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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. Wherefore did they so? have the dead bodies in Thessaly used to run away? or whether they were more dangerous then in other countries.1
Thomas. Wherefore did they so? haue the dead bodyes in Thessaly vsed to run away? or whether they were more daungerous then in other countryes.1
- 1Mortui non mordent. Percius. in pertam rig. dos calces eaten dit.Mortui non mordent. Percius. in pertam rig. dos calces eatē dit.
Hillarius. Thou mayst well know, that the dead bodies can no more byte any man, and that they are in an evil case, for to run away sith ye they must be carried to be buried, their feet stretched out right before. ⟨p. 104⟩But I think that thou hast not forgotten that which we have spoken of the Paynims, how that they do not bury their dead by and by, and the causes wherefore And therefore the Thessalians, used to keep their dead all the night, until the day that they burned their bodies, and buried 1their ashes, because they had that opinion, that the sorcerers did come in the night and did byte their faces, and dismember them, for to serve them for their enchantments and witchcrafts: and for to do the same, they transform and change them selves into the form and likeness of what beast they list: sometime into the likeness of birds, some time like dogs, or mice: yea into the likeness of very flies: and afterwards do fly and come into the houses and enter so subtly and secretly that none cane perceive it. And when they are entered within, they through their enchantments do make those that keep them fall into a sleep, afterwards they do unto the dead bodies what it pleaseth them. For that cause the parents and friends of the dead, did hire keepers, for a piece of money, for to watch all the night by the dead body, without sleeping any thing at all, not so much as to wink, or to turn their face here and there, but to have their eyes always fixed upon the dead body. After that they have found out keepers, which will take upon them that charge, they deliver the body unto them in charge, having witnesses how they have delivered it all whole and sound afterwards they shut them into a chamber, with the dead body, and a lamp full of Oil, for to give them light until the morning, and water within vessels. And if he that