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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.
as it appeareth by the verses of the poet before alleged, who bringeth in Sanctus Fidius speaking of his daughter in these words. A time of marriage then I sought1 that so by law might bear That join I might, him whom I licked her whom I held full dear. Then found I that the Ides of lune to my desire did gree, That daughter to a son in law might mstly linked be. And that the first part of the month, thereto doth not agree, As Sacrificers wise of late full oft hath said to me. But till that quiet Tiber doth the filth from Vesta rear ⟨p. 137⟩By trickling flowing water move and so to sea them bear. I think it lawful not for me my rugged hair to comb, Nor yet for me to pare my nails, until dew time doth come. Now I pray thee consider friend Eusebius, whether in your religion that order be much changed, & whether you 2have kept those ceremonies. I could here declare unto thee the conformity the which your feast of Saint George hath with that of Mars. For you have S. George for the God of battle & patron of the soldiers, in stead as the Paynims had Mars. As touching his feast, there is difference of the time, saving that the one is kept in the month of April, and that of Mars in the month of March, in whose honour it 3keepeth his name. Although that Saint George showed not himself to be any valiant knight, when he suffered his Image to be cast into the river of Seine, of those of the new city of S. George, nigh unto Paris, because that the vines were frozen upon his feast day. I might also bring in the conformity which you make between the virgin Mary and Minerva: For you have consecrated for them feasts all in one month, but I will not now so much dilate and enlarge the matter. Yet nevertheless because of the affinity and conjunction that the one of the superstitions hath with the other, in declaring the feasts of the dead, I will mingle in the deduction of the matter, some other Ceremonies, because of the kindred and neighbourhood. I demand then of thee first of all 4friend Eusebius, whether there be any great difference between the feast of the dead, which is celebrated at Rome in the month of February, and yours of November, the which you do celebrate the day after all Saints?