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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. If thou do take the shadows for those 1which come unto the banquets, not being bid with those which are the guests, I grant unto thee, that such shadows have not the taste in the teeth, nor live not of the dew, as the Grasshoppers: or of the wind as the Chameleon. But the shadows of which I speak, are of another nature. The ancients called those whom thou speakest 2off, shadows, because that they follow and accompany those that are bidden, as the shadow followeth and accompanieth the body, and under colour of them, all though that they be not called by him that maketh the banquet, do keep nevertheless company with the guests, & sit at the table with them. After that sort did Plutarch 3expound it, and Horace among the Latius hath often used it. For when such shadows are at the table, they do effectually show that they are not vain & empty shadows, but of bodies altogether fat & massy. But when the ancients do speak of the shadows of those that be dead, they understand not properly their souls, but their visions ⟨p. 134⟩and fantastical figures, which do watch about the Sepulchres, 4and do show themselves as shadows, in the form and likeness of bodies, which yet nevertheless were not, & vanished away when […] did come nigh them, and when one did think to touch them, as a shadow and smoke.
Hillarius. If thou doe take the shadowes for those 1which come vnto the bankets, not beeing byd with those which are the gestes, I graunt vnto thée, that such shadowes haue not the taste in the teeth, nor liue not of the dewe, as the Grashoppers: or of the winde as the Camelion. But the shadowes of which I speake, are of another nature. The auncients called those whom thou speakest 2off, shadowes, bicause that they follow and accompany those that are bidden, as the shatowe solloweth and accompanieth the bodie, and vnder coloure of them, all though that they bee not called by him that maketh the banket, do keepe neuerthelesse company with the gestes, & sit at the table with them. After that sorte did Plutarch