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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. Odillo might have had better occasion to have situated Hell and Purgatory there, then in the hill Aetna.
Thomas. Odillo might haue had better occasion to haue situated Hell and Purgatory there, then in the hyll Aetna.
Hillarius. It would have had better, appearance, if those things were true. But if we should stay our selves upon such dreams and lies, we might also forge an other Hell and Purgatory in Scotland, in which 1men say that there is a hill full of sorrow & very fearful, by ⟨image 33⟩reason of the cries of those that do weep and lament there. And in Thuringia there is a hill in which there are heard 2most horrible noise & cries: And y• hath not only the name to be frequented with Fauns & Satires which are a kind of Devils, which many ways have seduced y• Paynims. But also some do affirm y• they have seen the same by experience. And some writers & Authors accounted for men worthy of credit, have written it.
Hillarius. It woulde haue had better, appearaunce, if those thinges were true. But if wée shoulde staye our selues vppon such dreames and lyes, wée myght also forge an other Hell and Purgatory in Scotland, in which 1men say that there is a hill full of sorrow & very fearfull, by ⟨image 33⟩reason of the cryes of those that do wéepe and lament there. And in Thuringia there is a hill in which ther are heard