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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.
Theophilus. The Lord by Moses hath forbidden that one shall not offer the hire of an whore nor the price of a Dog. But those are not disdainful. At the least wise they 1did as the Emperor Alexander, who did forbid that such tributes should not be put into the treasure of the temple, nor of the common wealth.
Theophilus. The Lord by Moses hath forbidden that one shall not offer the hire of an whoore nor the price of a Dog. But those are not disdainfull. At the least wise they 1did as the Emperour Alexander, who did forbid that such tributes should not be put into the treasure of the temple, nor of the common wealth.
Hillarius. I do also think that those do not put in much, and that the Bishops do not enrich very much the treasures of the Church, with the tributes y• they have received of their whoremaster Priests for suffering them to have their concubines, whom they love a great deal better, then if they were honester men. For they should not have so much gain. But I think that the Pope who is the great prince and captain of the bawds ought also to compel the Bishops who are the 1bawds, unto their Priests, to pay unto him tribute, of the tribute that they have gotten. But the thing might yet be more tolerable if they had but only rendered the tribute of y• whores, to that they had exempted those that are