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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. Thou cause be no better at thine ease. For thou shalt be always in the fresh water, and mayest drink when thou wilt.
Thomas. Thou cause be no better at thine ease. For thou shalt be alwayes in the fresh water, and maist drinck when thon wilt.
Hillarius. That should be a goodly pastime for y• drunkards, if those floods were of wine, & for those that dwell upon the mountains, if it were of milk, as in the time of Saturn, and in the time of the golden Age, if the 1witness of the Poets be true. But I rather fear that those are not always that, as the Poets have said, and that one cannot always attribute unto them their ancient names: Although that the Pope reigneth there in stead of Pluto. For the one is called, Lethe, y• is to say, oblivion: An other Acheron, that is to say, without Joy: An other Styx, that is to say, sadness: An other Cocytus, that is to say, mourning and lamentation: An other Phlegethon, that is to say, heat. Now what other thing can there be in the Popes Purgatory, if it be such as they have described unto us. I find it in nothing to differ from the Poetical hells. Wherefore they do no great wrong, if they do sing: Deliver them from the deep lake, and from the Lyons mouth. Sith that that roaring Lyon is there, it must of force be that it is hell. But they fail in this that they have not directed their prayer unto the Pope, and his, which have caste the souls therein and hold them there, and not unto Jesus Christ, who handleth not so cruelly those of his faithful servants. But truly those which will not drink of the fountain of life of our Saviour Jes•s, and of his goodly 2sweet rivers, which are more sweeter then either wine or milk, are well worthy to drink of those bile and stinking papistical Cisterns, and to be plunged and drowned in those pits and infernal lakes, and to live in the iron Age.