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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.
Eusebius. They do it not for to drink.
Eusebius. They do it not for to drincke.
Hillarius. I believe it well: for they are not so dainty: & they love the wine as well as I. But wherefore do they it?
Hillarius. I beléeue it well: for they are not so deintie: & they loue the wine as well as I. But wherefore doe they it?
Thomas. For to deface & purge the sins by the sprinkling thereof.
Thomas. For to deface & purge the sinnes by the sprinckling thereoff.
Hillarius. I am ashamed of their folly. One may 1very well say unto them as Diogenes said unto a certain Panim, who sprinkled himself with water for to purge his sins, after their ancient manner. O miserable man (saith he) if thou hast sled in thy Grammar and committed a fault and incongruity, thou canst not be absolved with sprinkling of the water: how dost thou then think with the sprinkling of the water to be absolved and washed from thy sins?