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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. Is it possible that the Romans, who have ben so greatly esteemed through out the whole world, to have ⟨image 76⟩been so foolish?
Thomas. Is it possible that the Romaynes, who haue ben so greatly estéemed thorow out the whole worlde, to haue ⟨image 76⟩bene so foolish?
Hillarius. They witness it themselves by their own histories: and you must understand, because that the dead body was black, it was carried by two Ethiopians or black Moors, as he was. But if they 1had had of lacopins, Augustines, or Monks of the order of Saint Bennet they had been a great deal fitter for that office: and so the Ravens should have carried the Raven to the grave, and should have put him in the Paradise of the Ravens. And doubt not, that if the Ravens, Dogs, and Asses had wherewith to bury them, and that the Priests might get so much money from them as they do from the rich men, that they would spare them no more then they do the rich, and would have no more pity and compassion of their souls, then of the souls of men. I do marvel of nothing but of this that the Romans used rather the Flute in those funerals of the Raven, then the Trumpet 2sith that in all the rest he was buried as solemnly as the rich men be. And what do our Priests? If any great Usurer be dead, they run by and by to the great bell. There is not a Church nor parish but that all the belles are walking, insomuch that they make a greater noise then the Cyclops do with their Hammers and Mallets. I would counsel them to do as the women of the Lacedaemonians did when their king was dead, who did run about the country sounding and tinging of fire pans, pots and basins (as men do after Bees when they swarm) for to declare the death of their king. After that the belles are