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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. You think that I am such a mocker as you are.
Thomas. You thinke that I am such a mocker as you are.
Hillarius. If you be not a mocker, you are then a dreamer.
Hillarius. If you bée not a mocker, you are then a dreamer.
Thomas. I sleep not whereby I should dream.
Thomas. I sléepe not whereby I should dreame.
Hillarius. No more also did our ghostly Preacher sleep to day: I never in all my life heard such an old dreamer dream and take on in such sort. I believe no other thing but that he hath studied in the school of some old doting witch full of lyings, from which he brought this divinity.
Hillarius. No more also did our ghostly Preacher sléepe to day: I neuer in all my life heard such an olde dreamer dreame and take on in such sort. I beléeue no other thing but that he hath studyed in the schoole of some olde doting witch full of lyings, from which hee brought this diuinitie.