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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.
Theophilus, We do honour them to much to call it 1the feast of the fools. For it is more worthy to be called the feast of mad men, and of those that are out of their wits.
Theophilus, We doe honour them to much to call it 1the feast of the fooles. For it is more worthy to be called the feast of madde men, and of those that are out of theire wittes.
- 1The feast of mad men.
Hillarius. But for to return unto the Bacchanals, to Saint Pansard, and to the forbidding of marriage, 1ought it not to have sufficed the Pope to have (against the word of God, and the ancient Counsel, namely of Nice) forbidden at all times marriage unto all those of the Church, Priests, Monk • and Nuns, but that he must also extend his cruelty and tyranny, upon all other estates, almost the one half of the year? Howe much more tolerable and reasonable is the ancient law of the Romans then this new tyranny? What reason have they to allow it?
Hillarius. But for to retourne vnto the Bacchanalos, to Sainct Pansard, and to the forbiddinge of mariage, 1ought it not to haue suffired the Pope to haue (against the word of God, and the auncient Counsayle, namelye of Nice) forbidden at all times mariage vnto all those of the Church, Priestes, Moonke • and Nonnes, but that hée must also extende his crueltie and tyranny, vppon all other estates, almost the one halfe of the yeare? Howe muche more tollerable and reasonable is the auncient lawe of the Romaines then thys new tyranny? What reason haue they to allow it?