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

Hillarius. You ought yet to have added among y• Greek Poets Orpheus, and Homer and Virgil among the Latin Poets: who have so well described the Limb, hell, Purgatory, and the Popes paradise, that I think it is not possible to paint and set them out better. And I cannot believe but that he was inspired with the same spirit by ¹which they have spoken who have forged and invented unto us those Limbs and Purgatories, and with which those were inspired, who did sit in the Councils in which such doctrine was allowed and confirmed: peradventure he may find some thing in the description of Virgil which may seem a little to differ from the Popes Theology: But notwithstanding if the matters are well examined and tried, one cannot find so great errors, that for therein he may be judged an heretic in the Popes church, nor yet repugnance which is not more easy to agree, then to make Scotus and Thomas Aquinas to agree together: the Reals ²and No••alls, the Sophists and Doctors questionaries that be among them. But for to prove it, give ear what the Poet speaketh •n such sort as I may speak in our proper tongue: And for to begin in order I will recite unt• thee first the description of t•e ••mbe• •here the children are, saying. ⟨image 36⟩Anon were voices heard, and piteous cries, and wailings sh••ll ³Of souls of tender babes, and infants weeping void of skill. That pleasure sweet of life did never taste, but from their breast Untimely death them took, and Fortune grim hath down oppressed. He giveth unto the little children their chamber apart, and appointeth their dwelling at the entering in of hell, the which he describeth more horrible and fearful, saying. Yet sits a worse within, Than hell it self that sink-hole seepe, Two times as broad descends, two times as headlong down right deep