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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. I assure you without lying in any one word, that there was in the city of O•be a poor Taylor, named 1Gaspard. I think you know him. Who was so poor that he had much ado to live and who had so many pieces and patches in his cloak as there be days in the year. It was so pieced and patched with so many pieces one upon an other that it was rather like unto a brigantine, then a coat. His wife brought him forth a child that was 2borne dead: he carried it unto our Lady of Lausanna, who did many goodly miracles: who raised to life those little children that were borne dead, and after they must incontinently bury them. For after that she hath raised them to life, they cost their parents no more to nourish. That was a resurrection altogether differing from ⟨image 51⟩3that of Jesus Christ, and of those whom he hath raised, who did speak, walk, eat and drink after their resurrection, 4as it appeared in Lazarus the brother of Martha, and of Mary: Also in the daughter of Jarus, also in the son of the widow of Nain, also of Dorcas raised by S. Peter. And Eutieus by Saint Paul. When the child had been a little time before the Idol, he stood up as the others did, and the miracle was done when it pleased the old woman that kept it. For there were also means to haste the 5miracles. For when any did give a large drinking penny to the old woman she might the clearer or better know when the child changed colour or when he breathed or wagged. And that is soon found out as well there, as at our Lady of grace of Geneva, of those old women who durst say unto some y• have brought of those children, when they will not give them to drink as they would, nor give them that they demand: The Devil of miracle that you shall have three days. Those are yet living who heard it, who can witness the truth. Wherefore I do conclude, that the old woman doth the miracles and not our Lady.