pure word of God. For it hath such virtue, that whosoever resteth upon it shall never dream nor rave: or it be dream, he goeth not ⟨p. 213⟩by the gates of Ivory, but by the horn gate, which is clear 2& through the which one may see as with the eyes: in such sort that such dreams are more certain, then that which others do see with their eyes: as it appeareth in those of Joseph and Daniel. But he that will lye or rest himself in any other bed, shall never cease to dream and wander 3astray out of the way: And all their dreams do go by the gate of Ivory, which is thick as the bones are, Wherefore one can perceive nothing by the same, as we do see by experience in our Theologians and Sophists which are so obscure and dark that one can see nothing at all. For after the they have well banqueted & moisted themselves with that good Theological wine, they have the spirit of wine that which the great God Bacchus hath inspired them, & maketh 4them to enter by the gate of Ivory, that is to say, between the teeth and chaws, which causeth so many exhalations of that divine liquor well tempered with wine, & so many fumes and heats to ascend and mount into the brain, that they do dream more deeper, then the lowest parts of hell and the seat of Lucifer. Afterwards they return being ravished in their Poetical furor & madness, as if they were departed all newly and fresh. But even as their dreams are entered by the gate of Ivory by force of chewing and moving their chaws and cockscombs, as the Organ bellows, so do they go forth by the very same gate.
Hillarius. Ther is also an other point, that when we shal haue ended 1